Use WorldCat http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/ from your local library and Cyndi's List for sources. Search for big libraries that can send via interlibrary loan to your local library. The instructor for this session was Lloyd Bockstruck, supervisor of genealogy at Dallas (TX) Public Library. He's stuck in Texas, too, when he isn't flying somewhere to lecture. Caroline > From: Sandmaid1@aol.com > Subject: Re: [ALWALKER] FW: [ALLAMAR] Confederates move to Brazil > > Fascinating stuff! Got any more? I'm stuck in TX. > From: "Caroline" <carolineh@knology.net> > Subject: [ALWALKER] Confederate migration > > You wrote: >> Subject: [ALLAMAR] Confederates move to Brazil >> Beville State at Walker College campus currently has the Lincoln Exhibit. >> Speakers have presented programs on different aspects of life as it was >> during the Lincoln era and after the Civil War. >> I had not realized that 4,000 confederates from the deep south >> states >> of MS, AL, GA, TX moved on to southern Brazil to land granted them by the >> Brazilian gov't. They brought better quality of education and plows to >> Brazil and maintained their Confederate identity. When Jimmy Carter was >> governor of GA he made a trip to Brazil and did visit with decendants of >> the >> Confederate Colonists there. >> I knew there was migration from AL to TX during the period right after >> the Civil War but to Brazil is new to me. Does anyone know of family >> members who joined in this move to Brazil? or good sources that recorded >> these years from 1865 to 1885 as this movement took place? > > > This past week I attended the Institute of Genealogy and Historical > Research > at Samford Univ. in B'ham - an outstanding week with nationally known > speakers. > > In the Bibliography re the Confederacy are the following: > Eugene C. Harter - "The Lost Colony of the Confederacy" > Bette Antues de Oliverira - "North American Immigration to Brazil" > Alfred J. Hanna - "Confederate Exiles in Venezuela" > Donald C. Simmons - "Confederate Settlements in British Honduras" > > Using Google I found the first one (didn't look further) which can be > ordered or found at a local library and probably interlibrary loan. > > Caroline H. Horton