Through the generosity of members of the East Texas Genealogical Society and the Anderson County Genealogical Society the 1930 Anderson County Census images are now archived on the Anderson County USGenWeb Archives page. They are available for all researchers to use -- free of charge. In order to maximize their usefulness, however, an index must be created and also placed on line. Beverly Bailey Odom is coordinating volunteers to do this simple job of full-name indexing. Others working on the project are Mike Vaughn, Pauline Pierce, Mike Stanley, Pat Skidmore, Kathy Moore Odom, Sunshine Knowles & Sharon Trigg Bragg. We need more volunteers to get this done quickly. All you need is your computer and some time -- and you can do as much or as little as you wish. Please contact Beverly at [email protected] if you can volunteer to help on this project.

Hi All, Thanks to the generosity of the members of the East Texas Genealogical Society and the Anderson County Genealogical Society and SK Publications, the 1930 Anderson County Census images are now on-line for anyone to see free. Scott Fitzgerald, President of ETGS ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Schunk" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 10:41 PM Subject: 1930 Anderson County Census Images on-line > Hi Scott, > > The 1930 Anderson County Census images are now on-line in the USGenWeb > Archives at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/anderson/census/1930/ > > and they are also linked at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/cen_img.htm > > Thanks! > John > > > > John F. Schunk > > S-K Publications > PO Box 8173 > Wichita KS 67208-0173 > PH 316-685-3201 > FAX 316-685-6650 > > [email protected] > http://www.SKcensus.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GOSSETT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XiB.2ACI/129.1003.1039.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Debbie... You really didn't give enough information to do a good search, like dates or approximate dates, your grandfathers name, etc. but seeing the name Mary Ann and the two locations you mentioned I found this family with a wife named Mary A. and if your grandfather's name was Robert it probably is them. 1880 Census Place: District 71, Gonzales Co., Texas Source: FHL Film 1255306 National Archives Film T9-1306 Page 503D Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace John R. GOSSETT Self M M W 40 TX Occ: Farmer Fa: TN Mo: LA Mary A. GOSSETT Wife F M W 32 LA Occ: Keeping House Fa: MS Mo: MS Laura J. GOSSETT Dau F S W 13 TX Occ: Helping Fa: TX Mo: LA Sallie A. GOSSETT Dau F S W 10 TX Occ: Scholar Fa: TX Mo: LA Amanda E. GOSSETT Dau F S W 8 TX Fa: TX Mo: LA Mary E. GOSSETT Dau F S W 6 TX Fa: TX Mo: LA Calidonia GOSSETT Dau F S W 3 TX Fa: TX Mo: LA Edner GOSSETT Dau F S W 6M TX Fa: TX Mo: LA 1900 Llano Co TX census: GOSSETT, John R.; born Dec 1838; age 61; married 34yrs; TX TN LA; farmer; rent farm Mary A.; wife; June 1848; 51; 11 children born 10 living; LA MS MS Laura J.; daughter; Feb 1867; 33; married 15 yrs; 1 child born 1 living; TX Emma M.; dau; June 1874; 25; single; TX Callie D.; dau.; Oct 1876; 23; s; TX Edna W.; dau; Nov 1879; 20; s; TX Vadie S.; dau; Feb 1882; 18; s; TX Robert J.; son Feb 1884; 16; s; TX Fannie M.; dau; July 1889; TX Elma L.; dau.; May 1896; 4; TX MILLIGAN, Marvin; grandson; Mar 1891; 9; TX Billie Nichols Bennett TEXAS

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: gossett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XiB.2ACI/129.1003.1039.1.1.1 Message Board Post: i have also been researching that line. i have very little info, but maybe something will be helpful to you. john redmond is my gg-gf (my mother's father's father). most of our records have been lost,so what i have is mostly from older relatives. it was related to me that john redmond lived in llano with his first wife (do not know her name). she passed away leaving several small children (my g-f included). redmond decided to drive all of his cattle across texas to try to better their lives. at this time i think he ended up in anderson county around the palestine area (???). it is my understanding that he remarried at this time. possibly somone named sara. my gf was borned in 1884, so it is possible that mary ann was his mother, but i'm not sure. does any of this make sense to your research ?? like i said, i hve not been able to verify any of this because i did not have a name for the wife. gee, i REALLY hope this rings a bell !!!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gossett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XiB.2ACI/129.1003.1039.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes! John Redmond is my gr-gr-grandfather.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: gossett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XiB.2ACI/129.1003.1039.1 Message Board Post: would you happen to know if his name was "john redmond gossett" ? i am also looking for john gossett line.thanks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: WARD,GILLILAND,STEED Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XiB.2ACI/1335 Message Board Post: The following is a record from the 1880 U S Census for Prcnt 6, Anderson CountyTexas: Ward,S C self, divorced,female,W, 41,Tn keep house,Tn,Tn, Ward, Wm J, son,S,male,W,19,Il,farm labor, Ky,Tn Ward,Emma J,Dau,S,Female,W,12,Il home,Ky,Tn Ward,Lilla,dau,S,Female,W,3m,Tx, home, Ky,Tn Believe this woman was Sintha C (Gilliland) Ward,all the above info is consistant with her,and children on 1870 Census in Greene County Illinois,Her oldest son,Francis,(not listed on this record)and wife Julia A (Steed) Ward's first child, Mary was born in Palestine Texas August 1879. Francis "Frank" Ward worked for the rail road,and moved a lot. any info would be appreciated..Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XiB.2ACI/1334 Message Board Post: Does anyone have information regarding a marriage between James Jasper (Jim) Walding and Eliza Bingham? Thanks, [email protected]

Hi, I just finished re-constructing 3 pages of Grave pictures, which I took in TX and SC. When I took these pictures I thought they belonged into my Family Tree, but once I returned home, I was unable to place them within my data. Please take a look, and let me know if you recognize anyone; I'll gladly share the pictures with you. Thanks for your help,Eleonore http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~mandaley/Grave1.html there are 3 pages, just click onto the "next" button to get to the other pages,thank you.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: TAYLOR/KYLE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XiB.2ACI/1333 Message Board Post: Looking for information on John Lewis Taylor, born in 1852 in Anderson Cty, and his wife, Martha Elizabeth Kyle, also born in 1852 in Anderson Cty. Married in Elkhart in 1873, later moved to NM. Also looking for information on John's parents. Any information will be gratefully received. Thanks in advance, Mary Barbone ([email protected])

Regular Meeting of East Texas Genealogical Society, Tyler, TX Saturday, April 12, 2003 Tyler Public Library - Taylor Auditorium 2:00 p.m. Speaker: Barbara Butler Rust Program: "Bureau of Indian Affairs Records at the National Archives-SW Region" Guest speaker, Barbara Butler Rust's program will cover records that were created by Indian agencies in Indian/Oklahoma territories and the state of Oklahoma, from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The bulk of the files relate to the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole), but the western Oklahoma tribes will be discussed briefly. The allotment in severalty process, tribal enrollment, trust lands and funds, and heirship/probate records for tribal members will also be covered. Ms. Rust has a B.A. in government, as well as, a M.P.A. in public administration. She is a certified archivist and a certified records manager. She has been the Archivist in the National Archives Records and Administration-Southwest Region at Fort Worth since 1976. She has conducted workshops on naturalization and Indian records for numerous genealogical and historical societies in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas. The NARA facility has extensive microfilm holdings that are of value for genealogy research. This will be a great opportunity to learn about their Native American records as well as their many other records. Following a short refreshment period, at approximately 3:30 p.m., the Computer Interest Group of the East Texas Genealogical Society will meet. Lawrence Oliver will present a program on "Shooting Ghosts-Photographing Tombstones". Information on upcoming programs can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txetgs/meetings.html . East Texas Genealogical Society represent six counties which are Anderson, Gregg, Henderson, Panola, Rusk and Smith counties. ETGS publishes the East Texas Family Records four times a year and a monthly newsletter The Bulletin. ETGS has began a First Families of East Texas covering our six counties. To find out about this program go to following link: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txetgs/firstfam.html . For more information, you may contact me at [email protected] or go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txetgs/ Submitted by Scott Fitzgerald, President.

EAST TEXAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY is proud to announce its FIRST FAMILIES OF EAST TEXAS Certificate Program East Texas Genealogical Society is issuing First Families of East Texas Certificates to the descendants of pioneers who lived in Anderson, Henderson, Panola, Rusk and Smith Counties before December 31, 1850 or in Gregg County before December 31, 1880. Our society is attempting to collect information about the early pioneers in order to preserve our past. If you would like to receive a certificate(s) for your pioneer ancestors you may download an application form for the county in which your ancestor lived at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txetgs/firstfam.html . Each county's application is slightly different. NOTE: The application form is a portable document format (PDF) file and can only be viewed if you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. Go directly to the Adobe web site to download a Free copy of Acrobat Reader. Or you may mail a request for application(s) to: ETGS, P. O. Box 6967, Tyler, TX 75711-6967. Please send a self-address stamped envelope with the following postage: For 1 applications - 37 cents For 2 or 3 applications - 60 cents For 4 applications - 83 cents For 5 or 6 applications - $1.06 If you have questions, contact Scott Fitzgerald at [email protected] or by mail at: ETGS, P. O. Box 6967, Tyler, TX 75711-6967 You do not have to be a member of ETGS or a resident of the county to be eligible for a First Families of East Texas Certificate.

Hi, does anyone recognize these Richardsons? Whose son is Andrew J.Richardson?Thank you for any help. I am at a dead end.Eleonore http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~mandaley/Richardson-index.html Andrew J. Richardson(1858-1914) married Martha Rena Shaw Richardson(1860-1989) Buried in Liberty Cem. in Anderson County, Texas. Their children are: Brown Richardson (1871-1956)Married Gertrude Emma Johnson Richardson(1876-1962) Also buried in Liberty, other siblings of Brown: Henry Richardson (1877-1891) Liberty,M.F. Richardson (1884-1894) Liberty and Jessie W. Richardson (1873-1957) married Ida Palmer (1882-1966) buried Hopewell Cem. Brown and Emma had Andy Clyde Richardson (born 1899- ) 1921 married Iva Lois Richardson (1901) both buried in Liberty, Clyde's Siblings: Hugh Richardson, Clara Williams, Jessie Mae Rosser, Clyde and Iva Mathis Richardson had Eva Ozell Richardson Jeffcoat, Wanda Richardson Mitchell, Irma June Richardson Ray, and Grady Angel Richardson. Eva Jeffcoat is my mother and I remember Iva, Emma and Brown. And of course all the siblings, etc. I cannot find where A. J. Richardson came from or if he was born in Anderson County. My oldest son wanted me to find out how far back we are Texans and I think that I have become addicted. Iva Mathis is the daughter of Samuel Mathis (Dale County, Alabama) (4/16/1857-5/6/1922) and Virginia Leigh Hollard Mathis (6/17/1867-6/1/1947). Father of Samuel is Michael Henry Mathis ( ).

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phillips Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XiB.2ACI/929.932 Message Board Post: Hello! I am so excited that i saw your post today. I have been looking for an A.L. Phillips who married Sallie Ann Todd. I saw a A .L. Phillips today in 1860 census and i realy think this could be him. That would put him in your line of intrest maybe. So I thought I would write you and see if you knew of him. I don't know anything except that he married in 1884 in Johnson Co., Tx. Please write me back... Kari

“IMAGING WORKSHOP FOR GENEALOGISTS” IS SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 29 The East Texas Genealogical Society and the Tyler Family History Center will conduct a FREE imaging workshop, Saturday, March 29, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1617 Shiloh Road, in Tyler, TX. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. with sessions lasting until 2:00 p.m. Finger foods and drinks will be provided. The workshop will cover the fundamentals genealogists need to know about using scanners and digital cameras. It will be basic enough for beginners, with tips and tricks for the more advanced users. “If you’ve been thinking about purchasing a digital camera but are confused by all the strange terminology; or, if you need help getting better scans or restoring photos, this workshop is for you,” Beverly Odom, workshop coordinator said. Workshop topics will include: basic terminology, hardware/software considerations, scanners vs. cameras vs. film scanners, line art and OCR, preparing photos for web pages, beginning photo restoration, cataloging and storing photographs on your computer, and storage considerations. The workshop will end with break-out sessions covering PAF5/Legacy, Family Tree Marker, and Master Genealogist software programs, and Internet genealogy research. Professional genealogists, Bill Dow and Jeri Steele, will be the featured speakers. Bill has extensive research experience in New York, Illinois, Scotland, and England. He has been working seriously on his genealogy for over 25 years. Jeri specializes in North and East Texas records. She is secretary of the Genealogical Speakers Guild and Membership Director of the North Texas PC Users Group. She has been working on her research for over 20 years. If you have additional questions about the workshop, call Beverly Odom at 903-825-3790 or Jane Lewis at 903-894-6027; or send an email to [email protected] Submitted by Scott Fitzgerald, President of East Texas Genealogical Society

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Parker>Hassell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XiB.2ACI/1332 Message Board Post: Note to Hassell cousins interested in Phebe Parker Hassell and Palestine/Pilgrim Cem: 1. Our Parker cousins are going to probe the area to the side of Dr. John Hassell's grave at Pilgrim Cemetery to see if others buried. From what they told us, wooded coffin buried more than four feet down will not rot. So if there are burials to the side of John Hassell, they will strike the wooden coffin. Report on results to follow. 2. Parker cousins gave us info that other burial sites from ca. 1855/56 with old brick walls was in the Old Palestine Cemetery at the east end of Market Street in Palestine. My mother and I walked the cemetery, and yes, there are burial sites that are not identified that are built just like the hand made brick sites for Daniel and Patsy Parker and James W. Parker out at the Pilgrim Cemetery. So who is buried in these similar sites at Old Palestine Cemetery? I don't know. One such home-made brick grave site is near Jacob Crist and a Quarrles child. It is hand-made bricks, with an iron fence added around the site. No marker that we could decifer. Near this site, there is the broken bottom of a marker propped up against a Winchester grave marker from the same time period that says: died March 19, 1855 age 64 years 8 months 9 days (to the best of our memory--we wrote it down when we got back to the car) So this burial is the correct time period. And this is a person born in 1790. Interesting. Up the hill, there are other burial sites with no identification that are also made with these same type home-made bricks/same time period. My conclusion is that one of these graves may be Phebe Parker Hassell. I'm going to see what documentation from Palestine is available. That may solve this issue--if they have these graves identified. If not, then we should look to see if we can find other clues. Sharolyn

Thanks to Donna Bell for putting this listing out there for everyone to use. One question -- Was the transcription of the 1860 census taken directly from the microfilm itself, or from the published 1860 census done by the Anderson County Genealogical Society? As would be expected, there are a certain number of inevitable mistakes in the published census. Mike Vaughn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vince Leibowitz" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 8:19 AM Subject: [[TXANDERS]] Additions to Anderson County GenWeb Site > List: > > I am very pleased to announce that a gracious volunteer (Donna Bell) has > transcribed the 1860 census for Anderson County. It is now on the web. > You may link to it from http://www.rootsweb.com/~txanders > > There is information about it on the main page. It is in .html & Excel > format. If you are having trouble opening it in Excel but have excel, > let me know & I'll email you the file direct. > > Also, there is a new VERY, VERY unique look-up opportunity on the > look-up page. Link to it by using the list on the left of the main > page. > > Thanks to these wonderful volunteers! > > Vince Leibowitz > County Coordinator > TXGenWeb Site for Anderson County > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

List: I am very pleased to announce that a gracious volunteer (Donna Bell) has transcribed the 1860 census for Anderson County. It is now on the web. You may link to it from http://www.rootsweb.com/~txanders There is information about it on the main page. It is in .html & Excel format. If you are having trouble opening it in Excel but have excel, let me know & I'll email you the file direct. Also, there is a new VERY, VERY unique look-up opportunity on the look-up page. Link to it by using the list on the left of the main page. Thanks to these wonderful volunteers! Vince Leibowitz County Coordinator TXGenWeb Site for Anderson County

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00A5_01C2EDAE.F5E03840 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Subject: Fwd: Legislation to close records This was sent to me by a > fellow genealogist....doesn't sound like a good idea for us that are > researching....thought you may be interested....Geraldine > > > > > > Note: forwarded message attached. SLJ ------=_NextPart_000_00A5_01C2EDAE.F5E03840 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="Legislation to close records.eml" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Legislation to close records.eml" X-Apparently-To: [email protected] via 216.136.232.79; 17 Mar 2003 19:20:17 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from 24.93.36.229 (EHLO ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com) (24.93.36.229) by mta174.mail.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Mar 2003 19:20:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.rr.com (cs6669196-98.austin.rr.com [66.69.196.98]) by ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h2I3Ai3M022301; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:10:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 21:18:23 -0600 From: James Hollas <[email protected]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Legislation to close records Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2151 Dear Genealogist, Below is a message from Mic Barnett of Houston about the bills before the Texas Legislature that affect us as genealogists. Most of these bills would close or reduce access to records we use. Mic is the owner of Barnett Books and is a regular vendor at our Seminar. Last year his large area was in the middle of the vendor room. He also writes a Saturday column for the Houston Chronicle. Please read the message and get on the mail list and write letters to let your representatives know how you feel. Otherwise, we may lose even more access to the records. Thanks, James Hollas AGS President ---------------------------------------------------- Hi Everyone: As the Texas Liaison for the Joint (National Genealogical Society/Federation of Genealogical Societies) NGS-FGS Records Preservation and Access Committee I have set up both a website and email mailing list to aid us in lobbying the Texas Legislature. The Legislature currently has several bills pending which seek to close records to the public. Information about these bills is on the website. This website is a place where we can post information about particular bills and how to locate legislators to contact. The mailing list is designed as a forum for us genealogists to communicate quickly and be able to coordinate activities in quick mode should we have to do so. And we already have to do so. There is a hearing at 1:30 or whenever the committee earlier in the day adjourns- for the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee discussing SB81 and SB 85 which both want to close DD214-Military Discharge records in the county clerk's offices. The hearing will be held in the Betty King Committee Room in Austin. Anyone who attend is asked to do so I have included others from states outside the Republic of Texas in this email so they can see what we are doing here. They might wish to monitor what we do or just follow our lead and do something similar in their own state. The website is located at http://micbarnette.bravepages.com There is a page on the website where one may go to subscribe to the mailing list, however you may do so by following the attached directions The mailing list may be subscribed to by sending an email to [email protected] in the message area of the email type subscribe. There is a digest mode at [email protected] but it may be held up 12 hours before being sent. For speedier mail, at least during the legislative season when it might count, I would recommend subscribing to the L mode rather than the D mode. After the legislative season there may not be anything to say on this list. It will already have been said and voted upon. The basic things to be concerned with at his point is about 8 bills pending in the House and the Senate which aim to close DD214/Military Discharges in Texas. Plus two new bills, one in the House and one in the Senate wanting to extend the time birth records are closed in Texas from 50 years to 75 years. Plus a bill wanting to close marriage applications to the public. Plus TEXSHARE/TIFF funding for schools and libraries and electronic database access. Plus HIPPA which I don't know much about but which is expected to go into effect April 14 and will probably close records which have medical records or information in them. This bill effects insurance and medical companies and offices. I remember hearing some people talking about this last week they were not into genealogy. Now I have had someone in a county clerk's office ask me about the same thing and said it may affect their records. So, we may have to address this problem, too. The whole crux of closing public records is all about Identity Theft and the fear of it. People feel that if a record is available for use someone must be stealing their identity. So, Identity theft and how to protect public records from thieves and convince public officials not to pass laws closing them is going to be our goal at least as I envision it. Please pass this email to everyone in every society. We will need some some numbers to show the legislature we care. We are starting late in the legislative season and are therefore already behind. Thanks, MIC -- James Hollas 7704 Evaline Ln Austin, Tx 78745 (512) 280-1415 ------=_NextPart_000_00A5_01C2EDAE.F5E03840--

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XiB.2ACI/1331 Message Board Post: Looking for family of Ira Taylor (b1902) or Willard Taylor (b1909) around Palestine. They are the sons of rural mail carrier Willis Taylor (b1878). Thanks. Jay Taylor