"The Legacy"
published by the
Milam County (Texas) Genealogical Society
Rockdale, Texas

Information from Caroline Kibodeaux: Plans for the library to have a new genealogical bulletin board which will have a form to be filled out for missing Milam county ancestors. The forms will have space for name of ancestor, known information, information needed, name, address, and phone number. The bulletin board will also provide space to display catalogs, announcements of genealogical conventions, etc.

In the basket:

Copy of Ancestry catalog provided by Ben Worrell

Publication list of the Genealogical Society of Henry and Clayton Counties, Inc., McDonough, GA.

Stripes quarterly publication of the Texas State Genealogical Society (TSGS). Stirpes will publish queries related to Texas families or places free for TSGS members, $3 ea. for non-members, societies who are partner members may submit five per year at a reduced rate of $2 ea. There is also an article about “Basic Research in the Archives of the Texas General Land Office.”

Catalog of Genealogical Books in Print, NY Branch, P. O. Box 394, Maine, NY 13802 with an interesting advertisement for the 1787 Census of Virginia: Includes present Virginia/West Virginia/Kentucky.

QUERY: Anne Brothers, 2104 S. Old Temple Rd., Lorena, Texas 76655 - Seeking information on P. A. Horton who is in the 1866 deeds and records, lived in Rockdale, was a physician who may not have practiced in Rockdale, had a partner Dr. A. C. Walker in Davilla, after 1895, had a wife Sally Varilla Hunter.

QUERY: Gary Espinosa, Rt. 6, Box 6464, Palestine, Texas 75801 - Seeking information on Susan Benson (b. Rockdale) and was one of 13 children of Sally Webster.

Programs for 1994:

• February -- Tape program - Mayflower Families
• March -- Tape program - Locating Immigrant Ancestors
• April -- Mary Cooper - Handy Dandy Research Kits for Travel
• May -- Tape program - Military Records
• June -- Tape program - Census Records
• July -- Mary Cooper - Making Sense of the Census

From the Victoria Crossroads of South Texas (Winter) published by the Victoria Genealogical Society:

You’ve Come Along Way Baby! Have you located a female ancestor going through the procedure to become a naturalized citizen even though your records show she was born in the United States? She could have lost her citizenship if she married an immigrant not yet a citizen. To regain her citizenship, she had to go through the naturalization process. If her husband became a citizen before his death, there would be no problem. If he died before citizenship was obtained, she would loose her right to citizenship. (This portion of the citizenship law has since changed.)