DGS Newsletter, Volume 29, Number 8, September 2005 Page: 148
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GENERAL DGS NEWS
image of the patents, surveys and land grants you
are searching. They are branching out into
historical work, and this would be a custom order
for you. That web site is: tnris.state.tx.us/
Jerry Drake is a genealogist's kinda guy. He's an
historian and anthropologist who reveres Texas'
heritage and understands and respects the
genealogist's passion for digging into our past. He
urges everyone to check the website,
qlo.state.tx.us/archives.html, for their wonderful
Collections and Maps section, for Genealogy
Research, and for their Virtual Museum. GLO's toll
free phone number is 1-800-988-4GLO.
If we can persuade Jerry to talk to a DGS general
membership meeting, my advice is to run, not walk,
to make sure you get a seat. What you will learn is
that good.
*Early Texas survey measurements were made
using the Spanish term, vara, meaning "link in a
chain." My earliest Texian, Abram T. Smith, was a
chain carrier on an 1839 three-man Milam County
survey crew headed by George Erath.
4s.41p 2 g2005 Institute: Genealogy For God's Sake
" Or that a woman appearing by herself in
Presbyterian records might only mean that her
husband was not a member in good standing,
not that she was a widow?'
From left: Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck, Shirley Sloat, Jeri Steele,
and George Schweitzer.
Lloyd also mentioned if your family was Lutheran or
Roman Catholic you might not find church records
on the frontier since there were few ministers and
priests. Instead, he suggested looking in Moravian
church records because they had clergy in
Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and elsewhere that
would baptize anyone.
Dr. George Schweitzer entertained us in costume
as Martin Luther, Thomas Cromwell (Anglican), and
George Fox (Quaker). He educated us to the form
and interpretation of old German script. His notes
that trace the formation of most major religions are
invaluable in understanding the evolution of the
various churches over time. Some of George's
hints were:
" For a large index of Anglican church marriages
consult Boyd's Marriage Index on microfilm at
the Family History Library
" Guilford College is one repository of original
Quaker minutes which should be consulted
because the minutes contain much data not in
the abstracts
" In 1775, there were 27,000 Catholics in the 13
Colonies. Sixteen thousand of them were in
Maryland.
On Saturday night, the attendees were treated to
research in the Genealogy section of the Dallas
Public Library from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. The evening
started with a guided tour of the facilities by LloydI
From Thursday evening through Sunday noon, 4-7
August, over 85 people were educated and
entertained by Lloyd deWitt Bockstruck, FNGS, and
Dr. George Schweitzer. If you missed this institute,
you missed a unique learning experience. The
Dallas Institute is one of only a handful of intensive
educational organizations on genealogical subjects
in the United States. This year's Institute was a
wealth of information on using and finding religious
records. Church records are often overlooked by
genealogists.
Some of Lloyd's fascinating facts:
" Did you know that 75% of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence were Congrega-
tionalists?
" Or that Puritans and Pilgrims have Marriage
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