The Robertson County TXGenWeb site at www.robertsoncounty.info has two major collections devoted to Germans in this central Texas county. These include the following:

Camp Hearne Collection at the Robertson County TXGenWeb site:

A great deal of information about the Camp Hearne, Robertson County, TX World War II German POW Camp is posted online at www.camphearne.info. Among the items are a burial list of POWs interred at the Fort Sam Houston Cemetery in San Antonio, an in-depth website produced by a Texas A&M University professor who is studying the Hearne camp, a master’s thesis written about Camp Hearne & surrounding POW camps, and other interesting materials.

New Baden Collection at the Robertson County TXGenWeb site:

New Baden, Robertson County, TX was founded as a Deutsch-speaking community in the early 1880s. Information about this community and its early European settlers (German primarily) is online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txrober2/NewBadenCollection.htm. Among the items is a rare manuscript originally written in German by John George Meyer, founder of the colony, that was distributed throughout Germany relating to this new American colony on the International & Great Northern Railroad in central Texas.

Thanks!

William Kent Brunette