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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:

Montell Seely papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 7950
Scope and Contents Contains documents on Montell Seely's life and family history. Includes research files and book proofs from his work on family history, especially as it pertains to the Robert Seeley family. Contains documents of the family, including deeds, wills, and other sources. These sources document their migration and moves around the country. The collection also contains Seely's personal journals, kept in his adulthood. These document his daily life, concerns, and interests, as well as family and...
Dates: approximately 1934-2009
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Serge J. Lauper family papers, 1901-1994

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6162 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains items relating to the family life of Serge J. Lauper. Materials include correspondence between Lauper and his daughters' families, programs, announcements, papers from family events, genealogy, and other materials, dated from 1901 to 1994.

Dates: 1901-1994
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Serge J. Lauper papers

Shafer family papers, 2013-2018

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 8845 Series 2 Sub-Series Sub- 1
Scope and Contents

Donor (Clara Ellen Shafer) supplied information. Materials digitized at Moab, Utah 15 September 2013 and 15-16 June 2018. Contains family photographs.

Dates: 2013-2018
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Harold B. Lee Library History in Your Attic collection / Moab, Utah, scanning event

Peter and Mary Johnson Shumway family history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231025476]
Identifier: MSS 6709
Abstract

A family history of the Peter and Mary Johnson Shumway family, compiled by Ruth Shumway Robinson and Gary Lee Shumway, including oral history interviews conducted between 1970 and 1976.

Dates: 1976
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Sirrine family records, 1896-1899

 File — Oversize-folder 11: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197239121947]
Identifier: MSS 8593 Series 3 Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents

Sheets torn from a ledger book containing family records, including a "short record of Hannah Cronkhite," "family record of Nathaniel Sirrine," and an affidavit from Nathaniel Sirrine. Dated 1896 to 1899.

Dates: 1896-1899
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Sarah Oakey Sirrine collection / Dawn Curtis collection of Sarah Oakey Sirrine manuscripts / Volume 5

Robert H. Skelton collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232481561]
Identifier: MSS 1597
Abstract

Collection of papers by or about Robert Hodgson Skelton. Included in the collection is Skelton's journal from his mission to India, plus a photocopy and transcription of the same. Also includes a petition for assistance to the people of Santa Cruz, California, by Skelton and other Mormon missionaries traveling to their missions without purse or scrip.

Dates: 1852-1941
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Skousen--communism BYU, date of production not identified

 Item — Box 14: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197232588738], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 7950 Series 3 Item 1
Dates: date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Montell Seely papers / Montell Seely sound recordings

Slave narratives

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 5896
Scope and Contents Over 375 slave narratives printed from microfilm. These interviews of former slaves and children of former slaves took place between 1936 and 1938. A typescript of Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. Narratives cover slavery in Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. Accounts describe treatment of slaves: whipping, auctioning and slaves being forced by masters to...
Dates: approximately 1936-1938
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Delmont King Smith family biographies

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 6805
Scope and Contents

Contains two biographical works on the Smith family. Includes pedigrees, family group sheets, maps, and photographs on ancestors, initially in England and later in Utah and Idaho. Includes detailed information on Velva Lee Stokes Smith. Materials date from between 2008 and 2013.

Dates: 2008-2013
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Smith family histories, 1865-1900

 File — Box 4: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232563202], Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS 680 Series 2 File 15
Dates: 1865-1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John L. Smith papers / John L. Smith personal and family papers

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