Online Family Archive Project

9.5.2006

Artifact Wishlist

• 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.

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