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Family records

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 395 Collections and/or Records:

Robert Owens, 1997-1998

 File — Box 48: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233644704], Folder: 12
Identifier: MSS 8000 Series 2 Sub-Series 1 File 212
Scope and Contents

Contains glossy photo and biography of Robert Owens; as well as a biography of wife Catherine Ann Williams, with name index photocopy and family group record with Robert and two other husbands. Materials dated 1997 to 1998.

Dates: 1997-1998
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8000, Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association biographies of original members

Robert Pixton, 1997

 File — Box 49: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233644712], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 8000 Series 2 Sub-Series 1 File 223
Scope and Contents

Contains glossy photo and biography of Robert Pixton, family group record for Robert and wife Elizabeth Cooper, biographies of Elizabeth Cooper Pixton/Elizabeth Pixton Harker, and name indexes featuring Robert and Elizabeth. Materials dated 1997.

Dates: 1997
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8000, Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association biographies of original members

Robert S. Bliss, 1931-1998

 File — Box 38: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233644605], Folder: 20
Identifier: MSS 8000 Series 2 Sub-Series 1 File 31
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies from the Utah Historical Quarterly featuring "The Journal of Robert S. Bliss" and other biographical articles, excertps from his diary, biographical fact sheet and family group record for Robert's parents (and those of his wife), biographical sketch of Robert's wife, Mary Ann Paine Bliss, and photocopy of a name index. Materials dated 1931 to 1998.

Dates: 1931-1998
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8000, Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association biographies of original members

Jo Ann Sloan Rogers collection of Charles Ora Card family scrapbooks

 Collection — Carton 1: [Barcode: 31197232578598]
Identifier: MSS 8927
Scope and Contents

Contains scrapbooks created by Jo Ann Sloan Rogers, a descendant of Charles Ora Card, documenting the history of the Charles Ora Card family and his descendants in Utah, Idaho, and Alberta, Canada. Also includes the Civil War diary of Arthur Calvin Mellette and the biography of Isaac Julian Harvey, a California pioneer. Dated approximately 1842-1968.

Dates: approximately 1842-1968; Majority of material found within 1903-1968
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Jo Ann Sloan Rogers collection of Charles Ora Card family scrapbooks

Roswell Stevens, 1989-1998

 File — Box 51: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233644738], Folder: 12
Identifier: MSS 8000 Series 2 Sub-Series 1 File 265
Scope and Contents

Contains biographies of Roswell Stevens, copy of emigration index, and family group record for Roswell and wife Mary Peterson; with biography of wife Mariah Doyle Stevens and family group record for Roswell and Vallie Maria or Mariah Doyle, and group record for Mariah's parents. Materials dated 1989 to 1998.

Dates: 1989-1998
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8000, Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association biographies of original members

Roylance family papers

 Collection — Carton 1: [Barcode: 31197218618376]
Identifier: MSS 3768
Abstract Contains letters from 1853-1894 as well as a transcription of one of the letters on transparencies; group sheets and pedigree charts; papers from the Roylance Family Organization; a microfilm of the book of remembrance and the book of remembrance itself. The book of remembrance contains: origin of name and family; group sheets, pedigree charts, and family records starting with Thomas Roylance (abt. 1635); map of homes built by Roylance families; constitution, programs, letters, invitations...
Dates: 1853-1978
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Roylance family papers

Ruel Barrus, 1970-1986

 File — Box 38: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233644605], Folder: 6
Identifier: MSS 8000 Series 2 Sub-Series 1 File 20
Scope and Contents

Contains a biographical sketch and family group record for Ruel Barrus, packet of photocopies of biographical articles, report on Mormon Battalion ancestors of a Cheryl (including Ruel Barrus), and a glossy reproduced photograph. Materials dated 1970 to 1986.

Dates: 1970-1986
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8000, Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association biographies of original members

Rufus Chester Allen, after 1964

 Item — Box 37: Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197233644597], Folder: 16
Identifier: MSS 8000 Series 2 Sub-Series 1 Item 3
Scope and Contents

Family group record sheet for Rufus Allen Chester and Lavenia Hoopes Yearsley. Compiled after 1964.

Dates: after 1964
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8000, Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association biographies of original members

Russell Gideon Brownell, 1998, 1960

 File — Box 39: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233644613], Folder: 9
Identifier: MSS 8000 Series 2 Sub-Series 1 File 48
Scope and Contents

Contains a glossy reproduced photograph of Russell Gideon Brown, photocopied photo of Russell and wife Melissa Cynthia Call, photocopies of Russell's war pension and related documents, family group record of Russell and Melissa, biographical sketch of Melissa, and history of their daughter Mary Jane Brownell and husband Frederick C. Warnky. Materials dated 1960 and 1998.

Dates: 1998; 1960
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8000, Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association biographies of original members

Salisbury family miscellany, 1863-2003

 Series
Identifier: MSS 3078 Series 4
Scope and Contents

Series contains miscellaneous papers from the Don Carlos family papers, the Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family Foundation, and other family history materials dating from 1863 to 2003.

Dates: 1863-2003
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 3078, Salisbury family papers

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