HANCOCK 
 Hancock, Lucy Ann was my Mother's maternal grandmother. My *quandry* is how to locate names for both Lucy Ann  Hancock's mother's maiden name then Lucy Ann's father's mother's maiden name. Thereafter *their* ancestors.  Lucy  Ann Hancock was an only child; a group of relatives, families moved via wagons from northwestern Alabama to Texas  in about 1865? while Lucy Ann Hancock was a young girl, She was sent back to Alabama for finishing school later; she  could not return home for the Christmas holidays since the stagecoach ride would consume the whole vacation time,  more importantly, the trip would be unsafe for her.  Lucy Ann's first child Caroline died as a toddler, Lucy Ann entirely  prepared her little one for burial before her husband/the father __Charles?_____ Stokes returned home: he was a  surveyor.  
 Later they had and raised eight children, the youngest they named Lucy Belle Hancock who married Tom Roy DeuPree  in Texas.  Lucy Belle was my mother's mother/my maternal grandmother; my Mother was Annette DeuPree.

GROTE
 My Grote "quandry" is about Grote, C.A. who was my father's grandfather who came to America from, most likely,  Germany. Very recently I found the spelling and the name of my paternal great grandmother's name, Wlhelmina Reue  who married C. A. Grote, 
 who'd arrived in America not long before they were married;  soon after she arrived in America at Galveston TX and most likely  transferred to a 
 ship taking her to Indianola TX. Near there is most likely where she and C.A., circuit riding Methodist preacher,  married. Later, I pray to learn who were her parents there in Germany.  In about 1939: Rector Grote, Seth Ward  Lehmberg, James Grote were napping on the floor of the screened-in porch (a break before returning to ranching work) when  they heard a fascinating story 
 WHICH WILL BE IN C.A.'s entries in these "genealogy records" I am FINALLY learning how to enter into a computer;  Annette Helen Grote Altgelt
 in "porch" between the "front room" and the dining room one very hot summer day; C. H. Grote was in the front parlor  with his brother, who very seldom came to visit SO could've been August Carl C H's older brother OR, less likely Fritz  who was much older than Charles Henry--the brothers' conversation, in German, was told to me a few times & that will  be included (somewhere) herein as I am able to input family data herein. Their/C H & Mina's two sons and one daughter  lived to maturity: (1) CHARLES HENRY GROTE who 
 married Wilhemina Keese and they had twelve children: the youngest were twin boys of which one was my father  Raymond George Grote.    (2) Charles Henry Attended SOULE College in TX before going to Vanderbilt.  (3)  Charles  Henry and CARL GROTE started studies at Vanderbilt (University) its inaugural  year.  The record Vanderbilt office copied and had ready for me when I drove there in 1995 showed C.H. was very  homesick, withdrew from school & returned to the family ranch.  CARL AUGUST completed college *and* became a  medical doctor; in the family photo I have he is wearing his Phi Beta Kappa key on a (vest chain); he taught college for  years; he lived in Huntsville GA until his death.  I met his son one day in Mason Texas - he'd gone their to locate any  family.  His son still lived in Huntsville  in 2003 I believe.  (3) Mina Grote was their sister I had never heard any word of  her before I inherited the family photo in ___?___maybe after Dora's death?___ (abt 103 yrs after Dora's birth); via Gillespie County Genealogy records I found Mina married Daniel Schrimpf.  From the  archivist at Perkins School of Theology, Southwest Texas Methodist University that Daniel was a Methodist preacher.  [not from the archivist *but* from Fredericksburg, Gillespie County Genealogy records I learned Daniel was serving as  preacher of Fredericksburg's Methodist Episcopal Church South] Archivist: he later was itinerated to the Dallas area to  preach then some years later, according to a record the archivist found, Daniel left the  Methodist church.  I hope to learn more about how to use the internet, to gather more family history.