The Lake County Public Library has digitized all the yearbooks of Munster High School from it’s inception up until 2015. These yearbook images they have placed online for everyone at Internet Archive. To facilitate your access we have provided links to the individual yearbooks below, by year published, oldest to newest. All 50 of these yearbooks, can be read, and/or downloaded from the following links for free!
“An Australian Clan: The Nivisions of New England” by Jillian Oppenheimer and Bruce Mitchell chronicles the lives of Abraham and Mary Nivison, a Scottish couple who immigrated to Australia in the late 1830s. The book explores their establishment of a pastoral legacy in the New England region of New South Wales, detailing the family’s adaptations and contributions through 150 years marked by agricultural challenges, economic shifts, and social transformations. This narrative provides insight into the enduring impact of one family’s journey and their continuous influence on Australian pastoral practices and regional history.
Free: The Descendants of Meredith Edwards of Westmoreland County, Virginia. Download the full manuscript. A genealogical study of the Edwards family of Westmoreland, King George, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Prince William, Loudoun and Fauquier Counties, Virginia between 1665 and 1800. Traces the descent from Meredith Edwards of Westmoreland County (c.1655-1712) through his sons John, William and Thomas Edwards. Many later generations migrated to Kentucky.
We begin our story in the year 1854 when the United States Congress organized the Nebraska Territory. Four years later, a law was passed defining the boundaries of its counties and locating their county seats. Merrick County now had a name and a county seat — Elvira. To the present day no one knows the exact location of Elvira, but many pioneers believed it was located two miles southeast of Clarks. The county received its name from the wife of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Her maiden name was Elvira Merrick. The volume “History of Nebraska” tells us … Read more
Ethyl M. Steele Thompson’s purpose in penning this manuscript was to list by family all descendants of John Steele, who came from Scotland to Canada to reside until his death, in 1899, in Asphodel Township, Peterborough County, Province of Ontario, Canada. The genealogy begins with Robert Steel, who, with his wife and family, emigrated from Scotland to Canada. This manuscript is unsourced, and large portions may come from the personal knowledge of it’s author, especially those contemporaneous with it’s publication.
This scrapbook created by the Trullinger family of Clatsop County, Oregon contains clippings of various articles found in the local newspapers, letters, book articles, and other curiosities which intrigued the compiler at the time. Interspersed throughout are handwritten notes. The scrapbook commences on 22 May 1897 and ends on 24 January 1899 with a final handwritten note. The Clatsop Historical Society which has published this online does not state the creator and writer of the scrapbook, only that it was donated to them by the Trullinger family of Clatsop County, Oregon. Notes About the Document Scrapbook with hardback maroon covers. … Read more
The earliest Pollak ancestor she mentions is Eduard Pollak (1817-7 Aug 1888). His wife was Katharina Ratzersdorfer (1819-8 Apr 1891). The record of his death describes him as a business manager from Pressburg, Hungary. Sometime before 1848, Eduard and Katharina moved to Vienna, where they had five children: Moritz, Wilhelm, Ignaz, Heinrich, and Flora. This self published manuscript takes the talented family of Eduard and Katharina down to present day.
“Southern Kith and Kin: A Record of My Children’s Ancestors” is a comprehensive four-volume genealogical record compiled by Jewel Davis Scarborough, first published in 1951. This detailed work traces the lineage and historical narratives of several families from the colonial period through the early 20th century, focusing particularly on their roles in American history and migration patterns.
The pioneers who contemplated permanent settlement were sometimes squatters on the soil for several years before a title to their claim could be secured, as old letters relating to such transactions, now at hand, clearly prove. When the newcomer “pitched” upon a lot some distance from the cabins of those who had preceded him in settlement, a rude puncheon-and-bark camp was built. The woodman felled a goodly number of straight spruces, or chestnut trees, and cut them into sections, some eight feet in length. These were split into halves and set in a narrow trench, two feet in depth, excavated … Read more
An Account of the Captivity of Hugh Gibson among The Delaware Indians of the Big Beaver and the Muskingum, from the latter part of July 1756, to the beginning of April, 1759. To the Rev. Ahiel Holmes, D.D., LL.D., CorrespondingSecretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Vicinity of Pittsburg, 11th February, 1834. Rev. and Dear Sir, Very numerous were the instances of alarm, terror, captivity, extreme suffering, and murder in its most appalling forms, among the early settlers of the interior parts of Pennsylvania; of which, however, little is at present known, except from vague and obscure tradition. Full accounts of … Read more
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