Presentation Announcement

I will be presenting as part of a panel on organizing your family history at the January 2013 Williamson County (Texas) Genealogical Society meeting (http://www.williamsontxgenealogy.org).  A good time will be had by all!

Social time and snacks begin at 7pm; presentation begins at 7:30. The panel includes discussion of paper organization, digital files, and dealing with/preserving heirloom items.  Should be interesting.



(c) Sara Gredler, 2013.

Tombstone Tuesday (early) and results of Wilbarger County visit

So this Tombstone Tuesday post is very early, but I want to share the results of my trip to Wilbarger county for work and the side trip to a cemetery there to find some Snow family relatives.

Gates at Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Texas

The two SNOW family burials there:

S. B. Snow (1822-1898); E. Snow, his wife (1828 - [blank])

Eugenia Snow (daughter of L.A. and Anna Snow) (15 Mar 1892-9 Apr 1892)

S.B. (Stillman Bullard) Snow's gravestone has an entry for his wife (E. Snow [Emily]), but no death date.  That further convinces me that the families of her children moved shortly after the 1900 census in Wilbarger County, Texas and that she left with the family of one of those children, either to another part of Texas or to Oklahoma, and died there. Now to figure out where she went!

(c) Sara Gredler, 2012.

Bridges!

Two examples of what I have been doing the past week:

Bridge at the Red River where I got stuck:

 Bridge and its beautiful surroundings:

Enjoy!

Wilbarger County, Texas - 2 thumbs up for the City Government!

So I am going to be traveling to Wilbarger County, Texas, next week for work (time for more bridge survey). It will be part of a larger trip in west and and northwest Texas. I am not expecting to get a trip up to Wilbarger county any other time. Because of this, I was planning on making a stop at Eastview Cemetery in Vernon, Texas, but I have no idea of where the people were buried. This is the SNOW family, including Stillman B. Snow, from Virginia. His father was Asiel Snow, who came to Pulaski Co, Virginia, from Massachusetts.

So I was looking up the cemetery, found some entries on Find-a-Grave, but no actual plot locations. So in preparation for next week's trip, I faxed the City Hall, which holds the records of the cemetery. I had not expected a fast reply, and included my mailing address, phone number, email, and fax number. Not 20 minutes later I had received a fax and a email from someone in the City Hall in Vernon. This included a letter, the cemetery record for the SNOWs, and a map of the cemetery giving me directions to the location within the cemetery.

The city of Vernon in Wilbarger county is fantastic. I wish I had more people to research there! I hope that I can actually stop in and say thank you. I probably won't get any time to research as the schedule will be tight, but every little bit helps. I have no idea if there will be any headstones there, but at least now I have the cemetery record and can check it out!

History-excitement but not genealogy

Sara at the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park

August 2012

So I had been wanting to visit some battlefields ever since I moved to Texas. I used to live on the East Coast, and there are TONS of battlefields there. Not so many in Texas, though.

A coworker and I were in the Rio Grande Valley for work and driving back to our hotel saw one of the brown historic signs. I was able to convince him to turn off, and we ended up at the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park, the site of the first battle of the US-Mexican War.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on the viewpoint), it was so hot that we forwent hiking the trails and did not take a gander of the site from the overlook. Nor did we visit the sister site of Resaca de la Palma. This means that I will have to go back, right?

Palo Alto Battlefield

August 2012

Taken by Sara Gredler

Blog posting was light...

Blog posting last week was super light due to being out of town due to work.  I am an architectural historian and was in Corpus Christi doing a large survey project, and ending up surveying over 700 properties in about 4 days.  Hardcore work.

However, I was super excited because I got to work with one of my great coworkers that I haven't gotten to work with in about 3 years.  On Thursday night we got a chance to let our hair down (after working 12 hours straight) and played in Nueces Bay, then decided to drive in a circle over multiple causeways and took the ferry to Port Aransas, then we drove on the beach and played in the Gulf of Mexico, then drove to South Padre Island and back to Corpus Christi.

Waves at North Beach, Corpus Christi, TX

North Beach, Corpus Christi, TX

Playing with the shark at one of the shops, North Beach, Corpus Christi, TX

Harbor Bridge lit with LEDs, Corpus Christi, TX

Bird near the Corpus Christi Seawall, Corpus Christi, TX

Selena Monument, Corpus Christi, TX

Photos and blog entry (c) Sara Gredler, 2012

Williamson County Texas Genealogical Society - Quarterly

The Williamson County (Texas) Genealogical Society's quarterly publication, The Chisholm Trail, was sent by email and postal mail to members earlier this month.


The contents of this issue are:

• Deposition of James Welker
• Pioneer Certificate No. 319 Issued – Ancestor August Mueller
• Descendants of Curtis Roberts
• Dallas Announces Annual Writing Competition
• Delayed Birth Records – Williamson County, Texas
• Births, Marriages, and Deaths Reported in the Round Rock Leader 1929-1930
• Ancestors, for 7 Generations, of Sara Gredler

We get a good mix of items each quarterly, but I'd love to have some more well-researched compiled genealogies.

Williamson County, Texas, Genealogical Society Meeting - This Thursday

Thursday is the monthly meeting of the Williamson County (Texas) Genealogical Society.

We meet at the Round Rock Public Library and the presentation begins at 7:30.  Social time, with snacks, is from 7-7:30.

This month's speaker is Teri Flack, treasurer of the Austin Genealogical Society, and she is speaking on probate records.  I thoroughly enjoy Teri's talks and I am so excited that I am not out of town for work this week!

See the society's website for more information - http://www.williamsontxgenealogy.org/

Hope to see lots of people there!

Wordless Wednesday (almost)

Tuesday's excitement - trip to SeaWorld San Antonio and behind the scenes experience in the penguin habitat!  

Behind on blog posting...

Sorry readers, I am behind on blog posting.  My parents are here for vacation and we are working on making some recent family history, and I am also having some sinus issues.  We spent two days in Houston at the Natural Science museum and saw the Terra Cotta warriors exhibit as well as the Titanic exhibit.  Tomorrow we are off to see penguins at SeaWorld San Antonio and will participate in a feeding session.

I wasn't allowed to take photos at the Titanic exhibit, but here are some of the Terra Cotta Warriors.

Warriors found in Pit 2. 

Beautiful terra cotta horse.

Buddha statue.

After the Terra Cotta Warriors exhibit, we visited the newly opened Paleontology Hall.  I love dinosaurs and always have.  My fav? Stegosaurus.

Stegosaurus skeleton at the Houston Museum of Natural History.

I was also lucky to be able to spend 1/2 an hour at the Clayton Library and did some digging in periodicals.  The one book I was looking for had no additional data on my guy, so I ran to periodicals and found two articles on my ROGERS Mayflower family.

(c) Sara Gredler 2012

Williamson County (Texas) Genealogical Society - Monthly Meeting

So excited tomorrow for Debbie Parker Wayne to talk about DNA!

We meet on the 3rd Thursday of the month at the Round Rock Public Library at 7:30pm.

Debbie's blog: http://debsdelvings.blogspot.com/

I will have to get permission to repost some great flyers that our previous Publicity chair made for us before she moved!