This past Saturday, I presented four sessions virtually for the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society Spring Conference. It was a great day for me, and the audience was wonderfully involved. The organizers ran it well and I thank them for the invitation. They asked for some additional information and some repeats of what appeared in my PowerPoints in addition to the handout. 

1. First morning presentation: U.S. Federal Government: Underutilized Research Resources

     A few Record Groups:

• Census RG 29
• Pension records RG 15
• Bureau of Indian Affairs RG 75
• Bureau of Land Management RG 49
• Department of the Interior RG 48
• USCIS RG 566
  
  
• Naval History and Heritage Command: https://www.history.navy.mil/

Military Headstone Articles:

Claire Prechtel-Kluskens. Headstone Records for US Military Veterans. Part I: Headstone Design NGS Magazine 39 #1 (January-March 2013): 30- 33. FHL 973 D25ngs

Claire Prechtel-Kluskens. Headstone Records for US Military Veterans. Part II: Records for Headstones Requested from 1879 to 1925.” NGS Magazine 39 #2 (April-June 2013): 32-35. FHL 973 D25ngs

Clair Prechtel-Kluskens. Records of Burial Flags for Veterans.” NGS Magazine 42 #4 (October-December 2016): 39-42. FHL 973 D25ngs

John P. Deeben. Last Rites for the Honored Dead: Records of Military Burials in National Cemeteries. NGS Magazine (January-March 2011): 15-18. FHL 973 D25ngs

2. Links following our discussion on identifying buildings and places in old photos:

• https://www.cyndislist.com/photos/
  • for identifying, dating, etc.
• https://www.cyndislist.com/facebook/
  • Cyndi says she is still adding links to Facebook pages that have genealogy and history discussions.
     

3. Additional citations to some of the items mentioned in the German organizations and periodicals presentations:

• Hofmann, Annette R. “Lady ‘Turners’ in the United States: German American Identity, Gender Concerns, and ‘Turnerism.’” Journal of Sport History 27, no. 3 (2000): 383–404.
• Lorh, Rev. L.L. “The Germans in North Carolina West of the Catawba. The Pennsylvania German, v XII, #4, April 1911, page 206.
• Nolan, J. Bennett. “John Conrad Weiser The Elder, A Forgotten Pioneer.” The American-German Review, 7, no 3 (1936): 42-45.
• Roberts, Warren E. German American Log Buildings of Dubois County, Indiana. Winterthur Portfolio. V. 21, # 4 (Winter, 1986): 265-274; (Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum).
• Schede, Simone. “Gone, but Not Forgotten”—But Almost: The German Heritage of Arkansas.” Amerikastudien / American Studies 44, no. 4 (1999): 477-96.
• Wayland, John Walter. “The Germans of the Valley (Concluded).” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 10, no. 2 (1902): 113-30.
  

Lastly: The German Relief Society of Mobile, Alabama, articles in the Deep South Quarterly 49, no. 3 (2012): 121-125. The records are at the University of South Alabama.

I think we all tend to get a specific pronunciation in our brain and can’t unlearn it. One place is Mower County, Minnesota. This is a county that confuses many people as they try to pronounce the name. I was taught it was closer to Mow – er as in mow the lawn and not like Mauer. I found an interesting article today https://www.austindailyherald.com/2017/06/whats-in-a-name-sometimes-a-surprise/ that says locals say it more like Moore which is close to Mower than Mower. 

I could list other towns but instead will go back to working on handouts for an upcoming conference.