WATERSTRAAT FAMILY HISTORY BOOKS IN MY PERSONAL LIBRARY (some of these Waterstraat books were generously given to me by a Michigan Waterstraat)

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GARFIELD COUNTY ROUNDUP A History of the people, for the people, by the people, of Garfield County, Nebraska. Compiled by the Garfield County Historical Society, 1967. Many mentions of the Waterstraat and other German families related to the Waterstraats.
LOUP COUNTY CENTENNIAL, 1883-1983, TAYLOR, NEBRASKA A history of Loup county, and many photos and stories of the Waterstraat families and related German families. Compiled by the Loup County Centennial Committee, by Kevin Brown, 1983.
VALLEYVIEW, NUNDA, AND BOILING SPRINGS TOO 1886-1972 By Kevin Brown. Many, many photos and stories of the Waterstraats, Scherbarths, Garskas, Scherzbergs, and Brown families. With emphasis on the setting up of the schools of the early Waterstraat homesteaders, 1972.
ROCK COUNTY CENTENNIAL 1888-1988 Published by the Rock County Cenntennial Book Committee and the Rock County Historical Society, 1987. Includes a map of the Waterstraat homestead in Rock county, and the Aksarben Cemetary where many Waterstraats are buried.
THE SOD HOUSE by Cass G. Burns, M.D. 1930. Comprehensive book about the daily living of early Nebraska homesteaders in the Loup River valley in Garfiled County including the Karl Waterstraat family.
THE BURWELL TRIBUNE dozens of articles from the Burwell Tribune, a local newspaper that covered events in the Waterstraat family history from April 28, 1910, to March 4, 1984. Mostly obituaries but they are a wealth of family information and history and family ties.
VORPOMMERN 2 books published by Gottingen in 1994. They contain old German records, maps, births, deaths, marraiges, of Waterstraats from 1645-1939 in Rugen, Strasund, Grimmen, Greifswald, Demmin, Anklam, Usedom-Wollin, Ueckermunde, and Pasewalk. The Waterstraats lived in most of these provinces before migrating to Rugen Island, and then immigraing to America. An interesting highlight is the recording of the first marriage between the Martins, and the Waterstraats in Lucke in the 1700's. It was another later marraige of the Martins and the Waterstraats that gave Karl Waterstraat the money in 1890 to immigrate to America.
GERMANS TO AMERICA by David Roberts, 1997. It covers the period strating from 1850. 54 volumes later they are up to 1893, which includes all Waterstraats that migrated here to America. Lists the ship, port, and arrival dates.
Making the World a Home: The Family Portrait in Drama by Jean Anne Waterstraat, published 1979
Title: Hoomothya's Long Journey 1865-1897 Subtitle: The True Story of a Yavapai Indian by Elaine Waterstraat This is a very good book by Elaine, and it is well written. It is the story of a young boy whos parents were murdered, and he was then raised by the whites, and then he returned to the indian way of life. Elaine Waterstraat did a good job on this book, and it should be in every Waterstraat's library.
Title:Commanders and chiefs : a brief history of Fort McDowell, Arizona (1865-1890), its officers and men and the Indians they were ordered to subdue / by Elaine Waterstraat. Publisher Fountain Hills, Ariz. : Mount McDowell Press, 1993,c1992.