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Genealogy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 159 Collections and/or Records:

Samuel T. Wiley (1850-1905) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1842
Overview Letters, notebooks, scrapbooks, diaries, manuscripts, and memorabilia of a secondary schoolteacher in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and Preston County, and an author and local historian of Preston and Monongalia counties in West Virginia. The collection includes notes on history, orthography, new method arithmetic, two teachers report books of 1872-1885 and 1879-1880, teachers' certificates, a Wiley family genealogy, manuscripts on slavery, Odd Fellowship, public schools, after-dinner...
Dates: 1872-1905
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Smith-Riffe Collection, History and Genealogy of Lower New River Valley

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3033
Overview A local history and genealogies of the lower New River valley compiled by Aubrey O. Smith and Judge Winton A. Riffe of Beckley. The collection contains a section on local history covering 29 counties in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. The section on local history is comprised of church records, community histories, county court records and cemetery transcriptions. The collection mostly consists of the genealogies of 207 family names and their sources such as personal memoirs,...
Dates: 1930-1980
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Stanton C. Crawford, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2027
Overview Papers regarding the history of Pittsburgh, the Ohio Valley region, and the Crawford family collected by Stanton C. Crawford. Includes correspondence, notes, articles, genealogical material, a typed manuscript, an account book, and two photographs. Crawford's correspondence regards subjects such as literature, genealogy, and other topics. Genealogical material relates to the Crawford and allied families, including the Brown, Hodges, and Wilson families. The manuscript, by Crawford, is...
Dates: 1842-1964
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Strother Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3404
Scope and Contents Papers regarding the Strother family, particularly David Hunter Strother, a writer and illustrator for Harpers Magazine, who published under the pseudonym "Porte Crayon." Contains artwork (including some from Strother's time in Mexico and some by other artists), correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and material regarding the genealogy and history of the Strother family.Series include:Series 1. Initial Acquisition, Letters, Clippings, Photographs...
Dates: 1846-1990
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Sue Proctor Miller, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0866
Scope and Contents

Microfilm of Braxton County marriage bonds, 1836-1853; biographical and genealogical notes on Michael (Malcolm) Coleman in Jackson County, William White, the Staats family, and Andersen family of Wood and Jackson counties; and a narrative sketch of early Ravenswood written by Eunice Proctor Perkins.

Dates: 1836-1853
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Sweeney Family Bible

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3793
Overview

One bible owned by the Sweeney family of Monongalia County, West Virginia, including John B. Sweeney (1827-1887) and Harriet Sweeney (1835-1921).

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

Thomas Hughes, Genealogy and Family History

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3977
Overview

Material regarding Thomas Hughes (b. 1822) and the Hughes family of Greene County, Pennsylvania. Includes copies of two editions of Hughes's book "My Family Memoirs" (1st edition, 1880; 2nd edition, 1918), and wills and estates of various members of the Hughes family. There are also digital copies of the wills and estates. All items within this collection are reproductions.

Dates: 1817-1918
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Thomas Ray Dille Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0191
Scope and Contents

Four notebooks of Col. John Evans family history prepared by Thomas Ray Dille; (maps of voting districts in Monongalia County) papers of the Monongalia County Historical Society; and copies of the constitution and charter of the York County (Pa.) Historical Society

Dates: ca. 1774-1939
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Thomas Ray Dille Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0357
Scope and Contents Gift of the brothers and sisters of Thomas Ray Dille, lawyer, historian, and genealogist of Morgantown W.Va. This collection contains the family histories of the Dille, David Evans, and John Evans families, as well as the Ray, Stewart, McFarland, and Tennant families. Materials include five loose leaf volumes of cemetery records of Monongalia County; family records of Monongalia County, and family Bible records. Additional materials about the Forks of Cheat Baptist Church,...
Dates: ca. 1774-1939
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Thomas Ray Dille Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0171
Scope and Contents Papers of a Morgantown attorney, genealogist, and antiquarian. There are several series of office files relating to Dille's law practice, and extensive correspondence regarding his historical and genealogical studies. Families for which there are genealogical compilations include Dille, Ray, Stewart, McFarland, Tennant, David Evans, and John Evans. Monongalia County birth and death records; cemetery readings; copies of wills and indexes of will books; names in real estate and appraisement...
Dates: 1781-1948
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center