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Traces Volume 41, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections Oct 2013

Traces Volume 41, Number 3, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter

Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.


Traces Volume 41, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jul 2013

Traces Volume 41, Number 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter

Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.


Traces Volume 41, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections Apr 2013

Traces Volume 41, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter

Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.


Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 36, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2013

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 36, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

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Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 36, Number 3 & 4 / Volume 37, Number 1 & 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2013

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 36, Number 3 & 4 / Volume 37, Number 1 & 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

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Resource-Sharing And Genealogical Research On Islamic Chinese Names In Guilin, Sheau-Yueh J. Chao Jan 2013

Resource-Sharing And Genealogical Research On Islamic Chinese Names In Guilin, Sheau-Yueh J. Chao

Publications and Research

Jiapu家譜, the Chinese Family Register, has been used for thousands of years to trace the genealogical history of a clan and lineage, including a family’s origin, its collateral lines, the migration history of the clan, names and ages of the members, records of marriages, births and deaths, merits and deeds, ancestral biography and ancestral locality. This paper examines the historical evolution and value of Chinese genealogical records with the focus on researching the Islamic Chinese names found in Jiapu and used by the people living in Guilin, Guangxi Province. It provides the historical background of genealogical records and analyzes the …


0801: Larry Beuhring Collection, 1960-2013, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 2013

0801: Larry Beuhring Collection, 1960-2013, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of family histories of the Beuhring, Carroll and Brumfield families, including associated families. Also included are detailed histories of John J.S.P. Carroll with documents related to the American Civil War and a biography of Frederick George Lewis Beuhring. All histories include scanned copies of documents, photographs, and associated articles.


0814: C. H. Freeman Collection, 1877-1977, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 2013

0814: C. H. Freeman Collection, 1877-1977, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

Papers related to the C.H. Freeman estate. Zubah and C.H. Freeman had many investments such as the Yawkey and Freeman Coal Company and the Freeman Estates. This collection contains contract agreements for property purchases of the Estates, a contour map of what seems to be the Freeman’s country residence, and correspondences between Zubah and realtors. This collection also houses some of Zubah’s family documents including old letters, registers of visitors from Klingel-Carpenter Mortuary, and Paul and Ricky Ray’s basketball documents.


0812: Anderson-Newcomb Company And Family Collection, 1884-1980, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 2013

0812: Anderson-Newcomb Company And Family Collection, 1884-1980, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

The Anderson-Newcomb Collection contains material dealing with the company store such as financial reports, meeting logs, and silverware. It also includes material on the Anderson-Newcomb family and history on Huntington like the diary of Margaret Emily Cox Newcomb, William Newcomb's great-grandmother, newspaper articles, and magazines.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Anderson-Newcomb Company and Family Collection, 1884-1980 here.


Traces Volume 41, Number 4, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2013

Traces Volume 41, Number 4, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Traces, the Southern Central Kentucky, Barren County Genealogical Newsletter

Traces, the South Central Kentucky Genealogical Society's quarterly newsletter, was first published in 1973. The Society changed its name in 2016 to the Barren County Historical Society. The publication features compiled genealogies, articles on local history, single-family studies and unpublished source materials related to this area.


0854: Isaac H. Mitchell Biographical Sketch Collection, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 2013

0854: Isaac H. Mitchell Biographical Sketch Collection, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of the research done by Scott Lemley and Rod Pell on Isaac Mitchell’s life and genealogy, including his descendants, in order for Mitchell to be memorialized by the Huntington Police Department in 2013. The bulk of the collection consists of printed copies of email correspondence between Lemley and Bob Mitchell and Michelle Shypkoski (both descendants of Isaac Mitchell), printed genealogies, and two copies of the memoirs of William Clare Mitchell, a descendant who moved to Idaho. Also included are the HPD Memorial Application, copied photographs of Isaac Mitchell’s grave and other family members, copied and transcribed newspaper …


Russ Family Research Notes, Susie Van Kirk Jan 2013

Russ Family Research Notes, Susie Van Kirk

Susie Van Kirk Papers

Susie Van Kirks collection of newspaper references pertaining to the Russ family history. Bulk references from the Ferndale Enterprise and the Humboldt Times, from the 1850s through the 1990s.


Juneau County, Wisconsin Bygdebok: A Genealogy Of The Norwegian Settlers, 1850-1950, Lawrence W. Onsager Jan 2013

Juneau County, Wisconsin Bygdebok: A Genealogy Of The Norwegian Settlers, 1850-1950, Lawrence W. Onsager

Faculty Publications

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