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 635 Collections and/or Records:
Shauna Christine Anderson Young research on Scandinavian missionaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8370
Scope and Contents
Contains files collected and created by Young while researching for the book "Legacy of Sacrifice: Missionaries to Scandinavia, 1872-1894," which she co-authored with Susan Easton Black. Files consist primarily of biographical histories and genealogical information of the missionaries who were sent by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Scandinavia in the latter part of the 19th century. This information was sent to Young by descendants or other relatives of these missionaries...
Dates:
approximately 2003-2007
Mary Andrus papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231581312]
Identifier: MSS 1462
Scope and Contents
Collection contains an autobiography, certificates, family history, legal documents, letters, photographs, talks and tributes. Also includes material relating to the Latter-day Saint Church Spanish Fork, Utah 1st Ward Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association, 5th Ward Relief Society, Spanish Fork Public Library, the Icelandic Association, and Alma Archibald Andrus' journal (1909-1968).
Dates:
1902-1975
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Mary Andrus papers
April conference, 1972 April
Item — Box 9: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197232588845], Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 7950 Series 3 Item 1
Dates:
1972 April
Archibald F. Bennett outline of family research, history, undated
Item — Box 3: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232480910], Folder: 2, item: 7
Identifier: MSS 2337 Series 2
Dates:
Other: undated
Armstrong family histories
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230243815]
Identifier: MSS SC 594
Scope and Contents
Typewritten biographical sketches of Mormon pioneers John Christopher and Mary Kirkbride Armstrong and of their son and daughter-in-law, John Graham and Mary Jane Simkins Armstrong by James V. Armstrong and Marcia Armstrong Jolley. Tells of emigration of John Sr. and wife from England to Utah, of his service as bugler in Parley P. Pratt's Southern Utah Exploration Company, LDS church mission to England and death enroute home. Describes John Graham's work as a stagecoach driver and law...
Dates:
Date not identified
Aron Heilner family letters and documents, approximately 1813-2010
Series
Identifier: MSS 6721 Series 1
Scope and Contents
Materials include letters written to brothers Sigmund and Seligmann Heilner, living in America, from the Heilner family who were living in Germany, including their father, Aron. Also includes letters sent between Sigmund and Seligmann, and between them and their spouses and family members in America. Each handwritten letter is either transcribed from English or translated from German (many in Old German script) to English. Also contains photographs, transcribed entries from Sigmund Heilner's...
Dates:
approximately 1813-2010
Arthur Wagstaff historical sketch of David McDonald, undated
File — Box 2: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232480902], Folder: 8
Identifier: MSS 2337 Series 2
Dates:
Other: undated
As the moon rises / by Susa A. Talmage
Item — Box 24: Series 10; Series 12; Series 13; Series 14 [Barcode: 31197227605687], Folder: 6
Identifier: MSS 229 Series 14
Dates:
approximately 1950-1980; 1884-1931
Bette B. Ashworth memorial collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 3280
Scope and Contents
Collection contains letters from famous Utah residents, letters to Max Lachman during World War II, booklets, scrapbooks, photo albums, receipts, photographs of Price and Carbon County, Utah, and marriage certificates. Also contains glass plate negatives by Charles Ellis Johnson and corresponding prints. Also contains articles, postcards, Bingham Canyon and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and other ledger books, artwork, legal documents, and other manuscripts collected by Brent Ashworth...
Dates:
1802-2017
Augusta Carter Wood family stories, approximately 1905-1940
File — Box 5: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232563210], Folder: 19
Identifier: MSS 680 Series 2 File 12
Scope and Contents
Family stories written by Augusta Carter Wood, granddaughter of John Lyman Smith. 6 items.
Dates:
approximately 1905-1940