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Family Stories
by Podcasting History
Revisiting the past keeps our ancestors alive. Created by Podcasting History at St. Olaf College.
Episodes
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Thorvald's Story
Revisiting the past keeps our ancestors alive. I’m Liam Kirby, and this is one of my Family Stories. Transcript and sources
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Tarnished Through Time
Revisiting the past keeps our ancestors alive. I’m KC Olson, and this is one of my Family Stories. Transcript and sources
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A Knife, A Pistol, A Certificate
I never met my great grandfather. His friends called him Nellie. He died on my third birthday, when he was 82 years old. To be honest, the first time I heard anything about Nellie was when my dad showed me a bunch of his belongings. Among the things he showed me was a knife, inscribed “Nellie” on...
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Legacy in Flames: The Walker Hotel Fire
A picture is worth a thousand words but what can these words tell us? Perhaps they can tell us the story of something grand, or maybe something of a tragedy? That is the case with the photo I have here with me. A visual representation of a story in which a building went up in flames. A single,...
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Grandpa Otto
Every family has a story, but not everyone’s gets told. Welcome to the Family Stories podcast–I am Caitlyn Pelikan. Bibliography Becker, Anne, and Detlef Mühlberger. Analyzing the sociography of the membership of the Schutzstaffel [SS] in SS-Oberabschnitt Rhein using Access II. History and...
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Three Ringed Black Binder
We all have things we have forgotten about or don’t know we own in our homes. Papers, books, pictures, all forgotten on shelves or in closets. When I was eighteen, I found a black binder tucked in next to cooking and children’s books, inside my mom’s cluttered, almost to the point of hoarder...
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John von Bergen: Mennonite Soldier…?
Russia. War. Mennonites? Every family has a story, but not everyone’s gets told. Welcome to the Family Stories podcast. I’m Claire Preheim and let me tell you about one of mine. This episode features my great-grandfather's time in World War I Russia. Today we’ll be diving into the world of...
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Burnt Toast: A Family History
Burnt toast. Burnt toast was always one of my mother’s favorite snacks. I never understood the reasoning behind making a perfectly good piece of bread taste like charcoal, but it turns out, that it all tracks all the way back to 1875 in Wassersuppen, Bohemia to a boy named Franz Zeig, my great...
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Charles Messinger: Immigrant, Socialist, and Bootlegger
My great aunt Ruth’s central memory of her grandfather (my great-great-grandfather) is that when he lived with her family, he really liked to make a dried fruit concoction. He loved it, but she thought it was disgusting. This was the main thing she knew about him, until she began researching him...
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The Train Wreck
When I was young, my sisters and I would spend afternoons at the home of my maternal grandma Elaine - affectionately known to us as “Maga” - while we waited for our Mom to pick us up after school. Sometimes, Maga would tell us a story that had caught my attention early on: the story of her own...
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Revisiting the past keeps our ancestors alive. Created by Podcasting History at St. Olaf College.
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Revisiting the past keeps our ancestors alive. Created by Podcasting History at St. Olaf College.
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