Be Sure to Visit my new 1900 Galveston Storm Website at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootseb.com/~barnette
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Family History Radio Debuts
A new
multimedia Web site, the Family History Radio Web site, debuted this week. Hosted by Steve Jensen the Web site is active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at Powered by Windows Media Player online surfers
click on buttons to hear pre-programmed audio clips playing pre-recorded genealogical interviews and programs. The Web site contains areas for tech talk, stories, society news, and tips and tricks.
Included on the Web site is a contact email address for those who would like to ask questions, tell stories of their own, pass along society news or offer tips. Currently, there are clips about the New England Historic Genealogical
Society, GenTech 2002, a story about DNA and tips on getting started in genealogical research.
2nd Texas Cavalry , CSA
Michael Tope and Renee Smalley have dedicated a Web site at http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~yarbrou gh/
to the men who served in Company K of the 2nd Texas Calvary, CSA. This regiment was at times also known as the 2nd Texas Mounted Rifles. Most of the men in the unit were from or enlisted from counties near San Antonio. During the Civil War the company served in South Texas against Juan Cortina, along the western settlements against the Apache and in Fredericksburg policing the anti-war German communities. Later in the war they
served in Galveston and in Louisiana. The Web site contains a history of the unit and a list of the men who served within her ranks. The webmasters ask anyone familiar with the company or any of the soldiers in the
unit to contact them and give whatever historical or biographical information they may have.
Cemetery and Tombstone Studies
Learn about cemeteries, tombstone artwork and epitaphs in a two session class taught by Paula
Perkins Parke. Cemetery Searching & Answers from the Tombstone is a two part class offered by Leisure Learning. The first session will be held from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday Dec. 12 at Leisure
Learning's 2990 Richmond Ave. campus. The day and time of the concluding session will be announced in class and will be held in a local cemetery. For more information about this class and to register, contact Leisure
learning at 713-529-4414.
Genealogy Class in Clear Lake
The Bay Area Genealogical Society is sponsoring a beginning genealogy class in Clear Lake City on Saturday Dec. 9 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. To register or
for more information call Jeanine Lawrence at 281-334-6100 or Carolyn Hellen at 281-486-0406. A nominal registration fee will include an 80 page workbook, refreshments and a trip to Clayton Library. Registrants are
encouraged to bring a sack lunch and enjoy the day.
SAR Meets In Tyler
The Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution will sponsor a genealogical seminar in conjunction with their 2002 annual meeting. The seminar is
open to the interested public and will be held on Friday March 8, 2002, in Tyler. Speakers at the seminar will be Lloyd Bockstruck of Dallas and Judge Edward Butler of San Antonio. Topics will include Finding
Revolutionary Soldiers in the New England States, the Middle Atlantic States and the Southern States. Other talks will discuss Spain's participation in the American Revolution and how to prove eligibility for membership in lineage
societies. For more information, visit the Texas SAR Web site at New on the bookshelf Published just in time for Christmas artist
Tony Matthews and his wife Linda Goetsch, owners of Paper Tree, have created a series of four genealogical chart clip art CD-ROMs. The CD-ROMs are priced at $17 each or all four for $64, postpaid. The images are for one's personal
use and are IBM and MAC compatible. Each CD-ROM contains tif files suitable for transferring to T-shirts, totes, wall charts, gift cards and cards for other occasions, such as, Christmas. While decorative, each
design is a genealogical chart. To view the designs on each CD-Rom and the genealogical charts available from Paper Tree, visit the Paper Tree Web site at
