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Family history

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 187 Collections and/or Records:

Nell Reeser collection

 Collection — Folder S1736
Identifier: S1737
Scope and Contents This collection includes a typed, hand corrected document from Nell Reeser about 1893/03/28 regarding her half-brother's birthday and life of the time.
Dates: 1965/03/28

Nelson family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2600
Scope and Contents This collection contains genealogical records and correspondence for the Nelson family of Jennings and Jefferson Counties in Indiana. Most of the records are listings of marriages, births, and deaths of various members of the Nelson family and their children.Item Listing:1757-1800 - Family record of Moses Nelson1757-1868 - Births and deaths record1757-1878 - Births and deaths record1803-1863 - Family records of Daniel H. Nelson and...
Dates: 1857-circa 1960

Netta Pratt letters

 Collection — Folder S1076
Identifier: S1076
Scope and Contents This collection includes four handwritten letters from Netta Pratt to Mary P. (Long) Frison in Rockville, Indiana, ranging from 1960 to 1965 regarding history of the Hollandsburg Baptist Church, and information about the people connected to it. There is also a clipping from an envelope indicating Netta's home address with notes on her maiden and married names, and date of death. The surnames mentioned in the letters include Shawley, Ball, Stout, Swain, Thomas, Spencer, Porter, Baker, Asbury,...
Dates: 1960-1965

New Richmond Historical Society collection

 Collection
Identifier: L483
Scope and Contents This collection includes family histories, notes, and newspaper clippings regarding the Kincaid, Riker/Ryker, Oppy, McFall, Meharry, Hiett, Hayworth, Grubb, Hanawalt, and Kirkpatrick families from New Richmond, Montgomery County, Indiana.
Dates: undated

Nichols family genealogy

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S3302
Scope and Contents This collection contains the genealogy papers of members of the Nichols family, including correspondence with The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy Papers and Descendants of First Families organizations regarding publication of genealogical information of the family.
Dates: 1924-1977

Noah Davis collection

 Collection — Folder S0341
Identifier: S0340
Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopies of letters, articles, and photographs from the Davis family in Indiana ranging from 1851 to 1972 regarding famly life and business and the U.S. Civil War. There are also genealogical charts prepared by Julia Helen Davis Smith on October 31, 1972. Subjects of the photographs are family reunions and a G.A.R. convention. The articles contain information about medicines, women, temperance meetings, and a washing machine.
Dates: 1851-1972

Noah Noble collection

 Collection
Identifier: L118
Scope and Contents The collection contains Noah Noble's personal and political correspondence regarding state and national Whig politics, as well as his campaign for governor of Indiana. Included are letters relating to the Internal Improvement Board, its projects, and correspondence pertaining to the state's debts arisen from such projects.Correspondents include John Badollet, Samuel Bigger, Michael G. Bright, David Burr, Henry Clay, John Wesley Davis, John Dowling, George H. Dunn, Paris C. Dunning,...
Dates: 1816-1900s

Norma Marie Mueller collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: OBC149
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs and certificates for Norma Marie Mueller and her parents ranging from 1882 to 1938.
Dates: 1882-1938

Pabody family papers

 Collection — Folder S1012
Identifier: S1012
Scope and Contents This collection contains letters, poems, memoirs and funeral address of the Pabody family. It contains two original letters from Rep. William Graham of the twenty-fifth Congress to Ezra F. Pabody. The other letters are copies of the originals.Folder 1. Correspondence and papers, 1822-1877.1822 Feb. 5 Avery, Dr. N. to Ezra F. Pabody, TL 1823 Oct. 30 Avery, Dr. N. to Ezra F. Pabody, TL 1826-1862 Commissions Issued to Ezra F. Pabody, TL 1829 Dec. 14 Pabody, Ezra F. to...
Dates: 1822-1935

Paul Dresser and Theodore Dreiser collection

 Collection — Folder S0381
Identifier: S0381
Scope and Contents The oldest item is the Old Mill time book, which Johann Paul Dreiser, Sr., manager of the Sullivan Woolen Mills, kept from March 1895 to 1901. A. R. Markle wrote a 9-page, typed article entitled “Paul Dresser‟s Birthplace.” There are several newspaper articles, which have been photocopied, about the family. A two-page article from The Rendells, Inc., entitled “Dreiser Answers Legal Objections to the Highly Controversial Text of His America Is Worth Saving‟ reports that he wrote the book in 1940...
Dates: 1895-1949