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Subject: Re: [GERMAN-TEXAN] Germans in Texas
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:52:21 EDT

Concerning Germans in Bastrop, I googled for these terms

Bastrop County Texas + genealogy and came up with this URL plus several
others. I suggest you do your own googling for other possible links.

_http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txbastro/court.htm_
(http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txbastro/court.htm)

Suggestion: Although you may think there is only one document which may
refer to your ancestors' arrival in Texas, nay, the United States, you need to
think about other documents.

Example: I like deeds, as most of my people were either farmers [in the
Southern colonies and later in Texas] or ranchers [in the Victoria Co., TX area
and later in *the Hill country*.] While doing some research of my mother's
English ancestors in Frio Co., I found filed with their land records [deeds]
was a statement about the ancestor's citizenship and also information about
his birthplace, his arrival in the United States and when and where
[Philadelphia], etc. He was buying his land from a railroad!!! Another citizen of that
county was from Sweden!! (Folks are where you find them!)

The point is, you never know where you are going to turn up information!!!
Do NOT get locked into passenger lists, or any other document. Just keep an
open mind when researching your wandering--and migrating--ancestors.

The Bastrop URL given above has some indexes, it seems, of court records,
etc. I am looking for a sibling of my German great-grandmother, and, according
to the Bexar Co. probate of his stepfather, in the 1890s, he seems to have
been living in Bastrop Co. But, of course, the 1890 census is among the
missing, so I must look elsewhere. I have to get working on those court indexes,
for sure!!! Some of our German forbears liked to drink, and sometimes to
excess!!! He could have gone by another name, because his *calling* name as a
young man sounded rather effeminate!!! But, through other research, which I
will not go into here, I discovered where in Germany the family came from. I
found this missing sibling's christening record in a German parish record!!!

By the way, although the original records from which the following books
were compiled are not available to us researchers, the series of books called
Germans to America, have the names of a lot of persons coming from Bremen [and
elsewhere] who later ended up in Texas.

My Silesian [Schlieisen] lady with four small children came to New Orleans
in 1852 and ended up in Texas, because the father of her children had been
recruited by the US Army in New Orleans, probably as soon as he debarked from an
earlier ship. I found--by chance--a filmed Army register [FHL film] which
listed his enlistment date, etc.

A book such as any of the editions of The Source may give you ideas of
documents, manuscripts, etc., which you may have never considered!!! Ask your
public librarian, even in a small town, whether there are any reference books on
genealogy. They are generally behind the librarian's desk!!!

E.W.Wallace
who has stumbled on a lot of documents by just being curious about what's in
the courthouse!!!



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