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Green, Jennie Scott, 1879-1965 (Mss 237), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2008

Green, Jennie Scott, 1879-1965 (Mss 237), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 237. One large account book, 1832-1839 (357 p.) kept by the Green family of Falls of Rough, Grayson County, Kentucky; portions of the ledger were later used by Green as a scrapbook. Collection also includes genealogy and legal papers related to the Green family, and news clippings.


Satterfield Family History (Sc 1799), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2008

Satterfield Family History (Sc 1799), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1799. Genealogical information related to the Satterfield family of Warren County, later Allen County, Kentucky compiled by Julie Carter.


Russellville Institute - Russellville, Kentucky (Sc 1789), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Russellville Institute - Russellville, Kentucky (Sc 1789), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1789. Register of the Russellville Institute, Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky listing names of students, a conduct report for each, and tuition payment. Also birth, death, and marriage records of the Goucher family.


Edwards & Mcelroy Families - Bible Records (Sc 1732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Edwards & Mcelroy Families - Bible Records (Sc 1732), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1732. Photocopies of pages from the Edwards-McElroy family Bible that record births, death and marriages.


Mcreynolds Family Papers (Mss 56), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Mcreynolds Family Papers (Mss 56), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 56. Correspondence of Susannah and Thomas Phillips, and Mary J. (Phillips) McReynolds of Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky; McReynolds papers; manuscript booklets and autograph album; correspondence of Mary T. Moore and J.C. McReynolds relating to the collection; and biographical material.


Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 31, Number 3 & 4, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jul 2008

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 31, Number 3 & 4, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Website The Usgenweb Project, John A. Drobnicki Jul 2008

Review Of The Website The Usgenweb Project, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the website The USGenWeb project.


Shanks Family (Sc 1676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2008

Shanks Family (Sc 1676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1676. John R. Nelms's account of the Shanks family journey from Allen County, Kentucky to Hopkins County, Texas, December 1851 to February 1852.


Blackburn, Jeanie Daviess, 1847-1929 (Sc 1677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2008

Blackburn, Jeanie Daviess, 1847-1929 (Sc 1677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1677. Letter, 1 April 1902, from Sallie Briggs, Oakwood, Marion County, Missouri, to Jeanie Daviess Blackburn [Bowling Green, Kentucky] relating to Daviess/Davis family genealogy. Also, Daughters of the American Revolution membership application of Queenie Blackburn Coke.


Hudkins, Edgar Fernando, 1893-1977 (Sc 1670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2008

Hudkins, Edgar Fernando, 1893-1977 (Sc 1670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1670. Letter from Edgar Fernando Hudkins, Toul, France to his sister Vera (Hudkins) Pigue commenting on his plans to return home after completing his military service. Includes biographical and genealogical information.


Hammers, Clark Porter (Fa 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Hammers, Clark Porter (Fa 244), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 244. Paper: "The Porter Family of Butler County from 1736 to 1950" written by Clark Porter Hammers for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.


Review Of The Book Census Substitutes & State Census Records, John A. Drobnicki May 2008

Review Of The Book Census Substitutes & State Census Records, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book Census Substitutes & State Census Records.


Hobday Collection, 1895-1991 (Mss 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Hobday Collection, 1895-1991 (Mss 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 85. Genealogical materials revolving chiefly around the Hobday family of Tennessee and Kentucky as researched and collected by Bob Law, Nashville, Tennessee.


Corbin, Elvis G., 1848-1918 (Sc 1621), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Corbin, Elvis G., 1848-1918 (Sc 1621), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1621. Tax receipts from E.G. Corbin and Nancy (Nannie) Corbin, Logan County, Kentucky; receipts for payment of E.G. Corbin's burial expenses.


Clark Family Papers (Sc 1619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Clark Family Papers (Sc 1619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1619. Clark family correspondence, chiefly 1864-1865 letters from Confederate soldier Philip G. Clark, serving with the 28th Virginia Infantry, to his wife, Sarah, and children, near Roanoke, Virginia, commenting on the hardships faced by the troops and his desire to return home. Also, 1867 letter to Sarah Clark from her brother, George A. Mullen.


Houchin, Roy Franklin, Ii, B. 1954 (Sc 1602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Houchin, Roy Franklin, Ii, B. 1954 (Sc 1602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1602. Typescripts of interviews conducted by Roy Franklin Houchin, II with: Joe Richardson regarding early aviation and the aerospace industry, Douglas Campbell regarding his World War I aerial combat experience, and Bob Ford regarding World War I military uniforms. Includes Houchin family information.


Ratliff, Amelia E. (Sc 1613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Ratliff, Amelia E. (Sc 1613), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1613. Letter, 7 September 1978, from Amelia E. Ratliff, Lebanon, Kentucky to Irene Moss Sumpter, Bowling Green, Kentucky about Sumpter's book and the McElroy and Skiles families.


Jones, William Forest, 1891-1975 (Sc 1601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Jones, William Forest, 1891-1975 (Sc 1601), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1601. Copy of William Forest Jones's 1918 naval enrollment record and 1921 naval discharge; copy of 1924 certificate of marriage between Jones and Lizzie Kathleen Harlan. Also, information on the Jones and Harlan families.


Veluzat Family Papers, 1797-1985 (Sc 1568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Veluzat Family Papers, 1797-1985 (Sc 1568), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans of selected Civil War material (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1568. Receipts, inventories and letters relating to the business enterprises and travels of merchant Wade Veluzat, Barren County, Kentucky. Civil War letters to Union sympathizer Veluzat, military passes, and letters from his wife Eliza (Clark) Veluzat describing the family's situation at home. Material related to the Veluzat and Pace family genealogies is also included.


Knott Collection (Mss 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Knott Collection (Mss 53), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 53. Correspondence (business and family), business papers, speeches and drawings of J. Proctor Knott, 1830-1811, lawyer, congressman, and Kentucky governor, of Lebanon; family correspondence and business papers of Sarah (McElroy) Knott, 1833-1915; Civil War diaries and letters of Knott's mother (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescripts); letters of the Gibbs, McElroy and Chapman families chiefly of Marion and Warren Counties; clippings and photographs.


Devries, Virginia Hope (Posey), 1911-1998 (Mss 192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Devries, Virginia Hope (Posey), 1911-1998 (Mss 192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 192. Correspondence and research related to the Posey and Callis families. Includes a copy of a 1949 letter from Vice President Alben W. Barkley acknowledging his relationship to the Posey family.


Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 31, Number 1 & 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections Jan 2008

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 31, Number 1 & 2, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Adams County History 2008 Jan 2008

Adams County History 2008

Adams County History

No abstract provided.