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From: David and Paula Pitts <>
Subject: [TXWISE-L] Early Texas Settlers 1700s-1800s CD
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 03:14:06 -0600
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Listers,
I just received this CD from the Family Tree Maker people. Since
I don't use Family Tree Maker as my genealogical data base, I had
to order a reader also, for an extra penny (not many deals like this
around!).

There are 8 books included on the CD. The information seems to be
well indexed and the software is easy to use (I just started installing
it
about 30 minutes ago and I am already finding information without
reading the instructions (a guy thing)).

So far I'm pretty pleased. The most difficult thing at first is
figuring
out how to navigate, but a few seconds of looking at the options you
can figure it out. When you do a search, it gives you a list of your
hits.
>From this you can highlight one of your hits and then navigate to the
image of that page. To go back to where you were, you simply click
on "index" on the tab on the right side of the page.

I haven't figured out how to have two windows active at the same time,
so I can enter data into my data base while viewing the page from the
reference, so
I'm having to transcribe the information to paper and then enter it.
You can do this
on a Macintosh, but I don't know how to do it in Windows 98.

I think this is a worthwhile CD to own if you have ancestors in Texas in
the mid-1800's (based on 30 minutes of use) and it only cost about $20
ot $30 (I've forgotten exactly how much it was). Delivery was in a
about a week.

Dave Pitts
Houston TX

Here is the information on the books which are included.

Early Texas Settlers, 1700s-1800s

* "REPUBLIC OF TEXAS: POLL LISTS FOR 1846"
- Marion Day Mullins
This book lists the names and counties of residence of approximately
18,000 Texas taxpayers. Either a white male resident over the age of
twenty-one or a female head of a household, the Texas residents
listed here paid a "poll" tax of one dollar. This list is an
especially valuable resource since federal censuses for Texas didn't
begin until 1850. Compiled from the original tax rolls housed in the
Texas State Archives, this 1846 poll list is the closest thing
available to a complete census of the period. As an approximation of
the entire adult male population of the state, the Poll List for 1846
is essentially a reconstructed census for Texas.


* "AUSTIN COLONY PIONEERS,
Including History of Bastrop, Fayette, Grimes, Montgomery
and Washington Counties, Texas"
- Worth Stickley Ray
Settled in the early 1820s, Austin Colony was comprised largely of
the five present day counties of Bastrop, Fayette, Grimes,
Montgomery, and Washington. Here you'll find biographical and
genealogical sketches of the pioneers and early settlers of those
counties. Since Washington County was the "port of entry" to the
Austin Colony, much of the book's focus is on that County. Often,
you'll learn the following information about an individual included
in "Austin Colony Pioneers:"
*References to their arrival in Texas;
*His place of settlement;
*Military experience;
*Career highlights;
*Names of family members;
*Place of residence;
*Place and date of death;
*Place of origin outside of Austin Colony;
*Details of any participation in famous battles such as San Jacinto
and the Alamo.


* "ANCESTOR LINEAGES OF MEMBERS
Texas Society/National Society Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century"
- Jeanne Mitchell Jordan Tabb
This compilation of lineages was extracted from the official
application papers of Texas Society members. It consists of an
alphabetical list of the proven ancestors of the National Society
Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century upon whose ancestry Texas Society
memberships are based. For each of the 2,000 individuals included
here, you'll find:
*Dates and places of birth, marriage, and death;
*Name of spouse(s);
*Names of children;
*Names and membership numbers of Society members linked to that
ancestor.


* "KENTUCKY COLONIZATION IN TEXAS
A History of the Peters Colony"
- Seymour V. Connor
This is the definitive historical and genealogical account of the
1847-48 settlement of the Peter's Colony in Northeast Texas. For each
of the 2,000 settlers, you'll learn:
*Name;
*Marital status;
*Occupation;
*Age;
*Year of migration to Texas;
*County of settlement;
*State of birth;
*State from which he migrated.


* "CHARACTER CERTIFICATES IN THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE OF TEXAS"
- Gifford White
The records that make up this book were assembled from local land
office records after Texas gained its independence from Mexico. Filed
in the General Land Office in Austin, the Character Certificates help
to establish the following information about approximately 5000 early
Texas settlers:
*Date and place of settlement;
*Place of origin;
*Names of family members.


* "STEPHEN F. AUSTIN'S REGISTER OF FAMILIES"
- Villamae Williams
Under the terms of an 1824 colonization law, Texas settlers such as
Stephen Austin were required to record vital information on every
settler to a new area. Here you'll find vital information on
approximately 3000 Anglo-American settlers of Mexican Texas. This
information includes:
*Name;
*Marital status;
*Place of birth or last residence;
*Occupation.

Austin and his secretary maintained these records even after a full
Mexican local government was established. The entries continued
through February 1836, less than a week before the signing of the
Texas Declaration of Independence. Prior to their compilation in this
book, these records were accessible only at the General Land Office
in Austin.


* "A NEW LAND BECKONED
German Immigration to Texas, 1844-1847"
- Chester W. Geue and Ethel H. Geue
A compilation of original source material on the settlement of
Germans in Texas from 1844 to 1847, here you will find lists of
ships from Germany and the United States as well as indication of
the Germans they brought to Texas. For each of the more than 4000
individuals listed, you'll learn:
*Age;
*Names of accompanying family members;
*Place of residence in Europe;
*Dates of departure and arrival.

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