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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 636 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph Raymond Dewey memories

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230328996]
Identifier: MSS SC 2973
Scope and Contents Contains histories of author's ancestors, together with poems, genealogy, funeral talks, speeches, and pictures. Includes autobiographical accounts by Nellie L. Dewey, Elijah K. Fuller, Edward M. Thurman, Horace S. Rawson, Violet M. Dewey and J. Raymond Dewey; biographical sketches of Lewis C. Rogerson, Fannie V. Smith, Matilda S. Farnes, George U. Smith, John Cook Dewey, John Cyrus Dewey, S. Annie C. Dewey, Sarah U. Child, Mary Ann G. Perkes, and Jane M. Dean; and a large number of family...
Dates: 1995
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Joseph Raymond Dewey memories

DeWitt family histories

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2983
Scope and Contents

Collection includes three family histories from the DeWitt and Kempe families, which include typescripts of correspondence and journals, reproductions of photographs, and other biographical information. The histories themselves describe the lives of Elijah Reeves DeWitt, Abel Alexander DeWitt Sr., Abel Alexander DeWitt Jr., Christopher Jensen Kempe, and Ruth Leila Kempe. Includes information on their experiences in Utah, Illinois, Indiana, and at Brigham Young Academy.

Dates: 2004-2005
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / DeWitt family histories

Don C. Roberts biographical sketch, date of production not identified

 Item — Box 9: [Barcode: 31197231055770], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 1422
Dates: date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1422, Coray family papers

Don McCarroll Dalton family scrapbooks

 File — Box 5: Series 5 [Barcode: 31197231043396], Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSS 1059 Series 5 File 1
Dates: 1906-1965
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1059, Don McCarroll Dalton papers / Don McCarroll Dalton family papers

Dwight Abbott papers, 2000 June

 File — Box 75: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 10; Series 14; Series 15 [Barcode: 31197232480555], Folder: 14
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 5 File 1525
Scope and Contents note

Materials contain Abbott family history discussing Dwight "Bud" Abbott service in the U.S. Coast Guard on the U.S.S. Amethyst during World War II. Dated June 2000.

Dates: 2000 June
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Pacific) / Saints at War Project records for the United States Coast Guard

Edward Stevenson materials, undated

 File — Box 3: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232480910], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 2337 Series 2
Dates: Other: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2337, Emily M. Carlisle papers / Emily M. Carlisle genealogy and family history

Elder Romney and Elder Bush recording to mission president

 Item
Identifier: MSS 9238
Dates: approximately 1910-2010
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 9238, Leola Seely Anderson family papers

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
Dates: Other: 1885
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2337, Emily M. Carlisle papers / Emily M. Carlisle genealogy and family history

Eliza [Viucher?] letter to Mrs. Henrietta Thomas, date of production not identified

 Item — Box 1: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197232550621], Folder: 5
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 1 Sub-Series 2 Item 7
Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter from Eliza (Viucher?) to Mrs. Henrietta Thomas (her niece), giving some family history, Henrietta’s great-aunt married Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Speaker of the House of Representatives, date of production not identified.

Dates: date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / John K. Kane papers / John K. Kane papers on ancestors and relatives

Elizabeth Agnes Kiddle Rogers autobiography, undated

 File — Box 2: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232480902], Folder: 12
Identifier: MSS 2337 Series 2
Dates: Other: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2337, Emily M. Carlisle papers / Emily M. Carlisle genealogy and family history

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