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William J. Blanton Papers, 1682-1997 (C3829)
2.0 cubic feet (66 folders)

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The papers contain Blanton family genealogical research, including correspondence, census records, tax lists, land grants, deeds, and genealogical charts, as well as marriage, birth, and death records.

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Blumenhorst Family Papers, 1586-1959 (S0442)
1.2 cubic foot, 117 folders

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The Blumenhorst Papers contain correspondence, bills of sale, wills, and a diary, chronicling the histories of the Craig, Lewis, Watts, Wallace, and Woodson families from 1586 to 1959.

Bradford Family Papers, 1722-1998 (R0647)
8 cubic feet (160 folders, 9 oversize folders, 2 oversize maps)

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These are papers collected by Dr. Vance A. Bradford while conducting genealogical research on the Bradford family. Included are six boxes of correspondence with and about descendants of Samuel Bradford of Snow Hill, Maryland, and two boxes of papers from the Duncan homestead in southern Phelps County, Missouri.

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Lewis Henry Carstarphen Papers, 1686-1971 (C3613)
2.6 cubic feet (228 folders)

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Genealogical data on Glascock, Tutt, Watson, Woodson, Carstarphen and collateral families compiled by Carstarphen with his aunt, Emily Marion Watson, collaborating on the Watson, Woodson, and Tutt families.

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D

Lyman Copeland Draper Collection, 1735-1815 (C2964)
136 rolls of microfilm

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Microfilm copy of the Draper Collection of manuscripts.

E

Rella Bright Evans Papers, 1715-1971 (C3626)
2.2 cubic feet (188 folders)

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Personal papers, genealogical notes, and correspondence of a professional genealogist in Columbia, Missouri. Main names researched are Bright, Carter, and Haden. Secondary names are Bell, Black, Cave, Hansford, McClung, Turner, and Wood. Information on many other families is included.

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Ethelda Henry Genealogical Collection, 1671-1988 (C3881)
34.6 cubic feet (2,364 folders)

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Family histories and genealogies of over 400 Boone County and central Missouri families, including the Asbell family. The collection also includes cemetery, census, marriage, school, will, Bible, and church records; clippings, photographs, family and genealogical correspondence, source materials, abstracts, and manuscripts; and miscellaneous.

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J

Jones Family History, 1747-1918 (C0767)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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A history of the Jones family beginning with Welchman Ellis Jones (b. 1747). The family is traced from Maryland to the West: Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska.

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Logan Wood Genealogical Records, 1700-1980 (K0181)
0.2 c.f.

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Genealogical notes, letters, transcribed copies of historical documents and other materials relating to family lines of interest to Dr. Logan Wood, a physician in Bolckow, Andrew County, Missouri.

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George Pohlman Collection, 1615-1953 (C3476)
1.6 cubic feet

 Digitized Materials

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The papers of George Pohlman contain material on Macon County and other northern Missouri counties. Included are original survey maps of roads, records from county officials, school and church records, land entries, estate, business and legal papers, biographies and rare English documents.

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Julia B. Slemons Harrison Riedel Papers, 1600-1990 (K1022)
5 c.f.

Genealogical research on the Slemons, Gardner, Lyles, also biography, Brigadier General William F. Slemons. C.S.A.: His Ancestors and Descendants, by Riedel

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Art A. Schweighauser Collection, 1713-1945 (C3762)
0.35 cubic feet (9 folders, 1 volume)

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The collection contains items from the Bezold family of Montgomery and Gasconade Counties in Missouri. There are many school-related items from 1879-1917. Also included are sermons in German by Reverend Niedhammer and a family history of John Jacob Meunzenmayer, who lived in Franklin County.

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Helen Faye Smither Collection, 1740-1960 (K0073)
0.3 c.f.

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Genealogical and correspondence and other family records relating primarily for the Desha, Brown, and Smither families.

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St. Louis History Slide Shows, 1984-1986 (S0519)
0.8 cubic foot, 6 folders, 561 slides, 5 reel-to-reel audio tapes, 7 audio cassette tapes, and 1 videotape

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The St. Louis History Slide Shows contains three slide shows: a forty-minute presentation highlighting women who have made significant contributions to St. Louis, a slide show about the Western Historical Manuscript Collection (WHMC)-St. Louis Research Center’s labor history collections, and a slide show about the St. Louis Collection.

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Stillwell Family Papers, 1732-1976 (C4204)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)

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The papers contain typescripts of genealogical material including wills, census reports, marriage records, maps and correspondence pertaining to the Stillwell, Scott, Rosebrough, McCord and related families from Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. The material was compiled by Norman Bolin of Evansville, Indiana.

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Turley Family Historical Research Association Records, 1740-2005 (R1068)
6 cubic feet (182 folders, 66 photographs)

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The Turley Family Historical Research Association Records contain historical and genealogical materials related to the Turley family collected by the Turley Family Historical Research Association. The records include copies of family papers, genealogical research, photographs, correspondence, and financial records of the Association.

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Elsie Arline Stults Wiedenhoeft Papers, 1700-1983 (C4173)
0.8 cubic feet (35 folders)

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Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs and genealogical material of the Stults, Roach, Niedhamer, Middleton, Earhart, and related families.

Wood Family Papers, 1702-1978 (C4208)
0.15 cubic feet (7 folders)

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Correspondence, genealogical material, transcriptions of wills and deeds, notes, and clippings related to the Wood, Warren, Gibbs, Church, Peabody, and other connected families. The Wood family appears to have originated from York, England, then settled in Maine, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Bristol County, Massachusetts. The majority of the material focuses on the 1700s.

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Yeagle Family Papers, 1732-1984 (C4129)
5 cubic feet

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The papers of a Saline County, Missouri, family consist of account books, receipts, wills, deeds, diaries, assorted genealogical material, personal and business correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, school material, and miscellaneous material.

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