Not so recent additions to the site.

Added a newspaper clipping of the accident that led to the death of my great grandfather Ferdinand Petrus and reposted "Letters to Ferdinand." Updated information about the old Corrigan Settlement and Campo Santo Cemetery. Added more notes about my great aunt, Annabelle Thiele and the 1903 obituary of great great grandmother Rosalie Hart/Priour. The Photo Journal has been moved to a new server and, for now, it is no longer necessary to enter that annoying password. The Skidmore History page was long overdue for an update, so I reworked it a bit with better quality photos and some interesting "special effects."Added Joseph Petrus' Marriage Certificate and Ferdinand Petrus' Birth Certificate. Both documents were sent via email by our Belgian cousin Jan Scholliers. Also updated information about Ferdinand's sister Paulina Petrus including a photo of Jan's grandparents. Our cousin Alan Barber on the Priour/Barber side of the family located the gravesite of Samuel Barber and has submitted an application for Historic Cemetery through the Texas Historical Commission. Samuel Barber was a grandfather of my great grandmother Mattie Priour. You may view the application which tells of Alan's detective work in finding the gravesite at www.barberhome.com. Updated Joseph Petrus' page with the new photos provided by our cousin Jan Scholliers of Belgium. Jan also supplied me with photos and information about his great grandmother, Paulina Petrus/Van Opstal. Janel Gaines emailed me with news of a new Thiels Family website. Thanks to the efforts of uncle Bruce Stratton, aka "Dr. B" at KFTX Real Country in Corpus, our fiddling uncle Eck Robertson was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame. Read more about uncle Eck at: www.oldtimemusic.com. Added information about the descendants of my great uncle Joseph Larimore Robertson. Corrected a huge error on the Petrus Pedigree page. Thanks to Belgian relative Rik Thiels for pointing out that I had identified the wrong man in a photo as being my great grandfather, Ferdinand Petrus. Added photos of Julius, Gerald, and Annie Laurie Petrus provided to me by Anne Moseley. Added more information about Rose Petrus/Robrecht's descendents provided by cousin Jeannie Garcia. Added photos and updated information about Emma Petrus, Lawrence Petrus, and Ann Petrus/Parkhill (courtesy of cousin Anne Van Mol/Moseley of Baton Rouge). Added a letter written our great aunt Mary Petrus, courtesy of Anne Moseley. Added a link to the Howard Family Reunion website. Our Louisiana cousin, Anne Moseley sent me a letter written to her mother by Grandma Ella Cecelia Petrus in 1969. While working the family pedigree I came across the rest of Mimi Head's family at the Nuckols Worldwide Kindred website. Added Chapters 22 and Chapter 23 of Rosalie Hart Priour's autobiography. Added a few more pages from "A Man from Corpus Christi" Added photos of the gravestones of my great great grandparents James Wilson Treadway and Amanda Sellars. Added information about my great great great grandmother Elizabeth Hart, original Texas Powers Colony settler. Added a letter (thanks to Margie Petrus) from my grandfather Julius Raymond Petrus written 5 months prior to his death in 1926. Added a photo (provided by Lucien Meynaerts) of the WWII American Bombing of Mortsel, Belgium in which an 8 year old Belgian relative was killed while attending school. See the page on Justina Petrus/Counson for details. Added new information about Eck Robertson (our famous fiddling uncle). Added information about Justina Petrus/Counson and her Belgian descendants (thanks to Lucien Meynaerts). Read the "News of Texas" story about Reagan Bownds and his goat roping/football career. Thanks to distant cousin Jane McManus of Alexandria, Louisiana, we've discovered two new sets of great great great grandparents. See the Petrus Pedigree page for information about Amanda Sellars and James Wilson Treadway. Our Belgian cousin, Lucien Meynaerts, sent more information about my great great grandfather and Antwerp foundling, Joseph Petrus. Lucien and Jan have just finished their new web site. See how our family ties into theirs at www.meynaerts.com (you may need to brush up on your Flemish). Larry Robertson sent me more information about the descendants of John Simpson Robertson. Why did my great aunt, Ann Parkhill, have such an interest in Father Flanagan's Boys Town? See the page on Anne Petrus/Parkhill, to read about 1939 Boys Town mayor "Happy Sam" Turner. I've also updated information (from social security administration records) about Ann's sister, Mary Petrus/Holstein. Added information about my great great grandfather, Joseph Petrus, provided by Belgian relative Rik Thiels. Added information about Joseph L. Robertson's descendants. Updated information about the descendants of Eck Robertson. Added information about Annie Petrus/Parkhill, Emma Petrus/Thiels, and Lawrence Petrus (thanks to Margie Petrus for donating memorabilia belonging to Annie Petrus Parkhill). Added a photo of Gerald Petrus that accompanied a World War II newspaper clipping. Added a new letter from British Controlled Oilfields regarding the death of my grandfather, Julius Raymond Petrus, in Venezuela. Added photos of my g-g-great grandfather, Joseph Addison Barber and his wife Emmeline Francis Jackson (courtesy of David Barber). Added information about my great grandmother, Laura Treadway/Petrus. Added photos of the Antwerp "Foundlinghouse" where my great great grandfather Joseph Petrus was left in the "slide" (thanks to our Belgian cousin Lucien Meynaerts for providing the photos). Added Historical Marker info to Skidmore page. Added excerpts from Charles Blaschke's "The Legend of the Famous Corrigan Pool.