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"Ancestors and Descendants of Frances Christina McCreath Taylor"
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P211
Overview
Typescript of "Ancestors and Descendants of Frances Christina McCreath Taylor," written in Lawrence, Kansas in 1965 by author, Frances Christina McCreath Taylor. Description of the genealogy of Taylor from 1811 to 1965.
Dates:
1965
Douglas County Genealogical Society records
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1450
Overview
This collection includes records of the Douglas County Genealogical Society in Kansas dating from its founding in 1975 to the early 2000s. The collection includes meeting minutes, financial records and treasurer's reports, and other administrative records for the organization. There are also a number of the organization's quarterly newsletters, "The Pioneer," including a small history of their logo and information on the numerous workshops and seminars they have held in Lawrence, KansasS.
Dates:
1975 - 2002
Family History database project related to in-migration to Kansas
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 161
Overview
This project originated as part of the course requirements for History 8, United States History, 1865 to the Present, taught by William Juhnke, in an effort to build a database related to in-migration to Kansas. The collection has since been added to by Mark Rose.
Dates:
1974 - 1978
Family Pedigree Charts
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P342
Overview
Photocopies of Chaffin-Shorb pedigree chart and of Baker-Brenner pedigree chart.
Dates:
unknown
Fay Talley papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 622
Overview
The collection of Fay Stainbrook Talley, a longtime Lawrence, Kansas, resident, contains primarily photocopies of reference material for genealogical research, Talley family genealogical information, and materials relating to her participation in various clubs and organizations including the Lawrence Flower Club, Douglas County Historical Society, Rebekah Lodge, and Pilot Club.
Dates:
1870 - 2006
Hall Family Correspondence
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P413
Overview
Photocopies of handwritten letters and of typed transcriptions of correspondence between members of the Hezekiah Hall family of Illinois and Kansas. The letters discuss the Civil War (several of the brothers were Union soldiers), farming in Illinois and Kansas, homesteading in Kansas, and family members and friends. Also included is a list of the family members with a short biography of each, a note by James B. Martin, the transcriber, and a list of letters sent and received by Susan Hall in...
Dates:
1863 - 1866
Harrell - Willey family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 1522
Overview
This collection contains family memorobilia, including photographs, biographies, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks dating from the 19th through the early 21st centuries for the Harrell and Willey families, who settled in Kansas during the territorial era and early statehood.
Dates:
1803 - 2012
John Gideon Haskell papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P387
Overview
Typescript (carbon copy) of "The Haskell Family of Weathersfield, Vermont, 1787-1933, compiled by John Gideon Haskell," and typescript (transcript, carbon copy) of the "Will of Roger Haskell of Beverly, [1667], copied from the original on file in Essex County Probate Office."
Dates:
between 1832 and 1907
Mildred P. Reid Mounger papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 458
Overview
The papers of Mildred P. Reid Mounger are those of a Kansas native who, through the Capital Household Technicians and Topeka Household Technicians both of which she began, worked to better conditions for household workers.
Dates:
1904-1988
Personal papers of Nellie Barnes
Collection
Call Number: PP 466
Overview
Nellie Barnes taught Rhetoric at the University of Kansas from 1918-1956. Her collection includes maps, stories of Kansas lore and history, student theme papers, and lyrics to folk songs. The bulk of the collection comprises personal and family papers, project manuscripts and miscellaneous research with content dating back to 1750, and alphabetical files of letters to author Mary Austin. A carbon set of the letters is at the end of the collection.
Dates:
1900 - 1960
Proven ancestry of John Edwin Darby and Charlotte Amelia Bremerman
Collection — Folder: 1
Call Number: RH MS P200
Overview
Proven ancestory of John Edwin Darby and Charlotte Amelia Bremerman. A supplement to John Edwin Darby, his descendants, and known ancestors. Manhattan, Kansas, 1967.
Dates:
1967
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