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| Only photo of Ida (Rajala) Acey and her son Richard
Many of lost ancestors in the Influenza epidemic of 1918! My great grandmother (Ida Rajala) was one of those lost and at a young age. She had only been in the
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| The Funeral Record for Ida (Rajala) Acey
Now, we can
learn more about this horrible epidemic via The
American Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919: A Digital Encyclopedia, an open
access digital collection of archival, primary, and interpretive materials
related to the history of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic in the United States
created by The University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine, in
partnership with the U-M Library’s MPublishing division.
The collection, contains
more than 16,000 digitized documents—correspondence, minutes of organization
and group meetings, reports from agencies and charities, newspaper accounts,
military records, diaries, photographs, and more—along with interpretive
materials contributed by scholars of history and public health.
If you too
lost ancestors to this influenza epidemic, please share their stories with us.
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