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Emigration and immigration

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Ira Nathaniel Hinckley diary and family papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331172]
Identifier: MSS SC 3206
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a typescript of a microfilm diary. Hinckley kept his diary from 5 March 1857 to 6 June 1858. He worked as a blacksmith in Salt Lake City, Utah, and then went to help immigrants along the Platte River. He visited Dakota and Crow Indians, and returned to Salt Lake City in the fall of 1857. He mentioned speeches of Mormon Church leaders relating to the religion and preparations to resist the Utah Expedition. Also included are "Some Events" in the life of Ira Hinckley. These...
Dates: 1857-1940

Charles Dutton Miller autobiography and essays

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 3253
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a handwritten autobiography and essays. Miller writes about his early life, his family, his converstion to the Mormon Church, and his mission to England. The autobiography is 21-pages long and was written in 1853. The essays were written at an uncertain date. He discusses such issues as light, the laws of nature, and angels.

Dates: approximately 1853

Miskin family collection on Belnap family, 1920-1998

 Sub-Series — Carton 6: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197233632493], Folder: 4-13
Identifier: MSS 8071 Series 3 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains family group records, pedigree charts, and other material related to Belnap family history, which is related to the Miskin family. Dates range from 1920-1998.

Dates: 1920-1998

Miskin family collection on Hammon family, 1920-1969

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8071 Series 3 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains family group records, pedigree charts, and other material related to the Hammon family history, which the Miskin family is related to. Dates range from 1920-1969.

Dates: 1920-1969

Miskin family history, 1910-1979

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8071 Series 3 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains family group records, pedigree charts, and other material for the Miskin family. Dates range from 1910-1979.

Dates: 1910-1979

Miskin family history papers, 1850-1998

 Series
Identifier: MSS 8071 Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains the family history papers of the A.R. and Lovina Miskin family including family group records, pedigree charts, long playing records, and other material from the Belnap, Hammon, and Miskin families of Utah, Idaho, and Kansas. Dates range from 1850-1998.

Dates: 1850-1998

Miskin family photographs, 1850-1950

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8071 Series 3 Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents

Contains family photographs of the Miskin, Belnap, and Hammon families of England, Utah, and Idaho with photographs dating between 1850 and 1950.

Dates: 1850-1950

Heber and Genevieve Moulton collection of Laotian refugee stories and photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6194
Abstract

A collection of escape stories and photos from Laotian refugees living in Fresno, California.

Dates: 1988-1991

Oral history interview with Thelma Egertsen Weight

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227651814]
Identifier: MSS 5892
Scope and Contents Contains an interview of Thelma Egertsen Weight by Virginia Poulsen on June 29, 1983. Includes two cassette tapes, handwritten notes, a 40-page typescript, and a 24-page draft of typescript. Thelma talks about her grandparents emigration from Denmark, her father's profession, her education, seeing Rachmaninoff play in the tabernacle, George H. Brimhall's lectures, faculty of Brigham Young University, her teaching at Provo High School, her courtship with her husband, adopting a boy, her...
Dates: 1983

Ruth Verrill papers on the world around, undated

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231044303], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 1392
Scope and Contents

Astronomy, astrology, boats and ships, weights and scales, emigration, exploration, mathematics, etc.

Dates: undated