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Genealogy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 158 Collections and/or Records:

Chris Kidwell, Compiler, Bodkin Family Civil War Letters and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3840
Overview Contains material regarding the Bodkin family of Pendleton County, West Virginia. Items within the collection include two Civil War era letters written by William H. Bodkin, other letters, sheriff's summons, receipts, a funeral program, genealogical information, and photographs of Bodkin family members with identification. The collection also contains a brown velvet bonnet and a black scarf; six homemade quilts and a quilted pillow; and a fedora hat. All items within this collection, except...
Dates: 1827-1971, undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clement Ross Jones (1871-1939) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0084
Scope and Contents Correspondence, newspapers, and newspaper clippings concerning the service records of West Virginia University students, former students, and alumni collected by Dean C. R. Jones for the compilation of the University Honor Roll. Also several bulletins, pamphlets, and circulars on the war activities of various university and veteran’s hospitals, including: West Virginia Wesleyan, Shepherd College, University of Arizona, University of Cincinnati, Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic...
Dates: 1917-1934
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clement Ross Jones (1871-1939) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1173
Scope and Contents Personal and genealogical papers of the Dean of the WVU College of Engineering from 1911 to 1932. The papers deal with academic pursuits including the controversy over the reorganization of the Engineering College in 1931-32, and his social and professional activities. Four boxes contain genealogical notes and history on some of the first Ohio Valley families including the Wickliffe, Harden, Monroe, Gambrill, and Jones families. For detailed listing of the collection see the inventory...
Dates: 1890-1932
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clement Ross Jones (1871-1939) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1490
Scope and Contents

Collection contains histories of the Hardin, Iglehart, Kincheloe, Waters, Wickliffe, and allied families such as Neal, Logan, Foley, Lewis, Peadro, Phelps, Monroe, Dils, McQuilkin, and others. Collection also includes Jones' correspondence relating to the above genealogies and some newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1934-1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Courtney-Lazell Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1875
Overview The collection includes photocopies of land grants (1798, 1801, 1802, and 1832), treasury warrant records (1779-1780), survey maps, and property maps (two originals, ca. 1966) relating to landholdings, family farms, and tracts in Monongalia County, West Virginia containing Pittsburgh coal seams owned by Thomas Lazzell, Robert Courtney, Michael Courtney, and their descendants in Monongalia County, West Virginia. There are also photocopies of church baptism records (1756-1825) and a War of...
Dates: 1966-1994
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Cutright Collection

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0802
Scope and Contents

The correspondence and notes of Corinne E. Cutright, principally concerning her work as a genealogist, containing information on many family names, see processing notes for partial listing. There are, also, newspaper clippings and miscellaneous printed material regarding Upshur County, Harrison County, and general West Virginia history; obituaries; Civil War; and a list of Revolutionary War soldiers and pensioners.

Dates: 1902-1949
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Cutright Collection of Genealogy and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0202
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous correspondence, newspaper clippings, and printed matter relating to West Virginia genealogies.

Dates: 1924-1948
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Cutright Family Genealogy Collection

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0635
Scope and Contents The main part of this collection is comprised of obituaries clipped from Buckhannon, Clarksburg and Parkersburg newspapers, 1926-1939. Also 17 issues of Buckhannon and Clarksburg newspapers, 1917-1938; and the roto section of the Sunday Herald, Boston Mass., Aug 10, 1924 featuring reproductions of Civil War pictures in the Library of Congress, including several concerning WV. Some correspondence of Iva, Corrine, Allene, Mollie and Pearl Cutright, including a few letters from school friends,...
Dates: 1887-1888, 1917-1950
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

C.W. Cramer Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0351
Overview

Papers of a Morgantown attorney, including correspondence, broadsides, and other materials relating to politics in Monongalia County, West Virginia.

Dates: 1894-1918
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Daughters of the American Revolution, Elizabeth Ludington Hagans Chapter, Morgantown, West Virginia Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0474
Overview

Correspondence, reports, and other manuscripts of the Morgantown chapter of the D.A.R., relating to the history of Stewartstown, Morgantown, and Monongalia County; also genealogical materials for this area.

Dates: 1892, 1903-1947
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center