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From: "Jackie" <>
Subject: Re: [GERMAN-TEXAN] A Possible Source for German Immigrants to Texas
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:23:03 -0600
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I know that San Antonio Public Library right downtown (the Main library) has
all the Germans to America series. New Braunfels in Comal Co. Texas also has
all the books. I have used them in both places.
Jackie in Marion, Guadalupe Co. Texas

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Subject: [GERMAN-TEXAN] A Possible Source for German Immigrants to Texas


> Dear Subscribers
>
> I don't know how many subscribers are familiar with a set of books, which
> some genealogical critics sneer at, but I found my immigrating German
> great-grandmother with four little children listed in Volume 2 of Germans
> to America.
>
> I am fairly certain this growing set of books will be at large
> genealogical
> collections in Texas, such as at San Antonio Public Library, Clayton
> Library
> in Houston, perhaps the State Library in Austin, Dallas Public Library
> [central branch], probably Fort Worth, and so on.
>
> Anyway, ask - German to America - many volumes. Search your favorite
> online
> catalog for a library near your home.
>
> Look at the spine of each volume to determine the year. Not all Texans
> came initially to Galveston - a good many Germans came to New Orleans in
> the
> 1850s, and so on. [Nothing is easy in genealogy--have you noticed?]
>
> When wandering through the main research library of a very large
> University
> here in California, I wandered into the section on immigration. Was I
> amazed
> at the vast collection of genealogically-oriented books in that section.
> Most Universities use the Library of Congress cataloging system. This
> particular University library had a key for us dummies [which includes
> students, of
> course]. Z section was mostly books pertaining to immigration. I found
> such
> books as The Famine Immigrants, Italians to America [I think that is the
> title], etc. (CS section in that University is for general books on
> genealogy
> collections--some guides to biographies, etc. Much of which is online
> these
> days.)
>
> So--if your public library does not have a good collection of
> genealogically
> oriented books, get on the online catalog for a community college or
> University library which is within driving distance and see what
> collections may
> help you. (If you don't snoop in any library, you are missing some good
> bets.
> The more ragged the volume lurking on that shelf, the more valuable it
> may
> be!!!)
>
> E.W,Wallace
> 1/4 Texas German and a lot more of colonial German
>
>
>
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