Jayne Manuel wrote: My ggrandfather, Friederich Schob aka Frederick Schob de Leon, arrived in the US through New Orleans in 1857 and in 1860 was ennumerated with the Carl Steiner family of the Coletoville Community in Victoria County, Texas. He died in Coletoville in 1920. I have been trying to find out where he was born (somewhere in Prussia or one of the German states, I believe), who his parents and siblings were, and why he ended up with the Steiner family, where he married Minna Steiner, my ggrandmother, in 1866. They had 1 son, Adolph, and 5 daughters -- Alvina (m. John Berger), Minna (m. William Hohmann), Augusta (m. Richard Jacob), Bianka (m. Joseph Steiger), and Emelia. Anyone with information on this subject, please contact me. Suggestion: While prowling through the probate records of Victoria Co., TX several years ago, I discovered the naturalization of my stepmother's grandfather. In other counties in Texas I have found naturalizations prior to 1906 in some strange places: Criminal records in Bexar Co., with deeds in Frio Co. as part of a filing for homestead, etc. If Jayne Manuel is near an LDS family center and not in Victoria, she can order many films of Victoria Co. from Salt Lake City. You can't read them all at once--so order only one or two of the most promsing ones. Many persons of German descent of Victoria Co. reportedly came from Alsace-Lorraine as did those around Castroville. Try www.familysearch.org to access the Family History Library Catalog (Salt Lake City). Try custom search (a tab like graphic). After you play around for a while (reading all the instructions on the screen) and are finally able to type in Victoria County, Texas (no abbreviations), and then you get some titles of their holdings, look for another darkened tab which says "Review Film Notes." This will give you the film number. The process is somewhat complicated, but the instructions are fairly clear and put there for us dummies. Good luck. E.W.Wallace southern California ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <TXVICTOR-D-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yb01.mx.aol.com (rly-yb01.mail.aol.com [172.18.146.1]) by air-yb02.mail.aol.com (v73.13) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 May 2000 07:01:25 -0400 Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by rly-yb01.mx.aol.com (v74.10) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 May 2000 07:00:43 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e4UB0V703520; Tue, 30 May 2000 04:00:31 -0700 Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 04:00:31 -070 -------------------------------- End of TXVICTOR-D Digest V00 Issue #63 ************************************** From root@lists6.rootsweb.com Tue Aug 1 19:19:25 2000 Return-Path: <root@lists6.rootsweb.com> Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by listsearches.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e722JPw25642 for <indexer@listsearches.rootsweb.com>; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:19:25 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e722JQj16882 for indexer@listsearches.rootsweb.com; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:19:26 -0700 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:19:26 -0700 Message-Id: <200008020219.e722JQj16882@lists6.rootsweb.com> From: TXVICTOR-D-request@rootsweb.com Subject: TXVICTOR-D Digest V00 #63 X-Loop: TXVICTOR-D@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <TXVICTOR-D@rootsweb.com> archive/volume00/63 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: TXVICTOR-D@rootsweb.com Reply-To: TXVICTOR-L@rootsweb.com ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain TXVICTOR-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 63 Today's Topics: #1 meadows/maddox/nellims [cjones <cjones@iocc.com>] #2 Ancestry of Friederich Schob - Sug [Hdanw@aol.com] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from TXVICTOR-D, send a message to TXVICTOR-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too.