Family history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 187 Collections and/or Records:
Pearl Lloyd papers
Collection
Identifier: L092
Scope and Contents
This collection includes school compositions, financial documents, autographed and typed correspondence, newspaper clippings, greeting cards and sympathy cards, business advertisements, certificates of completion, and school event programs from Pearl Lloyd and others in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, New York and elsewhere ranging from 1869 to 1956, regarding teachers, education, family matters, and financial matters.
Dates:
1869-1956; undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Pearl Lloyd papers
Pering and Carter families collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1052
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Alfred Pering's correspondence with his fiancée, Eda Carter, while he was in Salem and she was in Bloomington (1852-1953); his letters while he was traveling to Louisville, Philadelphia, and Atlantic City (1869); land documents of the Pering and Carter families in Monroe and Washington counties (1821-ca. 1900); newspaper clippings (1829-1920); other family and business letters; and transcripts of letters written by Pering’s father, Cornelius Pering, from Bloomington to...
Dates:
1821-1920
Philpott and Ludlow family papers
Collection — Folder S0858
Identifier: S0858
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three documents regarding a dispute over 1,016 pounds of crop tobacco between Elizabeth Philpott and Hugh Mitchell from Charles County, Maryland (1752-1754); a settlement document for the closing of Ross Smiley's business (May 29, 1820); a letter sent to John Philpott of Fayette County, Indiana from Richard A. Buckner of Greensburg, Kentucky inquiring if Philpott would like him to represent him in determining if he's entitled to part of the proceeds from an estate of a...
Dates:
1752-1909
Pippenger and Pittenger family collection
Collection
Identifier: L562
Scope and Contents
Collection contains genealogical material relating to Wesley E. Pippenger’s research papers and correspondence of the Pippenger and Pittenger families of New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri. The material covers family of Richard Pittenger (circa 1642-1715) including family trees, maps, letters, notes by family researchers, copies of articles and books relating to the family, copies of wills and historical documents and records, family group sheets, family histories, and other papers...
Dates:
1640-1995
Pitzer family history
Collection — Folder S1139
Identifier: S1139
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photocopy of a three-page biography from Mrs. William E. Schoefield ranging from 1771 to 1896 regarding the the Joseph Baker Pitzer family history.
Dates:
1771-1896
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Pitzer family history
Pleasant Carney papers
Collection — Folder S226
Identifier: S0226
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photocopy of an autographed, signed copybook from Pleasant Carney ranging from 1813 to 1820 regarding arithmetic and family matters.
Dates:
1815-1820
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Pleasant Carney papers
Robert M. Taylor, Jr. collection
Collection
Identifier: L469
Scope and Contents
The collection contains personal correspondence of various family members, receipts related to properties the Y.W.C.A. owned and operated; a genealogical sketch of the Taylor family’s history, minutes of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society meetings, various broadsides, a single poll book from 1930 that lists voters and their political affiliation, and papers and scrapbooks of the Indianapolis branch of the Y.W.C.A.
Dates:
1868-1971
Roberta West Nicholson collection
Collection
Identifier: L320
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, advertisements, and genealogical materials from Roberta West Nicholson, Meredith Nicholson, Meredith Nicholson, Jr., Eugenie Nicholson Fox, Meredith Nicholson III, Kurt Pantzer, and May Louise Shipp in South America, Indiana, North Carolina, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan ranging from 1861 to 1957 regarding political speeches, family correspondence, investments, advertisements, poems, family photographs, an 1861...
Dates:
1861-1957
Roberts Settlement collection
Collection
Identifier: L176
Scope and Contents
This collection is a photostat copy of the Library of Congress collection of the same name (MMC-1624). The collection includes correspondence, indentures, free papers, business and tax receipts, deeds, family records, newspaper clippings, genealogical and other papers. The collection also includes military records relating to the Civil War and an 1832 contract to build the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in Indiana.
Dates:
1734-1944
Rollinson family reminiscences
Collection — Folder S2208
Identifier: S2208
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typewritten copies of "From Indiana to Arkansas by Flatboat, 1873 by Charles Perry Rollison and Party," a reminiscence by Thaddeus W. Rollison and dated March 19, 1937, and "Flatboat Trip from Indiana to Arkansas of William A. Rollison and Party Sunday, June 1, 1873," James Davis Rollison's recollections of his trip written down in the fall of 1906. Along with some family biographical information, the two reminiscences contain descriptions of the flatboats and how they...
Dates:
1906-1937
