Hi, there, Can tell you where to look - I am familiar with most of these last names. STRACENER- seems one teaches in Waco now. Will check closer on this one. WOMACK- there is a community site, , a Lutheran Church, and Womack Hall between Whitney, Texas and Clifton, Texas in Bosque County. I have taught with and known several Womacks from Bosque County and Waco. There seems to have been a pattern of movement of families from Waco to Bosque County to Hico, Hamilton County , Dublin, and Albany and beyoond due to the early Texas Central Railroad (Became Katy, not the I&Gn or "Tin Can" Railroad). The other route was Texas Highway 6 which followed the Bosque River to Hico and Green's Creek to Dublin. Womack Hall wedding and other dances were popular in my teen years due to Erath County and Hill and Bosque counties being dry counties for liquor, but Womack and West across the river had wet Precincts and church halls served keg beer. I never attended one at Womack, but have been by the place many times going to Lake Whitney. These were German, some Norwegian. Most Norwegians stayed in the Bosque and tributaries bottoms at first for rich bottom land. The Germans had connections in Hico, Hamilton, Aleman, West, Malone, and Purdon. Some of these were children of Carolina Germans and others of New Braunfels, Texas Germans who followed Prince Solms- Braunfels after the Aborptive Revolution in Germany to Fayette County then Fredricksburg, Malone, Sisterdale, Boerne,Oeinaville, Taylor, Kerrville. and all in between, even to Pep, West, Texas and Munster, North Texas. Also Brenham and Bremond and Kaufman County and Lohn,- Brady area. , . Thank goodness for the "Little Creamery in Brenham" and Blue Bell Ice Cream. The Sons of Hermann Lodge owned a farm in Fayette County, Texas where German immigrants could live and stay to pay for passage from Germany and then moved inward. The point of Immigration was Indianola, a deep water port which has sunk several feet. The old courthouse is visible to fishermen on a clear still day. The lodge kept immigration records to early Texas, I was told. KUYKENDALL - (pronounced Kirkendall for your soundex research) families were very active in the Texas Revolution and the war with Mexico in 1845. The most prominent families moved to the Clifton area. One Kuykendall married my Great Grandmother Ella Hatchett's sister in Bosque County, where her dad, Dr. & Rev. . William Pinckney Hatchett had organized churches in Gonzales, then in the Bosque Valley in Valley Mills, Iredell, Hico, Pony Creek, and others- 17 in all. He was in the Rangers with Kuykendalls when they saved Gen. Taylor from slaughter in Mexico. They once ran the Kuykendall Land and Cattle Company in Clifton and drove, & later by RR and more recently by Diesel Truck, they would move cattle from summer to winter pastures. They winterred in Central Texas and sumerred the cattle in Wyoming, depending on rain and weather. Dad said they were Norwegian. I knew several Howard and Stephens and Stevens and Stephen families in Erath County. Have reported on most of them in recent months. Don't confuse the Stephens families with the Stephen Family that Stephenville was named for nor the Stevens family , Dr. Hatchett's In- laws. and on the Kuykendall family tree. Rev. B. T. Stevens and wife are buried in the Selden or Hatchett Cemetery , on the Duffau Creek north of Duffau. He was my great Grandmother Ella Hatchett Wyly's grandfather and a grandfather of some Kuykendalls. He was from Pine Mountain (Shipley), Georgia near present Calloway Gardens on tv.Great Grandmother attended Hog Creek Creek 2 story rock school between McGregor and Valley Mills and Cranfils Gap.Kuykendalls also attended there. I have photos of them by the school. Records of the land and taxes were in Fannin County, then Cameron County. After Waco & McLennan County was organized, the Erath County records were kept there until Bosque County was organized, so some Dublin land and tax records wete in Waco and Meridian before the Bosque County judge and Neil McLennan, founder of McLennan County, organized Erath County at the request of the State legislature. The first abstract of our family land in Selden, Erath County, shows McLennan and Bosque County listings before Erath County Milam County is listed first. The Texas State Library in Austin and the University of North Texas State University in Denton should also have them. They are on line. Don't overlook the LDS - Latter Day Saints- Mormon records from the Salt Lake City library you can download on these families & pay with credit card # or go to the nearest Mormon Stake or church and they will usually be on line if they have a library at all. . Very few families are not recorded there, regardless of their religion. Sometimes their number of kids don't match some families researched elsewhere, but they are a good starting place. A Dallas researcher said he had found 3 families , dad in Mecklenburg Co. had same first and last names and one LDS record showed most of the kids in one man's charts. Will check my Hatchett records for more on Kuykendalls & see you later if I find something. Happy hunting Charles Wyly On Sat, 8 May 1999 15:53:10 -0700 (PDT) womackin@webtv.net writes: >howdy listers, >my mom's family mostly located around dublin, erath co. texas...WOMACK >is my mom's surname, she was born in 1907 and is still living.. her >father was david leonardis WOMACK and her mother was minnie mable >STRACENER d/o john? henry STRACENER s/o benjamin STRACENER and nancy >j.KUYKENDALL.... i am looking for any documented info. on any/all of >these families...i have seen a book about barbee cemetery in >dublin, >erath co. tx..in which many of the STRACENERS are buried... i would be >most grateful for help on these ancestors..thank you.. >on the trail, >joeann >