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Genealogy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 158 Collections and/or Records:

Bennett and Related Families Genealogy and History

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3182
Overview Articles and charts of genealogy of the Bennett and allied families of Campbell, Dentzer, Dyer, Ellsworth, Fast, Forinash, Hinkle (Henkle/Henckel), Layman, McCally, Skidmore, Wagner and Weaver. Often mentioned names are John Bennett, Joseph Bennett, Levi Bennett, William Bennett, James Campbell, Moses Ellsworth, Anthonius Jacobus Henckel, John Justus Henckel, John Skidmore and Levi Skidmore. There are articles on the Bennett Coat of Arms, James Campbell, John Justus Henckel and Hinkle's...
Dates: 1992
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Bernard E. Hunter, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1165
Overview

Correspondence, notes, clippings, and articles on the town of Bath (Berkeley Springs), West Virginia, West Virginia Foundation for Crippled Children, the State Health Department, and the genealogy of the Allen-Kesecker, Buzzard, Joseph Cox, Ensminger, John Grove, Gano, Gore, High, Wheat, and Zeilor families.

Dates: ca. 1922-1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Brand Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1602
Scope and Contents

Genealogical studies, "Some Genealogical Notes on the Family of Samuel and Elizabeth Musgrave," and "Some Genealogical Notes on the McDougal Family" (Supplement to the Brand Family Records, 1922), compiled by a Morgantown lawyer and genealogist, Frank M. Brand.

Dates: 1962
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Brooks F. McCabe, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2267
Overview

Two personal diaries of R.E. McCabe of Charleston, West Virginia, containing notes on trips to Europe (1924) and California (1937). On the California trip he briefly describes Kansas City, Boulder, Denver, Santa Fe, Taos, and Los Angeles, muses on real estate values, and notes oil rigs and pipelines. There is a short genealogy of the Hayward family. The diaries also include references to the Ward, Fleming, Brooks, and Watson families.

Dates: ca. 1770-1937
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Browning-Weaver Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3175
Overview Family history papers consisting of a list of the descendants of Edmund Browning, Jr. and Jane Curry Browning, a typescript history of the Browning family, a Browning family tree chart, and a pedigree chart for Henry Hamilton Weaver of Barbour Co. There is also a typescript account of the experiences of the Daniel Weaver family during 1855 in the Kansas Territory and its return to Gilmer Co., including a description of dealings with Pottawatomie Indians, a cholera epidemic, and Kansas...
Dates: 1885-1990
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Burrell Family Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1900
Overview

Records regarding descendants of Francis Burrell (1760-1852) to support membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution. Also are the descendants of Rebecca Burrell Hanner, William Arthur Hanner and William A Hanner. Material covers the years 1760-1958.

Dates: 1958
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Capt. William Sommerville (1756-1826) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1750
Scope and Contents Correspondence and genealogical materials related to the William B. Edwards family of King George County, Virginia, and the Capt. William Sommerville family of Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These families were joined when Elizabeth Sommerville (1812-1886), daughter of the Revolutionary War veteran, married William B. Edwards (1810-1888), a Methodist clergyman from a planter family, in 1833.Collection...
Dates: 1799-1888
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles Carpenter (1889-1975) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2471
Overview

Correspondence and manuscripts of articles by Grafton resident Charles Carpenter (1889-1975), a historian, writer, and collector of West Virginia memorabilia. The collection also contains a brief genealogy of the Haymond family and an incomplete Upshur County, West Virginia court record book of 1853-1856.

Dates: 1853-1860
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles Carpenter, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1773
Scope and Contents Scrapbooks maintained by Charles Carpenter, Grafton, between 1939-1963. Subjects include descriptions of libraries, book and manuscript collections, museums, rare and unusual books, magazines, book reviews, newspapers, and advertisements for books. There are items as early as 1838, 1875, 1898, 1905, 1917, but the mass of the collection is in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Recurrent topics include book...
Dates: 1829-1963
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Charles W. Hawley, Compiler, Genealogy

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1114
Overview

Includes "Our Trumbull Heritage" by Charles W. Hawley. There is documentation of the Davis, Dyer, Feathers, Hawley, Keister, Peck, Propst, and Trembly families.

Dates: 1981
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center