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TEXAS CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE
Texans with deep Texas roots and newly-arrived-Texans should plan to attend the San Jacinto Day ceremonies at the San Jacinto Monument and Battlefield Park on San Jacinto Day, Saturday April 21st. The
official San Jacinto Day ceremonies will commence at 10:30 A.M. with the principal speaker, Texas Lt. Gov. Bill Ratliff. At 1:30 P.M. there will a reenactment of the Battle that won Texas her independence and at 4:30 P.M. K.R.
Woods' Fathers of Texas will entertain the crowds with a concert featuring music of the Texas Revolution of 1836. For more information visit David Pomeroy's website at
THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO
The Revolution in Texas was fairly short and consisted of only a few
battles, most of which were lost by the Texians. The direction most Texians, civilians and soldiers, were traveling was East toward the Sabine River and the safety of the United States. Pursuing them was the ruthless Mexican
dictator General Santa Anna who had been delayed longer than he wished by a garrison of men he slaughtered at the Alamo in San Antonio. On March 11, 1836 newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the
Republic of Texas Sam Houston arrived at Gonzales, Texas to take command of the Texas Army. He soon received word of the fall of the Alamo and shortly afterward learned of the defeat at Goliad. With 374 men, he began a 41 day
eastward retreat, recruitment and training adventure that would end with only an 18 minute battle, and the independence of Texas. In the afternoon of April 21 with the Mexican troops enjoying their siesta on
the plains of San Jacinto, Houston and 910 soldiers staged a mock marching drill that accelerated and turned into a surprise attack scattering the unsuspecting Mexicans. The rest of the story is history.
FAMILY TREE MAKER SOFTWARE CLASS
Paula Perkins Parke will teach an Organizing Your
Family Research With Family Tree Maker Software class from 1 to 4 P.M. Wednesday April 18. This one-time class will be held at Houston Community College's 1681 Cartwright campus in Missouri City.
Through demonstrations, students will learn step by step how to organize and document family information and sources. For more information and to register, contact HCC at 281-835-5539.
SEMINAR IN DALLAS
The Dallas Genealogical Society will host their Beyond the Basics Seminar at the
Harvey Hotel, LBJ at Coit Road, from 9 A.M to 4 P.M. Saturday April 28. There will be two featured presenters, Paula Perkins Parke and Patricia Law Hatcher. Parke will speak on Secular and Religious Newspaper
Research and Using Nonpopulation Census Records. Hatcher will explain Where to Look When You Do Not Know Where To Look and Great Research Techniques. For more information email DGS at
LOUISIANA SEMINAR
The Louisiana State Genealogical and Historical Society will host their Annual Seminar Saturday April 28 from 8 A.M. to 4 P.M at the Days Inn Conference Center in Baton
Rouge. Speakers will include Mary Linn Wernet, Catherine Jannik, Emory Charles Webre, Wilbur Meneray and Claire Mire Bettag. For more information write the LSGHS, P.O. Box 82060, Baton Rouge, LA 70884-2060 or
email Jane Gardner Aprill at
NEWS FROM THE BOOKSHELF
Compiled by former Texas State Genealogical Society president Wanda Lamberth Donaldson and edited by Doris Galyean Cozart, the Texas State Genealogical Society has published Texas
First Families: Lineages, Volume 1 (Applications 1 through 2400). It is available for $41, postpaid, from TSGS, 3219 Meadow Oaks Drive, Temple, TX 76502-1752. Plans for the book began in 1995 when the TSGS
under Donaldson's administration began offering Texas First Family Certificates. To qualify for a First Family Certificate one had to document their family back to an ancestor or sibling of an ancestor who resided in Texas prior to
February 19, 1846, the date Texas became a state within the United States. Initially, applications for First Families of Texas were to be accepted until December 1996, the end of the 150th anniversary year of
Texas statehood. However, due to the magnitude and success of the program, applications are still being accepted. The Texas First Families book contains over 430 pages of genealogical information from each
chronologically listed application from application 1 through application 2400. Subsequent applications will be published in future volumes. Included in each listing is the name and address of the applicant plus the names,
dates and places of birth death and marriage for each ancestor back to the qualifying ancestor. Concluding the book is an alphabetical index with the name of the ancestor, the name of the applicant and the certificate number. This book is a great way to locate others researching similar names or finding cousins descended from one's own Texas First Family.
