My great-grandmother was Amelia (Emilie?) Emma Symmank. Amelia is the spelling on her marriage certificate to Wilhelm Benjamin Raschke and (second marriage) Karl T. Faske. Does anyone have any information on her and her family?
It looks like I came to the party late, but I just found this site.
If anyone is still looking for "The Wends of Texas" by Anne Blasig, "In Search of a Home, Nineteenth-Century Wendish Immigration" by George Nielsen, or the "Baptismal Records of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Serbin, Texas 1854-1883" by Rev. John Kilian they can be found (and many related books) at
http://wendish.concordia.edu/html/gift_shop.htm.
Thank you for any help.