This collection includes approximately .75 cubic feet (in 2 boxes) of Michigan genealogical-related material, mostly photocopies, 1922, 2019, of Donna Hoff-Grambau. Included in the collection are church, cemetery, school, and local information from the Michigan counties of Bay, Isabella, Midland, Missaukee and Saginaw. Also included from Bay County is an incomplete run of the Bay County Genealogical Society’s publication The Clarion, 2004-2012. Many churches and cemeteries are documented in the collection, including several Indian Cemeteries, including photographs of headstones. Information on Bay County hospitals, Michigan Board of Registration of Nurses, and a student paper of Donna’s about the history of hospitals and nursing in Isabella County are also in the collection. A few documents from the Central Michigan Normal School (later Central State Teacher’s College and Central Michigan University), and Mount Pleasant High School, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, are included. Completing the collection are some Michigan Civil War documents (copies), materials on Donna’s family, and some of her own personal notes. The collection is organized alphabetically and by county where applicable.
Processing Note: Per the donor form, the .25 cubic foot of materials withdrawn from the collection were offered to the Isabella County Historical Society. One publication was separately cataloged.
Biography:
Donna Hoff-Grambau is a donor to the Clarke Historical Library. Donna received her Bachelor of Arts in History and Ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan, her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Wayne State University in 1978, and her Master of Science in Community Health Nursing from the University of Michigan in 1989. She was an active participant on MIGenWeb – a Michigan history and genealogical website, to which she added many lists from the Clarke Historical Library’s manuscripts, 1998-2012. Donna is a retired from Nursing and in 2019 lives in Ames, Iowa. She now works as an adjunct professor at American InterContinental University (AIU) online.
(This information is from Donna Hoff-Grambau’s LinkedIn profile, accessed December 2019.)
