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Genealogy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 158 Collections and/or Records:

Hardy County Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1745
Overview A travel journal, ca. 1857; a diary, 1941; survey records, 1894-1896; account books, 1788-1811 - 1891-1894; county and parish tax levies, 1800; a book of geographic terms and facts kept by Susan I. Branson in 1836; and a Branson family record book. People mentioned include Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Places mentioned include: Cincinnati, Ohio; and, in West Virginia, Romney, Evansville, Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Coolville, Athens, Branch Mountain, Moorefield, Front Run Valley, Camp Branch Run,...
Dates: 1788-1941
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Harness Family Genealogy

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3211
Overview

Documents and papers in support of A Glimpse of the Past: The History of the Harness Family, a photocopy of family records, arranged by name, containing genealogical information by birth certificates, estate papers, obituaries, death certificates, etc. Separate names with files include Mary Crenshaw, Arthur Harness, Harold Harness, Joseph Harness, Leonard Harness, Michael Harness, and William Harness. There is also a computer disk on PAF "Personal Ancestral File" of the Harness family.

Dates: 1779-1983
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Harold W. Black, Compiler, West of the Alleghenies

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2443
Overview Photocopy of the book West of the Alleghenies, compiled in 1961 by Harold W. Black, containing genealogical information about the related Hopwood, Gaddis, Norris, and Farmer families. Provides a narrative history of the families of John Hopwood (1745-1802) of Dumfries, Virginia; Thomas Gaddis (1736-1830) of Winchester, Virginia; William Norris of Maryland and then Monongalia County, Virginia (now West Virginia); and John Farmer (1749-1810) of Winchester,...
Dates: 1961
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Harrison and Doddridge Counties, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1018
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings, principally from Harrison and Doddridge county papers, concerning W. Va. Servicemen in World War I, weather and flood reports, and miscellaneous West Virginia Subjects. There are also some clippings from Parkersburg and various Ohio papers.

Dates: 1917-1950
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Harrison and Doddridge Counties, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1015
Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings, mainly from Doddridge and Harrison county, concerning marriages, deaths, family histories, letters from World War I service men, nurses, and from former residents who had moved, or gone to other states to teach, including a series of letters from L.P. Willis from the Phillippine Islands and Japan. Mr.Willis was employed as a teacher and Head Of the Bureau of Education in Japan, and the Phillipines for twenty years. Also, included in the collection are tax and school...
Dates: 1778-1955
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hazel Groves Hansrote, Compiler, Genealogical Records, Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1113
Scope and Contents

Typescript, "18th and 19th Century People, Couples, Family Groups, 'Bite of History', Sidelights of History" of early Virginia and Kentucky. Primarily names from county marriage registers.

Dates: 1958, 1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hazel Groves Hansrote, Compiler, Genealogical Records, Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1181
Scope and Contents

Typescript copy of an Abraham Lincoln genealogy compiled by Mrs. Hazel Grove Hansrote.

Dates: 1958, 1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hazel Groves Hansrote, Compiler, Genealogical Records, Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1207
Scope and Contents

These records, compiled by Mrs. Hansrote, consist of a nine page typescript genealogy of President Andrew Johnson and a seven page typescript of Patterson branch of the Andrew Johnson family. The latter include copies of Patterson family letters.

Dates: 1958, 1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hazel Groves Hansrote, Compiler, Genealogical Records, Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1263
Scope and Contents

Typescript compilation of the family records of the Finleys (Findley, Findlay); the Kables (Kabel, Cabel, Cobel, etc., descendants of Casper Kabel,[1731-1815]); James Sheakley; and the Senoindivers (Zinsindorffer, Simpsendorfer, Sensendorfer).

Dates: 1958, 1959
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hazel Groves Hansrote, Compiler, Genealogical Records, Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1045
Scope and Contents Booklet No. 1, 18th and 19th Century People, compiled by Hazel Groves Hansrote, 1957. Lists names of pioneers, ministers, soldiers, and teachers of early [West] Virginia, and adjoining counties of Maryland, with places of, residence and dates as compiled from approximately sixteen sources, including Withers Chronicles of Border Warfare; Hampshire County Court Records; Virginia Genealogy and County Records; Official Records of Frederick County; American State Papers, Claims XIX, Virginia;...
Dates: 1700-1958
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center