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This is a sewing kit Marlene Volkmer's grandmother had. She got married in 1910, and Marlene Volkmer believes the kit was a wedding gift.
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This is everything that remained of what is most possibly a travel agreement Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz made to arrange the moving of their family from the district of Burgdorf in Switzerland to Humboldt, Nebraska in the spring of 1870. They traveled…

This document comes from the family of Bill Dean and bears the name of the second great-grandfather of the family, Gottlieb Schuetz. The date is May 15, 1864, and as it is close to Arnold Schuetz's birth, it might be a certificate that documented the…

This document comes from the Family of Bill Dean Collection and belongs to the generation of Bill Dean's parents. The school report card from 1925-1926 school year illustrates that the form for school reports has largely remained unchanged for the…

This is the front page of the school report card of Emma Sutorius. A granddaughter of Swiss emigrants Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz, Emma was the first child of Dirk and Maria Sutorius. She married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in…

This is a a record of parole of the 15th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment soldier, Samuel L. Roberts, from the Confederate imprisonment. Captured in the second battle of Corinth, Mississippi "on or about 3rd day of October" 1862, the military…

Obtained from a state adjutant-general's office, proof of service record was a major document that gave a soldier a right to claim pension. If preserved, the document gives information about the soldiers name, age, place of birth, and his history in…

This letter sent from the Civil War battlefield in Georgia is the only one left with the granddaughters of Samuel L. Roberts and is a vivid source on the life in the Union Army towards the end of the war. Born in Ohio, but living in Indianola, Iowa…

The Civil War discharge records reveal a treasure of personal information about age, birthplace, appearance, and conduct of the soldier. Samuel L. Roberts was discharged twice, first in 1964 in Vicksburg, Mississippi to reenlist into the 15th Iowa…

The Civil War discharge records reveal a treasure of personal information about age, birthplace, appearance, and conduct of the soldier. Samuel L. Roberts was discharged twice, first in 1964 in Vicksburg, Mississippi to reenlist into the 15th Iowa…