Presentations

Cyrillic_alphabet

Cyrillic_Parish_Records Resources

Tracking_the_Tribe Resources

 

Trumpeters and church choir with Pastor Rutkowski at the Kulczyn meetinghouse, 1928

Genealogy Presentations

“Cyrillic Parish Records_2017,” International German Genealogy Partnership, 2017, International Germanic Genealogy Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 28-30, 2017.

“Tracking the Tribe; or How to get around a wall when you can’t find the door,” International German Genealogy Partnership, 2017 International Germanic Genealogy Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 28-30, 2017.

“DNA and Genealogy: Finding our Footprints in the Past,” Delta Kappa Gamma, Evanston, Illinois, January 23, 2017.

“Flight to a New Heimat: Eastern European Germans 1940-1955,” The Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe, Gatineau, Quebec, August 7-9, 2015.

“A Place by Any Other Name Won’t Merge: Locations in Poland and the Russian Empire,” with Gary Warner, The Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe, Calgary, Alberta, August 24, 2014; Gatineau, Quebec, August 7-9, 2015.

“Tracking the Tribe,” The Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe, Regina, Saskatchewan, August 12, 2012 & Seattle, Washington, August 11, 2013.

“Cyrillic Parish Records: A Guide to Documents,” The Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe, Edmonton, Alberta, August 14, 2010 & Winnipeg, Manitoba, August 13, 2011.

Community History Presentations

“Incorporating Community: Charles & Caro Dawes Choose Evanston,” Evanston History Center, Evanston, Illinois, September 17, 2015.

“Pastor and Prophet: The Voice of Ernest Fremont Tittle,” First United Methodist Church, Evanston, Illinois, September 28, 2008 & May 29, 2016.

“First Church Indeed: The History and Heritage of First United Methodist Church, Evanston,” First United Methodist Church, Evanston, Illinois, 2004-2013 (revised and given upon request).

“Charles G. Dawes: From Private Face to Public Place,” Evanston History Center, Evanston, Illinois, April 6, 1995 and January 31, 2000.

“Service from the Hearth: The Lives of Caro Blymyer Dawes and Helen Palmer Dawes, Evanston History Center,” Evanston, Illinois, November 8, 1995.

“The Dawes Brothers through Progress and Prosperity,” John Evans Club, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, May 21, 1995.

“The Secret Voice: Clandestine Fine Printing in the Netherlands, 1940-1945” at Drew University, Conference on The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation, November 14, 1996.