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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:

David Booth Gottfredson and Irma Grainger Gottfredson family papers, 1898-2008

 Series
Identifier: MSS 7615 Series 2
Scope and Contents Contains personal and professional papers of David Booth Gottfredson that include an autobiographical record, several daily planners, and other various documents. The series also includes family history papers for the Gottfredson, Grainger, Bringhurst, Steele, and Salkield families, and personal papers of Irma Grainger Gottfredson that contain mostly correspondence and calendars. Dates are between 1898 and 2008, when some scrapbook and record volumes were updated most recently. Materials...
Dates: 1898-2008
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Gottfredson family papers

David Booth Gottfredson, Jr. papers, 1930-1986

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

Includes newspaper clippings, a photocopied version of the autobiography of David Booth Gottfredson Jr., photographs of his childhood, and a collection of sympathy cards and correspondence following his 1954 death. Also included are David Jr.'s journals from 1950-1953, which contains mostly news reports, current events, and doodles. Materials dated 1930-1986.

Dates: 1930-1986
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Gottfredson family papers / David Booth Gottfredson and Irma Grainger Gottfredson family papers

David Ross Lyon biographical materials, after 1940

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232480829], Folder: 16
Identifier: MSS 2370 File 11
Dates: after 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / David Ross Lyon papers

Kathryn L. Edwards Dean collection on the Caughron-Edwards family

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232512415]
Identifier: MSS 6093
Abstract

Collection includes materials relating to the Edwards and Caughron family histories.

Dates: 1861-1969
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Jesse Smith Decker family history

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230350073]
Identifier: MSS 4226
Abstract

A book about the ancestors of Louis Addison and Achsah May Hatch Decker, written by Jesse Smith Decker in 1985.

Dates: 1985
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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

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

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 / 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 / Don McCarroll Dalton papers / Don McCarroll Dalton family papers

Dwight Abbott papers, 2000 June

 File — Box 73: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 10; Series 14; Series 15 [Barcode: 31197232480530], Folder: 17
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 / 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

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