Family history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 178 Collections and/or Records:
Cecil Beeson collection
Collection
Identifier: L566
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed, autographed and photocopied documents from various people, government and private organizations collected by local genealogist and historian Cecil Beeson in Blackford County, Indiana, ranging from 1838 to 1972 regarding family histories, biographies, U.S. Civil War documents, church histories and governmental records.There is an oversize document, "The Early History of the First Baptist Church of Montpelier, Indiana" by Rev. C. H. Kendall, circa 1908...
Dates:
1839-1972, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Cecil Beeson collection
Charles N. Thompson papers
Collection
Identifier: L157
Scope and Contents
This collection contains material that Charles N. Thompson collected while researching his wife's family history and includes news clippings, photostat copies and typed abstracts of newspaper articles regarding the Conner and Finch families (1820-1944); photostats of Indiana Acts and United States Senate reports regarding political and legal activities of John and William Conner (1820-1829); letters written by James Garner Finch of Lawrence, Kansas to his "Dear Cousin" (1892-1896); and...
Dates:
1820-1944
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Charles N. Thompson papers
Charles W. Coffin collection
Collection — Folder S274
Identifier: S0274
Scope and Contents
The oldest item is a letter written on one folded paper making four pages. Mr. A. Cochel wrote the letter in ink on May 26, 1851, from Diamond Springs, California, to Mrs. C. W. Coffin, to tell her about the death of her husband on May 25. He wrote: "10 days ago, he complained of a griping in his bowels but did not think of anything dangerous until the 2nd day he commenced discharging blood and his bowels very sore and painful at which time he left camp and went to town which is 1/2 or 3/4th of...
Dates:
1851, 1964, 1966
Chase family photograph collection
Collection — Folder SP005
Identifier: SP005
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs of Roswell Loomis Chase, Ira J. Chase, and other members of the Chase family in New York and Indiana ranging from circa 1850 to the 1890s.
Dates:
circa 1850-circa 1890
Clara Masteller papers
Collection
Identifier: L103
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters from Clara Schroeder Masteller and authors in the United States and in Germany; photographs; greeting cards and postcards; newspaper clippings ranging from 1903 to 1957 regarding family history.
Dates:
1903-1957; undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Clara Masteller papers
Comstock family papers
Collection
Identifier: L236
Scope and Contents
This collection includes deeds and other legal papers; family histories, photographs; greeting cards; notebooks and letters from Comstock, Beers and Hartwell family members in Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri ranging from circa 1840 to 1961 regarding legal and family business.
Dates:
circa 1840-1961
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Comstock family papers
Cornelius family collection
Collection
Identifier: L485
Scope and Contents
This collection includes family documents, newspaper clippings, sheet music and songbooks of the Cornelius family of Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1884 to the 2009. The collection contains genealogical documents of the Cornelius family and correspondence, manuscripts, and paste up items regarding the unpublished book "The Cornelius Story: Four Generations of Printers." The collection also includes promotional cards, recital programs, travel guides, and other documents of Melissa Jane...
Dates:
1884-2009
Cornelius Mayer papers
Collection
Identifier: L402
Scope and Contents
This collection includes letters, official and legal documents, photographs and family papers, articles about Cornelius Mayer, and other materials belonging to Mayer ranging from 1628 to 1944 regarding Cornelius Mayer's family, his life and work, including drawing, and family business. There is also heraldic information, complete issues of the publication, Gewerbehalle, a German decorative arts periodical, a German rifle care manual, and a confectioners' recipe...
Dates:
1628-1944
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Cornelius Mayer papers
Culbertson family collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: G-109
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises primarily photocopies of geneological research notes, photographs, and newspaper clippings from Jean Spigler ranging from 1790 to 2001 regarding family tree members, pertaining to the Batt, Campbell, Culbertson, Kirby, McPheeters, and Spigler families.
Dates:
1790-2001
Found in:
Genealogy
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Culbertson family collection
Curtis family history
Collection — Folder S3109
Identifier: S3109
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a typescript family history entitled "Curtis Family History." The history begins in the year 1763 with Lottie Relander's great-great grandfather, who lived in Virginia in the early 1770s, and concludes with the 1870 marriage of Mary Gregg, Lottie Relander's mother, to Charles Relander, an immigrant from Sweden living in Danville, Indiana. Prominent family names mentioned in the history are Curtis, Sanders, Kirkendall, Reed, Ross, King, Stapp, and Relander. The family...
Dates:
1949
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Curtis family history
