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Genealogies (histories)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Hazen Wright genealogical notes

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064942901]
Identifier: 2352
Scope and content

Manuscript notes on the Treman family, the Mack family, and the history of Onondaga County, New York. Also, three typescript copies of a chapter on Azariah Smith of Manlius, New York, from the book Onondaga, or, reminiscences of earlier and later times, by J.V.H. Clark (1849).

Dates: between 1900; between 1970.

Ancestry of William Swart de Groff

 Collection — Manuscript box 47 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065250569]
Identifier: 2302m
Scope and content

Mimeographed typewritten notes on ancestors and descendants of William Swart De Groff, together with a brief list of "unclassified De Groffs" found in Cayuga County, New York.

Dates: 1961 January 19.

Baldwin family genealogical notes

 Collection — Manuscript box 46 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065250155]
Identifier: 2173m
Scope and content

Sheet of notes on the genealogy of the Baldwin family from 1767-1898.

Dates: not before 1898.

Chichester family genealogical notes

 Collection — Manuscript box 51 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251393]
Identifier: 2618m
Scope and content

Typewritten notes on the Chichester family, especially the descendants of Reverend Elijah Chichester of Lansingburgh (now part of Troy), New York. The notes also include information on the Methodist Church of Amityville, New York.

Dates: circa 1960s.

Cole, Gifford, and Swett genealogies

 Collection — Manuscript box 12 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241683]
Identifier: 2037m
Scope and content Genealogical information copied from the family Bibles of Joseph and Rhoda (Gifford) Cole of Nunda, New York; Hiram L. Gifford and Helen Mar (DeMeritt) Gifford of Williams County, Ohio; and Benjamin Franklin Swett of Mount Morris, New York. Also, a list of hair samples contained in a small homemade book owned by Rhoda (Gifford) Cole in 1845; and a letter from Almon E. Daniels to the Department of Regional History and University Archives at Cornell University, giving additional information...
Dates: 1955-1960.

Cone family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2746
Scope and content

Collection includes journals, ledgers and daybooks of Joseph Cone, a storekeeper and farmer in the vicinity of Geneva, Ontario County, New York, and his father, who operated a store in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Also, negative microfilm of three manuscript volumes, containing photographs, clippings and family history; photocopies of genealogy charts, clippings, and one broadside.

Dates: [ca.1825]-1903.

Data as to Marsh family : given to Frank N. Decker by Laura Avis Griswold

 Collection — Manuscript box 45 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065250023]
Identifier: 2150m
Scope and content

Typewritten fair copy of genealogical notes, on Decker's stationery. The focus is mainly on Elnathan Marsh and his wife Avis Birdsall, who came over from England and eventually settled in Pompey Hill, New York; they then moved to Livonia, New York around 1820.

Dates: between 1930 and 1969.

DeWitt and Pierce family genealogical records

 Collection — Manuscript box 46 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065250387]
Identifier: 2253m
Scope and content

Notes, photographs, and newspaper clippings concerning members of the DeWitt and Pierce families. Includes a broadside on the births, engagement, and marriage of Willard Beahan and Bessie DeWitt Beahan, with photographs of them; pages from a family Bible, listing family members' births, marriages, and deaths; and clippings on the illness or death of various family members.

Dates: 1836-1903.

Gifford and Prior-Pryor genealogies

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2047m
Scope and content Typewritten genealogy of the ancestors and descendants of Enos and Hannah (Palmer) Gifford, by Alice Vera Gifford (Curtis) Morgan, Akron, Ohio, dated August 18, 1960 (signed Vera Morgan). Also, typewritten genealogy of the Prior-Pryor family by Alice Vera Gifford (Curtis) Morgan (signed Vera Morgan), dated February 15, 1962; and a shorter version of the same genealogy, dated March 6, 1962. Both families concerned lived for a time in New York State, the Giffords in Allegany County, the Priors...
Dates: 1960-1962.

Grinnell and Kiehl family genealogies

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064927159]
Identifier: 2053
Abstract

Typewritten manuscripts, Pedigree charts of Kiehl/Grinnell and related families of Onondaga County, N.Y., and ancestors and descendants of Orlando Grinnell (1845-1920) and Jennie Churchill of Spafford, Onondaga County, N.Y.

Dates: 1959-1986.