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James Hyde (D. 1875) And Wife Mary Wright (D. 1865), Of Long Island And New York City., Charles H. Smith Jan 2024

James Hyde (D. 1875) And Wife Mary Wright (D. 1865), Of Long Island And New York City., Charles H. Smith

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Discussion of James & Mary (Wright) Hyde family of Long Island and New York City.


Family Histories In The "Leader News" (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2020

Family Histories In The "Leader News" (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Family Histories in the "Leader News" compiled by Bobby Anderson in 1991.


William Thomas Welborn Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2020

William Thomas Welborn Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Images of the William Thomas Welborn Family Bible with accompanying typescripts done by Gail (Jackson) Miller.


Solomon Huffstutler Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2020

Solomon Huffstutler Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Images of the Solomon Huffstutler Family Bible with accompanying typescripts by Gail (Jackson) Miller.


Thomas B. Wood Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2020

Thomas B. Wood Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Images of the Thomas B. Wood Family Bible with accompanying typescripts done by Gail (Jackson) Miller.


Eugene Gill And Dee (Welborn) Gill Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2020

Eugene Gill And Dee (Welborn) Gill Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Images of the Eugene Gill and Dee (Welborn) Gill Family Bible with accompanying typescripts done by Gail (Jackson) MIller.


Andrew And Winneford (Jackson) Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2020

Andrew And Winneford (Jackson) Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Images of the Andrew and Winneford (Jackson) Family Bible with accompanying typescripts done by Gail (Miller) Jackson.


Thomas And Winniford (Creekmur) Jackson Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2020

Thomas And Winniford (Creekmur) Jackson Family Bible (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

Images of the Thomas and Winniford (Creekmur) Jackson Family Bible with accompanying typescripts done by Gail (Jackson) Miller.


Rice, Bertha Eleanor (Adams), 1875-1948 (Mss 661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2019

Rice, Bertha Eleanor (Adams), 1875-1948 (Mss 661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 661. Genealogical research and correspondence files of Bertha (Adams) Rice, Russellville, Kentucky, mainly regarding the ancestry of Logan County, Kentucky families. Includes a large amount of data copied from deed, marriage, will, and court records of Logan and other Kentucky counties, and from published works.


Puckett, Dillon Huette "D. Hugh," 1929-2010 (Mss 658), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2019

Puckett, Dillon Huette "D. Hugh," 1929-2010 (Mss 658), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 658. Lewis family genealogy collected by Dr. Dillon Huette Puckett covering descendants in Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Missouri. Allied family files (those found in Box 4) are available in digital format only in TopSCHOLAR.


Smith Family - Relating To (Sc 3177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2018

Smith Family - Relating To (Sc 3177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3177. Typescript of “John C. Smith’s Family History,” a genealogical and historical narrative written in 1876 by John C. Smith of Barren County, Kentucky, the son of William Smith and Margaret Campbell. Includes a postscript with the names of additional Smith descendants.


Genealogists' Guide To The West Central Minnesota Historical Center, Dawn Benson Jun 2017

Genealogists' Guide To The West Central Minnesota Historical Center, Dawn Benson

Miscellaneous Campus Publications

A guide to some of the materials located in the West Central Minnesota Historical Center at the University of Minnesota Morris that may be of interest to genealogists.


Cranor Family - Genealogy (Sc 3023), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2016

Cranor Family - Genealogy (Sc 3023), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3023. Family group sheets for the Cranor family compiled into a notebook. Includes some short narrative paragraphs, copies of primary sources, and photographs. No index.


Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 38, Numbers 1 & 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2016

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 38, Numbers 1 & 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

This issue contains a topical Index to articles in the Longhunter 2001-2012 and a history of the Little Muddy church in Butler County, KY


Gorin, Sandra Kaye (Laughery) - Collector (Sc 2937), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2015

Gorin, Sandra Kaye (Laughery) - Collector (Sc 2937), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2937. Genealogical data on the Tolle and Snoddy families of Barren County, Kentucky.


Rouk, Hazel Elouise (Russ), 1917-2011 (Mss 563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2015

Rouk, Hazel Elouise (Russ), 1917-2011 (Mss 563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 563. Genealogical research (census data, pension papers, correspondence, pedigree charts, Bible records, etc.) and photographs collected by Hazel E. Rouk and her sister Merriel (Russ) Austin on the Russ family of Butler County, Kentucky, and associated families.


Wilson, Jewell Gladys (Benedict), 1908-1996 (Sc 2930), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2015

Wilson, Jewell Gladys (Benedict), 1908-1996 (Sc 2930), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2930. Correspondence of Gladys B. Wilson, Glasgow, Kentucky. Includes personal letters of Wilson, but many also relate to her genealogical and local history research and her work on behalf of the Barren County (South Central Kentucky) Historical Society.


Rasdall Family Papers (Mss 542), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2015

Rasdall Family Papers (Mss 542), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 542. Correspondence and papers of the Rasdall and Smith families of Smiths Grove, Kentucky, principally the two generations following Urias Rasdall (1812-1892), credited with platting the town of Smiths Grove. Includes research collected into a family history by Barbara Schan.


0828: Richard Marks Collection, 1952-2014, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 2015

0828: Richard Marks Collection, 1952-2014, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

The bulk of this collection related to Richard Marks’ research as a genealogist working on his family history, including an index card file of names. Other materials in the collection include personal papers related to his life, materials related to his career as a professor and lecturer, correspondence, and published works on intelligence and local history seen in newspapers, magazines, serials, and books. The collection has been broken down into series to include personal, teaching, correspondence, published works, and genealogy research materials.


Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2014

Tolle Collection (Mss 524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 524. Correspondence and papers of the Tolle family of Barren County, Kentucky. Includes data on the Tolle, Snoddy and Bransford families, William Daniel Tolle’s history of Barren County, and materials relating to his work as a veteran’s pension claims agent.


Bouldin, Wylie Fox, 1870-1947 (Sc 1535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2014

Bouldin, Wylie Fox, 1870-1947 (Sc 1535), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1535. Correspondence, wills, deeds, tax receipts, relating to the Wylie F. Bouldin family of Cumberland County, Kentucky. Also includes deputy clerk Charles D. Allen’s 1850 form book for Warren County Court records.


Lawrence (Laurence) Family (Sc 2838), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2014

Lawrence (Laurence) Family (Sc 2838), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2838. Genealogy chart on rolled paper that was cut into sections for the Lawrence (Laurence) family and allied families of Virginia and Kentucky. The chart begins with Edward Laurence (d. 1786) of Fauquier County, Virginia. A portion of this family moved to southeastern Warren County, Kentucky in the nineteenth century.


Pedigree Structure And Kinship Measurements Of A Mid-Michigan Community: A New North American Population Isolate Identified, Joseph D. Bonner, Rachel Fisher, James Klein, Qing Lu, Ellen Wilch, Karen H. Friderici, Jill L. Elfenbein, Debra L. Schutte, Brian C. Schutte Mar 2014

Pedigree Structure And Kinship Measurements Of A Mid-Michigan Community: A New North American Population Isolate Identified, Joseph D. Bonner, Rachel Fisher, James Klein, Qing Lu, Ellen Wilch, Karen H. Friderici, Jill L. Elfenbein, Debra L. Schutte, Brian C. Schutte

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Previous studies identified a cluster of individuals with an autosomal recessive form of deafness that resides in a small region of mid-Michigan. We hypothesized that affected members from this community descend from a defined founder population. Using public records and personal interviews, we constructed a genealogical database that includes the affected individuals and their extended families as descendants of 461 settlers who emigrated from the Eifel region of Germany between 1836 and 1875. The genealogical database represents a 13-generation pedigree that includes 27,747 descendants of these settlers. Among these descendants, 13,784 are presumed living. Many of the extant descendants reside …


Gaither, Joseph Gant, 1884-1968 (Sc 1239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2014

Gaither, Joseph Gant, 1884-1968 (Sc 1239), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1239. Letter from Gant Gaither, a Hopkinsville, Kentucky physician, to Mary Leiper Moore of the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, discussing Gaither’s family, particularly Nathan Gaither, who practiced medicine in Adair County.


Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 (Sc 1206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2013

Lissauer, Mildred Wallis (Potter), 1897-1998 (Sc 1206), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1206. Letters to Mildred Lissauer, Louisville, Kentucky, chiefly concerning an heirloom cradle she purchased; and letters to Lissauer’s son, Eugene R. Lissauer, Louisville, dealing with the results of an aptitude test.


Manar, Edna Earl (Moore), 1887-1972 (Sc 1189), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2013

Manar, Edna Earl (Moore), 1887-1972 (Sc 1189), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1189. Biographical sketch of Fred McCormick Manar written by his wife Edna Moore Manar, and an autobiographical sketch of Mrs. Manar. Both were natives of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Mr. Manar worked for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and Mrs. Manar was a homemaker.


Younglove, John Edwards, 1826-1917 (Sc 1186), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2013

Younglove, John Edwards, 1826-1917 (Sc 1186), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1186. Incoming letter, 1879, to John Edwards Younglove, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from T. G. Younglove, Crescent, New York, responding to inquiry regarding Younglove genealogy; and J. E. Younglove’s letter, 1890, to T. M. Younglove, Hammondsport, New York, about the same subject.


Fonville Family (Sc 1117), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2013

Fonville Family (Sc 1117), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1117. Genealogy records, 1822-1945, removed from the Fonville family Bible. Also contains Hinton family records.


Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2013

Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 153. Poems, 1934-1991, obituaries, 1964-1990, written by Arlis Odell Harmon, a gospel song writer and enthusiast, of Allen County, Kentucky. Includes correspondence about gospel music, genealogical data, photos, etc.


St. Mary's Catholic Church - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 1105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2013

St. Mary's Catholic Church - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 1105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1105. Unpublished history (30p.) of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Franklin, Kentucky, written by Father John A. Lyons, Louisville. Lyons’ accompanying letter relates information about his paper.