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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 639 Collections and/or Records:

Calder family digital files, 1850-2005

 Series — Box 6: Series 1; Series 4; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197239275453], item: 1
Identifier: MSS 9249 Series 4
Scope and Contents

One flash drive containing scanned photographs, family histories, and audio files of family members relating life histories. Scans are of most of the documents found in the scrapbooks and photo albums, along with audio files and oral history interviews with Melba and Valene Calder.

Dates: 1850-2005
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Calder family papers

Calder family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 9249
Scope and Contents

Contains physical and digital copies of scrapbooks, photographs, ephemera, and family histories of Edgar Hague Calder and two generations of his ancestors, including his grandfather, David O. Calder, and Edgar's wife, Melba Vance Calder, and two generations of her ancestors. Also includes various books, such as an autograph book, pocketbooks, and photograph books. Dated approximately 1850 to 2005.

Dates: approximately 1850-2005
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Calder family scrapbooks, approximately 1850-2005

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9249 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Scrapbooks on various Calder family members, including David G. and Sarah E. Hague, Edgar Hague, Melba Vance Calder, John A. and Matilda Martin Vance, and David O. Calder. Scrapbooks include family history notes and narratives, clippings, family group sheets, greeting cards, postcards, correspondence, and other ephemera. Also includes some loose material, such as photographs, calling cards, and other documents. Dated approximately 1850 to 2005.

Dates: approximately 1850-2005
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Calder family papers

Calvin Beecher family histories, approximately 2011

 Series — Folder 4: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233294633]
Identifier: MSS 7981 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains a CD-ROM of biographical information about Calvin and Jean Beecher and several of their ancestors. The biographical information contains funeral material, personal life sketches, biographies, and photographs, circa 2011.

Dates: approximately 2011
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Calvin Beecher papers

Calvin Delos McOmber family history papers, 1984-1993

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6951 Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains the histories of the ancestors of McOmber, including David Fisk Stout, Achsah Stout, Daisie Stout Richardson, and Calvin McOmber. There are also circle letters from the descendants of David Fisk Stout. Dated 1984-1993.

Dates: 1984-1993
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Calvin Delos McOmber Jr. papers

Clawson Y. Cannon papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 7793
Scope and Contents Contains the papers accumulated by Clawson Y. Cannon during his life and career. Those papers include family histories, photographs, letters, official correspondence, missionary accounts, personal journals, patriarchal blessings, and Cannon's publications and research. The majority of the papers come from his work as an animal husbandry professor at Brigham Young University, as a government worker in Lebanon, and as a husband and father. Many relate to his wife, Winnifred Clawson. The papers...
Dates: 1859-2001
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Robert Webster Carder papers on Carder family history

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197235234959]
Identifier: MSS 8610
Scope and Contents

Includes notes and pedigree charts typed, written, and compiled by Robert Webster Carder of his family history.

Dates: 1955-1986
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Carlisle family history sketches, undated

 File — Box 2: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232480902], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 2337 Series 2
Dates: Other: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Emily M. Carlisle papers / Emily M. Carlisle genealogy and family history

Carpenter family histories

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239283747]
Identifier: MSS SC 1507
Scope and Contents This collection contains separate transcribed copies of the "Carpenter Family." The first document, by J. Hatten Carpenter, describes the origin of the last name "Carpenter." The author begins the family history starting in 1200 in France and England. He then continues with the ancestry of the Carpenter family, who emigrated from England to the United States. The second copy is a sketch biography of Margarett McCullough. The sketch contains a transcript of Erastus Snow Carpenter's letter...
Dates: 1963-1970
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Carroll family histories

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1569
Abstract

Carroll family histories is a collection of various narratives describing numerous generations of the Carroll family. Included within the collection are photocopies of letters and photographs. The collection dates from 1872-1976.

Dates: approximately 1977
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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