Thomas Edlund

Professor, East European Local and Family History
Senior Librarian, Germanic/Slavic Languages and Literatures
Office: 6729 HBLL
Phone number: (801) 422-6732

Schooling

University of Utah, BA Classics
Presidio of Monterey, MA Russian
Brigham Young University, Master of Library and Information Science
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Political Science

Area of Specialty

Eastern Europe

Languages

German
Greek
Latin
Nahuatl
Russian
Serbo-Croatian
Swedish

Published Materials

Family History Monographs

The Lutherans of Russia. St. Paul: Germanic Genealogy Society, 1994.
Die Ahnenstammkartei des Deutschen Volkes. Germanic Genealogy Society, 1995.
The German minority Census of 1939: Avotaynu, 1996.

Family History Journal Articles

“The Russian National Census of 1897." Ayotaynu 16(3) (Fall 2000), 29-39.
“The 1st National Census of the Russian Empire.” FEEFHS Journal 9(3-4) (Fall/Winter 1999), 88-97.
“A Beginner’s Guide to Croatian Research.” FEEFHS Quarterly 9(1-2) (Spring/Summer 1999), 7-37.
“LDS East European Microfilming Summary: 1994-1998." East European Genealogist 8(1) (Fall 1999), 17-22.
“LDS Microfilming in Eastern Europe.” East European Genealogist 7(2) (Winter 1998), 6-12.
“Origins of the Russian Lutheran Church.” Heritage Review 26(4) (December 1996), 37-41.
“The 1939 Census of the Jews of Germany.” Avotaynu 12(2) (Summer 1996), 31.

Reviews

Review of M. S. Kupovetsky, E. M. Savitsky and Marek Web (eds.). Dokumenty po istorii i kulture evreev v arkhivakh Belarusi: Putevoditel. Moskva: Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi gumanitapnyi universitet [RGGU], 2003. 607 p. Indexed. ISBN 572810567X. In Avotaynu 20 (4) (Winter 2004)
Review of Lisa A. Alzo, Three Slovak Women. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2004. 115 p. ISBN 0971063702. In FEEFHS Journal 13 (2005)

Editorial Works

Editor, FEEFHS Journal [Federation of East European Family History Societies], 1998-2007
Editor, H. Curtis Wright, Modern Presentism and Ancient Metallic Epigraphy. Salt Lake City: Wings of Fire Press, 2006. 345 p. ISBN 1879222078

Family History Courses Taught

Hist 416 - Slavic Family History
Hist 420 - Latin Paleography
Hist 423 - Slavic Paleography
Hist 496R - Academic Internship: Family History