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Jacob Elmer Clan Archive
Historical Organization Documentation

The third annual gathering on September 17, 1931
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Jakob Elmer Family Genealogy:

This section of the website can be thought of as the electronic version of, in Jacob Elmer Clan family-speak, "The Book." The original book was compiled and updated over the 20th century, with the last updates occurring in 2002. The structure of the book consisted of a Foreward by Otto H. Elmer, a history, the core genealogical family files, which were updated regularly, and finally an ancestor report from the Glarus State Archives in Switzerland (Landesarchiv Glarus) commisioned in 1963.

Notes:

• The spelling of our ancestor's names can vary, for example, while "Jakob" was the original Swiss spelling, it was changed or anglicized to "Jacob" in America.

• The numerical designations of paternal family lines was a convention adopted from the Swiss Archive research. Individuals with an "Nr." (number) designation are Swiss-born ancestors. Those with a "US" assignment are the heads of the various branches here in the United States.

• This is a work in progress ... please check back often.

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• Foreword by Otto H. Elmer (1891-1973)

• Historical

• Family Files

  • Jakob Elmer (Nr. 184)

    • Jakob Elmer (US-1)

      • Wilhelm Elmer (US-3)

      • Ursula Elmer

      • Ernestine Elmer

      • Jakob K. Elmer (US-4)

      • Peter Elmer (US-5)

      • Rudolph Elmer

      • Samuel Elmer (US-6)

        • Autobiographical article from 1979 by Otto H. Elmer, son of Samuel and Elmire. [PDF]

      • Joshua Elmer (US-7)

        • Photographic archive of Joshua Elmer at Washington Rural Heritage [LINK]

      • Daniel Elmer

      • Adolph Daniel Elmer (US-8)

        • Plant Explorer (USDA Site)

        • Biography (National Herbarium Site)

      • Sophia Elmer

    • Peter Elmer (US-2)

• Uebersicht über die Stammtafeln (Overview of the family trees) from the Glarus State Archives commissioned in 1963. This is the ancestry of the Elmer Families in America and the beginning our American family tree.

 

Meeting Minutes:

• Meeting minutes from the first in 1929 through 1941 [PDF]

• Meeting mintues from 1967 to 2002 [PDF]

• Newspaper article about the 9th Annual Elmer Clan Reunion held on Sunday, August 14, 1938. [JPG]

If you have meeting notes from any of the years missing above, we would love to share them here. While you are digging through drawers, photo albums and boxes in the attic, if you find old photos of past gatherings to share, they would fit nicely here.

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