Family history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 196 Collections and/or Records:
Walker family collection
Collection
Identifier: L369
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, various documents, photographs, and memorabilia from the Walker family of New Albany, Indiana. The collection contains Francis Walker's Clermont (Ohio) Academy writings; his and his wife Mary's family correspondence (1851-1913); his correspondence from other Methodist ministers and DePauw University officials (1860s-1910); his and Mary's writings (1848-1901); and some letters and documents of his father, James Walker (1820-1837). The bulk of...
Dates:
1820-1988, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Walker family collection
Washington County Historical Society collection
Collection
Identifier: L194
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of letters; typed documents, including newspaper clippings; financial and legal documents; official township records; meeting minutes; speeches; and writings from Alice and Albert Williams and others in Salem, Indiana and Washington County, Indiana and elsewhere, in the care of the Washington County Historical Society, ranging from 1818 to 1967 regarding financial and legal business, family histories and reminiscences, items from newspapers, and speeches and...
Dates:
1818-1967, undated
Watson N. Clark diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2214
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of Watson N. Clark's diaries and other writings that range from 1870 to 1890. The diaries cover the years 1870-1872, 1881, 1885-1887, and 1889 and consist primarily of the daily life of Clark, his family, and his neighbors. Clark also used pocket diaries to record his family history, his involvement with the Christian faith, and as a "book of reference" to record items that he thought were interesting about religious topics.
Dates:
1870-1890
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Watson N. Clark diaries
Wiebke and Ray family collection
Collection
Identifier: G-125
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings, and a family chart from Charles Robert Hatley in Indiana, ranging from 1870 to 1968 regarding the Wiebke, Ray, and other allied families.
Dates:
Other: circa 1870-1968
Found in:
Genealogy
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Wiebke and Ray family collection
William Deputy collection
Collection — Folder S0356
Identifier: S0356
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed copies of reminiscences from William Deputy (1879-1885), genealogical information about the Deputy family from Morenci Robertson Wells (1939), and a history of Jennings County by Alice Bundy (1936) in Indiana, ranging from 1879 to 1939 regarding the Deputy family, Jennings County, and life in early Indiana.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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William Deputy collection
William E. Robertson collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1126
Scope and Contents
This collection has been separated into three folders, all of which contain photocopies. The first folder has the pages from William E. Robertson's account book from 1884 through 1915. The first page states: "Acct. Book of W. E. Robertson who made bricks, grandfather of M. C. Carter." Following the six pages of A to Z entries, there are pages 13 through 195 which list dates, names, work done, and cost.Folder 2 has deeds from 1835 and 1837, lists of settlers with their dates of...
Dates:
1829-1915
William F. Dean and Lillie Brooke marriage license
Collection — Folder B050
Identifier: B050
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the marriage license of William F. Dean and Lillie Brooke dated April 22, 1893 in Clay County, Indiana.
Dates:
1893/04/22
Wilson family photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P005
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs, a guide, clippings, and 1 videocassette tape from Lucile W. Wilson and the Wilson family in Indiana ranging from circa 1850s to 1995 regarding family life.
Dates:
circa 1850s-1995
Wines and Hoffman family papers
Collection — Folder S1456
Identifier: S1456
Scope and Contents
This collection contains type written copies of correspondence of the Wines and Hoffman
families. There is also genealogical information for the ancestors of Charles James Hoffman.
Dates:
1831-1928
Winfield Taylor Durbin collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0393
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an enlistment certificate, correspondence, a family history, and a biography from Winfield Taylor Durbin in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1899 to 1954.The oldest document in this collection is an 1899 certificate regarding the enlistment of Winfield T. Durbin as colonel of the 161st Indiana Volunteer Regiment on June 18, 1898 to serve for two years during the war. On April 11, 1903, Governor Durbin wrote to a colonel about the dedication of...
Dates:
1899-1954
