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Genealogy

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:

"Leyburn Family" Manuscripts

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000004803], Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

The manuscripts are acouns of the chief events in the family history. Both of the manuscripts are written in the same hand.

Dates: 1823 - 1899; Majority of material found within 1830-01-01 - 1839-01-01

Madeley Family Genealogical Album

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0617
Scope and Contents

This collection contains three copies of a photo album created via the Snapfish service presumably by members of the Madeley family. Album contains genealogy of the Madeley family as respresented through reproduced family photographs.

Dates: Unknown

McFarland Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0384

Robert Alexander Legal Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0037
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a deed, dated August 13, 1747, for a tract of land near the town of Greenville, Augusta County, Virginia, conveyed to Robert Alexander from William Beverley and two legal papers connected with the deed. There is also an authorized English Bible, 1766, with Robert Alexander's signature. Genealogical information by George Diehl is housed in the control folder.

Dates: 1747 - 1766

Rockbridge Historical Society files on genealogy

 Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0058
Scope and Contents

This collection contains biographical and genealogical information on various people, primarily from in and around Rockbridge County.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1700 - 1960

Ruby Leighton Family History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0693
Dates: Majority of material found within 1970 - 2010

Samuel Jordan Graham papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0016
Scope and Contents This collection of correspondence, ephemera, and genealogical material pertaining to Samuel Jordan Graham. Of particular note are several letters written to Graham by President Woodrow Wilson. Four of them are original and two are photostatic copies. Other correspondents include Charles E. Hughes, and Ray Stannard Baker. The collection also includes clippings, two certificates Graham received from Washington and Lee, genealogy, copies of addresses, and a Court of Claims of the United States...
Dates: 1874-1947

Shields Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0622
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the papers of the Shields family from 1832-1990 including business documents, family genealogy notes, correspondence, photographs, and William R. Shields poetry.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1832 - 1990

Warren T. Taylor cemetery guide to the Teaford papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0338
Scope and Contents

The guide includes inscriptions from many Rockbridge County, Virginia cemeteries and an accompanying card file has names with genealogical information.

Dates: 1983

William A. Gordon Memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0055
Scope and Contents

The memoirs include recollections of Gordon's childhood in Georgetown and Washington, D.C., of his relatives and friends, and of his career in the 1st Regiment of Engineers with the Army of Northern Virginia (1862-1865) as well as genealogical information.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1865 - 1886

William C. Fowler Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0391
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of letters from William Chauncey Fowler to George Washington Custis Lee, who was president of Washington and Lee University at the time. The letters mention connections to George Washington Parke Custis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: Inclusive 1872-1876

William Graham Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0043
Scope and Contents

This collection includes items of Graham's presidency at Liberty Hall Academy,miscellaneous items including an inventory of Graham's library in 1801, and some Graham genealogy.

Dates: Inclusive 1782-1801

Youel Family Genealogical Records

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0351
Scope and Contents

These genealogical records of the Youel family of Virginia, originally from Scotland, include a family Bible and looseleaf notebooks compiled by various family members on Rice M. Youel (1891-1962), Marion John Youel, and Richard Dudley Obenshain. There is also a copy of the Iowa Centennial Book (1982).

Dates: Other: 19th to 20th centuries