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Tompkins County (N.Y.) -- Genealogy.

 Subject
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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Amos Canfield genealogical papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 420
Scope and content Handwritten and typescript notes relating to the genealogical research of Dr. Amos Canfield. Includes copies of wills, probate records, deeds, and genealogies from Tompkins, Tioga, Chemung, and Orange Counties in New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut. Families include Crossman, Edmund Jackson (of Boston, Mass.), Thomas Canfield, Foshay, and Knapp. Also, handwritten copy of the records of the Tioga County Medical Society, 1871-1887, and the Town of Candor, 1812-1874; and typescript...
Dates: undated.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Amos Canfield genealogical papers

Charles F. Mulks papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3654
Abstract

Includes 24 scrapbooks and 12 notebooks compiled by Mulks with material relating to Tompkins County and nearby areas..

Dates: 1799-1905, 1975.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Charles F. Mulks papers

Crispell family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3801
Scope and content

Includes volume entitled "Crispell Family," a genealogical record of the family compiled by Lora Pauline (Winchell) Crispell and revised by Viola Madeline (Williams) Crispell, 1977; photocopies of three volumes of diaries of Peter P. Crispell, who lived on a farm in Slaterville Springs, New York, dated 1891-92, 1893-94, and 1898-99; four pages of genealogical notes; and a color photograph and negative of the Crispell home.



Dates: 1891-1977,-1891-1899 (bulk).
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Crispell family papers

Dunham family genealogy

 Collection — Manuscript box 39 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065247839]
Identifier: 1596m
Scope and content

11 leaves containing notes from the family Bible of Alfred and Ruth Dunham Heffron, and other notes compiled by Ruth Dunham Heffron, recording names, births, marriages, and deaths of members of the Dunham family of Etna, New York, and their descendants. Families include the Cash, Dunham, Heffron, Wood, and other families of Tompkins County, New York and Bradford County, Pennsylvania; and also the Carr, Moore, Tracy, Woodcock, and Bush families.

Dates: 1763-1918.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Dunham family genealogy

McWhorter family miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 36 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065247367]
Identifier: 1449m
Scope and content

Manuscript leaves and newspaper clippings documenting births, deaths, and marriages in the McWhorter family. Also, leaflet from Libbie J. Sweetland's campaign as the Prohibition and Democratic candidate for School Commissioner for the second commissioner district of Tompkins County, New York.

Dates: 1822-1945.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / McWhorter family miscellany

Smelzer family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1184
Abstract Family and business correspondence; diaries, bills, notes, receipts; deeds and other legal documents; farm, general store, personal. church, and other accounts of various members of the Crisfield, Gulick, Hall, Halsey, Lott, Marsh, Miller, Mount, Sanford, Smelzer, Teeter, and Townsend families, chiefly of Seneca and Tompkins Counties; also included are a substantial compilation of genealogical data concerning the above families, numerous photographs, recipes, pamphlets, programs for church...
Dates: 1811-1941.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Smelzer family papers

Winton, Hinman and Ackley family histories

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064933918]
Identifier: 2068
Scope and content

Typewritten genealogies mainly of the Winton, Hinman, and Ackley families, with some material also on the Sanford, Fanton, and Tillotson families. Collection includes a detailed description (transcribed from the 1874 Ithaca Journal) of the construction of Samuel Hinman Winton's house, which was built in downtown Ithaca, New York. Also included is a photograph of the Ackley coat of arms.

Dates: circa 1910-1915.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Winton, Hinman and Ackley family histories

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