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Genealogies

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Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing

Found in 736 Collections and/or Records:

John T. Dorcheus correspondence and genealogy

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230363555]
Identifier: MSS 1718
Scope and Contents Correspondence, newspaper clippings, poetry, genealogies, temple record books, and miscellaneous items. The materials deal with Dorcheus, his family, and his genealogy. Most of the correspondence was between Dorcheus and his son, John Alexander Dorcheus, and other family members in 1918 when John was serving in the United States Army. John was killed in action on 7 Oct. 1918. One letter is from John Alexander's wife expressing grief at the loss of her husband. Also included is a "Branch...
Dates: 1881-1976

Roy Watkins Doxey papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3270
Scope and Contents

The papers of Roy Watkins Doxey contain research notes and materials, scrapbooks, correspondence, graduate student papers, and family history materials.

Dates: approximately 1944-1974

Draft of the paper “Esquimau”, approximately 1854-1856

 Item — Box 2: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197232550639], Folder: 3
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 1 Sub-Series 2 Item 2
Scope and Contents

Draft of paper on “Esquimau,” written as a diary entry, tells of meeting Eskimos, dated approximatley April 10-12, 1854, also some writing and notes by Thomas L. Kane, [he was helping Elisha with his book in 1856, this may be part of it], some sketches, dated approximately1856.

Dates: approximately 1854-1856

Dried flower in an envelope, 1886 March 22

 Item — Box 2: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197232550639], Folder: 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 1 Sub-Series 2 Item 3
Scope and Contents

Envelope containing a dried flower, dated March 22, 1886.

Dates: 1886 March 22

Dumont family record

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230317130]
Identifier: MSS SC 1910
Scope and Contents

Family records that record births and deaths of the Demont, Smith and Sasson families.

Dates: 1800-1842

Edmondson family genealogy

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230241793]
Identifier: MSS SC 450
Scope and Contents

Genealogy of the Lairds Lords* of Ednem and Duntreath, Scotland, 1066-1699, an Edmonstoun family history through 1889, and the obituary (photocopy) of Charles Edmonstoun.

Dates: 1066-1889

Edward Stevenson materials, undated

 File — Box 3: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232480910], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 2337 Series 2

Electa Caroline Briggs Williams autobiography as dictated to R.S. McDonald, 1885

 File — Box 2: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232480902], Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 2337 Series 2

Elisha Kane and Elizabeth Kintzing Kane document, 1820 March 17

 Item — Box 2: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197232550639], Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 1 Sub-Series 2 Item 1
Scope and Contents

Document, signed by Elisha Kane and Elizabeth Kintzing Kane [his wife], while in Philadelphia, gives power of attorney to John K. Kane, dated March 17, 1820.

Dates: 1820 March 17

Elisha Kane scrapbook, 1817-1818

 Item — Box 2: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197232550639], Folder: 2
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 1 Sub-Series 2 Item 1
Scope and Contents

Elisha Kane Scrapbook: Elisha Kane autograph dated July 1818, “Annotated by General Kane,” spine reads “Tutus in Undis,” contains 4 sections: excerpts from Stiles’ History of Regicides, excerpts from Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts, excerpts from Allen’s Biographical Dictionary, entire printed text of Memoir, Read Before The Historical Society of the State of New-York, 31st December, 1816, by Egbert Benson (New York: William A. Mercein, 1817). Dated 1817-1818.

Dates: 1817-1818