Thank you very much, Robert, for sharing this site. Let me add that there is an association called "Alsace Medina County Texas" based in Ensisheim, Haut-Rhin, that organizes a monthly "Stammtisch" and exchanges between Alsace and Castroville area: http://amct.pagesperso-orange.fr/index_fr.html Interestingly, Alsatian dialect is still spoken in Castroville -- with Texan accent ;^) ? http://www.castroville.com/alsatian_language.htm Etienne Herrbach Le 2 nov. 12 à 00:59, Robert Behra a écrit : > I just stumbled across The Portal to Texas History: > > http://texashistory.unt.edu/ > > Included are some digitized issues of the Courrier d'Alsace, a > bilingual (French and German) 19th-century newspaper from Alsace. The > link below takes you to an issue that includes a letter from Father > Pfanner, a priest who led a group of his parishioners from > Soppe-le-Bas, Haut-Rhin, to settle in Castroville, Texas, in November > 1845. Here he gives his report about conditions in Texas. > > http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth188927/m1/1/sizes/xl/?q=alsace > > Robert Behra