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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:

Bette B. Ashworth memorial collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 3280
Scope and Contents Collection contains letters from famous Utah residents, letters to Max Lachman during World War II, booklets, scrapbooks, photo albums, receipts, photographs of Price and Carbon County, Utah, and marriage certificates. Also contains glass plate negatives by Charles Ellis Johnson and corresponding prints. Also contains articles, postcards, Bingham Canyon and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and other ledger books, artwork, legal documents, and other manuscripts collected by Brent Ashworth...
Dates: 1802-2017
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Augusta Carter Wood family stories, approximately 1905-1940

 File — Box 5: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232563210], Folder: 19
Identifier: MSS 680 Series 2 File 12
Scope and Contents

Family stories written by Augusta Carter Wood, granddaughter of John Lyman Smith. 6 items.

Dates: approximately 1905-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John L. Smith papers / John L. Smith personal and family papers

Austin George Hunt papers, 1930-2006, bulk: 1930-1948

 Series
Identifier: MSS 8235 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains copies of a personal history, journals, and stories written by Austin George Hunt. Also included is a black and white panoramic photograph of the East Central States Mission conference and other photographs with Austin George Hunt. Materials date from 1930 to 2006, with the bulk dated 1930 to 1948.

Dates: 1930-2006; Majority of material found within 1930-1948
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Andrew and Charlene Hunt collection on Austin George and Mildred Tobler Hunt

Austin George Hunt stories, 1974-1976

 File — Box 2: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232592144], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 8235 Series 2
Dates: 1974-1976
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Andrew and Charlene Hunt collection on Austin George and Mildred Tobler Hunt / Austin George Hunt papers

Barker History, 2018 June 16

 Item
Identifier: MSS 8845 Series 10 Sub-Series Sub- 2 File Folder 4 Item 2
Dates: Digitized: 2018 June 16
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Harold B. Lee Library History in Your Attic collection / Moab, Utah, scanning event / Groff family photographs / Family histories

George Stanton Barrus family history papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197233601787]
Identifier: MSS 8043
Scope and Contents

Contains bound history of John Rowberry Droubay and Annie Shields Droubay, Cyrus Tolman, Freeman Nickerson and Huldah Chapman, Foster and Lois Barrus, and others in the George Stanton Barrus family. All materials include pictures and biographies of the life events of these ancestors. Also includes one CD called "George and Anna Merlynn Droubay Barrus: The Missions Shall Never End," which contains a PDF file of George Stanton Barrus's personal history. Dated circa 2005-2012.

Dates: approximately 2005-2012
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Jesse Fuller Bean papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 284
Scope and Contents

Holograph missionary diaries kept by Bean while serving in the Southern State Mission of the Latter-day Saint Church, including a missionary blessing; family history; account of coming to Utah in 1847; family genealogy records and certificates of ordination.

Dates: 1904-1930
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Beard, Collins, Weaver, Fisher, Burton family history, undated

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231567402], Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 339 File 65
Scope and Contents

Family histories, together with genealogies, of the families of Beard, Collins, Weaver, Fisher, and Burton. There is no indication as to who compiled or wrote the histories and records.

Dates: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Beard, Collins, Fisher and Weaver families of Illinois and Ohio papers / Beard, Collins, Fisher and Weaver families family history and financial records

Calvin Beecher papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7981
Scope and Contents

Contains posters and family histories. The posters are news maps of World War II that depict the location of battles and other war related news, dated circa 1939-1945. The family histories are all on CD and cover the lives of Calvin and Jean Beecher, as well as several of their ancestors and were compiled circa 2011.

Dates: approximately 2011; approximately 1939-1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Beeson family history, 2018 June 16

 Item
Identifier: MSS 8845 Series 10 Sub-Series Sub- 2 File Folder 4 Item 5
Dates: Digitized: 2018 June 16
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Harold B. Lee Library History in Your Attic collection / Moab, Utah, scanning event / Groff family photographs / Family histories

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