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104STPE
Lone Star Dust
1991 by Richard L. Hooverson
Gleanings and musings from the vorld of genealoey and local history.
Reader comments and suggestions are invited.
Requests to reprint should be addressed ts the author
iou may be a red-neck if you have researched your family tree and found nn
bratnhes. - Jonny Crh s F
NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROCEDURES
The fee for copies of records has been increased and newv forms are required:
NfATF Forrm 0, Veterans Record s, $10.00; Form 81, S hip Pas senger Arrivals,
$10.00; Form 82, Cen.su R ec rds, $6.00; Form 83, Eastern Cherokee
Applications,- $10.00. For lank forms write to Gener-l Reference Branch
(NI R), National Archl es. and Records Administration, 7th and Pennsylvannia
Avenue NW, Washington, DC2 20408.
THE TEXAS SCHOLASTIC CENSUS
Foll owing the Cfomprormise of 1850, Texas establish hed a $2 mi lion fund to
support schools i. In 1854-55, to determine the apportionment of interest,
each count i, with a - l s-o s -,te- ubmi tte d a Sc:hl at i C Censu-;e. r-iginal
reports from sixty-one counties are on file in the Teas State Archi vles but
the counties beginning with "A' through "D" are missing. These censuses are
available in Whitpe T.eas Schla stics, 1 854-5 . witth supplements.
Microfilms are available thronuh LDS Family History Centers.
CEMETERY RECORDS
Early Texas vital records are incomplete, family Bibles often lay forgotten
in attics, anid obituaries before 1900 are sketchy. For these reaso ns, the
researcher mnay find that cemetery records ar-e. v;a:luabl e for e-stablishing
missing birth and death dates and church affiliations. -ome county
socie ti es haveu published cemet-ter y or funeral homer- records. Local DAR
chapters have been active in catailoqinq cem-reteries fo-r a number of years.
F!r each cem etery, tihre opi s re is de: one for the 1ocal chapter, one of
the state r-posittori (if .establi.she-d), and one for the DAR librart- in
Washington, DC. Most are availablethrounh LDS Family History Centers.
FAMILY EnMGRATION PATTERNS
You may find that the birth dates of children in a family may be spaced in
groups, several ears apart, which may indicat- tlha; the family e mi rated
in qtroups firstt the father . ith the old er chi drern, next the mother with the104
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Texas State Genealogical Society. Stirpes, Volume 31, Number 3, September 1991, periodical, September 1991; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth39878/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Genealogical Society.