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CONTENTS |
Keys to the Past
Contents Page
Vol.
XXIV(Fall/Winter, 2005) NO. 2
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| Committee Members . . . . . . . .. | 1 |
| Membership Roster . . . . . . . .. | 4 |
| President's Message.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. | 5 |
| Editorial.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. | 6 |
| GSKC News and Information | |
| Announcements . . . . . . . . . .. | 7 |
| Computer Users Group . . . . . . . . . .. | 8 |
| Library News. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . | 9 |
| Librarian - Lucy Croft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 10 |
| Genealogy Library Volunteer Project. . . . . . . . . . . . | 11 |
| Salute to Library Volunteers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 12 |
| Local Genealogy | |
| First Families Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 19 |
| First Family Awards. . . .Kaiser and Meckel Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 21 |
| Mergele-Schertz Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 22 |
| Kendall County Court Minutes of the Civil War Period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 23 |
| Over 100 years of county history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 25 |
| The Truck, The Plow and the Preacher's Wife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 26 |
| The Bergmann Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 27 |
| Bergmann,/Vogt Family Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 36 |
| General Genealogy | |
| Paths of the Patriots. . . . . . | James Nelson, Sr. - Harry Dell37 | Bavester Barton - Sharon Wolff | 39 |
| Obituaries | |
| John Ebner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 55 |
| Dan Glenn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 56 |
| Books | |
| Additions to Collection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 57 |
| Book Reviews North Carolina Research Genealogy and Local History, 2nd Edition |
60 | and | The Regulated Emigration of the German Proletariat with Special Interest to Texas | 61 | Books Available from GSKC........ | 63 |
| Research | |
| Confederate Pension Application Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 64 |
| 1890 Kendall County Tax Records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 67 |
| Land Measurements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 75 |
| Canadian Loyalist Research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 78 |
| Epidemics and Pandemics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |
| Tracking a Deadly Epidemic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 79 |
| Book Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 82 |
| The Great Indluenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History | |
| Major Epidemics of the 19th Century. . . . . . . . . . . | 83 |
| Coming Events, Conferences and Seminars . . . . . . . .. | 88 |
| Index | 89 |