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St. Joseph Church is often called St. Joe Hill Catholic Church. Several of Ferdinand Benedictines entered from this church: Sisters Francene Ackerman, Dorothy Graf, Mary Mark Graf, Celine Meyers, Salome Wundrak.

This folder contains indexes of both living and deceased sisters from 1867 to present sorted in several ways. See "Finding Aids" for separate sorts.

Random lists of sisters considered unable to vote with Monastery Council Rationale, Ferdinand, 1980 - 2006

This is a publication printed by the Monastery Print Shop, carrying the sisters' birthdays, namesdays (feastdays), and death dates.

These lists came from St. Ferdinand Church. Added to this folder are requests to parishes regarding sisters who became Ferdinand Benedictines.

Formats of listings of community members change with the times. Telephone listings refer to monastery telephone numbers within departments and according to locations. These annual listings began to be provided in the 1980s, and the set is not complete.

Annual lists of the monastery membership from 1867 to the present were compiled in 2008 by the archives staff. Throughout the years the Order of Community lists from which most of the DIRECTORY information was derived, have appeared in different formats.

Sisters have changed their names throughout the community's history. Most of the changes took place after 1960.

Brief history including education ministries, names, statistics, 1867-2002