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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:

Saints at War Project records for World War II, 1924-2012

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 5
Scope and Contents Series contains artifacts, military records, photographs, biographies, memoirs, transcripts and audiocassettes of interviews, accounts, poetry, a sermon, negatives, cartoons, articles, diaries and journals, books, responses to the Saints at War Questionnaire and Latter-day Saints in the Military Survey, clippings, autobiographies, telegrams, histories, including family histories, personal histories, and military histories, a drawing of the USS Pennsylvania, e-mails, floppy disks, a map...
Dates: 1924-2012
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records

Saints at War Project records for World War II (Pacific), 1931-2009

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6
Scope and Contents

This series contains documents from Latter-day Saints that served in the Pacific part of World War II. Records are from the army, air corps, marine corps, navy, coastal guard, civilians, and merchants. Also contains artifacts yearbooks, photographs, currency, and stamps that have been included. Dated 1931-2009.

Dates: 1931-2009
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records

Salisbury family miscellany, 1863-2003

 Series
Identifier: MSS 3078 Series 4
Scope and Contents

Series contains miscellaneous papers from the Don Carlos family papers, the Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith Family Foundation, and other family history materials dating from 1863 to 2003.

Dates: 1863-2003
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Salisbury family papers

Sant family biographical sketches

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230237049]
Identifier: MSS SC 268
Scope and Contents

Typewritten sketches relating to a Mormon family who emigrated from England in 1861 on the packetship Manchester to America and final settlement in Utah and Idaho.

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

Schow-Holt family history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239251140]
Identifier: MSS 9314
Scope and Contents

Contains a compact disc with PDF files of a family history booklet prepared by descendants of Alvin J. Schow. The booklet outlines general information about Schow-Holt ancestors and specific stories regarding some of them. Stories about the family's time in Denmark and in Utah are present. Materials compiled and created in 2009.

Dates: 2009
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Scotia / 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
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / James E. Talmage papers / Talmage family papers

John Scott family collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7811
Scope and Contents

Collection contains a diary of John Scott from 1847 and a family history written by James Wesley Scott in 2002.

Dates: 1847-2002
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Scott Pease Stewart and Myrtle Maiben family scrapbook, 1931-2004

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8176
Dates: 1931-2004
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Barbara Stewart Anderson collection on Raymond R. and Ava Beckstrand Stewart

Scott Pease Stewart family history scrapbook, 1947-2009

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8176
Dates: 1947-2009
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Barbara Stewart Anderson collection on Raymond R. and Ava Beckstrand Stewart

Josephine Rigdon Secord letters

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6205
Abstract

The collection consists of two folders, the first containing the photocopied correspondence from Josephine Rigdon Secord (granddaughter of Sidney Rigdon) to Arlene Hess between the years 1965-1972. The second is a bound compilation including an introduction to all of the letters typed and a few other miscellaneous items. Josephine conveys her feelings on Sidney Rigdon, John Wickliffe Rigdon (her father), the Mormon church, and other matters.

Dates: 1965-1972
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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