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genealogies (histories)

 Subject

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Accounts or histories of the descent of persons, families, or other groups, from an ancestor or ancestors; enumerations of ancestors and their descendants in the natural order of succession.

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

Theodosia Burr Alston collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-159
Collection Overview

This collection contains items related to Theodosia Burr Alston and includes articles, genealogies, correspondence, photographs, and other miscellaneous and biographical materials.

Dates: 1814, 1861, 1954-1994
Found in: Special Collections

William Algernon Alston papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-157
Collection Overview

This collection consists of items related to William Algernon Alston and includes miscellaneous biographical, genealogical, and primary sources.

Dates: 1800s, 1963, 1971, undated
Found in: Special Collections

Isaac Auld collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-091
Collection Overview The collection includes a letter of recommendation from Dr. Auld, late principal of the Edisto Island Academy, dated March 10, 1815, from Rev. A.P. Thayer of the Classics Department of Edisto Island Academy. In this letter, Auld mentions that Thayer kept the school open during "the recent war" (the War of 1812). There is a copy of Auld's genealogy prepared by Earnest Malcom Auld in 1963. Also included is a copy of McDonald L. Burbedge's "Isaac Auld, A Founding Father of the Supreme Council,...
Dates: 1815, 2000, undated
Found in: Special Collections

Bacot family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0003
Collection Overview Papers of Josephine Bacot contain correspondence with family and friends including letters (one describes the Charleston earthquake of 1886) from Daniel Huger Bacot (1847-1920), Daniel Huger Bacot (b. 1888), and Walter Rhett Bacot. Letters (1888-1904) from her father Robert Barnwell Rhett at Huntsville, Alabama, concern family matters. Papers (1891-1896) concern Munster Plantation (Ashepoo, S.C.). Genealogical information relates to the Bacot, Horton, Walton, Leftwich, Rhett, and Huger...
Dates: 1860-1938
Found in: Special Collections

Blamyer family genealogy

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-149
Collection Overview

This collection consists of items related to the genealogy of the Blamyer family. It includes genealogies and other miscellaneous biographical materials.

Dates: 1941, 1978, undated
Found in: Special Collections

Blamyer family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-150
Collection Overview

This collection consists of items related to the Blamyer family and includes artifacts, certificates, church records, clippings, correspondence, genealogies, obituaries, photographs, wills, and other miscellaneous biographical and genealogical materials.

Dates: 1751-1976
Found in: Special Collections

Harry Blas and Erika Stockfleth Blas papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-029
Abstract

The collection consists mainly of copy negatives, slides, and digital images of pre-World War II photographs of the families of Harry Blas, born in Łódź, Poland, and Erika Stockfleth Blas, born in Grevesmühlen, Germany. Also included is a short memoir by Harry Blas detailing his experiences in the Łódź ghetto and Auschwitz concentration camp, and a handwritten genealogy of the Stockfleth family by Erika Blas.

Dates: circa 1910-circa 1980
Found in: Special Collections

Bryan, Carson, Moses, and Werber family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1152
Abstract The Bryan, Carson, Moses, and Werber families of Sumter County, South Carolina, represent the relationships between Jewish and Christian families in 19th century South Carolina. Henry Claremont Moses, of a prominent Jewish family, married Andrena Werber, of a Christian family, in 1878; their daughter Catherine married William Alfred Bryan. This collection contains papers, correspondence, photographs/daguerreotypes, genealogical records, and artifacts from the Bryan branch of the family. A...
Dates: approximately 1840s-2011; Majority of material found within 1911-1984
Found in: Special Collections

John Cordes estate book, 1764-1798 (typescript copy)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-017
Collection Overview Typescript copy of the John Cordes estate book (1764-1798) transcribed during a 1935-1937 W.P.A. project. Inventory and appraisal (1764) of the John Cordes estate contains lists of slaves (names and appraised values), dishes, furniture, linens, animals, rice, indigo, and other items. The volume also includes slaves (with names and valuations) taken by Catharine Cordes of Charleston (S.C.), and by Theodore Gaillard. Memorandums signed by the estate's executor Samuel Cordes are with other...
Dates: 1937
Found in: Special Collections

William Blamyer Deas papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-145
Collection Overview

This collection consists of items related to William Blamyer Deas and includes correspondence and pamphlets as well as a genealogy, photograph, and family history.

Dates: 1869-1965
Found in: Special Collections
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