Chandler Memorial Cemetery, Henderson County, Texas

Chandler Memorial Cemetery, Henderson County, Texas

Doug Crabtree recently completed a new transcription of this cemetery that I have uploaded to Henderson County TXGenWeb Archives site. You can find it at:

http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/henderson/cemetery/chandlermemorial.txt

Coming soon - Doug also photographed the cemetery. We will upload the photos as soon as we complete the html page. Hopefully soon.

Henderson County Texas TXGenWeb Archives

Henderson County Texas TXGenWeb Archives

I recently took over the management of Archives Project from Bunny Freeman. Bunny is the coordinator of the Henderson County TXGenWeb Project website http://www.txgenweb2.org/txhenderson/.

Bunny had received a majority of the Texas Confederate Pension Files from Henderson County Texas. They had been uploaded and I created a home page for them at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/henderson/csapensions/csapensindex.htm

These files are in Adobe PDF format and can be quite large.

There are a few files missing that I hope to upload soon.

New Addition, Palestine City Cemetery, Anderson County, Texas

I uploaded 3117 tombstone photos to the Anderson County TXGenWeb site. Thanks to Karla Lang of the Palestine Public Library and Beverly Bailey Odom, my co-coordinator of this site for all of their hard work. To view go to:

http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/anderson/cemph/newaddition/newaddition.html

African American Genealogy Workshop

African American Genealogy Workshop

The Roots That Bind

Saturday, February 28, 2009 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the East Waco Library, 901 Elm Ave., Waco TX. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.

Presentations include:

• Keynote Presenation: African American Genealogy Basics with Historian Donald Payton
• Local Family Historian Presentations by James Elliott, Evelyn Garfield & Mary Evans
• "Heading to the Courthouse: Deed, Probate & other Records of Genealogical Interest" by Leon Martin
• National Archives Resources by Aaron Holt, Southwest Regional Archives, NARA
• "Oral Tradition: Pass It On" by Lois E. Myers, Baylor University Institute for Oral History

Sponsored by Waco-McLennan County Library in cooperation with the Friends of the East Waco Library and Central Texas Genealogical Society.

For registration or additional information call Bill Buckner at (254) 750-5945.

Texas State Genealogical Society Scholarship

Texas State Genealogical Society Scholarship

A $1,000 scholarship will be awarded annually to the best qualified applicant. The winner will enroll as a full-time student and submit a receipt for tuition from the school of choice to the TSGS treasurer. The first $500 payment will be made to the university registrar. At the conclusion of that semester the winner will submit proof of a 3.0 GPA and a receipt for tuition for the next semester. The TSGS treasurer will make the second $500 payment to the university registrar.

Scholarship Requirements:
Applicant should be a senior in an accredited high school or home school program or be enrolled in college.
Applicant should provide a certified transcript of all high school and/or college courses or proof of course mastery if in a home school program.
Applicant should be a relative of a TSGS member of two years standing or be recommended by a partner society.
Applicant should plan to major in history, government, library science, or education.


Applications will be submitted to the Scholarship Committee by May 1, 2009.
Mail the application packet to TSGS, P.O. Box 7308, Tyler TX 75711-7308.

Application Packet:

Resume should contain the following information:
1. Personal information (name, birth date, parents’ names, small photo, address, telephone number and email address).
2. Educational experience
3. Work experience
4. Sports and extracurricular activities at school
5. Community activities
6. School, community, or church awards received

Recommendation letters from three non-family adults who have personal knowledge of the applicant’s qualifications should be included.

A 500-word essay on “The Importance of Family History” should be included.

African American Program in Tyler TX 2/14/09

ETGS to Dedicate Meeting to Remembrance of Versie Terrell
The East Texas Genealogical Society will celebrate African-American Month on Saturday, February 14, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. in the Tyler Public Library’s Taylor Auditorium, 201 S. College Ave. The program will be dedicated to the remembrance of ETGS member Versie Isabell Terrell. Ms. Terrell, a native of Smith County, a graduate of Texas College, and a retired teacher died in Tyler on January 5, 2009. She and her husband, Claude Terrell, Jr. had been active in the community in the study of and preservation of African-American family records for many years.
The featured speaker will be Gwendolyn McMillan Lawe, director of A.C. McMillan African-American Museum in Emory, Texas and 2003 Smithsonian Fellow. Ms. Lawe will speak on the genealogical research on her family and other African-Americans in Rains County.
Following refreshments ETGS President Sam Kidd will present a video titled “Lester’s Trip of 1,500 Miles and 120 Years,” the story of the research of an African-American family in Canada for their Smith County, Texas roots. The video will be aired on Canadian television later this year, and includes research provided by members of the Smith County Historical Society and East Texas Genealogical Society. Much of the video was filmed in Smith County and concludes with Lester Mapp’s meeting with his Smith County cousins.
Persons interested in African-American family research and friends of Ms. Terrell are encouraged to attend. ETGS meetings are free and open to the public. For more information about ETGS go to our web-site: www.etgs.org or contact June Everheart, Publicity Director at 1stvp@etgs.org or 903-877-4501.

Texas State Genealogical Society

At the annual conference last year at Abilene, Texas, Texas State Genealogical Society honored three people for their contribution to the fields of genealogy or history by making them Fellows of the society.

1. Lloyd D. Bockstruck - he is one of the most prominent and well-known author, columnist, lecturer and most importantly, librarian in the state of Texas. He has supervised the building of the Dallas Library’s genealogy section into one of the top ten genealogy libraries in the United States if not the world. Lloyd is especially generous with his time and expertise at the library and as a lecturer to many local societies especially genealogy societies but also lineage and others.
2. Archie P. McDonald – he recently left the directorship of the East Texas Historical Association as of September 1st; a position he had held since 1971. He has authored many books and edited many more. He and Bob Bowman have a weekly column called “All Things Historical” that runs weekly in many East Texas papers. He is a professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University and a past president of the Texas State Historical Association.
3. Betty Dunquez – currently the TSGS web master, a past president of TSGS, and co-chair of the FGS conference in Austin in 2004. She has been an active Board member since the early 1990’s serving in several officer positions as well as committee chairmanships. Her most recent and significant contribution to TSGS has been the project of getting the index to the First Families certificates online. She completely revised and edited the original index TSGS published.

Fellows already conferred include the following:
Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris, Mrs. Murray Ezzell, Gifford E. White, Dr. Chester V. Kielman, Miss Marion Day Mullins, Dr. Malcolm D. McLean, Mrs. Kelley E. McAdams, Dr. Dorman H. Winfrey, Mrs. Edna Perry Deckler, Dr. Ronald Ely Marcello, John I. Coddington, Winston DeVille, Christopher LaPlante, Milton Rubican, R.T. Williams, C. George Younkin, Dr. David B. Gracy II, James Patrick McGuire, Paul R. Scott, Jack Maguire, Mrs. Buford C. Curtis, Mrs. Denzil Austin Mattoon, Truett Latimer, Dr. James M. Day, Mrs. Dorothy D. Wilkinson, William Hunter McLean, Rev. Dr. Albert C. Walling, Mrs. Ralph A. Bickler, Mrs. Joe E. Ericson, Mrs. Raymond Ulmer, Bill R. Linder, Mrs. J.B. Golden, Mrs. Walter Speakman, Mrs. J.M. Wood, Richard S. Lackey, Michael J. Dabrishus, Ruth Murphy Harlow, Mary Smith Fay, Dorothy Dillard Hughes, H. Martin Soward III, Marynell Bryant, Frances Pryor, Jean Halden Walker, Wanda Lambert Donaldson, Richard L. Hooverson, Doris Cozart.

East Texas Historical Association

East Texas Historical Association's Spring Program is set for February 20-21, 2009 at the Holiday Inn & Suites in Paris Texas.

For more information go to: http://www.easttexashistorical.org/events/springmeeting.html or call (903) 785-5545.

Some of the speakers scheduled to present include: Archie P. McDonald, Milton Jordan, Greg Mitchell, Paul E. Sturdevant, Kyle McGrogan, Jim Steely, Jack Herrington, Dawn Letson, Tom Killebrew, Jeffrey Owens, Judy Falls, Dr. John Douglas Osburn, Eddie Trapp, Dee Rinkes Marshall, Gail Beil, Deborah Porter, Sue Lazara, Philip Pope, Mika Robertson-Smith, Krystal A. Humphreys, John Lundberg, David Raley, Claire Evans, Bill O'Neal, Alvie Walts, Stacy R. Webb, Cyndie Goins Hoelscher & Harwood P. Hinton.

East Texas Historical Association

East Texas Historical Association is starting an e-mail newsletter for its members.

To sign up go to: http://www.easttexashistorical.org/newsletter/