Family history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 196 Collections and/or Records:
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
D. W. Welty collection
Collection — Folder S1384
Identifier: S1383
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of hand-written letters and lists of members of the Welde, Welty, and Bowstead families ranging from 1889 to 1890, concerning detailed genealogical information with family names, dates, and places. There is also an invitation to the wedding of Olive M. Wilhite to Hugh S. Hadley on October 26, 1890 in Lake Valley, Indiana.
Dates:
1889-1890
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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D. W. Welty collection
David Barr Robb collection
Collection — Folder S1121
Identifier: S1121
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photostats and typed pages which include family charts, a page from the family Bible, an 1830 speech about Mr. Robb given by Eliza Brownlee, undated genealogical information, and biographical information about David Robb and Joseph Eckley.David's father, Captain James Robb, was a merchant in Ireland but was arrested and sent to prison for transporting sassafras, during the tea crisis with the colonies. James escaped and came to America. Mr. and Mrs. Robb had...
Dates:
1812-1907
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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David Barr Robb collection
Dill family papers
Collection — Folder S1819
Identifier: S1819
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the commissions and appointments of James and Alexander Dill for the
Indiana Territory and State of Indiana.
Dates:
1803-1837
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Dill family papers
Dufour family collection
Collection
Identifier: L046
Scope and Contents
The collection includes Jean Jacques (John James) Dufour’s account book of expenses and travel notes (1796–1826), and his instructions and reports for his work in America (1796–1804); maps of the Swiss colony and Vevay (1802–1836); and 1810 description of New Switzerland; John Francis Dufour’s correspondence and appointments to public office; Daniel Dufour’s account of his 1801 voyage from Switzerland to Virginia with an accompanying English translation from 1917; two manuscripts from Perret...
Dates:
1762-1917, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Dufour family collection
Edith L. Moore collection
Collection
Identifier: G-124
Scope and Contents
This collection consists largely of the genealogical research done by Edith L. Moore and other members of her family, ranging from 1848 to 2005. Moore collected her own writings, family research, correspondence about her research, and created family trees. The smaller series within the collection consist of personal papers relating specifically to Edith Moore, her early life and career, the entirety of her correspondence and that of other members of her family, family papers, especially of her...
Dates:
1848-2005
Found in:
Genealogy
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Edith L. Moore collection
Edith Silver collection
Collection — Folder S2205
Identifier: S2205
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other documents of Edith Silver ranging from 1939 to 1980. The collection includes a unique May 23, 1939 birth announcement from her sister, Gladys, that includes a blueprint of her sister's house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and "announcing occupant of nursery, Richard Robertson Barr"; a newspaper clipping regarding her nephew (circa 1950s); copies of the May 11, 1944 and February 8, 1962 Arsenal Technical High School student...
Dates:
1939-1980
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Edith Silver collection
Eggleston and Gaunt family papers
Collection — Folder S0853
Identifier: S0853
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of family correspondence of the Eggleston and Gaunt families of Greensburg, Indiana ranging from 1829 to 1888. Correspondence sent to Eliphalet and Amy Eglestone (Eggleston) includes three letters sent by Amy's brother Asa Eddy (August 20 & August 30, 1829 and September 20, 1834) and a letter from Calvin and Amy Whitmarsh (March 18, 1830). James and Hannah Gaunt received letters from Richard and Ann Stivers from Mount Sterling (May 31, 1850); from John...
Dates:
1823-1888
