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Family history

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 190 Collections and/or Records:

Harding family letters

 Collection — Folder S3056
Identifier: S3056
Scope and Contents This collection includes letters from Saburoka Ota and T. Ota written in Japan during 1911-1913 as part of a penpal exchange. The letters discuss their experiences attending a Japanese middle school (including subjects taught and structure by terms) and what activities Japanese boys engaged in during their vacations away from school. Some letters discuss matters of dress, customs, language, and Japanese and American variations in these matters. The significance of the death of the Japanese...
Dates: 1911-1913; 1989

Harry M. Stoops papers

 Collection
Identifier: L150
Scope and Contents This collection includes photostat copies and photocopies of documents from Harry M. Stoops and others in Brookville, Indiana and elsewhere; manuscripts written by Harry M. Stoops; awards, diplomas, business papers, wills and family histories; greeting cards and newspaper clippings; poetry and songs; and National Recovery Administration placards ranging from 1804 to 1958 regarding family history, property disposal, business information, and miscellaneous.There are also oversize...
Dates: circa 1750-1958, undated

Hazel family history

 Collection — Folder S619
Identifier: S0619
Scope and Contents This collection is a 2-page, typewritten history of the Hazel family by Dean Hazel. It includes information about his father, John Bailey Hazel, his father's siblings and his grandfather, Kalob Hazel Jr.(1791-1854), Abraham Lincoln's teacher in Elizabethtown, Kentucky from 1815 to 1816.
Dates: mid-1900s

Heaton and Wade family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1807
Scope and Contents This collection contains the correspondence and papers of the Heaton and Wade Families of Middletown, Ohio and Crawfordsville, Indiana. The correspondence includes letters to Alethia Wade from her mother Mary Heaton, letters to Mary Heaton from family in Minnesota, and the business correspondence of Isaac Wade. There are also banking papers including reports and financial statements from the Indiana State Bank. Correspondents include, Hervey Bates, James F.D. Lanier, Samuel Merrill, Bethuel...
Dates: 1808-1884

Helen M. Ford collection

 Collection
Identifier: L432
Scope and Contents The collection includes the Ford family's correspondence, photographs, and assorted receipts, certificates, clippings, and cards dating from 1864 to 1980. The bulk of the collection dates from 1880 to 1937. Materials are arranged chronologically within correspondence, financial records, miscellaneous materials, and photographs.The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1880 to 1924. Primary correspondents include Mary L. Ford, Emma Annie (Ford) Nichols, Robert V. Ford, Judson...
Dates: 1864-1980

Henry Myres papers

 Collection — Folder S1996
Identifier: S1996
Scope and Contents This collection includes an autographed, signed letter from Henry Myres in Noble County, Indiana on 1864/07/31 regarding family matters.
Dates: 1864

Henry Underwood Johnson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2142
Scope and Contents This collection includes autographed and signed letters; typed and signed letters; typed speeches; a typed list of books of Nim Johnson and a photograph from Henry Underwood Johnson in Indiana; Washington, D.C.; and St. Louis, Missouri and ranging from 1889 to 1937 regarding family and legislative matters.
Dates: 1889-1937

Hibben family papers

 Collection
Identifier: L069
Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, invitations and calling cards, accounts, stamps, newspaper clippings, membership cards, legal documents, and other papers, as well as photographs, negatives, lantern slides, artwork, textiles, and realia from members of the Hibben and Ketcham families in Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, and Europe ranging from circa 1840 to 1937 regarding family, military, legal, and social matters. Much of the early correspondence belonged to Sarah...
Dates: circa 1840-1937

Homer, Indiana oral history

 Collection
Identifier: OH339

Horne family collection

 Collection
Identifier: L327
Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs, glass plate negatives, correspondence, papers, clippings, certificates, and an unbound scrapbook from Edwin Fletcher Horne and Cora Calhoun Horne and their family in New York and elsewhere in the United States, ranging from circa 1865 to 1941, concerning the family, African-American civil rights, slavery, politics, travel abroad to Europe, and civic engagement. The correspondence includes a handwritten letter from Benjamin Harrison denying any intention to...
Dates: circa 1865-1941