East Texas Genealogical Society Get-acquainted Luncheon Thursday, May 22, 2008 (normally the 4th Thursday) We start getting there about 11:30 a.m. We finish at 1:30 p.m. or earlier or later, depending on everyone's schedule. Where: at Heartland Ham Co., 3400-A South Broadway, Tyler TX (corner of Amherst & Broadway). What to eat: Soups, sandwiches, special lunches, & excellent desserts. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Scott Fitzgerald - scottfitzgerald@tyler.net

>From the Tyler Morning Telegraph, Tuesday, May 20, 2008, Section 2B: "WHITEHOUSE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION TO MEET Whitehouse - The annual meeting of Whitehouse Cemetery Association is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on June 1, organizers said. There will be a business meeting followed by lunch, said Barbara Kelly, program chairman." No other information or contact info is included. Submitted by Scott Fitzgerald

The Greater Malakoff Garden Club in Malakoff, Henderson Co. TX is publishing a history book and needs your help if you have a connection to Malakoff. You have until May 31, 2008 to submit your histories. Photos are accepted if they are clear. Mail to: Greater Malakoff Garden Club PO Box 897 Malakoff, TX 75148 The cost is: 29.95 shipping - PREPAY 39.95 shipping after publication They are hoping to have them ready in Oct. There is no email address to submit to. **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)

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The East Texas Genealogical Society will hold its regular monthly meeting on Saturday, May 10, 2008, at 2:00 p.m. at the Tyler Public Library in the Taylor Auditorium. The featured speaker will be Pat Gordon. Ms. Gordon, a professional writer, journalism teacher, and former newspaper reporter, will present a program titled “Genealogists Guide to Open Records.” The program will be a primer on open records – both federal and state – and provide genealogists with the information they need to know about which records are open and which ones are closed and how to gain access to the records. Ms. Gordon believes that knowing your rights is often the first step in gaining access to public records needed in your research. As a journalist Pat often used open records to find information for her stories, and when she began her family research about fifteen years ago, she discovered that what she did as a journalist was similar to what she needed to do as a genealogist. Pat Gordon holds a master’s degree in journalism from Texas Christian University and is a former newspaper reporter who now teaches journalism at a Fort Worth area university. She is a freelance writer and is involved in working on her family history as well as a county history. As a fifth-generation Texan, Pat likes to place her ancestors in the social setting in which they lived. Much of her research is done in newspapers and university archives, and she will be sharing how to find and obtain access to the records we need in our research. Pat has served two terms as president of the Fort Worth Genealogical Society and one term as vice president and editor of their monthly newsletter. She joined the Angelina College genealogy lecture staff in 2002 (http://www.angelina.edu/genealogy/htm) and continues to lecture at their annual conferences each July. Approximately thirty minutes following the conclusion of the regular program and refreshments, the Computer Interest Group of the East Texas Genealogical Society will meet with Steve Pope who will present a program on “Internet Security.” ETGS meetings are free and open to the public. For more information about ETGS go to our web-site: www.etgs.org or contact June Everheart, Publicity Director at Everheart@suddenlink.net or (903)877-4501.

Forwarded for everyone's information. Note the new location for the Henderson County TXGenWeb Website. Larry > >-----Original Message----- > >From: txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com > >[mailto:txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Fourls1223@aol.com > >Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:43 AM > >To: TXGEN-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [TXGEN] Henderson Co. has moved > > > >Boy I hope I don't have to do this again! Dial up stinks!!!! > > > >Henderson Co. has moved to: > >_www.txgenweb2.org/txhenderson/_ > >(http://www.txgenweb2.org/txhenderson/) > >please reset your bookmarks. > > > >Bunny > >Henderson Co. > >_www.txgenweb2.org/txhenderson/_ > >(http://www.txgenweb2.org/txhenderson/) > >Motley Co. > >(about to move, am packing boxes as we speak) > > > > > > > >**************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new > >twists on family > >favorites at AOL Food. > >(http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Hi All, At the Anderson County History Forum Saturday I picked up a flyer of the Palestine Police Museum. I scanned it to a pdf file and placed it at the Anderson County GenWeb site: http://www.etgs.org/txanderson/orderbooks/acpolice.pdf Detective Charles Lee Steen is the creator and 1st curator of the museum. It is located at 511 North John Street, Palestine TX. Hours are Saturdays from 1 to 5. Phone 903-731-8468. Charles is working on book of the history of the Palestine Police Department. He told me that it should be ready to print around September 1st. If you have someone that served with the department, I am sure that Charles would like to talk to you. His e-mail is clsteen@palestine-tx.org Scott

Hi All, Bonnie Woolverton has revised and updated her Tennessee Colony Cemetery Book. It is available for sale by the Tennessee Colony Community Improvement Association, c/o Joan Woolverton Fox, 1419 ACR 2501, Tennessee Colony TX 75861. The price is $20 shipped. All profits go to the association. I have placed a pdf file of the first two pages of the book at the Anderson County website: http://www.etgs.org/txanderson/orderbooks/tcca.pdf If you have questions about the book, information about the cemetery, burials or families, I am sure Bonnie will be happy to talk with you. Her e-mail address is bonniejw@embarqmail.com Scott

The Anderson County TXGenWeb Project has been moved to a new server and has a new URL: http://www.etgs.org/txanderson It is being hosted by East Texas Genealogical Society who now has a new URL: http://www.etgs.org/ The old rootsweb URL is still good and should be active for the foreseeable future. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txanders/ The Anderson County Archives have been moved off of Rootsweb to the new USGenWeb Archives Server at: http://www.usgwarchives.org/ For Anderson County, Texas, the new URL is: http://usgwarchives.org/tx/anderson/andertoc.htm The old URL at Rootsweb was: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/tx/anderson/andertoc.htm This URL is still good but I am not sure if it will be there for much longer. If you had bookmarked any of the pages while they were on Rootsweb, you will need to throw out the old 'Favorites' and go save the new URL. Sorry for this inconvenience - it was necessary. Scott Fitzgerald and Beverly Bailey Odom Anderson County TXGenWeb Project Anderson County Archives File Managers

Hi Pat, Everyone is welcome to come. It is mostly social but topics can range from genealogy, computers, etc. We usually sit in the back corner. Hope to see you tomorrow, Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: tx-etgs-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tx-etgs-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of PAT HANCOCK > Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:06 PM > To: tx-etgs@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TX-ETGS] Luncheon - 4/24/08 > > Hi, Scott. I am Pat Hancock and am fairly new to the genealogy business. > Trying to get my family history done for my family before it is lost. Is > this meeting for everyone? I really use some pointers on searching data. > Thanks, Pat > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Scott Fitzgerald <scottfitzgerald@tyler.net> > To: ETGS Mailing List <TX-ETGS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:20:46 AM > Subject: [TX-ETGS] Luncheon - 4/24/08 > > East Texas Genealogical Society > Get-acquainted Luncheon > Thursday, April 24, 2008 (normally the 4th Thursday) > > We start getting there about 11:30 a.m. > > We finish at 1:30 p.m. or earlier or later, depending on everyone's > schedule. > > Where: at Heartland Ham Co., 3400-A South Broadway, Tyler TX (corner of > Amherst & Broadway). > > What to eat: Soups, sandwiches, special lunches, & excellent desserts. > > If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. > > Scott Fitzgerald - scottfitzgerald@tyler.net > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TX-ETGS- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TX-ETGS- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message

Pat - This is for anyone - we would be glad for you to be there. Larry > >-----Original Message----- > >From: tx-etgs-bounces@rootsweb.com > >[mailto:tx-etgs-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of PAT HANCOCK > >Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:06 PM > >To: tx-etgs@rootsweb.com > >Subject: Re: [TX-ETGS] Luncheon - 4/24/08 > > > >Hi, Scott. I am Pat Hancock and am fairly new to the > >genealogy business. Trying to get my family history done for > >my family before it is lost. Is this meeting for everyone? I > >really use some pointers on searching data. Thanks, Pat > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ---- > >From: Scott Fitzgerald <scottfitzgerald@tyler.net> > >To: ETGS Mailing List <TX-ETGS-L@rootsweb.com> > >Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:20:46 AM > >Subject: [TX-ETGS] Luncheon - 4/24/08 > > > >East Texas Genealogical Society > >Get-acquainted Luncheon > >Thursday, April 24, 2008 (normally the 4th Thursday) > > > >We start getting there about 11:30 a.m. > > > >We finish at 1:30 p.m. or earlier or later, depending on > >everyone's schedule. > > > >Where: at Heartland Ham Co., 3400-A South Broadway, Tyler TX > >(corner of Amherst & Broadway). > > > >What to eat: Soups, sandwiches, special lunches, & excellent > >desserts. > > > >If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. > > > >Scott Fitzgerald - scottfitzgerald@tyler.net > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >TX-ETGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >TX-ETGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Hi, Scott. I am Pat Hancock and am fairly new to the genealogy business. Trying to get my family history done for my family before it is lost. Is this meeting for everyone? I really use some pointers on searching data. Thanks, Pat ----- Original Message ---- From: Scott Fitzgerald <scottfitzgerald@tyler.net> To: ETGS Mailing List <TX-ETGS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:20:46 AM Subject: [TX-ETGS] Luncheon - 4/24/08 East Texas Genealogical Society Get-acquainted Luncheon Thursday, April 24, 2008 (normally the 4th Thursday) We start getting there about 11:30 a.m. We finish at 1:30 p.m. or earlier or later, depending on everyone's schedule. Where: at Heartland Ham Co., 3400-A South Broadway, Tyler TX (corner of Amherst & Broadway). What to eat: Soups, sandwiches, special lunches, & excellent desserts. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Scott Fitzgerald - scottfitzgerald@tyler.net ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TX-ETGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Forwarded by request. Please respond to Amanda directly. Thanks, Scott ________________________________________ From: Amanda Pilkerton [mailto:apilkerton@moneysmart.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:35 PM To: Scottfitzgerald@tyler.net Subject: Whitehouse Cemetery Association My family is buried at Whitehouse Cemetery. Is the cemetery association having a meeting this year? Amanda Pilkerton

The Bulletin received and printed.....thanks. Also, I have put you on May 10 Exec. Commit. meeting and regular meeting agendas. Sherry & I usually arrive an hour or more early to set up the room and get the projector, etc. sam k ************** Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851)

The ETGS newsletter "The Bulletin" for May 2008 is now available at: http://www.etgs.org/publications/the_bulletin/2008/200805.pdf Watch for any wrapping of the URL, and, note the new Server/URL for the ETGS website. There have been many genealogical Server/URL changes and the ones for our Counties are noted on page three of this month's "The Bulletin". Larry Lawrence E. Oliver ETGS Web Master

>From Tyler (TX) Morning Telegraph, Tuesday April 22, 2008, Page 3A: Henderson - The Mays Cemetery Reunion will be held on Saturday [April 26, 2008] at the cemetery located near New Salem on County Road 4221, southwest of Henderson, said Joan Smith, cemetery association secretary. Participants should bring a covered dish, she said. A business meeting is set for 12:30 p.m. For more information, call 903-657-4737. Submitted by Scott Fitzgerald

East Texas Genealogical Society Get-acquainted Luncheon Thursday, April 24, 2008 (normally the 4th Thursday) We start getting there about 11:30 a.m. We finish at 1:30 p.m. or earlier or later, depending on everyone's schedule. Where: at Heartland Ham Co., 3400-A South Broadway, Tyler TX (corner of Amherst & Broadway). What to eat: Soups, sandwiches, special lunches, & excellent desserts. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. Scott Fitzgerald - scottfitzgerald@tyler.net

Hello tx-etgs, I am seeking info that would lead me to identify the parent of Sarah Hyde who lived and died in Tyler Texas. She was the wife of Robert Bowlin Lewter. These names have a lot of variant spellings too such as Bolen Bolling and Bolden for the middle name of Robert and Lewter, Luter Leuter and so on for the surname. Sarah married Robert Luter as a young widow. Her maiden name was Hyde but she was married to someone with the surname Franklin first and was then widowed. I have never found the marriage record between her and Franklin. She is NOT the same Sarah Hyde who is the daughter of Anthony Gray Hyde of Nacodoches even though they are nearly the same age. Though it is suspected she may be related to the Anthony Gray Hydes, nothing can be determined until her parents are identified. Sarah Hyde says she was born in Arkansas around 1855. She says on Civil War pension papers she lived in Texas 50 years. She does not appear on any census that I have found with either her maiden name of Hyde nor her first marriage name of Franklin. She first appears on a census record as Sarah Lewter. I have her marriage record to Robert from Tyler, Texas, I have both of their death certificates, I know where they are buried though they seem to have no headstones, their place of burial is listed on their death certificates. I have a cousin I communicate with who seems to be descended from a brother of Sarah Hyde whose name is thought to be John. There was also possibly a sister of both of them but so far their relationships to one another is supposition. I would very much like to find someone who knows anything that could lead to the identification of the parents of this Sarah Hyde who married Robert Lewter. At one time the Lewter family was prominent in Tyler. Robert Lewter's father Jonathan Luter was for many years the State Legislator for Smith County. I know most all about my Lewter ancestors and have their records back to 1700' Virginia, but nothing is known about my Hyde line save that Sarah Hyde. It is possible she may have been young enough when she married Franklin that a parent had to co-sign some form for the marriage to occur. She died in 1914 in Tyler, Texas. She was married to Robert Lewter in Tyler on December 24, 1876 in Tyler. Surely there is some record besides what I have of someone who lived most of their lives in the same place. My cousin Ed Hyde who is descended from Sarah's brother or one of them if she had more than one has tried through the Tyler library to gain more info. He has a few new articles about Robert and post Civil War activities, but not anything where we can find our mutual Hyde grandparents. I am hoping someone on this list will know something. Thanks Barb -- Best regards, Barbara mailto:firebird@taela.net

Mr. Kinnunen has graciously allowed us to place his three handouts for the sessions he authored onto the Internet and they are now available for download/reading at the following URL: http://www.etgs.org/meetings.html If you will scroll to the April 12 Meeting item, you will notice that there are three live marks to get to the three handouts. These are Adobe PDF files and will require you to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Larry Lawrence E. Oliver ETGS Web Master