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The collection contains personal materials from all three creators, including school transcripts and diplomas, school papers, baptismal certificates and other documentation of their early family life. However, the most extensive personal materials are the writings of Helen and Amelia and the correspondence of Amelia and her family.

The other major category of materials in the collection is family history. This includes several generations of correspondence of Amelia’s family, especially of her many relatives in Germany who wrote to Amelia’s mother Elizabeth Ellenberger, her Aunt Selma Ellenberger, and to Amelia herself, covering a period of over a century. The family history materials, in addition to these primary source documents, includes extensive genealogical research materials. Published genealogies, primarily collected by Adam, relate to many branches of his ancestors, especially on his maternal, Becker, side. He and Amelia both compiled numerous family charts and histories.

Family history materials, correspondence, school records (his), handwritten music score "Eventide" by Sara Glick, book Elsie Helen Friesen, From the Roots of Jacob Peters (1978) with annotations and inclusions, and Elsie Helen Epp, Episodes of the Prairie Pioneers: Five Branches from the Family Tree of Heinrich Epp (1991) with annotations and inclusions

Consists mostly of financial papers, with some correspondence, school papers, family history papers, Leonhard's passport and naturalization papers.

Includes a wide variety of correspondence, financial, legal, and family history materials. The focus is more on personal and family life rather than professional, except for some documentation related to his work as pastor of various churches.

box 1: 5 folders from Ilona Abrahams of land and financial records and family history records

numerous folders from Esther McDonald about family reunions and published family histories, donated 13 September 1995

box 2: VHS video of 1995 family reunion and accompanying brochure, donated by Melvern Schroeder, September 1997

Contains some financial papers, and a handwritten family register or church record book (both original and photocopy) which covers many Swiss Volhynian families, not just his own family. Not clear whether this is some kind of congregational record book or his own personal compilation.

Genealogical data, financial papers, correspondence, clippings.

Correspondence with family members 1915-1918. English translations of most or all of the letters are included.

box 1: correspondence 1907-1916

box 2: correspondence 1917-1930

box 3: financial records, Vergissmeinnicht book, photos, postcards, greeting cards, wedding invitations, clippings

box 4: school notebook, clippings, correspondence, Uncle Abe Becker papers

box 5: account books

box 6-7: books

box 8: school exercise books, diplomas, grade reports for various family members; Danzig "Predigtentwürfe" book

Correspondence from relatives in Russia and Canada, 1930s.

School souvenir, 1911, Emmethal Dist. 30, Marion County, Kansas

Receipt for sending aid package to Russia, 1933

Box 1-2: correspondence, diaries

box 3: correspondence, books

box 4: funeral guest book, Adolf Ellenberger writings, music books (one handwritten), books (don't know the identity of this Adolf Ellenberger; maybe her father?)

Includes Bethel photo album, correspondence, print ephemera related mostly to the Mennonite deaconess movement and especially to the deaconess hospital at American Falls, Idaho. Also an extensive list of books owned by Franzen. 2012 accrual includes music and poetry for school programs, print ephemera for Marion County schools, other school papers, photos.

box 1: correspondence, diaries, papers related to 1950 trip to Europe
box 2: scrapbook (all text, no pasted-in items)
box 3: mostly papers related to 1950 trip to Europe

academic writings and notes, some kind of Policies and Procedures manual, 1996 retirement tributes
boxes 2-6: Lois Deckert diaries, correspondence, writings 1968-2009

reel-to-reel audio tape of autobiographical account, made in the 1950s; other side of the tape is his 1960 funeral service
audio cassette copies of the reel tape, and typed translation of the autobiographical account