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To The Land Of Unlimited Opportunities: Finkbeiner And Gaiser Stories, Carol Finkbeiner Steinhauer

Works by Local Authors

To the Land of Unlimited Opportunities tell the storiies of the Finkbeiner and Gaiser families from the late 1700's until today.

To the Land of Unlimited Opportunities, ends with the deaths of John and Lydia Finkbeiner. This hardly ends our story. Their seven sons and daughters-in-law gave them thirty-two grandchildren, all but two reached adulthood. Sadly, their only daughter Esther passed away as a young adult in 1926. Five of the seven sons of John and Lydia became ministers of the gospel while two remained on the land and increased the size of the farm over the years. For many …

What It Was & What I Know: Attempts At Family History, Katherine Reardon

Honors College

Family stories and family histories are contingent on how they are remembered. As these stories are passed down, the ways that they are remembered can change, with the truthful aspects of these stories disappearing over time. As a result, many family stories are not necessarily truthful, but this does not discount their value. The aim of this project is to explore these ideas while also answering the following question: to what extent are family stories bound by the ‘truth’? In order to answer this question, I have explored my own family stories that I know may not be true and …

Muscogiana Vol. 32(1), Spring 2021, Mike Bunn

Muscogiana

A journal of the Muscogee Genealogical Society.

Access Your Ancestors: Introduction To Free Online Genealogy Resources, Sarah Myers

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Wednesday, March 10, 202110:00 am - 11:00 am

Virtual on Zoom

Are you interested in finding out about your family history and climbing your family tree? This course will be an introduction to online genealogy resources that are free to use and easily accessible to anyone with internet access. Find census, birth, marriage, military, and death records with ease and without spending a dime. This class will energize you to make discoveries on what makes your family unique, special, and downright interesting.

All participants will receive a resource packet to organize and keep track of their findings. In addition to …

Muscogiana Vol. 31(2), Fall 2020, Mike Bunn

Muscogiana

A journal of the Muscogee Genealogical Society

Family Histories In The "Leader News" (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Family Histories in the "Leader News" compiled by Bobby Anderson in 1991.

Economies Of Security: Foucault And The Genealogy Of Neoliberal Reason, Marshall Scheider

Gettysburg Social Sciences Review

Michel Foucault is well-known for his theorizations of institutional power, normativity, and biopolitics. Less well-known is the fact that Foucault developed his analysis of biopolitics in and through his historical investigation of neoliberalism. Today, while critique of neoliberalism has become a commonplace of humanities discourse, and popular resistance to neoliberalization rocks the southern hemisphere, it remains unclear that the historical specificity of neoliberalism is well-understood. In particular, the relation between classical liberalism and neoliberal governance remains murky in popular debate. As Foucault powerfully illustrates, this relation is far from clear-cut, and neoliberalism is not reducible to a simple extension of …

William Thomas Welborn Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Images of the William Thomas Welborn Family Bible with accompanying typescripts done by Gail (Jackson) Miller.

Solomon Huffstutler Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Images of the Solomon Huffstutler Family Bible with accompanying typescripts by Gail (Jackson) Miller.

Thomas B. Wood Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Images of the Thomas B. Wood Family Bible with accompanying typescripts done by Gail (Jackson) Miller.

Eugene Gill And Dee (Welborn) Gill Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Images of the Eugene Gill and Dee (Welborn) Gill Family Bible with accompanying typescripts done by Gail (Jackson) MIller.

Andrew And Winneford (Jackson) Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Images of the Andrew and Winneford (Jackson) Family Bible with accompanying typescripts done by Gail (Miller) Jackson.

Thomas And Winniford (Creekmur) Jackson Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Images of the Thomas and Winniford (Creekmur) Jackson Family Bible with accompanying typescripts done by Gail (Jackson) Miller.

My Family, Their History: Using Exploratory Inquiry & Pragmatic Methods To Learn History, Lowellen Sucgang

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

History education is at a crossroads. The availability of information at our fingertips has the potential to change how the non-historian sees history and the other social sciences. This capstone researched ways the non-historian can utilize the changing face of history education by implementing the pragmatic methods of John Dewey’s education philosophy called instrumentalism. Principal issues discussed include the pros and cons of out-of-classroom history education, utilization of exploratory inquiry for research and the usefulness of primary sources for a historiography. To apply instrumentalism ideals and methods, I created a historiography about my ancestors and how their lives intertwined with …

Chain Of Custody: Access And Control Of State Archival Records In Public-Private Partnerships, Sarah E. Carlson

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

As I write this, Ancestry.com is a central party in a lawsuit with the organization Reclaim The Records, citing that it, a private corporation, received preferential priority and access to public records before individual patrons of the public in Freedom of Information requests for genealogical records.^[i] Concern that public records may move into private hands demarcates an increasingly digital realm of record-keeping and public history. As companies and the public jockey for access to records in a race for access – one open and the other annexed behind a paywall – the blatant corruption is alarming. Yet, public records …

Muscogiana Vol. 31(1), Spring 2020, Mike Bunn

Muscogiana

A journal of the Muscogee Genealogical Society

Guide To The Anna Gardner Goodwin Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Anna Gardner Goodwin was a composer of classical music. Her compositions include “Adelene” and “Freedom to All March.” and the collection also contains biographical and genealogical documents, musical scores, and other material related to her family.

Madison Price Family History, Madison Price

Your Family in History: HIST 550/700

Madison L. Price authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Fall 2019 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: mlprice@gus.pittstate.edu

The Family History Of Linda Uselmann, Linda K. Uselmann

Your Family in History: HIST 550/700

Mrs. Linda Uselmann authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Fall 2019 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author with any questions or comments: lbju@att.net

Recovering Abiquiú’S Lost Church Records, Samuel E. Sisneros

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

In early 2016, an elderly couple came into UNM’s Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections determined to donate six hide-covered books to the archives. They confessed they did not know their contents and that even though the books were in the care of the family for many years, they thought UNM would be a suitable place for them to be preserved and studied. I immediately realized that these antique books were the long lost baptismal, marriage and burial registers (1777-1861) from the Mission Church of Santo Tomás Apóstol de Abiquiú and that the rightful repository for them was the …

Muscogiana Vol. 30(2), Fall 2019, Mike Bunn

Muscogiana

A journal of the Muscogee Genealogical Society

Lewis J. Sundquist: Augustana Alum Of 1886, Zoe L. Arvanitis, Rachel A. Bresnahan, Bryn E. Gatz

Celebration of Learning

Lewis J. Sundquist graduated from Augustana in 1886. We will discuss his career as a pastor, his family history, and his genealogy.

Erik S. Tjernberg : Augustana Alum Of 1886, Maame Araba Vander-Pallen, Sosena Gebremariam, Drew Davis

Celebration of Learning

Erik S. Tjernberg graduated from Augustana in 1886. We will discuss his career as a pastor, his family history and his genealogy. We will include information about life in Augustana in the 1880s. We will use sources from Augustana's special collections and original Swedish Parish records.

John Fredrik Seedoff: Augustana Alum Of 1886, Anthony M. Cozzi, Jaden W. Dellitt, Luke J. Johnson

Celebration of Learning

John Seedoff was a graduate from Augustana in 1886. We will discuss his career as a pastor, his family history, and his genealogy. We will include when he arrived at Augustana, and what he did as a student here.

Carl Erik Elving: Augustana Alum Of 1886, Adrian Sowicz, Evan Webber, Emma Gannaway

Celebration of Learning

Carl Erik Elving was a graduate from Augustana in 1886. We will discuss his career as a pastor, his family history and his genealogy. We use historic records from Augustana's Special Collections and Swedish parish records.

Peter Olof Hansen; Augustana Alum Of 1886, Elizabeth J. Merrill, Abby R. Redlinger, Joshua R. Anderson

Celebration of Learning

Peter Olof Hansen graduated from Augustana in June of 1886. We have researched his immigration to the United States, his family history and genealogy, and his career as a pastor after Augustana.

Peter Mathias Lindberg: Augustana Alum Of 1886, Nicole Kunz, Anna Matava, Rebecca Casad

Celebration of Learning

Peter Mathias Lindberg graduated from Augustana in 1886. We will discuss his career as a pastor, his family history, and his genealogy.

Augustana Seniors Fall 1885: Peter Mathias Lindberg, Rebecca Elise Casad, Anna M. Matava, Nicole Kunz

Augustana Seniors Fall 1885 (Class of 1886)

No abstract provided.

Through The Looking Glass: The Perpetuation Of Homelessness Through Awareness Media, Ashley Lauren Knight

Cultural Studies Capstone Papers

The definition of who the homelessness are has historically been defined by media. This project performs a genealogical analysis influenced by the work Foucault has done in Madness and Civilization to contextualize the way different forms of media through the years has constructed the homeless stereotype we live with today. By zeroing in on awareness media that is produced by independent documentarians, it becomes apparent the goal is not to educate on the systemic issue of homelessness, but more so to create an empathy-based connection between the subject and the viewer. This paper argues that an empathy-based production is not …

Muscogiana Vol. 30(1), Spring 2019, Mike Bunn

Muscogiana

A journal of the Muscogee Genealogical Society