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In this photocopied genealogical sketch, J. G. M. Ramsey traces the Alexander family's genealogy from Sir William Alexander (the first of the family to settle in the United States) to his granddaughter, Rhody (Alexander) Rodgers and her immediate family. Ramsey was related to the Alexanders through his father, who was William Alexander's great-grandson.

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This collection contains two series: the first consisting of personal correspondence, mostly to Blanche (Spurlock) Bentley in the 1920s and 1930s and the second consisting of notes, clippings, and photographs regarding genealogy of Blanche (Spurlock) Bentley's family.

Abstract This collection houses photographs, correspondence, business records, and other materials documenting the Gallaher and Burum families of Tennessee and their descendants in California and Washington State. Additionally, the collection contains some information about Roane College in the late 19th century. Most of the materials were collected by Edna Burum Richards to send to her cousin Lizzie Mae Douthitt Ghormley. Many of the photographs include contextual notes on the back handwritten by...

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This collection includes genealogical information and histories of various Tennessee families. The family surnames include: West, Hadley, Stout, Kelly, and Roberts. The collection also includes a Roberts Family attendee list for Washington Presbyterian Church of Corryton, Knox County, Tennessee. The papers include days of birth and death, titles, and places of residence within the family histories. Family origins and members are also listed in chronological order.

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This is a collection of genealogical materials, professional papers, and personal papers related to Clara Hamlett Robertson Flannagan and her first husband, Judson Hall Robertson.

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This collection houses an array of material documenting 19th-century McMinn County, Tennessee. This material includes early land deeds, land surveys, plat and county maps, and notes for sermons.

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The collection consists of one record book with the lineage records of the members of the James White Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The records are dated up to June 3, 1929.

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This collection contains a single manuscript compiled by Marion S. Adams titled "Eakin Family History." The document covers the Eakin family lineage beginning in Ireland in 1761 with the birth of John Eakin. Adams writes in an introduction that the Eakins family was once one of the most prominent families in Nashville.

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This collection houses binders and notebooks documenting Dixie Lee McCrary's research for her 1978 book The Ellis line from Surry - Sussex in Virginia.

Abstract This notebook, consisting of 38 typed pages, is an "Index of Documents, Letters, Newsclippings, Photographs, Portraits, Biographical Sketches and a Genealogical Chart Relative to the Family of Mrs. Edward F. McCrossin, nee Florence Niles Rogers Between the Years of 1813 and 1948." The papers in this index concern the McGhee family, the Humes family, J. A. H. Otey, the Niles family, and the Ingraham family. Also included are an extensive genealogical listing of the descendents of John Niles...

Abstract This collection houses legal documents (including land grants, powers of attorney, wills, land surveys, receipts, tax assessments, and various contracts), letters, an IOU, a stock certificate, and a notebook documenting the Henley and Bayles (also spelled Bailes and Bayless) families in Tennessee. Most of the materials in the first folder show the Bayles family, particularly Reuben, Ervin (sometimes given as Erwin), Daniel, and Milton. The majority of the items in the second folder document...

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This collection consists primarily of the Hoskins family's King James Bible, published in 1834. Also included is a photocopy of the Bible's family record, which focuses on the families of William and Susan B. (Dickason) Rawls and William Patton and Mary Olivia (Rawls) Mills Hoskins.

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This collection houses research that Ferol Frost Hubbs (or FFH, as she refers to herself in her notes) conducted for her book, Hubbs-Frost and Allied Families (1973).

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This collection consists of a hand-written obituary notice for Brigadier General James P. Brownlow, copied from the New York Herald in 1879.

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The Magill Family Genealogical Papers spans the years 1914 to 1966 and concerns the genealogical research done on the Johnston-Magill family in East Tennessee.

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This Bible, published by Langdon Coffin of Boston, Massachusetts in 1831, belonged to the Mills family of Virginia and Tennessee. It contains family records for Robert and Mary Barbara (Sharp) Mills' children and the children of three unidentified women (possibly enslaved by Robert S. Mills) named Sary, Mary, and Dolley. Also included is a letter from Robert Mills to his son, Robert S. Mills, giving his children's birthdates and describing Abraham Mills' multiple attempts at bigamy.

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This collection houses correspondence, ledgers, and bank records documenting the lives of several members of the Park family in Knoxville, Tennessee and Galleighan, Ireland. Among the topics discussed are family news, national politics, and land holdings that the Parks are renting out.

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This collection contains the papers of historian and genealogist Penelope Johnson Allen, from the 1770s to the 1980s, primarily the twentieth century. The collection includes personal papers, research material, genealogical research material, publications, and more.

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This collection is a genealogy report on the first three generations of the Sevier Family of Virginia and Tennessee.

Abstract This collection consists of correspondence, speeches, reports, receipts, manuscsripts, publications, photographs, and clippings documenting the activities of various members of the Seymour family of East Tennessee between 1903 and 1989. Most prominently documented are Charles Milne Seymour, Sr., a lawyer, and Charles Milne Seymour, Jr., a priest at St. John's Episcopal Church in Knoxville. Topics touched upon include Knoxville city planning (including a discussion of riverfront development...