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TEXAS CZECH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY FORMED
Texans with Czech heritage will be elated to learn a new Texas Czech Genealogical Society has recently been organized. The society was formed to foster interest in and promote Czech culture. Meetings are held the second
Saturday of each month at the SPJST Supreme Lodge at 520 North Main Street in Temple, Texas. Meetings are free and open to the public and the next meeting is scheduled for Saturday August 11. Most Texans of
Czech heritage are descendants of immigrants who came to Texas in the latter half of the 19th Century from Moravia, Bohemia, Slovakia and Silesia which was located in the former Austro Hungarian Empire in what is today the
Czech Republic. Those interested in learning more about the society or joining it should write Wayne Wendt at 361 North Post Oak Lane, Houston, TX 77024-5902 or visit the Texas Czech Society website at
TEXAS CZECH GENEALOGICAL CONFERENCE
The Texas Czech Genealogical Society is sponsoring a conference, Harvesting Your Ancestors, on Saturday September 8 from 10 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. at the College Station
Conference Center, 1300 George Bush Drive in College Station. Presented by eight informative speakers the conference will include twelve enticing genealogical learning sessions. Topics will include the History
of the Czech-Moravian Church, Researching Czech Ancestry, Using the Internet and classes on using World War I and World War II records, passenger records and cemetery records. For more information use the
contact addresses listed above.
GENEALOGICAL CLASS AT GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Paula Perkins Parke will teach a Beginning Genealogy Class at Grace Presbyterian Church, 10221 Ella Lee near Sam Houston Tollway in West Houston. This three part class will
be held on Monday August 13 and Monday August 20 from 5:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. The third class session will be announced in class and will consist of a tour and hands-on census work at Clayton Library. To
enroll or to learn more about this class, contact the Becky Morris at the Grace Presbyterian Church Adult Education office at 713-267-5091.
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 August 15. 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, document family information and sources and publish a book. For more information and to register, contact HCC at 281-835-5539.
WFA DEDICATES SWISS CASTLE
About 30 American and 45 Swiss descendants of Hans Zu Wolfsberg are expected to participate in the dedication of a
memorial to their ancestors at the ruins of the old Wolfsberger family castle near Bauma Switzerland on September 28th. The memorialists are descendants of Wolfsberg who was born about 1395. The first known
member of the family was Knight Balderbert 1233-1259 whose home was the Wolfsberger Castle. The family probably endowed the nearby monastery at Ruti where the Wolfsberger coat of arms is displayed and many of the family lay buried.
Wolfensberger immigrants began coming to America in the 1730s. Some of the early families came to Pennsylvania while later immigrants went to Kansas or Missouri. Where ever they entered what is now the United
States, their descendants have now spread to all the states. Robert L. Evans of Houston and editor of the Wolfensberger Family Association newsletter reports there are numerous Wolfensberger descendants in Texas and the Houston
area. The spelling of the family surname varies from family to family and the place and time in history being researched. Some of the many variants of the surname include Wolfensberger, Wolfersberger,
Wolfersperger, Wolfenbarger,Wolfinbarger, Spargur and Sparger. For more about the Wolfensberger Family Association visit their website at
NEWS FROM THE BOOKSHELF
Mountain Press has recently reprinted Helen Smothers Swenson's Early Texas News 1831-1848: Abstracts from Early Texas Newspapers. It is available for $28.50, postpaid, from
Mountain Press, P.O. Box 400, Signal Mountain, TN 37377-400. The newspapers abstracted include those in San Felipe de Austin, Brazoria, and Red River County which is along the Oklahoma and Arkansas border with
Texas. Information in the abstracts include local, Texas, United States and foreign news. Included is a wealth of names and information about the ongoing revolution in Mexico and Texas and everyday
happenings, legal notices and advertisements of interest to genealogists and historians.
