Frequently Used Pages

Online Family Archive Project

9.5.2006

letters
- Schmelzle love letters (originals)
  - scan originals
  - transcribe several favorite letters
- Betty's letter to parents about early life, marriage
  - scan original
  - perhaps transcribe
general documents
- Brock's WWII memoir
  - OCR and provide text
other documents / certificates
photographs
- Betty & Brock's wedding day
- four Brockmeier kids
- at least one photo per generation
- important locations / buildings
recordings (audio and/or video)
- home movies (Carol said she gave some to Bill)
- interview videos / sound recordings (Bill)
- Bill & Dawn wedding sound recording
- audio of Brock playing the organ?
other artifacts
- fiddle (Bill)
- sewing machine (Bill)
- lock from POW camp (Brock)
textiles
- Dawn's quilt by female family members
- Freida's quilts
  - comprehensive catalog
  - close-ups of squares
  - specific scraps identified (pajamas, aprons, etc.)
anecdotes
- how Freida held her cards upside down
- the squirrel on the electric line
- Bill and the lightswitch
- etc.!!!
artwork by family members
- Bill has some older things...
- Carol, Bill, etc.