HILL COUNTRY HOME OF NEW TEXAS RANGER MUSEUM
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A new Texas Ranger Museum is being built in Kerrville on Highway 173 across the road from the Cowboy Artist of America Museum. The new center is being built by the Former Texas Ranger Association and the Former Texas Ranger Foundation to replace the facility near the Witte Museum in San Antonio that the two organizations outgrew years ago.
The Texas Ranger Center will include a museum, library and an education center where students from across the state will be able to visit, hear speakers, view video presentations and interact with participants in living history programs.
The Former Texas Ranger Association was founded in 1897 by former Texas Ranger Captain RIP Ford and other prominent former Texas Rangers. The association exists to preserve the true history of the Texas Rangers; to maintain and operate a museum dedicated to the Texas Rangers; to establish landmarks related to Ranger history, to administer a scholarship program, and to bring former Rangers, current Rangers and Ranger families together for fellowship, support and mutual purpose.
Membership in the FTRA is open to former Texas Rangers, lineal descendants of Rangers, active Rangers and Special Rangers.
The Former Texas Ranger Foundation was organized in 1971 to support and assist in the fulfillment of the mission of the FTRA and to provide expanded membership opportunities. Membership in the FTRF is open to individuals, companies and organizations who believe in the mission of the FTRA.
For more information on the Ranger Center, the FTRA or the FTRF visit their website at http://www.formertexasrangers.org/Divide.htm . Neither the FTRA, the FTRF or the Ranger Center have any affiliation to the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco.
Mountain Press P.O. Box 400 Signal Mountain, TN 37377-0400 http://mountainpress.com/books/tx/state.html has several books listing former Texas Rangers. The books are arranged by year and then alphabetically:
Texas Ranger Service Records 1830-1846 ($37.50); Texas Rangers 1847-1900 Vol. 1 A-C ($37.50); Vol. 2 D-G ($25.00); Vol. 3 H-K ($25.00); Vol. 4 L-N ($30.00); Vol. 5 O-S ($35.00); Vol. 6 T-Z ($25.00) and the complete set of 6 volumes of Texas Rangers 1847-1900 ($150.00).
LEARN GENEALOGY
Offered by Leisure Learning, Mic Barnette will teach an introductory course on conducting family history research. Roots of Genealogy-How To Research Your Family Tree will be held from 7 P.M. to 10 P.M. Tuesday May 6 at Leisure Learning’s 2990 Richmond Ave campus. The following week the class will tour Clayton Genealogical Library and conduct on-site census research. For more information and to register, contact Leisure Learning at 713-529-4414.
FAMILY TREE MAKER SOFTWARE CLASS
Paula Perkins Parke will lead an Organizing Your Family Research With Family Tree Maker Software class from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday May 7. This one-time four hour class will be held at Houston Community College’s 1681 Cartwright campus in Missouri City.
Through demonstrations, students will learn step by step how to organize, document family information and sources and publish a family book. For more information and to register, contact HCC at 281-835-5539. Please note pre-registration is required.
SURFING THE INTERNET
Mic Barnette will lead a Surfing the Internet for Genealogy class at Houston Community College’s 1681 Cartwright campus in Missouri City. This one session class is a live three hour virtual tour of some of the most helpful and notable genealogical websites on the Internet. The class will be held Thursday May 8 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
For more information and to register, contact HCC at 281-835-5539. Please note, pre-registration is required.
