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Genealogies

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

Found in 739 Collections and/or Records:

Gustava Frederica Ohlsson Thomas biographical sketch, undated

 Item — Folder 3: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197233635868]
Identifier: MSS 3197 Series 1 Sub-Series 3 Item 3
Scope and Contents

Contains a photocopied biographical history about Gustava Fredrica Ohlsson Thomas researched and written by Lucile Peterson, Granddaughter-in-law. The last page includes names and addresses.

Dates: Other: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Daniel Francis Thomas family papers / Daniel Francis Thomas family history documents / Daniel Francis Thomas family biographical documents

Samuel Guthrie papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231207702]
Identifier: MSS 1600
Scope and Contents Correspondence, patents, legal documents, genealogies, newspaper articles, obituaries, and historical accounts by or about Samuel Guthrie and other members of the Guthrie family. The correspondence between Samuel Guthrie and his daughter Harriet Guthrie Chamberlain concern personal and family matters and describe Samuel's patents on chloroform and the percussion cap. Items by Alfred Guthrie include information about the steamboat inspection and regulation in the United States and a...
Dates: 1828-1932
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Wayne B. Hales papers

 Collection
Identifier: UA 5672
Scope and Contents

Contains personal journals, notes, scrapbooks, and photographs of Wayne B. Hales. Collection also contains genealogical records like pedigree charts and journals for Hales's ancestors. Dates range from 1852 to 1980.

Dates: 1852-1980
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives

George Halliday papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 139
Scope and Contents Materials include a handwritten diary that was kept from 1845 to 1854, part of which was written in Pitman shorthand. The diary also includes a brief autobiographical sketch on Halliday from his birth up to 1845. Also includes a family record book for George Halliday's family, which includes a short handwritten autobiography. A volume with a typed version of the short autobiography and handwritten transcriptions of the Pitman shorthand sections of the diary are also included. Dated...
Dates: approximately 1845-1951
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Hancock family papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230307222]
Identifier: MSS SC 912
Scope and Contents

Two genealogical pedigree charts of the Hancock family, an obituary entitled "Resolutions of Resptect for sister Phebe Adams Hancock," and an account book probably of Thomas Hancock (1763-1844).

Dates: 1805-1975
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

A happy life remembered

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2904
Scope and Contents First volume is an autobiography describing his early life in Provo, Utah, including attendance at Brigham Young University, 1932-1934; mission for the Mormon Church in Scotland and England in the British Mission, 1934-1936; medical studies at the University of Colorado and University of Utah; experiences as a medical officer in World War II; and medical practice in Poplar, Montana, and Salt Lake City, Utah. First volume also includes autobiographical sketch of his father, Elvon L. Jackson;...
Dates: approximately 1992-1995
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Lloyd and Kay L. Harline family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8814
Scope and Contents Contains a genealogy of the Harline family starting from their ancestors' travels to the United States, audio and video tapes of recorded music and family events like graduations, vacations, and holidays, scrapbooks detailing the lives of the families of Lorraine Kendrick, Kay Swingle Harline, and Earle Swings, and printed music scores composed by Lloyd Harline, Sr. Also contains later materials from the life of Lloyd and Kay, such as a mission plaque, recipes, journals, family home evening...
Dates: 1862-2015; Majority of material found within 1920-2015
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

John H. Harper letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230308071]
Identifier: MSS SC 1013
Scope and Contents

Three letters, typed. These items were addressed to Mrs. G. Wilder and S. P. Sharples and contain information relating to the genealogy of theKimball family of the New England area.

Dates: 1898
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Harris family genealogy, histories, and biographies, 1921-1926

 File — Box 2: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197231064731], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 340 Series 1 File 4
Scope and Contents

Includes a typed copy of The Last Testimony of Martin Harris (brother to Emer Harris who was great-grandfather of Franklin Stewart Harris) as related by William H. Homer, 1921, later published in Improvement Era, vol. 29, 1925-1926, pp. 468-472.

Dates: 1921-1926
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / Harris family papers / Harris family diaries and correspondence

Harvey Carlisle's missionary associate's cards in the Southern States Mission, undated

 Item — Box 3: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232480910], Folder: 13, item: 3
Identifier: MSS 2337 Series 2
Dates: Other: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Emily M. Carlisle papers / Emily M. Carlisle genealogy and family history

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