An immersive digital history project that utilizes scrollytelling and archival content to chronicle the transformation of the historic Indianapolis landmark from a Victorian-era schoolhouse into a modern creative agency headquarters.
The Clemens Vonnegut School No. 9 website project is an interactive digital history experience dedicated to the historic landmark located at 407 Fulton Avenue in Indianapolis. The site chronicles the building's fascinating evolution from a Victorian-era public school to its modern function as a creative agency headquarters.
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Laurien Family Research
An ongoing personal genealogy project documenting the Laurien family, a small family line rooted in what is now northeastern Poland — a region that once fell within the territory of East Prussia.
The Laurien line traces back to a small village in northeastern Poland, in the territory once known as East Prussia near Königsberg, with records extending to at least 1830. Between 1888 and 1890, three Laurien siblings emigrated to Buffalo, New York, where my great-great-grandfather Ferdinand, a tailor, met Anna, a German immigrant seamstress, at a community dance. They married, raised seven children, and eventually settled in Winona Lake, Indiana, where the family became deeply woven into early American evangelical culture — close friends with evangelist Billy Sunday's family, and gospel musician and music publisher Homer Rodeheaver.
What started as a personal research project has grown into something more. Drawing on international archives, church and parish records, census data, immigration documents, and DNA research, this is now an evolving public project — one that aims to bring a small but fascinating family history out of the margins and into the light.
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Family Archive Project
A digital repository of digitized family history documents, photos, and digital details of special artifacts. Gemini AI works in the background to automatically transcribe text in documents and describe images.
A family archiving web app where invited users — my family — can upload, organize, and annotate photos, documents, and recipes with rich metadata—linking items to people, events, and citation sources. It currently uses Firebase as its database and integrates Google Gemini AI for document transcription.
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