October being the month when, through Texas Lutheran University, Mrs. Janice Woods-Windle in person will offer a True Women Tour; and on the same day she and her mother, Mrs. Virginia Woods, will be honored at a Conservation Society gala, it seemed opportune to let the mouse walk through web sites regarding Seguin's past, including True Women related sites.
Conducting searches for Seguin, Texas, I found it interesting to come across sites that are identified as concerning Seguin, on account of genealogical information.
Henry Schmitt, a systems programmer at Lycos, has posted his genealogy, which includes almost 30 family members with roots in Seguin. There is a web page for each, such as the web page for Alwin Eugene PAPE, available at: http://www.schmitt.org/genweb/Schmitt/D0010/I373.html.
This is but a part of over one thousand names included. From the site of the Schmitt family genealogy at http:/www.schmitt.org/henry/, you can find the Seguin families. The Schmitt genealogy is a part of a project called Gen Web.
Gen Web includes United States Gen Web Genealogy, of which Texas Gen Web Genealogy is a part. The Texas GenWeb Genealogy site contains a section on Guadalupe County, at http://www.halpc.org/~dcrane/txgenweb/guadalupe/.
From this site, you can access maps available with the location of all cemeteries in the Guadalupe county. The latitude, longitude and the streets to get to each cemetery are included in maps individualized for each cemetery. From a U.S. map that showcases only one location, by zooming in, you can get to the maps that show you the streets. I found it interesting to try the Riverside Cemetery.
If you are interested in your genealogy, these are some of the sites that can be very helpful, they contain information concerning the entire United States and the world.
The Genealogy Home Page at http://www.genhomepage.com contains 1600 links, the site is updated daily.
Topics included are: genealogy help and guides, libraries, maps, geography, deeds and photography, newsgroups and mailing lists, searching for related genealogists, on line genealogy information, Internet guides and genealogy home pages, North American and world-wide Genealogy resources, genealogy software, genealogy societies, upcoming genealogy events and commercial services. There are addresses for free and shareware genealogy software, with genealogical data and help.
At the Genealogy ToolBox site there is helpful information such as the Genealogy Atlas, the Genealogy white pages, and the Genealogy yellow pages. You can look for information classified by county in each state, family histories by surname, etc., etc. The Genealogy ToolBox site is found at http://genealogy.tbox.com/.
Among the features offered by Genealogy Online at http://www.genealogy.org/ are: a 1% sampling of the 1880 U.S. Federal Census. Includes more than 107,000 families and more than ½ million individuals; and an interactive version of the catalog, "Federal Population Censuses 17901890," published by the National Archives Trust Fund Board.
These are the addresses of other very useful genealogy sites:
Roots-L Home Page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsl/
Gen Serv Genealogical Server System at: http://www.genserv.com/
Vital Records Information at: http://www.inlink.com/~nomi/vitalrec/
USGen Web Project at: http://www.usgenweb.com/
Ancestry Social Security Death Index at: http://www.ancestry.com/ssdi/main.htm
WWW Genealogical Resources for Specific States at: http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/information_resources/genealogy_sites.html
WWW Genealogical Resources for Specific Countries at: http://www.acpl/lib.in.us/information_resources/genealogy_sites.html
Treasure Maps at: http://www.firstct.com/fv/tmapmenu.html
The family site of Juan Seguin at http://seguin.simplenet.com/awebpage.html is called "The Seguin Family Historical Society, a Texas Family Since 1712".
The site contains information such as the personal memoirs of Juan N. Seguin, and the detail of his participation and responsibilities throughout the period that includes the battle of the Alamo and his address to the Texas Senate. It has a section concerning Juan Seguin's burial site in Seguin.
As we all know, recently brought to fame, the ancestors of Janice Woods Windle have been portrayed in a television mini-series based on her book True Women. Phenix and Phenix, Mrs. Windle's publicists, have a press release site at http://www.phenixpub.com/presswin.html.
Included in the site are the promotion of the True Women cookbook, quotes from media commentaries by literary critics of the book True Women, the story of the book and its promotion, and its television mini-series. The release of the upcoming book "Hill Country" will be announced in this site.
At http://www.books451.com/, one can buy online, signed copies of the "out-of-print, first edition of the True Women best-seller book."
The virtual True Women tour at http://www.seguin.net/truwomen.html, has links to sites that add historical context. Included are: Runway Scrape, Santa Anna, Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, the Rangers, etc. The tour pictures can be enlarged to full screen size.
The series "Let the mouse do the walking around Seguin" winds up with this installment. The series of six articles about Seguin concerned shopping, industry, the city, business, college and people in Seguin's past.
These articles and all the previous Internet Beat articles published since June 9, 1996, are available in the Internet at http://lonestar.texas.net/~weersjt/club/intbeat.html.
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Gloria R. Rivera
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