The Handbook of Victoria is directly from this Handbook of Texas, online for searching at : http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/search.html Barbara Smith, of our town, tells me the information for the Handbook of Victoria is a direct extraction of information from this book. This is what our list queriest's were just searching for information from. I didn't know this, and maybe some of you others don't, either. Thanks, Barbara, for the update of information on Victoria County. bj, listmanager.

Saw a useful article re being able to locate material online. Thought you would be interested, as it's a basic thing for all of us. Genealogy of top priority, of course. Here's the location of the entire article, and following is my extract of what I know you can use. bj http://www.zdnet.com/pccomp/stories/all/0,6605,405863,00.html Search Soup Problem Search engines, directories, metasearch sites -- which is best? Solution Directories like Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com) group sites into categories and lead you to what you're looking for by narrowing the search. If you're going after something straightforward, such as volleyball clubs in the greater Minneapolis area, start with Yahoo. Search engines like Excite (http://www.excite.com), HotBot (http://www.hotbot.com), and Lycos (http://www.lycos.com) frequently scan to refresh their keyword indexes. They're best for broader searches that include several terms or ideas. A metasearch site runs your query against several search sites at once -- saving time and boosting the likelihood of finding exactly what you want. Top 5 Metasearch Engines Metasearch sites let you use lots of search engines at once. Here are our favorites. Dogpile http://www.savvysearch.com/ Search 13 popular engines as well as Usenet newsgroups. Mamma http://click.avenuea.com/go/mamma_msnmoney_060799cp_468x60_1/direct/01 The mother of all search engines lets you put the top engines to work, even searching for MP3, image, or sound files. Metacrawler http://www.go2net.com/search.html Search nine of the most popular engines or Usenet newsgroups. ProFusion http://www.profusion.com/ Lets you choose the three best engines based on your query, the three fastest engines, or all the engines. SavvySearch http://www.savvysearch.com/ Create your own custom metasearch site. bj

This page is new, found the site mentioned on the GenMedieval list. It's written in French, but has a navigable index at the bottom of the website. I can figure out some, (..don't speak the language) so some of you will be able to use it as well as I can, and even better if you can read French. bj http://www.chez.com/genedan/

Sharon, I don't have the Handbook of Victoria, but do have 3"00 Years in Victoria County" edited by Roy Grimes. There is no mention of the particular individuals you mentioned, and no Broome's at all, but there are several Beck people. Indexed are Charles T. Beck, page 198, 356, 388, 390, 426; Msgr. Frederick O. Beck, pg 555ff; J. H. Beck, pg 455; Milton Leonard beck, pg 601; and T. H. Beck, pg 456, 459. There is a Beck Road yet. At least you can order death certificates for them, that's fortunate. And, of course, they will be on census. Guess you already know that, I imagine. Just a thought, in case you weren't aware. Billye D. Jackson, Listmanager. Sheria20@aol.com wrote: > Is there any mention of a family headed by a man named > Frank E (believe to be Ernst) BECK and wife Mittie(Meta) > BROOM/BROOME? > > They lived along what is now the old Mission Valley Road. > At one time the amount of acreage owned by this family > was approx. 890 acres. > Frank died suddenly in 1918. Mittie lived until 1935, dying > when she was 80 years old. > > Sharon CHILDERS Alderman > Huffman, Texas > > ==== TXVICTOR Mailing List ==== > "Time's A'Wastin'", as Snuffy Smith used to say. Get your > family article into print for the 175th Anniversary of this > county. You can have 2 pages of your family published, plus a photo, > FREE. Hey, no better deal!

Is there any mention of a family headed by a man named Frank E (believe to be Ernst) BECK and wife Mittie(Meta) BROOM/BROOME? They lived along what is now the old Mission Valley Road. At one time the amount of acreage owned by this family was approx. 890 acres. Frank died suddenly in 1918. Mittie lived until 1935, dying when she was 80 years old. Sharon CHILDERS Alderman Huffman, Texas

Seeking what info about Alfred Brown PETICOLAS is in this book. Thanks. Janet in San Antonio

Have you ever wondered what day of the week a particular date fell on? If so, you might want to bookmark this site: http://bgwilliams.apexhosting.com/date.htm -- Researching these surnames: ANDREWS, AVERY, BASCOM, BOWLE, BUCKERIDGE, BUELL, CALLAHAM, CLOTHIER, CROZIER, CURRENT, EVARTS, FARMER, FRASIER, GANNAWAY, GAUNTLETT, GRISWOLD, GURLEY, HEAL, HOWELL, INGERSOLL, JONES, LEMON, LOGAN, LOOMIS, MIDDLETON, MOORE, SHAFER, STRONG, TITT, WALLIS, WARRINER, AND MANY OTHERS.

Edna LaFour sends this piece of information from another list,and it's a useful thing for all of us to be aware of. Thanks, Edna. bj For any newspapers in Texas, I would first try the Barker Texas History Center, part of the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. They do have an online catalog for at least part of the collection... Go to this website and use the link for UTCAT at the bottom of this page: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/CAH/components/barker/index.html#newspaper Here's a paragraph from their website: Texas Newspaper Collection One of the largest newspaper collections in the U.S., containing original editions of some of the earliest known newspapers published in Texas, such as the Texas Gazette (1829-1831), the Telegraph and Texas Register (1835-1854), and the Clarksville Northern Standard (1842-1852); as well as more than 2,500 locally published newspapers from nearly all of the state's 254 counties. The collection also features more than 100 Czech-, German-, and Spanish-language newspapers, including the Freie Presse Fur Texas (1870-1946), the Nasinec (1914-1985), and La Prensa (1913-1959). The Texas Newspaper Collection also manages the Texas portion of the U.S. Newspaper Project, a major program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm the state's most historically valuable newspapers wherever they are held. Newspaper Collection Finding Aids Search UTCAT

Ancestry newsletter had this page of links for locating Revolutionary War vets. bj http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/07_01_99.htm#4

Thought I had best post again, for the benefit of our newer people, this website to use in case you get wind of a rumour that something is going on, based on internet notes, that needs to be passed to everyone. Here's a website to use to check out those 'floaters' before sending along the hoaxes that run riampant on the net. They aren't to be posted to this list or any list in any case, but this may save you from some embarrassment. Even were it true, they don't go to list groups. You probably might want to bookmark this for later use? Go to http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blhoax.htm?pid=2733&cob=home for info on nearly all the current stuff going around. About.com's a pretty good site. bj

When I ran Virus Scan, it said mine was ok....what was the file CARnom.doc? or in which message? Sharon -----Original Message----- From: TXVICTOR-D-request@rootsweb.com <TXVICTOR-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: TXVICTOR-D@rootsweb.com <TXVICTOR-D@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, July 04, 1999 4:59 AM Subject: TXVICTOR-D Digest V99 #98

Well, ladies and gents, I have BAD news to impart. Somehow, in the past very few days, I've come into inheriting a dreaded VIRUS!!! It's name is W97M/Marker In particular, I KNOW it went out to those of you who received the CARnom.doc file from me day before last. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/default.asp It attaches apparently to Word Doc's. I need you to go immediately to this website, sign in and get yourselves disinfected, as I just did. I had to see how to do it, and now I have to tell all of you of the problem. Much to my dismay, I've hurt you . Now, I think I may have also infected each of you who got the attached file day before yesterday evening. It was caught by Julie Bowen, who notified me the CARnom.doc had a virus named W97M.Marker. I went immediately to my machine and began a check to see if I have indeed beeen Virused. And, YES, I have, and just in the very few past days, maybe three. I send documents along all the time, to Julie too, so I know I came into it just very recently. I used my Virus Program, and went from it up to McAfee's website, where I had previously registered last year as a free subscriber. They allow an ONLINE check of your machine. And, CLEANING. So, I checked my entire machine, C, D, and even my floppy drive disks of Zip material I'd kept. I did find 28 documents infected, all sitting in my C drive folder of My Documents. It had picked up that virus from someone, somehow, and evidently in just the past few days. It also found one file, a normal.doc file, that was infected on my D Drive, and it found nothing on my Zip drive disks. So, it is indeed new to my machine , but very bothersome to have to stop all activity. I get and send such a heavy load of mail here it is a nuisance tohave to go to McAfee and run all those checks, (they allow four, cleaning and disinfecting all sorts of things, including a Y2K check. Cleaned out my temp files, my cache, my registry, all sorts of things. It hunts down unused and unneeded items, and if you allow it, it cleans and gets rid of the used space. Which helps make our machines run faster. So, it's taken me all day off and on, yesterday, and part of today, to get cleaned up again so I show NO virus. I don't appreciate it, but I don't know how I got it. My fault, entirely, for not watching closer. I don't open files I don't reconize sends of, but can't think how this booger got slipped in under my wires. Anyhow, YOU NOW NEED TO GO GET YOURSELF DISINFECTED, since I KNOW you have the virus attached to the document I sent along to our DAR, SAR, and CAR members, plus, it could have been transmitted to some of you others who get mail from me.. It couldn't have been gotten from the list because it doesn't allow attachments, but I want to let the list members know who do work with me on other projects. I'm very, very sorry to have to make you do all the extra work of cleaning out that bug, but you had best do it right away, and don't send anything else via attachment to someone UNTIL you have gotten a clean machine from McAfee's website, showing you have no more virus. I checked my own three times, to be positive it was gone. I really, really, am sorry about this mess, and I'd rather not have to even say you may have it, and especially that you have gotten it from ME!!! But, it would be totally irresponsible of me to let you go on and not know of this accident. So, point yourselves immediately to McAfee, get a free subscription which will allow you the free ONLINE Cleanup like I did. Gosh, I can't say sorry enough. What a waste of a perfectly good holiday to have to stop everything and go cleanup. Julie, I most certainly thank you for making sure your Virus program was operational, and for giving me a warning so we can all get repaired before it goes any worse. BJ, contrite sender of bad stuff.

Marilyn Logan added this site to our earlier High School listings. In the interest of furthering genealogy by helping one another locate one another, I think the the idea of adding ourselves to these lists fits into our "helpful genealogy websites" modus operandi. bj Hi, I've registered on ClassMates.Com. It's a directory of high school alumni. There are over 1 million alumni registered so far from more than 30,000 high schools. My alma mater was listed. Probably yours is too. Take a look... http://classmates.com/

Do we have ANY Coleman family descendants who are on this list? If so, please reply to me personally. Thanks, bj, listmanager..ess TXVICTOR-L

Carolyn Shearer shares these with us. Thanks, Carolyn. She mentioned she wished she could find one for French or Old German script. If anyone has info to share, please do. http://translator.go.com http://www.ranchopark.com/translatorlinks.html http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction1.html http://www.library.umass.edu/catalog/dic.html Say, on a personal note, do you all know it's really hard to see my computer screen while trying to work with a young kitten playing "pencil' on my desktop, tromping over my keys and turning flips? Besides, he blocks my screen and does his own typo's. Named BeeBee, stands for Blackie's Baby, BlackJack being our older black cat who took the foundling in off our driveway. Of course, he comes like the others... with no pedigree! No owner to be found, of course, so now he's ours. Dratted cat! Cute little passel of black and white fluff, reckon his pedigree will have to be....BeeBee Jackson, DriveWayKitten. Adoptive father, BlackJack, adoptive family..Jackson AllPets

To honor Independence Day, Ancestry has madea close to 50 military databases of free for the weekend. You don't have to be a subscriber/member. To view the complete list of databases, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/militaryDBs.htm Wishing everyone a SAFE and happy 4th of July!! Ken Titt -- Researching these surnames: ANDREWS, AVERY, BASCOM, BOWLE, BUCKERIDGE, BUELL, CALLAHAM, CLOTHIER, CROZIER, CURRENT, EVARTS, FARMER, FRASIER, GANNAWAY, GAUNTLETT, GRISWOLD, GURLEY, HEAL, HOWELL, INGERSOLL, JONES, LEMON, LOGAN, LOOMIS, MIDDLETON, MOORE, SHAFER, STRONG, TITT, WALLIS, WARRINER, AND MANY OTHERS.

There is a website that was sent me, for every high school in the nation, for graduates for various years to register themselves so others can find them. I did do that, and then looked at Victoria. I see not one person has yet registered, so I wanted to share this new website with all you Victoria Graduates, and for all others on the list, go to the homepage of this website, link at the top, and check for your own schools. They will be there. I went to one very small Texas school, and even it is listed there. All high schools in the nation are apparently online here. I think it will be useful as it begins to grow. I'm not a private person, so I don't mind. You can put as much or as little of your own information as you please. It allows graduates of any year to register. Check it out, register yourself so high school friends can find you. You may be "lost" to them. bj http://www.highschoolalumni.com/schools/schools.cfm?city=VICTORIA&state=TX

Found this on an especially nice DAR website. It's a link to useful websites for general genealogy research. The site has some useful tips for you, too. bj http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/3250/GenLinks.html

Found this, the Homepage, and a link off it. Interesting site. There's a lot here. bj http://www.interment.net/ http://www.interment.net/us/index.htm

Julie Bowen sent me a note telling me a "success" story, and I wanted to share it with all of you, so you won't overlook the chance you may succeed here, too. Here's her note...bj (she's speaking of the new LDS search page) ....I did get a response to an inquiry I posted on that site -- and this lady has records that her great grandmother researched! This was one of my dead end lines! So I am thrilled. You should look at the collaboration part of the family search page. It is direct email on surnames/inquiries. You can post or inquire. The only problem is it takes forever to get to the right collaboration page -- network traffic.