Note: the South Texas Researcher Is Also Now Available on the San Antonio Public Library

Inside This Issue
Introduction / 1
News and Calendar / 2
Research in Texana / 7
Websites / 10

Note: the South Texas Researcher is also now available on the San Antonio Public Library’s web site (www.sanantonio.gov/library/) under “News & Events” then “News & Newsletters.”

Please remember that the purpose of this newsletter is to keep librarians, historians, archivists, genealogists, archaeologists, educators at all levels, and those in other allied fields informed of what is going on that may be helpful in these fields so they may pass this information on to other interested parties in their

locations.

I am willing to include important events or acquisitions from other areas, in some instances, if they may be of particular usefulness to those in our area. News from our neighboring Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, and Coahuila would also be welcome.

Texana/Genealogy

Traditional Class Schedule

All classes are on Saturdays from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Programs are free and held at the San Antonio Central Library, 600 Soledad, San Antonio, Texas, 78205.
To register (so we have enough handouts) or for information please call the Texana/Genealogy Department at (210) 207-2500 (ask for Texana) or E-mail:

July no class

August 2 Beginning Genealogy

September 6 no class

The Winds and Words of War: World War I Posters and Prints

A tribute to the 90th Anniversary of Armistice Day

Visit the Central Library Gallery from September through October 27, 2008 to enjoy the World War I exhibition and its accompanying lectures, film series, downtown historical walking tours and a musical tribute, “Over There: The Music of Irving Berlin.”
This outstanding collection includes forty framed, vintage World War I-era posters designed by leading artists of the day to assist in the war efforts initiated by President Wilson.
The Office of Public Information formed a committee chaired by renowned illustrator Charles D. Gibson to create a line of posters to help mobilize the American war effort. /

Beethoven Männerchor

Where: Beethoven Halle und Garten 422 Pereida Street, San Antonio, Texas

July 4: Southtown First Friday (Open to the public)
Featuring a Patriotic Program & the band SnowByrd

July 18: Gartenkonzert. 5 p.m. - 12 midnight (Open to the public)

Additional information: 210-222-1521 or http://www.beethovenmaennerchor.com

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Texana/Genealogy Department

Internet Classes

All classes are on Tuesdays from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Programs are free and held at the San Antonio Central Library, 600 Soledad, San Antonio, Texas, 78205.
To register (so we have enough handouts) or for information please call the Texana/Genealogy Department at (210) 207-2500 (ask for Texana) or E-mail:

July no class

August 5 usgenweb

September 2 How to find source materials

WorldCat, nucmc, library catalogues

Victoria County Genealogical Seminar

October 4, 2008

The Victoria County Genealogical Society is proud to announce the upcoming seminar on October 4, 2008 in Victoria, Texas. Our featured speaker will be the noted Christine Rose, CG, CGL, FASG. Ms. Rose has delivered hundreds of lectures in a variety of locations. She was on the faculty of the National Institute of Genealogical Research in Washington, DC and has for many years been an instructor and coordinator for Samford University in their Institute of Historical and Genealogical Research. She has also been interviews on a number of television and radio programs.

An announcement concerning her lecture topics will be released at a later date. Please reserve October 4, 2008 for a most helpful, interesting and informative

seminar.

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Los Bexareños Genealogy Society

Meetings are normally held at 9:30 a.m. every first Saturday of the month on the first floor, Main Auditorium, of the San Antonio Public Library, 600 Soledad Street, San Antonio, Texas. Visitors are always welcome to attend. Membership is not required. Speakers at the meetings are people with a passion for history, professional historians, genealogists, archaeologists and researchers.

The next meeting of Los Bexareños will be
on Saturday, June 7, 2008.

Meeting Date: July 5, 2008

Speaker: Cynthia Leal Massey

Topic: Her book, Helotes, Where the Hill Country Begins

Los Bexareños Genealogy Society invites the public to a presentation by Cynthia Leal Massey, author of Helotes, Where the Texas Hill Country Begins. Massey will discuss her research and writing of the fascinating town of Helotes, Texas.

Helotes celebrated its 25th anniversary of incorporation in 2006, however, the town, named from the Spanish word elotes, or corn-on-the-cob, has been on Texas maps since the nineteenth century. Founded by European and Mexican immigrants in the 1850s, Helotes, home of the famous honky-tonk, John T. Floore Country Store, has a rich history, even more intriguing than the myths and legends that have been the “official” lore of the town for decades. Massey’s book dispels those myths, offering a thoroughly researched and fascinating account of a town populated by hardworking pioneers, renegade Indians, elusive bandits, and

impassioned citizens.

The story of Helotes is told from its beginning settlement daysto its incorporation as a town in 1981, up to the fight against the building of a Wal-Mart Super Center and the big mulch fire of 2007.

Published by Old American Publishing, Helotes, Where the Texas Hill Country Begins is 262 pages, with more than 200 photographs, illustrations and maps; it contains endnotes, appendices, bibliography and index. The retail price is $29.95.

Massey is the award-winning author of Fire Lilies, a novel of the Mexican Revolution, and The Caballeros of Ruby, Texas, a WILLA Award Finalist. She has published hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles and is presently editor-at-large for Scene in SA magazine. She was a finalist for the 2008 O. Henry Award for Best Work of Magazine Journalism, given by the Texas Institute of Letters. Born and raised in San Antonio, she has been a resident of Helotes for fourteen years.

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Transcribers Needed

Volunteers are needed to help transcribe recorded oral histories.
Please contact Frank Faulkner at for more

information.

Genealogy Seminar at Windcrest Family History Center

Saturday, September 13,the LDS Family History Center in Windcrest, located at 8801 Midcrown, will present their 7th annual Genealogy Seminar.

The LDS Family History Center phone number is (210) 656-4111, please contact them for further information.

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The first annual meeting of the Wild West History Association

The Wild West History Roundup will be held July 16-19, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 100 East 2nd Street, in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hotel reservations should be made directly to the hotel by July 1st to receive the special WWHA rates of $99.00 (+ taxes). Reservations may be made by telephone or at the hotel's website: 918-560-2218; www.cptulsahotel.com. If registering via the website, use block code WWH. (http://www.wildwesthistory.org/conferences)

San Antonio Museum of Art
Visions of Victory
June 14-August 17, 2008

Perspectivas Populares
April 12, 2008 through July, 2009

200 West Jones Ave
San Antonio, TX 78215
(210) 978-8100
http://www.samuseum.org

Witte Museum

The Genius of Leonardo: Machines in Motion

June 21 through September 7, 2008

Lens on South Texas: Photographs from the Witte Museum Collection
September 13, 2007 through August 2008

3801 Broadway
San Antonio, Texas 78209

(210) 357-1900

http://www.wittemuseum.org

McNay Art Museum

American Art Since 1945: In a New Light

June 7–August 24, 2008
The Ballets Russes at 100: Treasures from the Tobin Collection

June 7–August 17, 2008

6000 North New Braunfels

San Antonio, Texas 78209

(210) 824-5368

http://www.McNayArt.org

REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA

The following is a selection of materials available in the Texana/Genealogy Department on the Revolutionary War Era and early Federal period. There are many volumes for researching specific states during this period, state and local records, pension records, rosters, general background materials, and much more.

Also, do not forget historical and genealogical journals.

Microforms

American State Papers, 1789-1838

Colonial Record Office [Great Britain], class 5 files

Part 1: Westward Expansion, 1700-1783

Part 3: French and Indian War, 1754-1763

Part 5: American Revolution, 1772-1784

Compiled service records of American Naval personnel and members of the departments of the Quartermaster General and the Commissary General of military stores whoserved during the Revolutionary War (M880)

Compiled service records of soldiers who served in the American army during the Revolutionary War (M881)

Correspondence of the War Department relating to Indian affairs, military pensions, and fortifications, 1791-1797 (M1062)

Discharge certificates and miscellaneous records relating to the discharge of soldiers from the regular Army, 1792-1815 (M1856)

Draper Manuscript Collection

Early American Orderly Books, 1748-1817

Final Revolutionary War Pension Payment Vouchers: Delaware (M2079)

Final Revolutionary War Pension Payment Vouchers: Georgia (M1746)

Hessian documents of the American Revolution (fiche)

Historical information relating to military posts, etc., Ca.1700-1900

Index to compiled service records of Revolutionary War soldiers (M860)

The Negro in the Military Service of the United States, 1639-1886 (M858)

Papers of the Continental Congress

Record of invalid pension payments to veterans of the Revolutionary War and the regular Army & Navy, March 1801-Sept. 1815 (M1786)

Records of ante-bellum southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War (selected parts)

Records of the Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island Continental Loan Office, 1777-1791 (M1005)

Records of the Delaware, and Maryland Continental Loan Office, 1777-1790 (M1008)

Records of the Massachusetts Continental Loan Office, 1777-1791 (M925)

Records of the New Jersey and New York Continental Loan Office, 1777-1791 (M1006)

Records of the Pennsylvania Continental Loan Office, 1776-1788 (M1007)

Register of Army Land Warrants Issued under the Act of 1788, for Service in the Revolutionary War: Military District of Ohio, 1788 (T1008)

Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 (M246)

Special index to numbered records in the War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, 1775-1783 (M847)

Newspapers

Boston Gazette, 1719-1798

New York Gazette and Weekly Register, 1752-1783

Books

Calendar of Virginia State Papers, 1652-1869. [975.5 Calendar]

Colonial and States Records of North Carolina, 1662-1790; Laws, 1715-1790. [975.6 Colonial]

Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, 1683-1790. [974.8 Colonial]

The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption by the Federal Constitution, as recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia, in 1787…. Elliot, Jonathan, ed. [342 Elliot]

Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Pyne, Frederick. [973.31309 Pyne]

Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York. [974.702 Documents]

Guide to Pre-Federal Records in the National Archives. Wehmann, Howard.

[016.973 Wehmann]

Henig’s Statutes at Large, 1619-1792. [975.5 Statutes]

Index to the Writings on American History: 1902-1940. [016.973 Index]

Journals of the Continental Congress. [973.3 Journals]

Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789. [973.312 Letters]

Naval Records of the American Revolution, 1774-1777. [973.3 Naval]

Pennsylvania Archives (series 1,2,3,5,6,7,9). [974.8 Pennsylvania]

Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Farrand, Max, ed. [342.73 Farrand]

Resolutions, Laws, and Ordinances Relating to the Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution. [973.3 Resolutions]

Susquehannah Company Papers, 1750-1808. [974.8 Susquehannah]

Territorial Papers of the United States. [973.082 Territorial]

Working Dress: Colonial and Revolutionary America. Copeland, Peter.

Shoah Victims Database
http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Entrance

As the generation of Holocaust survivors rapidly dwindles, the memory of millions of Holocaust victims will slip into oblivion unless we record their names for future generations to remember.
The Jewish Genealogical Society, along with Jewish communities and organizations around the world, is assisting Yad Vashem, the Jewish people’s memorial to the Shoah, in its International Campaign to recover the names and identities of Holocaust victims.

Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO)

TARO (Texas Archival Resources Online) makes descriptions of the rich archival, manuscript, and museum collections in repositories across the state available to the public. The site consists of the collection descriptions or "finding aids" that archives, libraries, and museums create to assist users in locating information in their collections. Consider these an extended table of contents which describe unique materials only available at the individual repositories. In most cases, the collections themselves are NOT available online.

UK National Archives Directory.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/

This website has links to almost every archive and library in the United Kingdon as well as many overseas.

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