Family histories
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Scope Note: Narrative studies of families and the tracing of their lineages and histories. For lineages of people, or purebred animals in tabular or diagrammatic form see [Genealogical tables.]
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
John L. Smith personal and family papers, 1792-1950
Series — Box 5: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232563210], Folder: 1-3
Identifier: MSS 680 Series 2
Scope and Contents
Contains priesthood blessing transcripts, legal documents, articles, letters, and other Smith family papers, dated 1792 to 1950.
Dates:
1792-1950
Joseph B. Keeler family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2016
Scope and Contents
Includes journals, biographical sketches, correspondence, articles, lesson manuals, published and unpublished manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera. The bulk of the material was created by Joseph B. Keeler's descendants, who used his papers as they compiled their published family history, "Build Thee More Stately" (1989). The collection focuses on family history, religion, education, and professional organizations.
Dates:
approximately 1840-1990
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
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John L. Smith papers