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Family histories

 Subject
Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing
Scope Note: Use the singular form for Digital Object title. Narrative studies of families and the tracing of their lineages and histories. For lineages of people, or purebred animals in tabular or diagrammatic form see Genealogical tables.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Baldwin-Stoddard Family Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2019-005
Abstract This collection comprises one notebook of an incomplete, first person narrative about Martha Lee Baron Stoddard and May Baldwin Stoddard of Boston, Massachusetts. The narrative is written after 1893 by the Stoddards' aunt Mattie to their cousins, Albert and Harry Baldwin. The author discusses the Stoddards' childhood in Boston, attendance to Phillips Brooks' church, and traveling with Martha to Europe and her death in Italy. The volume also contains the transcription of a letter to May after...
Dates: c. 1893-1900s

S. Maria Elliott Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-068
Abstract

This collection contains the personal papers of the Elliott and Elliot family of Massachusetts. Materials relate to the professional and personal lives of S. Maria Elliott and her family members, especially Rev. Moses Elliot [sic] and Richard M. Elliott.

Dates: 1826 - 1942

Meta Tutwiler Hill Family History

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-001
Abstract

This collection contains a transcription of a family history recounted by Meta "Mimi" Tutwiler Hill Boynton.

Dates: unknown

Willard Preston Genealogy

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-121
Abstract

This collection contains three handwritten genealogies of the Preston Family, as well as a letter from Willard Preston to Charles Aschmann.

Dates: c.1998