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0255: Catherine Bliss Enslow Papers, 1890-1972, Marshall University Special Collections

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Personal and family papers comprise a large portion of this collection. Miss Enslow collected numerous newspaper and magazine clippings on a variety of subjects, especially those dealing with socially prominent individuals on the local, national, and international levels. Too, she saved many items of correspondence between members of her family. Magazines, booklets, scrapbooks, and books are also included in this part of the collection. Most notable among the books is the Kelly Family Bible, which belonged to her maternal ancestors.

Copies of many of her columns and articles are included, along with other items relating to her career as a …

0289: Francis Mcculloch Family Records, 1639-1979, Marshall University Special Collections

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Manuscript titled `The Family of Isaac Lemaster of Mason County, West Virginia.' Includes marriages into Love, Meeks, Eekard, and Barnett families.

0266: Everard Meynell Letters, 1923(?), Marshall University Special Collections

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The collection consists of two letters by Everard Meynell to a Wilma (no last name) in Belmont, San Mateo County, California. The letters include comments on the sale of “The Letters of George Meredith to Alice Meynell, with annotations thereto, 1896-1907”, and gives news of the family. The letters were found in a copy of said book.

Muhlenberg County Heritage Volume 1, Number 1, Kentucky Library Research Collections

Muhlenberg County Heritage

“The Muhlenberg County [Kentucky] Heritage” was published four times a year by the Muhlenberg County Genealogical Society in Greenville, Kentucky, from 1978 to 2001. The cover title sometimes appears as “The Heritage.” The publication’s purpose was to support the society and to publish information about the genealogy, culture, and history of Muhlenberg County. A separate annual index was printed each year for volumes 1-14. Afterwards, each issue was indexed separately. Generally, the index is to surnames only.

Traces Volume 6, 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.

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 1, Number 2, Department Of Library Special Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.

White County Heritage 1978 No. 4, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

News and Notes
White County Citizen, June 11, 1913 (reprint)
The Faulkner Family of White County, Arkansas by LTC L.M. Crook, Jr.
Who Remembers Clay Fulks? by Claude Johnson
Cullum Cemetery by Jane Goodwin

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 1, Martha B. Kriebel, William T. Parsons, Phyllis Vibbard Parsons, Antje Sommer, Judith E. Fryer

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Women, Servants and Family Life in Early America
• "Be it Remembered that these Indentured Servants and Apprentices"
• Gute Socha fer Hame tzu Nemma
• Taufscheine: A New Index for People Hunters
• Aldes / Neies

Traces Volume 6, 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.

White County Heritage 1978 No. 3, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

News of This and That by Mrs. L.E. Presley
Searcy Bank (reprint)
First National Bank Opens (copied)
1900 Census Available by R.P. Baker
White Countian Member of the Holland Society
Arkansas Historical Commission Biographical Memoranda of John Austin Pangburn
White County Historical Meeting - Confederate Program by Ruth Chaney
WCHS Visits Morris Home by Ina Leach
Letter (Annual Convention Western History Association) - University of Arkansas
Searcy Baptist Church (reprint)
Arkansas Genealogical Society

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, No. 4, Don Yoder, Yvonne J. Milspaw, Sara L. Matthews, Mark Workman, George A. Boeck, Jo Ann Early

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Dialect Church Service in the Pennsylvania German Culture
• Witchcraft Belief in a Pennsylvania German Family
• German Settlement of Northern Chester County in the 18th Century
• Medical Practice in Philadelphia at the Time of the Yellow Fever Epidemic, 1793
• Folkloric Aspects of the Common Law in Western Pennsylvania, 1790-1799
• Runaway Advertisements: A Source for the Study of Working-Class Costume

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, Folk Festival Supplement, Richard Shaner, Tom Ahern, Theodore W. Jentsch, Mary E. Sise, Robert W. Murphy, John E. Stinsmen, Barry Mcfarland, Paul E. Forster, Anne E. Denney, Kristen R. Angstadt, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Hex Signs: A Living Tradition
• Decoys and How to Make Them
• Kutztown's Plain People
• The Old Country Kitchen: Where Food Preparation was an Art
• Wooden Toys, Games and Puzzles: The Delight of All Children
• A Sketch of the Seminar Stage Programs
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Programs
• The Furniture-Makers at the Kutztown Festival
• The Muzzle-Loading Gunsmith
• Those Rare Things Called "Antiques!"
• Mouth-Watering Baked Goods, Fresh From the Ovens!
• The Art of the Potter

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter Volume 1, Number 1, Department Of Library Special Collections

Longhunter, Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Traces Volume 6, 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.

White County Heritage 1978 No. 2, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Again We Plead by Ina Leach
Jim Wiseman by Esther Smith
Politics 1872
White County Heritage Museum by Mrs. L.E. Presley
Pleasant Grove Cemetery by Jane Gassaway
Rare and Out-of-Print Books Reprinted by Mrs. L.E.Presley
County Records Filmed by Mrs. L.E. Presley

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, No. 3, Don Yoder, Katherine Ann Jarrett, Janet Theophano, Louis Winkler

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Spiritual Lineage of Shakerism
• Pennsylvania in the Romantic Age of Tourism
• Neighborhood Influence on Mailbox Style
• Feast, Fast, and Time
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology XVI: The Gruber-Baer Era
• Advertisements of Urban Healers
• Views of Harrisburg

1978 Keystonia, Kutztown State College

Yearbooks 1970-1979

The yearbook of the class of 1978 from Kutztown State College, now Kutztown University, in Kutztown, PA.

Traces Volume 5, 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.

White County Heritage 1978 No. 1, White County Historical Society

White County Heritage Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

President's Message by Ina Leach
Families of Lebanon County by Elouise Scott
White County Pioneer Ancestors by Donald Brown
Arkansas Folklore Society
Arkansas History Commission Letter
Massey Cemetery by Presley and Rowe
Things You Should Know

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 27, No. 2, James Moss, Holly Cutting Baker, Robert A. Barakat, Karl J. R. Arndt

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Gentlemen of the Road: Outlaw-Heroes of Early Pennsylvania in Life & Legend
• Patent Medicine in Pennsylvania Before 1906: A History Through Advertising
• Raising a Tobacco Shed
• Bicentennial Exhibitions and Publications in Germany
• Work and Work Attitudes: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 50

Stampers In Kentucky, Carter County Genealogical Society, Martha Stamper

Carter County Genealogy Collection

A book titled, Stampers in Kentucky: 1790-1850.

Stamper Stage Newsletter, 1978-1980, Carter County Genealogical Society, G. K. Inman

Carter County Genealogy Collection

The Stamper Stage newsletter published from December of 1978 to September of 1980.

0236: Fred B. Lambert Papers, 1809-1964, Marshall University Special Collections

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The Fred Lambert Collection consists primarily of notebooks containing information on families and local history of Cabell and Wayne Counties, West Virginia. Included are cemetery readings, copies of deeds, wills, indentures, newspaper articles, research notes and notes of interviews conducted by Mr. Lambert of Cabell County residents. Material on Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Kanawha, and Boone Counties is also included.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Fred B. Lambert Papers, 1809-1964 here.

0210: Beatrice Malcom Ruffner Papers, 1940, Marshall University Special Collections

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Photographic reproductions of original documents, including copies of D.A.R. lineage papers, family histories, and genealogical research. Family names include Ruffner, Hull, Gaines, Ankrom.

0230: Gill Family Typescript, 1947, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection contains a typescript titled “Notes on the Origin and History of the Gill Family” collected at the 1947 Gill family annual meeting.

Friedheim Family Papers - Accession 159, Friedheim Family

Manuscript Collection

The Friedheim Family Papers consist of family histories, correspondence, financial records, wills, land deeds, and newspaper clippings, relating to the Rock Hill, South Carolina family. There is much material concerning the financial affairs and estate of Arnold Friedheim and his brother, Julius Friedheim , owners of Friedheim ’s Department Store, and the heirs to their estates, which included the members of the Marshall Family. Also included are the executors annual reports concerning actions taken in carrying out the terms of the Friedheim’s will and a genealogy of the John Clawson Family.

0238: Dr. Margaret Ballard Papers, 1968-1976, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection consists of collected newspaper clippings and articles printed about Ballard during her life and at the time of her death by Elizabeth Czompo. Also included in the collection is a letter from Ballard to Czompo regarding Ballard’s interest in genealogy and history.

0280: Homer Gebhardt Papers, 1547-1966, Marshall University Special Collections

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Genealogical material on Wilson, Baumgardner, Halsey families of Cabell County, West Virginia and Wythe County, Virginia. Collection contains three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings related to Marshall University activities and athletics.

0221: Ruth Winters Odell Papers, 1931-1978, Marshall University Special Collections

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Cabell County, West Virginia, resident. Papers include Rector family genealogy, photographs and papers relating to Mrs. Odell's work with the Cabell County Farm Bureau, including membership lists and minutes of meetings, and a letter from William Utterback of Marshall College.

0232: Butler Family Papers, 1590-1977, Marshall University Special Collections

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This collection contains information about the Butler family and Crossman family, including a series of newspaper articles about Austin Butler and the Butler family. Also included is genealogical information about the Butler and Crossman families and correspondence by Robert Chapman with the WV Department of Archives and History about his ancestors’ service in the Civil War.