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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:

Gottfredson family reunion papers, 1999

 File — Carton 5: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233637443], Folder: 12
Identifier: MSS 7615 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains papers regarding the 1999 Gottfredson family reunion. Materials dated 1999.

Dates: 1999
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 7615, Gottfredson family papers / David Booth Gottfredson and Irma Grainger Gottfredson family papers

Gottfredson family scrapbooks, 1898-2008

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7615 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains family scrapbooks, documenting David and Irma Gottfredson's early lives, medical school, children, military service, and anniversaries. Also includes scrapbooked family papers, including correspondence on family history, newspaper clippings, reunion notices, headstone information, photographs, and other materials. Items date from between 1898 and 2008.

Dates: 1898-2008
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 7615, Gottfredson family papers / David Booth Gottfredson and Irma Grainger Gottfredson family papers

Gottfredson family slides, 1950-1991

 File — Carton 5: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233637443], Folder: 2-6
Identifier: MSS 7615 Series 2
Scope and Contents Contains slides displaying photographic images of Gottfredson family homes, scenic areas in Utah, the grave and flowers of David Booth Gottfredson, Jr., various neighbors of the Gottfredsons, the Ensign Ward chapel, the Gottfredson and Hatch family, Alice Adell Keeler Hatch Gottfredson, family groups, particularly the Grainger side of David and Irma Gottfredson's family, family vacations to Lake Powell, Hawaii, San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver. Also includes photographs of the Grainger...
Dates: 1950-1991
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 7615, Gottfredson family papers / David Booth Gottfredson and Irma Grainger Gottfredson family papers

Glen Gottfredson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 7941
Scope and Contents

Contains a record of Gottfredson's military service aboard the U.S.S. Phoenix during World War II. Also contains materials pertaining to the history of the Pioneer Ward in Provo, Utah. Dated 1910-1969.

Dates: 1910-1969
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Glen Gottfredson papers

Grainger family papers, approximately 1904-1988

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7615 Series 2 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Includes five family scrapbooks: The Grainger story, Grainger pictures and letters, early-1966 I, Grainger pictures and letters, 1967-1989 II, Grainger pictures letters, 1990 III, and Irma's Siblings. Also contains funeral papers, photographs, correspondence, family newsletters, and bound family history volumes. Materials created approximately 1904-1988.

Dates: approximately 1904-1988
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 7615, Gottfredson family papers / David Booth Gottfredson and Irma Grainger Gottfredson family papers / Irma Grainger Gottfredson family papers

Grantsville, Utah history, 1933-1962

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232486420], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 827
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopied documents related to Grantsville, Utah history, including clippings, photographs, typescript and handwritten family and local histories, genealogies, and correspondence, dated 1933-1962. Also includes a letter from J.K. Parkinson to James Allen Parkinson about James' effort to collect history from the family, dated 1933.

Dates: 1933-1962
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 827, J. Allen Parkinson biographies

Joseph W. Grow family history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230357128]
Identifier: MSS 6221
Abstract

The Joseph W. Grow family history is the photocopied family history of the Grow family. It mainly consists of a personal history of Joseph Wayne Grow with copies of letters and some personal documents. It also includes a genealogical record, a typed history of Henry Grow, as well as photocopies of photographs of the Grow family.

Dates: 1979-1980
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Joseph W. Grow family history

Gubler family history, 1900-1990

 File — Carton 14: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197231565083], Folder: 1-10
Identifier: MSS 7551 Series 2 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Photographs of the Gubler family, biographies of Casper Gubler, and two scrapbooks of the Gubler family.

Dates: 1900-1990
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 7551, Nellie McArthur Gubler family papers / Nellie McArthur Gubler family and friends papers / Nellie McArthur Gubler family history papers

H. Bartley Heiner biographical and family history, 1896-1972

 File — Carton 3: [Barcode: 31197239252635], Folder: 19
Identifier: MSS 8822 File 8
Dates: 1896-1972
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8822, H. Bartley Heiner papers

John Hafen papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 356
Abstract This collection consists of correspondence, a diary of John's wife, Thora Hafen (January 1901-May 1901), a notebook, certificates, family genealogies, mementos, illustrated programs of Hafen's art exhibits, and newspaper clippings which laud Hafen's art. Part of the collection was represented in a catalog entitled A Step Beyond: Artist's Archives and Creative Process, presented by the Special Collections and Archives and Manuscripts of Brigham Young University,...
Dates: 1879-1918
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John Hafen papers

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