Polish Footprints Vol. XIV No. 2 Summer 1997 Table of Contents Page Topic 1 President's Message 1 More than 3 Million in Relief Supplies sent to Poland 2-9 1880 Karnes County Census 9 Polish Silesian Research 10-16 Texas Silesians Visit their Ancestral Villages 17-24 Kotzur/Sekula, Home Village Research hanging by a Thread 25-27 Students Document Korus/Rakowitz Rural Farmstead 28-34 Zajac Zniontz, My Polish Heritage 35-36 Victor Labenski, Polish Roots on the Texas Frontier 36-37 Bida (Bieda) Means Hard Times 37 Texas Historical Marker 38-42 Polish Cowboys in Civil War-Era Texas 43-46 Polish Letters 46 The World of E-Mail 47 E-mail and Internet 47-48 Websites on the Internet you may want to explore 48-49 PGST Mailbag 49 Research in Poland 50 Lang Highlights 51-55 Index