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Pedigree Structure And Kinship Measurements Of A Mid-Michigan Community: A New North American Population Isolate Identified, Joseph D. Bonner, Rachel Fisher, James Klein, Qing Lu, Ellen Wilch, Karen H. Friderici, Jill L. Elfenbein, Debra L. Schutte, Brian C. Schutte

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Previous studies identified a cluster of individuals with an autosomal recessive form of deafness that resides in a small region of mid-Michigan. We hypothesized that affected members from this community descend from a defined founder population. Using public records and personal interviews, we constructed a genealogical database that includes the affected individuals and their extended families as descendants of 461 settlers who emigrated from the Eifel region of Germany between 1836 and 1875. The genealogical database represents a 13-generation pedigree that includes 27,747 descendants of these settlers. Among these descendants, 13,784 are presumed living. Many of the extant descendants reside …

Ada News - 03/03/2014, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

The Chanticleer, 2014-03-03, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

Effect Of Recent Historical Events On Migration And Isonymic Stratification Among The Rama Amerindians From Nicaragua, Norberto F. Baldi

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

The Rama Amerindians from southern Nicaragua are one of few indigenous populations inhabiting the east coast and lowlands of southern Central America. Early 18th century ethnohistorical accounts depicted the Rama as a mobile hunter-gatherer and horticulturalists group dispersed in household units along southern Nicaraguan rivers. However, during the 19th and 20th centuries, Rama settlement patterns changed to aggregated communities due to increased competition for local resources resulting from non-indigenous immigration. This study’s objective was to discern the degree of relatedness between and within subdivisions of seven of these communities based on patterns of surname variation and genealogical data. We applied …

Mocking A Perilous Prediction: Currier And Ives’ Political Cartoons, Megan A. Sutter

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Currier and Ives’ political cartoons, while comical, also represent the general undertones of the time as well as people’s feelings regarding this era of political controversy. The election of 1860 was an incredibly important one because, not only were there numerous political and social divides, but the South had threatened to secede. The political cartoon “The Irrepressible Conflict” or “The Republican Barge in Danger,” released in 1860, gives historians a good understanding of the reactions to not only Seward’s speech but also the wariness of Lincoln’s nomination and eventual election. [excerpt]

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 038, Number 23, March 3, 2014, Grand Valley State University

2013-2014, Volume 38

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Remarks For Gvsu Charter Schools Office, Delivered On March 3, 2014, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Remarks for GVSU Charter Schools Office, delivered on March 3, 2014 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.

The 1876 Centennial Exposed: How Souvenir Publications Reveal Contrasting Attitudes Of Race And Gender In The Post-Bellum United States, Hope Hancock

Mellon Scholars' Works

The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 celebrated not only the 100-year anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence but the industrial innovation and reuniting of American society after the Civil War. Using two rare books about the Exhibiton, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Historical Register of the Centennial Exposition, 1876 and The Illustrated Historical Register of the Centennial Exhibition by James Dabney McCabe, Jr., this project compares the portrayal of women and African Americans in the late 19th-century United States.

A Brief History Of Akron's Tuesday Musical, Thomas Bacher

Akron History

The Tuesday Musical Club was founded in 1887 by thirteen young Akron women who had an overwhelming desire to share their love of music. With further support of Gertrude Penfield Seiberling, the wife of industrialist Frank Seiberling, the organization grew like many other musical organizations across the country. Unlike similar clubs, the Akron-based entity continued to expand and is one of a very few that have survived.

Among the artists who have appeared as a part of the rich history of Akron's Tuesday Musical Organization are Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Jascha Heifetz, Glenn Gould, Van Cliburn, Isaac Stern, …

In Memoriam: Glen Brolander, Dag Blanck, Jill Seaholm

Swedish American Genealogist

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Bits & Pieces

Swedish American Genealogist

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Genealogical Queries

Swedish American Genealogist

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A Journey From Sweden To America In 1887, Matilda Persdotter Olson, John R. Olson

Swedish American Genealogist

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Murdered Babies, Infidel Wives, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

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Emigrant Traffic On The North Sea, Nils William Olsson

Swedish American Genealogist

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Book Reviews

Swedish American Genealogist

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Travels To Pine Lake 1850, Fredrika Bremer, Mary Howitt

Swedish American Genealogist

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News From The Swenson Center: The 2013 Olsson Scholar, Juri Rebkovitz

Swedish American Genealogist

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Handwriting Example 38

Swedish American Genealogist

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The Last Page

Swedish American Genealogist

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Handwriting Solution 38

Swedish American Genealogist

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Full Issue Vol. 34 No. 1

Swedish American Genealogist

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Interesting Web Sites

Swedish American Genealogist

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Sophia Carolina Schön: Her Life In America, Lars-Åke Wångstedt, Elisabeth Thorsell

Swedish American Genealogist

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"Rode Out Of The Democratic Party As A Heretic;" The Political Transformation Of Sam Houston And The Southern Whig Legacy, Miles Smith

East Texas Historical Journal

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From Slave Owner To Scalawag: The Life Of Leroy W. Cooper, Cameron Sinclair

East Texas Historical Journal

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Lg Ms 030 Allen Bernstein Collection Finding Aid, Elizabeth Sistare

Search the Manuscript Collection (Finding Aids)

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Allen Bernstein was born on June 19, 1913 in Nashua, New Hampshire. He holds a MA in Economics from the University of Chicago. Bernstein enlisted in the Army in 1940 and fought in WWII, doing clerical work in the U.S., until 1944 when he was dishonorably discharged for being openly gay. After the war he married a woman– who knew he was gay – and had two sons. He then moved to Maine to work for the Maine State Labor Department as a Labor market analyst. After retirement in 1978 he became involved in providing volunteer services to the …

To Make Florida Answer To Its Name: John Ellis, Bernard Romans And The Atlantic Science Of British West Florida, Kathleen S. Murphy

History

As the royal agent for British West Florida and an avid naturalist, John Ellis, FRS, took a keen interest in both the scientific and the commercial potential of the nascent colony. This article explores how Ellis and his West Floridian correspondent Bernard Romans illuminate the social and material practices of colonial science. In particular, it builds on recent scholarship to argue that new natural knowledge about West Florida did not simply circulate in the Atlantic World, but was in fact engendered by the movement of objects and ideas through the many circuits of transatlantic natural history and imperial administration. Foregrounding …

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1328. Letters, written by South Union, Kentucky Shaker leaders, to leaders of the Hancock Shaker Society, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, discussing the building of mills and dam, economic conditions, and religious affairs. The original letters are in the Library of Congress.

A Project To Develop A Documented Appraisal Section Within The Collection Development Policy Of The City Of Boise Department Of Arts And History, Zachary M. Brown

History Graduate Projects and Theses

This project develops a policy and question-based procedure guide for archival appraisal—the decision-making process for what is preserved or conserved, and what is destroyed in an archive—for the City of Boise Department of Arts and History. Due to resource constraints, the department needs a clear appraisal policy as well as a procedure guide that could be used by someone new to appraisal. The project theorizes that in a small institutional setting, lack of space can drive focused collecting goals. Focused collecting goals can help achieve a cohesive and useful collection. Drawing from the ideas of Frank Boles and Julia Marks …