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Genealogy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 159 Collections and/or Records:

Monongalia Historical Society Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0722
Scope and Contents Records regarding the history of Monongalia County, West Virginia.Boxes 1-14 contain: clippings and miscellaneous printed materials relating to Monongalia county history; genealogical compilations and correspondence relating to the genealogy of Monongalia county families, prepared by Thomas Ray Dille; business correspondence of the society, 1924-1927; correspondence and records of the West Virginia Historical Society, ca. 1925-1931; miscellaneous court records, family letters and...
Dates: 1827-1935; Majority of material found within 1925-1935
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mr. & Mrs. Ralph H. Sayre, Compilers, Genealogy Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3120
Overview

Genealogical information on the related families of Dorner (Danner) and Fast (Faust, Fass), more specifically of the family line of Nicklaus Faust and Cadarina Danner Faust of Fayette Co., PA. Included is a note of correction on an article published in the Monongalia Chronicle about the Dorner relatives of Cadarina Faust.

Dates: 1984-1992
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mrs. Delbert Dyer, Compiler, Genealogical Charts of the Dyer Family of Pendleton County

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2021
Overview

Genealogical charts for three consecutive generations (circa 1730 - circa 1840) of the Dyer family of Pendleton County, West Virginia, including William Dyer (ca. 1730s - 1758), Roger Dyer (1755 - 1810), and Zebulon Dyer (born 1804). Compiled by Mrs. Delbert Dyer of Dearborn, Michigan.

Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mrs. Lawrence M. Cox Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1206
Scope and Contents Genealogical records compiled and collected by Mrs. Cox include correspondence, Revolutionary War records of Monongalia County veterans, Bible records of various West Virginia families, and the records of the Thomas Cox, James Curtis, George Dement, John Devore, Lewis Frankenberry, Dennis Springer, Joseph Bennett, John Burrough, Ulwrick Hostetter, Samuel Hyman, James Coburn (Cobun), Daniel Vanata, David Wherry, Whitham, and Jacob Wolfe families. The collection also includes the diary of J.H....
Dates: ca. 1816, 1859, 1924-1940
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mrs. Louis S. Bushfield, Compiler, Genealogies

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2033
Overview

Includes correspondence, genealogical notes, charts, magazines, newspapers, and books collected and compiled by Mrs. Louis S. Bushfield, a genealogist interested in the tri-state area (West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania).

Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mrs. Louise Morris, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1808
Scope and Contents Materials Collected by Mrs. Louise Morris, genealogist and authority on local history. The collection includes a notebook kept by J. H. Wherry, a student at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1859; a genealogy of the DeVaul, Haun, [F]ast families of Marion and Monongalia counties, 1817-1957; an essay on "Immigration" by George Whitham, 1896, favoring immigration restriction because of the increased number coming from " the Latin races of southeastern Europe;" land surveys from dead books, 1827-1933,...
Dates: 1859-1964
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Nathan Ochs Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2163
Overview Papers of the Nathan Ochs family of Shelby and Jefferson County, Kentucky, document the family history from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century and chiefly concern his children. Letters from siblings Simon, Nathan Jr., and Sallie Ochs are written from Kentucky to their brother, Charles, in California between 1884 and the early 1900s. Topics chiefly include the weather, their farms (crops, animals, and farm workers), family news, and their mother's illness and death....
Dates: 1813-1970; Majority of material found in 1884-1924
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Neale Family (Parkersburg, W.Va.) Genealogy

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1825
Overview

Genealogy of the Richard Neale (1743-1816) and Francis Underwood Neale (d. before 1800) family from 1620 to 1962. Includes children of Richard and Francis Neale and the descendants of their son, Thomas Neale (1774-1834) and his wife, Margaret C. Winn Neale (1775-1823), who lived in Wood County, Virginia, now West Virginia. Thomas Neale was a merchant in Parkersburg.

Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Nell Lanham Leonian (1892-1975) Papers, Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2000
Overview

A Morgantown resident's account of her student years at West Virginia University and of experiences as a teacher at her alma mater and in southern West Virginia. Included is a history of the Bailey, Lanham, and Pepper families.

Dates: 1967
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Newlon-Camden Families, History and Genealogy

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1802
Overview Typescript genealogical notes and narrative family histories of the Newlon and Camden families from the 1600s to the 1930s. Chiefly contains information about the James H. Camden family of Maryland (and later, West Virginia) from the 1720s to the 1930s, including records about properties owned and the sale of land; birth, marriage, and death dates; transcripts of obituaries; and transcripts of letters sent between family members researching and gathering family history between 1909 and 1932....
Dates: 1909-1934
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center