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The author's great-grandmother Jane Armour emigrated to the United States at age 17 in 1873 and married John William McGillivray, an upstate New York farmer of Scottish descent, in 1875. A daughter of this union, Susie, married French Canadian immigrant George Edward Beaudoin in 1909. Their son Alburn, one of six children, is the author's father.

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Came to the United States from Amsterdam in 1928; began working for $15 a week as a janitor and gradually developed his own profitable business in real estate.

Scope and Contents Family history of the author's husband, Kimon (Kim) Drossulis. Grandfather Demetrios Vavarasous at age 14 left the island of Skopelos, Greece, was renamed Jim Davis at Ellis Island, settled in Greenwood, MS with fellow immigrants. Grandmother Nota Anetopolous emigrated from the same part of Greece, and through family connections met and married Jim in Mississippi. Eventually some members of the family moved to Utah. Kim Drossulis largely raised by his grandmother Nota Davis (d. 1972) in Salt...

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Left Greece in 1954; Greek customs and traditions; Greek community in Utah.

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Immigrated from Europe in early 1900s; new life in America.

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Born in Ranipet, India; left India in 1960 to further his education.

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Retaining Swedish traditions and customs.

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Experiences working as a doctor in the mining camps of Price, Utah.

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A history of the Protestant church in Utah and its membership statistics as of 1979.

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Born in 1893 in Youngsville, Illinois; German and Danish descent; recollections of Utah in the early 1900s

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A history of John and Elizabeth Caufield who left Ireland in the late 1800s; he worked in Kennecott Copper mines.

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German customs and traditions that have been kept alive in Utah by German families.

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The interviewee wished to remain anonymous. He was born in Delft, Holland in 1901 and came to the United States in the mid-1900s.

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Sorenson conducted a survey among students in his shop classes to find out how much they knew about their ancestors, and whether ethnic customs and traditions still existed in their families. Included are the completed questionnaires and a paper summarizing the data.

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Houk interviewed several Gosiute Indians at the Skull Valley Reservation about Gosiute history and customs, and problems the tribe currently faces.