She later moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, after her first marriage dissolved, to write for a local newspaper before returning to Berkeley and pursuing a master's degree in anthropology (1930).
[2] While studying under Alfred Kroeber in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Erminie met and later married her second husband, Carl Voegelin.
[3] Her second marriage was to linguistic anthropologist Charles F. Voegelin,[4] with whom she jointly conducted fieldwork among Native American peoples.
The project was funded by the US Department of Justice and carried out research "to determine the locations and migrations of the indigenous inhabitants of the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley region during the period that Europeans first moved into the area".
Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Erminie Wheeler Voegelin Archive) as the Great Lakes-Ohio Valley Ethnohistory (GLOVE) collection at Indiana University Bloomington.
[2] In the fall of 1985 she gave her Shawnee field notes and remaining professional books and papers to the Newberry Library in Chicago.