Abstract Contains letters from 1853-1894 as well as a transcription of one of the letters on transparencies; group sheets and pedigree charts; papers from the Roylance Family Organization; a microfilm of the book of remembrance and the book of remembrance itself. The book of remembrance contains: origin of name and family; group sheets, pedigree charts, and family records starting with Thomas Roylance (abt. 1635); map of homes built by Roylance families; constitution, programs, letters, invitations...

Scope and Contents Contains family correspondence in two subsets: 111 letters and postcards written between Joachim Schwatlo-Gesterding and his wife Doris, or from Joachim to a "Peterchen" ("little Peter," possibly Doris's son from her previous marriage) or the odd family member or friend, mostly while he was a prisoner of war in Russia (in Moscow and nearby Lager'), between January 1944 and September 1955; and 58 letters and postcards written to Siegfried Carl Schwatlo (and/or occasionally Pearl before they...