German-Texan Heritage Society Newsletter, Volume 9, Number 3, Fall 1987 Page: 186
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FROM OUR MEMBERS
The following section was compiled by your Genealogy Editor from informati
received from our members. If you have an interest in any of the families
mentioned, write directly to the member. To have your story appear in a
future issue, write to your Genealogy Editor, Theresa Gold, 106 Ranchland,
San Antonio TX 78213. Items are published free of charge for members. Fo
non-members, there is a $5.00 query fee. Plese submit a concise paragraph
two, or simply a list of the surnames you are researching along with the
Texas counties the families settled and the religion they practiced.
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Arliss Treybiq P 0 Box 1236, El Campo TX 77437 has been busy with two
projects. During her school's spring break in March, she traveled solo to
Germany to visit four villages that had been the homes of her great
grandparents, including one in East Germany. Previous issues of our
Newsletter have documented the work she has done on the history of the
Braden, Burtschell, Knebel, Heyne, Treybig, Glueck, Marx,. and Henne
families. Arliss has prepared a delightful and well thought out 11-page
report of her experiences, including her advance plans and correspondence,
her travel and accomodations arrangements, but most of all her report on t
people she visited and her personal impressions. A quote from the last pag
"This trip was a very wonderful, emotional experience for me. During he
years that I have done family research, I have developed an enhanced sense
family pride. By doing the research, compiling it into family books, and
making this trip, I somehow felt that I was repaying my ancestors for thei
courage and struggles in a new land." That's what it's all about, isn't i
Her other new project concerns an exhibit to be held in Mainz, Germany, in
June 1988, depicting links between old Mainz in Germany and new Mentz in
Texas. As the historian of Bernadro and Mentz, Texas, Arliss was contacted
by Prof. Hans Galinsky of Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz to assist w
the exhibit. See elsewhere in this issue her "Wanted" advertisement for
documents, photos, family records and letters to establish links between
Texas immigrant settlers from the Rhineland-Palatinate and their families
back in the homeland. The exhibit, "Rhineland-Palatinate and Texas: Two
Regions in Contrast," is part of a student exchange between the UniversityHouston and the University of Mainz.
Ruby Einkauf-McDonald 11011 Alhambra, Austin TX 78759 is looking for back
issues of Southwest Texas Historical and Genealogical Society's quarterly,
specifically for articles published with information from Lavaca County.
Roy Addicks 313 Springbranch Dr., Garland TX 75043 (note new address) is
still working on recording the cemeteries of Colorado County. This summer
he went to Menard County, part of the old Fisher-Miller Grant, and found a
deed record naming all his German relatives that lived in the Frelsburg ar
of Colorado County. He now has numerous records on them from 1847-1856, b
still has not found them in the Census records.on
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German-Texan Heritage Society. German-Texan Heritage Society Newsletter, Volume 9, Number 3, Fall 1987, periodical, Autumn 1987; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1507402/m1/48/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting German-Texan Heritage Society.