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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:

Castle Valley Pageant : Act 1 reel 2, 1978 July 19

 Item — Box 9: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197232588845], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 7950 Series 3 Item 1
Dates: 1978 July 19
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Montell Seely papers / Montell Seely sound recordings

Sharon R. Chambers family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8466
Scope and Contents

Contains copies of two books of Fuhriman family records such as birth, Mormon ordinances, marriage, and death. Includes information on Godfrey Fuhriman. Materials date from between 1885 and 1945.

Dates: 1885-1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Charlie Redd family history papers, 1880-1966

 Sub-Series — Box 15: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197233648036], Folder: 1-5
Identifier: MSS 5883 Series 1 Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents

Contains cemetery records, an autobiography of an ancestor, and other family history notes of Charlie Redd. Materials date from 1880 to 1966.

Dates: 1880-1966
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Charlie Redd family papers / Charlie Redd personal and family papers

Chaucey Leon Abbott papers, 2000 June

 File — Box 73: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 10; Series 14; Series 15 [Barcode: 31197232480530], Folder: 16
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 File 1524
Scope and Contents note

Materials include Abbott family history. Also includes an account of Chauncey Leon Abbott's service on the U.S.S. Barboncito and as the helmsman on the U.S.S. Chahao in the U.S. Navy at the end of World War II. Dated June 2000.

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

Paul Willes and Beth Dixon Cheney mission papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8423
Scope and Contents

Contains journals, scrapbooks, and papers from Paul Willes and Beth Dixon Cheney's Latter-day Saint missions to the Canada Winnipeg, Canada Halifax, Taiwan Taipei Temple, and Salt Lake Family History Missions. Dated 1975-1997.

Dates: 1975-1997
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Alma Christiansen papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS P 492
Scope and Contents Contains approximately 550 glass plate and nitrate negatives and 50 35mm film strips of images taken by early 20th century Pleasant Grove citizen Alma Christiansen. Also includes corresponding black and white prints of these negatives, printed in 2021. Photograph subjects include Alma's family and neighbors, views of Pleasant Grove from his neighborhood, and Mt. Timpanogas and the surrrounding valley. Dated approximately 1912 to 1925. Also includes a photocopied bound volume of a family...
Dates: approximately 1912-1935; 1985
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Parley Christiansen journals

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3890
Scope and Contents

Parley Christiansen journals, biographies, certificates, photographs and family histories--all photocopies. Journal topics include LDS priesthood ordinance instructions, mission statistical reports and experiences in the Northwestern States Mission, attacks by Native Americans, and his work in the Irrigation Company and Church leadership experiences, 1887-1897.

Dates: 1887-1897
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Church tour talk, date of production not identified

 Item — Box 14: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197232588738], Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 7950 Series 3 Item 2
Dates: date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Montell Seely papers / Montell Seely sound recordings

Clarence Cottam history, circa 1900-1950

 File — Carton 30: Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197231565273], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 7551 Series 2 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains biographical information on Clarence Cottam.

Dates: circa 1900-1950
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Nellie McArthur Gubler family papers / Nellie McArthur Gubler family and friends papers / Nellie McArthur Gubler family history papers

Clarence D. Taylor correspondence, 1930-2000, 1862-1882

 Series
Identifier: MSS 3254 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains letters mainly between Clarence D. Taylor and his mother, Maria D. Taylor, while he served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Africa and in the military during World War II. Dated 1862-2000.

Dates: 1930-2000; 1862-1882
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Clarence D. Taylor papers

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