I have received several queries about this family. Can anyone help? Have you ever heard of a Traylor hospital in Victoria? Thanks, Cynthia Buttram <buttram@viptx.net> >From Cal Traylor: "Winn Traylor arrived in Victoria County in 1840. Last week I compiled most of my notes about Winn, and have a "diary" of seven pages, plus four pages of bibliography. I would accept input from researchers of Winn Traylor. One area of weakness in my article is his combat with Indians, twice if not more. Can you fill in my files? The name Winn for many years was a question. Was it derived from another name? Was it a nickname? But, now it seems none of these, for he apparently was named for to honor an ancestor. He manufactured the first bricks in Victoria and built homes.= Seek more details about his remaining years in Victoria. He is buried on his ranch south of Victoria. Can you add information? In Birmingham, how successful was he? Did he make a small fortune there, the fortune used to move to Victoria and start a new ranch? A rancher he became overnight ... from a city resident. How did he make that transition so successfully? In Victoria city there is a hospital named Traylor, as I recall from a visit there a few years ago. My correspondence with the hospital staff indicates they have no records of why it is named Traylor. Do you know? I understand there was a donation by _____ Traylor of $100,000, but the reply to my query indicated they did not have any record of their own history including the donor. I look forward to hearing from you, preferably at my address of TRAYLOROO@JUNO.COM CAL TRAYLOR Incidentally, Winn's ancestry can be traced to Edward Traylor the immigrant to Virginia, from England. He was "Transported" and his passage refunded to a plantation owner ... along with 15 others persons. In England there is a missing link, the parents of Edward. But, in England the family were very poor, and few records ever existed from such poor peons."

I have been told by Doris Obsta, VCGS person in charge of the county history publication, that the FINAL DATE cutoff for our articles to go into the Victoria County History Book (s) (two volumes) has been announced. The last date for submission to her is 31 MARCH 2000. Some of you even have to get them in her hands via mail, before the deadline. NO, at this time no 3rd volume is planned, so don't think it will happen and you will get yours in the 3rd book, it may never happen. Or might, who knows, but who wants to chance it? Not me! If like me and you've successfully postponed doing one or more stories you MEAN to do, you had best hop to it! Time is fast coming down now, there will be no more taken when April gets here, it's going to be flat closed out. We all had better HURRY up with our stories!

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ has been updated! Includes info for all the United States except original colonies (13 states!)

For those researchers who do not live in Victoria (which has a great genealogy collection at the public library and a great group of clerks at the courthouse), use this URL to try to find films which you may order, for a small fee, to your local LDS family history center. I discovered that the films do not have numbers on the website but you can obtain the film numbers at an LDS family history center. http://www.familysearch.org/ Look for a tab on the first page which is labeled Custom Search. Click on that, and a long list of choices will come up. Don't go to those--not yet--go back to them after you look at the catalog. Look for the Family History Library Catalog. Click until you a blank where you can fill in PLACE. Type in Victoria or Victoria Co. (preferable) and then Texas. Skip the listed books. Sometimes if the copyright has expired, the books have been filmed but not very often. You cannot borrow the books. However, you can usually, with a few restrictions, rent a film at your local LDS library. For Victoria Co., for instance, there are three reels of film for marriage records, there are about 14 reels of land records (deeds, generally--some of the early ones are in Spanish). I personally have perused filmed land records and most particularly probate records even though I live in California. If your readers live in Texas, perhaps they can interlibrary loan some of the listed books through the Texas State Library, Austin, although genealogy books seldom circulate. Each state's policies differ. Some University and college libraries have the books, however. For a time, if one was a member of the Victoria Genealogica Soc., one could request for a fee some research to be done. Note a donation or fee is customary. E.W.Wallace southern California

I received this request from someone who checked out our webpage. Can anyone help her? Cynthia Hi, I'm trying to find the CHAMBERS family listed on the 1870 Victoria Co., TX census. James CHAMBERS was from AL. He married Melissa Ann MYERS 31 Dec 1863 Jefferson Co., TX. On the census were two dgts Mary 5, Mahaly 3 and my GF Almon Morgan 12. It is unknown if they had other children after the census. Do you have any data or records for this family? I would appreciate any assistance. Kindest regards, Ruth Morgan McVey mailto:mac@txucom.net

Some of you have asked how to make a gedcom file of certain individuals in your database, using Family Treemaker. Loren Toomsen's PafWays people have added a new feature to their website that allows you to ask questions and get answers on How-To's. One of these is How to Make a Gedcom, which you'll find here. Good idea, PafWays, putting basic help online for we who need it. May your tribe increase! bj http://www.mach3ww.com/~pafways/

Someone was inquiring about access to Nacogoches records. I don't know whether there are any available at Salt Lake City, but most probably. The way to find out without leaving one's computer is to access the LDS website. http://www.familysearch.org It is very busy as people all over the English-speaking world and probably other parts of the world access it frequently. At the top on the first page is a file-folder like tab which says Custom Search. Click on that. When some choices come up, choose at the lower left bottom Family History Library Catalog. When some more clicks come up, one saying PLACE, type in Nacogoches and then Texas (no abbreviations). If there are films (as there for many counties in Texas), there probably will be a long list of films. These can be ordered (on short-term rent) to your nearest LDS family history center. Those are also listed on the above website--but go there second. Depending on what is wanted at the courthouse, there are several choices: Land and Property (a good choice), Court Records (another good one), Probates (you hope), and Vital Records. Don't overlook newspapers. I have used a film of early newspapers and also marriages of Harrison Co., TX, many of those persons later migrating to Victoria Co., TX. Not all counties in Texas (so huge) have been filmed by LDS. The Texas Archives and the Texas State Library are also useful sources. And I made a great discovery in Texas a few years ago--San Antonio's new public library has a top floor dedicated to genealogy and seemingly, Texas Collection. Check it out. E.W.Wallace whose roots in Victoria go back four or five generations

Anyone able to answer either of these two queries that came in to me, I hope? If so, how about posting the answers to the list for all of us? I personally don't have any answers, sorry. bj Billye Know anyone with access to Nacogdoches Co., TX courthouse records willing to offer "lookups"? Also, looking for someone with a LEWIS line out of Victoria, Texas--know anyone? Appreciate your assistance. Tod

Texas has a problem. Please cast your vote. I think the problem is relative to genealogy, so I'm sending it, though it's not fully "genealogical". I believe in honoring all our ancestors, and especially soldiers. This makes it genealogical. I hope it doesn't offend any of you, but it needs to be broadcast, I think, and if it offends, well, I apologize, but I still need to send the message out. It may hit us shortly in Victoria. Is there no end to these problems? What is next? I can appreciate Martin Luther, his beliefs, and his day, and I believe a little more tolerance all round would help us all. In addition to our own capitol, I am also worried about out own Confederate Veteran Statue on De Leon square in Victoria, which I love. I sat in the shade of that beautiful statue in my young years, and it is close to my heart as a historic piece of our town, as is the old courthouse, the bandstand, and all our other old and historic places and things. Our statue might be next. Texan's, Victorian's, and those of Victoria roots, how about it? I've voted. Join me? Vote one question at a time, and you may leave a comment. http://www.texasvoterguide.com/polls/confederates.htm

This might be useful to some of you who need to write another country for records and don't speak the language. There are online website translators, I know, but thought this might be good, too. Found it on a page for records from Spain, while looking for references there which might benefit Victoria County early research sources, since county roots reach back into early Texas, Mexico, then back to Spain where some early documents went re this area, I understand. bj ________________ http://members.aol.com/balboanet/spain/tips1.html When you correspond to Spain requesting copies of documents, it has been advised that you do so in Spanish. How do you do that, if you don't speak or write Spanish? Mr. Ryskamp suggests you take a semester or two of Spanish. But if that is not possible, you can purchase a program that will not only take what you've written and translate it for you, it can also translate web pages and eMail (both send and received.) It's called Multi Language Easy Translator CW. The company, Transparent Language, is located at 22 Proctor Hill Road, PO Box 575, Hollis, NH 03049 Phone: (603)465-2230 or Fax: (603)465-2779. I am not sure of the cost, but heard it was under $50. Unfortunately, it's only available for the pc.

I love this one, found same main page I just sent, 20,000 entries to search in a database from. bj http://users.itsnet.com/~pauld/newyork/

Found a good German resource page off this site, which I got when I wanted to hunt and order some of the 15 generation charts. My friend gave me the Deseret site, and was looking around, then saw this first one of genealogy pages, then the German one. Enjoy. Thanks, Julie Bowen. She and husband Dan have charge for the local LDS librarian. bj http://best.deseretbook.com/ndx/fhgen/gen/ http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/

This is a really big help website (2) sent me by a list member, Grace Gleason, over in VA, who had tracked down her Goliad ancestor using these reference pages. I want you all to have them, they are super pages of accumulated contact people, for finding your CW people. She had contacted one of these online gentlemen, and he did help her find her g/g/g/grandfather, William Alexander Adams from Goliad County. We congratulate Grace, and include a big thank you for these two websites, people helping people. It's what we are about. Victoria County units would be included on these pages. Have to check them, they're posted on several sites, but we didn't know of this one. bj "These people are experts on individual units, and usually have a muster roll for that unit." http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/unit4.html A-M http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/unit5.html N-V

And in from Edna LaFour, this information from another list. bj Forwarded with the permission of Juleigh Muirhead Clark, who says, "We are trying to reach as many as possible." Please forward to any list I haven't reached yet! -Carol ROCKEFELLER LIBRARY UNVEILS NEW WEBSITE The John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library has unveiled a greatly expanded section on the Colonial Williamsburg website (http://www.history.org), offering individuals interested in the Colonial Chesapeake the opportunity to search the library's vast collections. New features include PATRIOT, the Rockefeller Library's online catalog listing the 68,000 titles in the Library, and guides to manuscript, microfilm, selected photograph and other research collections, such as the Shirley Plantation Collection of over 18,000 manuscript items. Previously, individuals had to physically visit the library or be connected to an internal network to access these resources. "We have electronically opened the doors to our major collections by adding finding aids and the Library catalog to the World Wide Web," says Public Services Librarian Juleigh Clark. "Now, when researchers come to the Library, they will have a better idea of what we own, and we can serve them more efficiently." Other features on the website include a virtual exhibit of some of the treasures from the Rockefeller Library's rare book and manuscript collections and special indexes to articles in The Colonial Williamsburg Journal and The Colonial Williamsburg Interpreter. Of special interest is an index to the several hundred research reports written at Colonial Williamsburg over the last sixty years. Early American History Research Reports are distinguished for the significant amount of primary source material in them and for their time and place specificity: eighteenth-century Virginia. The John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library is a research library specializing in the history and culture of the colonial Chesapeake. It is located near the Historic Area at 313 First Street and is open to the public. Library hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Contact: Juleigh Muirhead Clark Public Services Librarian John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Williamsburg, Virginia 23815-1776 jclark@cwf.org 757-565-8511 757-565-8518 (fax) 12.8 million individuals and counting. http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/

LDS website is going to offer us even more search ability in March, check this out. It will surely be an even bigger help to worldwide genealogy pedigree searching for families in other countries. Julie Bowen sent it along to us. bj http://newsnet.byu.edu/noframes/show_story.cfm?number=7307&year=current LDS Church adds international database and foreign language options to genealogy Web site , NewsNet@BYU

copied from another list. bj I have run across two interesting sites: The first: Strictly by Name http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/hollow/2972/ provides copies of public documents, not many yet, but they list Ky, Tn and NC. Of local interest are wills from the first three Will books of Jefferson Co. $1.50 copy of microfilm of original and transcription. The second provides copies of death certificates: Kentucky Death Certificates http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/ky-dcert.html they are not certified so they are just $3 each

Hi! Trying to find out info on my grandmother's family. Her name: Margaret GAUBATZ born 11 July 1894 believed to be Golaid Co., TX Died 3 Oct 1955 in Victoria, TX Married George Emil POWITZKY born 11 Sept. 1881 in Industry, Austin Co., TX Died 24 May 1967 in Victoria, TX Believe both buried in Evergreen Cemetery. Need background on Gaubatz family - have no names, etc. Can you help? Thanx! Jean in AZ jeannron@northlink.com Researching these surnames: Baerthel, Barthels, Corbus, Dye, Gaubatz, Haar, Herr, Hertel, Jenneret, Kuhn, Miller, Powitzky, Schaefer, Trampier, and Waddell

Just want to know? Or maybe you have roots over there? This was on Roots New pages of info. bj EUROPEAN AND BRITISH ROYALTY AND NOBILITY. <http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/royal/> So, Charles, What's Her Family Like? The Ancestry of Camilla Parker-Bowles "Want to be the center of attention at your next cocktail party?" asked Robert R. Tillman, CEO of RootsWeb.com. See if some of the branches of Camilla's tree intertwine with yours. <http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/royal/camilla.htm>

I believe we sent this out long back, but it was mentioned today on RootsWeb. Lot of folk out hunting Native American ancestry these days. bj NATIVE AMERICAN ROOTS. Tracing Your Indian Ancestors <http://www.ok-history.mus.ok.us/archives/indianrc/a-4essen.html>

This is a new one for me, has an area on down the page specifically for Texas researching. bj http://www.rootsweb.com/~txsherma/panlnks.htm