Connecticut -- Genealogy

Correspondence, notes, genealogy manuscripts, periodicals and photographs related to the Beach family.

Index cards of ancestral registers compiled by Algot G. Stenberg.

Seven notebooks of genealogical material dealing with the Howard family.

Benjamin Warren Levalley was a 2nd Lieutenant in Company H of the 22nd Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. In 1895-1896 he spent time with his cousin Joanna Remington recording gravestones of the Fenner family at the Remington farm in Rhode Island. The collection includes appointment letters, discharge from service paper, correspondence, and a printout of photographs.

Ancestral chart of Mary Haskell Wyman Goold.

Includes thirty four notebooks of genealogical notes, including one the Bull family; preliminary papers for a digest of probate records; Windsor, CT vital statistics; newspaper clippings; correspondence; a personal ledger; photographs; and some genealogical notes collected by Mary E. Manwaring.

The Penelope Terry Abbey Chapter of Enfield, CT was organized in 1922. The members named it for Penelope Terry Abbey representing Captain Thomas Abbey, French and Indian War and Revolutionary War officer.

The Ruth Wyllys Chapter of Hartford, Connecticut, was organized November 18, 1892, and chartered January 6, 1893. Its members named it for Ruth Wyllys representing George, Samuel, Hezekiah and John Palsgrave Wyllys, statesmen and Revolutionary War officers.

David N. Gaines (1854-1941) served as the town clerk, judge of probate, postmaster, and secretary and treasurer of the First Ecclesiastical Society in Hartland. His genealogical papers consist of notes on old houses, vital statistics, East Hartland Cemetery and various Hartland families.

Included is the manuscript of the unpublished fourth volume of The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families (1899) and a manuscript copy of a genealogy of Moses Cleveland of Woburn, Mass. Material related to the publication of the Cleveland Genealogy include a scrapbook containing circulars, reviews, newspaper clippings and catalogue of book dealers; list of individuals and libraries to whom circulars were sent; and a record of purchasers.

Contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and genealogical notes on the Dimmick family.

Correspondence and genealogy notes on the Benham Family.

Includes a booklet titled "A Man of Courage" compiled by Flora E. Shirah to tell stories about the life of her son, Wingate Hulbert Royce, to his children. Also includes family group sheets and a family album that contains family history of Flora Shirah, various family genealogy information, and family group sheets.

Notes, family group sheets and correspondence related to the Bassett family.

New clippings from the New York Main and Express.

An artificial collection of genealogical charts.

Genealogical notes on Bassett and allied families that were compiled by Sheldon Brainerd Thorpe and Frank G. Bassett.

Includes: Descendants of Thomas Bliss of Hartford, Connecticut; Descendants of Thomas Bliss of Rehoboth, Massachusetts; Descendants of Josiah Bliss of Middletown, Rhode Island.

Correspondence and notes on the Atwood, Avery, Judd, Nichols, Palmer, Scoville, Skilton, Sperry and Steele families.

Correspondence on the Rasey, Morgan, and Gallup families. Also correspondence related to the estate of Harriet Vincent Stacy's father, Zacariah Vincent.

Notes and correspondence on the Reed and Wilcox families.

Notes on the Calkins Family and working papers.

Genealogical material on the Atwood family and collateral lines.

The Hubbard Family Association held its first meeting in 1856. As of 2007, the Association was still meeting. The 2007 meeting was held in West Haven, Connecticut which was the Association's 150^th reunion.

Irene Mix Root (1887-1949) was the genealogist for the Colonial Dames Society. These papers contain her genealogy notes and register files.

Included are genealogical notes, forms, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook of genealogical notes on the Blin family.

Contains notes, correspondence, photocopies of genealogical works, and miscellaneous genealogical research on various families. There are also a variety of genealogical newsletters concentrating on different families.

Includes photocopy of a letter from C.B. Skinner, Berlin, Wisconsin, to Lester C. Skinner, Cleveland, Ohio, January 2, 1900; memo dated April 21, 1986 containing genealogical chart showing genealogical connections of persons mentioned in the letter; and a letter from Robert S. Scharpff, Honolulu, Hawaii to the Connecticut State Library, April 21, 1986 describing the volume's provenance and other useful genealogical information.

Genealogical charts for Jon Willard Taylor, family group sheets and supporting documentation on a number of family names.