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Genealogies

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

Found in 736 Collections and/or Records:

Carol Ann Smith papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8590
Content Description

Collection contains the history of John Pierre Stalle and his descendants. A pedigree chart is included as well as an account of his life in Italy and his experiences there as he searched for religious freedom. It relates his journey to America with the Mormon pioneers. Also included is the story of his visitations to present day descendants and their search to discover their ancestors.

Dates: 2008-2012
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Carol Ann Smith papers

Delmont King Smith family biographies

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 6805
Scope and Contents

Contains two biographical works on the Smith family. Includes pedigrees, family group sheets, maps, and photographs on ancestors, initially in England and later in Utah and Idaho. Includes detailed information on Velva Lee Stokes Smith. Materials date from between 2008 and 2013.

Dates: 2008-2013
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Delmont King Smith family biographies

Miscellaneous Smith family documents

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 4246
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous Smith family documents, 1835-1965, which is a combination of original and photocopied documents. Materials relate to both the LDS and RLDS churches.

Dates: 1835-1965
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Miscellaneous Smith family documents

John L. Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 680
Scope and Contents Contains seven journals of John Lyman Smith, and other autobiographical manuscripts, as wells as a bound typescript volume of an autobiography/journal. The journals include accounts of persecutions in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, pioneering in Utah, Lyman's two missions to Europe, and his service as president of the Swiss-Italian and the Swiss-Italian-German missions. There is also a contemporary account of the cricket-and-seagull episode in Salt Lake in 1848, Lyman's service as a member of...
Dates: 1792-1950; Majority of material found within 1846-1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John L. Smith papers

Mary Ellen Stoddard Smith family history and genealogy

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231062750]
Identifier: MSS 1464
Scope and Contents

The records trace her ancestors through the British and Spanish nobility and early American settlers. Collection includes the genealogical records of these individuals.

Dates: Date not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Mary Ellen Stoddard Smith family history and genealogy

Vesta Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1659
Scope and Contents Contains papers relating to American Mothers Inc., the Young Women program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Washington, D.C. Stake of the Church, the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, and other topics in which Smith took part. Includes an autobiography, journals, files, correspondence, photographs, financial papers, programs, newsletters, handbooks, and membership lists, genealogical papers, reports, scrapbooks, family histories, and ephemera. Materials...
Dates: approximately 1941-1999
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vesta Smith papers

Willard L. and Jennie Hill Leavitt Smith collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2260
Scope and Contents The collection, containing mission diaries, World War I army diary, family histories, and bound copies of autobiographies and family histories, has been organized by (1) mission diaries of Willard and Jennie Smith; (2) family histories; and (3) bound copies. The collection contains material on the First Tongan Mission after it was separated from the Samoan Mission; Samoan Mission; genealogy of the Willard L. Smith family and the Jennie Hill Leavitt family; Haun's Mill Massacre; and personal...
Dates: 1915-1918
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Willard L. and Jennie Hill Leavitt Smith collection

Caroline R. Smoot genealogical papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2097
Scope and Contents

Includes Smoot's temple record book containing surnames such as Collins, Wells, Rogers, Daniels, Stowe, and Petty, 1891-1907; correspondence, 1885-1891; research notes; receipt for "A History of our Own Times," 1896; patriarchal blessing for Caroline Rogers Smoot, 1899; obituary for Hugh J. Cannon; Relief Society teacher's leaflet; and an application for membership in Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.

Dates: 1885-1909
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Caroline R. Smoot genealogical papers

Snyder family genealogies

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 465
Scope and Contents

Handwritten genealogies, biographical sketches, historical accounts, patriarchal blessings, temple work sheets, and family photographs of the Snyder family of Germany and Roxborough, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. The patriarchal blessings were given to family members that joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The lists of temple work done for dead family members were also produced by the those who joined the LDS Church.

Dates: 1870-1950
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Snyder family genealogies

Some Christensens Who Came From Thy, by Virginia Christensen Keeler, 1969

 File — Box 26: Series 10 [Barcode: 31197233649901], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 2856 Series 10
Dates: Other: 1969
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2856, Lucile C. Tate papers / Lucile C. Tate collection of publications

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