Author: James L. Meng Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1469197049 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 731
Book Description
James L. Meng is a retired labor relations arbitrator who was born in the mid-American steel town of Granite City, Illinois. His parents were born in Freeburg and Newton, Illinois and were active civic leaders in their community. In his formative years, James met several occasions that comprised a very interesting youth. After graduating from college, he joined the Missouri Air National Guard where he was awarded the Airman’s Medal for Valor. Afterwards he continued his education for a Master degree. He married his lovely wife, Beverly, and had two children and four grandchildren. While cleaning out his basement, he discovered several inherited boxes containing family pictures and documents. Although not a genealogist, which he says with a great deal of pride, he fortunately decided to share his information with others, both the born and unborn. This book is written to reflect the lives and personalities of real people – not just the genealogical statistics of born on date, married on date, had child one, two, three and died on this date. These were real people who realized and conquered a variety of life challenges in Germany and in their newly adopted home in America. As a nation of immigrants, we should not let their contributions be forgotten...
Author: William Sims Bainbridge Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3030010635 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 337
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In the modern era, every family and local community can cultivate its own history, endowing living people with meanings inherited from the people of the past, by means of today’s computer-based information and communication technologies. A new profession is emerging, family historians, serving the wider public by assisting in collection and analysis of fascinating data, by teaching talented amateur historians, and by producing complete narratives. Essential are the skills and technologies required to preserve and connect photos, movies, videos, diaries, memoirs, correspondence, artefacts and even architecture such as homes. Online genealogical services are well established sources of official government records, but usually not for recent decades, and not covering the valuable records of legal, medical, and religious organizations. Information can be shared and interpreted by family members through oral history interviews, social media, and online private archives such as wikis and shared file depositories. This book explores a wide variety of online information sources and achieves coherence by documenting and interpreting the history of a particular extended American family on the basis of 9 decades of movies and videos, 17 decades of photographs, and centuries of documents. Starting now, any family may begin to preserve their current experiences for the historians of the future, but this will require social as well as technical innovations. This book is the essential resource, providing the fundamental principles, effective methods, and fascinating questions required to make our past live again.
Author: Barbara Schmitter Heisler Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476602115 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 213
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Among the many German immigrants to the United States over the years, one group is unusual: former prisoners of war who had spent between one and three years on American soil and who returned voluntarily as immigrants after the war. Drawing on archival sources and in-depth interviews with 35 former prisoners who made the return, the book outlines the conditions that defined their unusual experiences and traces their journeys from captive enemies to American citizens. Although the respondents came from different backgrounds, and arrived in America at different times between 1943 and 1945, their experiences as prisoners of war not only left an indelible impression, they also provided them with opportunities and resources that helped them leave Germany behind and return to the place "where we had the good life."
Author: Lois Ann Mast Publisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore ISBN: Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 60
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This issue contains the following articles and [surnames]: Mast Family European Heritage Tour by Diana Mast White [Mast]; Descendants of Swiss Settlers by Joseph H. Smith; Ancestral Families of Sarah Flohr (1880-1963) Married to Norman Arthur Lind (1881-1968), Part IV: Sell, Shell, Brunner, Nold, Ziegler, Bough, and Crumpbacher by Hope Kauffman Lind [Sell, Shell, Brunner, Nold, Ziegler, Bough, Crumpbacher]; Who Was the Wife of Daniel Flohr (1790-1850)? Addendum to "Ancestral Families of Sarah Flohr (1880-1963) Married to Norman Arthur Lind (1881-1968), Parts I and II by Hope Kauffman Lind [Flohr, Rummel, Sounder]; Anabaptist Records Just Found in German Archives by Friedrich Wollmershauser [Bachmann, Wagner, Krehbuhl, Adam, Handschuh, Detweyler, Hirtzler, Maurer, Schneider, Ruth, Wanner, Rohrer, Habich, Meyer, Reinhard, Krauther, Ambsler, Hackmann, Holl, Wenger, Mast, Hostetter, Landas]; Blessed With Eight Generations - Ancestor Fan Chart of Jennifer Ellen Miller [Miller, Hostetler, Schlabach, Martin]; The Hubers from Hausen, Switzerland, to Pennsylvania by Lois Ann Mast [Huber]; Departure Ports of Our Ancestors: Rotterdam by Lois Ann Mast; Children of Bishop Jacob Mast and Magdalena Hooley: David Mast (1770-1849)—Blouse Davy, Innkeeper by Dot (Mast) Moss [Mast, Kurtz]; Four Marriages Between the Bartel, Epp, Franz, Isaac, and Wall Families by Thomas B. Mierau [Bartel, Epp, Isaac, Franz, Wall]; The Groningen Old Flemish Society of Mennonites in Poland, Prussia, and Russia by John D. Richert with contributions from Rodney D. Ratzlaff [Ratzlaff, Wedel, Schmidt, Unruh, Richert, Jantz, Sparling, Voth, Pankratz, Harms, Dirks].
Author: Loretto Dennis Szucs Publisher: Ancestry Publishing ISBN: 9780916489953 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 60
Book Description
Beneath the shadow of the Statue of Liberty stands Ellis Island, threshold of liberty for more than 16 million immigrants. For them and countless others whose parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents began a new American life there, Ellis Island is the symbolic shrine to freedom and opportunity. Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family History Through America's Gateway gives a family history approach to this famous monument's history. With morethan 30 images, it includes an overview of the history of immigration, a description of the process each immigrant endured at Ellis Island, and basic instruction on how to find out if an ancestor came through Ellis Island.
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