Family history
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Adams Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 004
Content Description
The family's papers document grandfather Lewis Adams, co-founder of Tuskegee Institute, Charles P. Adams, founder of Grambling State University in Louisiana and other prominent members of the Adams family including author Chester Himes, and sociologist Joseph S. Himes. The items include a copy of the publication Today's Omaha Woman, which features an article on Charles P. Adams, III's sister and niece, JoAnne A. Lofton, and daughter Dhana Chandler. Additional materials consist of a family...
Dates:
Other: 1981-1997
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Adams Family papers
Bluford Family collection
Collection
Identifier: 2016
Content Description
20 items. The items included in the collection are clippings, honors and awards, photographs, trophy, plaque, and a woven mat. The relate to Lolita Brice Bluford, Guion Bluford, and other members of the Bluford family. Guion Bluford became an astronaut.
Dates:
Other: 1946-1976
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Bluford Family collection
Dent Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 116
Scope and Contents
The Dent Family papers are comprised of the personal, professional and collected papers of Albert Walter Dent (1904-1984) and Ernestine Jessie Covington Dent (1904-2001), as well as a small amount of material related to their son, Tom Dent (1932-1996) and other family members. The collection has six series of files, three of which deal specifically with Albert W. Dent while the remainder deals with Jessie C. Dent and members of the Covington-Dent family. The correspondence (1908-1985)...
Dates:
Created: 1897-1985; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1976
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Dent Family papers
John Wesley Dobbs Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 122
Scope and Contents
The papers document the personal and professional lives of the John Wesley Dobbs family of Atlanta, Georgia. The key topics are civil rights, education, integration, race relations, and African American suffrage. The main strengths are the civil rights activities of the family as well as J.W. Dobb's tenure as Grand Master of Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge of Georgia. The collection encompasses 5.8 linear feet of correspondence, photographs, programs, sound recordings, speeches, and news...
Dates:
Created: 1873-2001; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1974
Tefft Family papers
Collection — 1 box
Identifier: 687
Scope and Contents
The collection documents members of the Sexton family of Ohio and the Tefft family. Members of the Tefft family were missionaries working with the American Missionary Association (AMA). Of note are documents related to Rebecca Sexton Tefft (1829-1909), who worked at the Mendi Mission in Sierra Leone, Africa, an AMA mission. The American Missionary Association archives contains 92 letters from James Cutler Tefft (1815-1855), which document his being in Africa at the Kaw Mendi Station, the...
Dates:
Created: 1856-1938; Other: Date acquired: 11/04/2009
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Tefft Family papers
Thomas-Jones Family papers
Collection
Identifier: 792
Content Description
The Thomas-Jones Family Papers document four successive generations of an African-American family with ties to New Orleans, North Carolina, and New York City. The collection is comprised of correspondence; legal records, such as marriage, death, and birth records; real estate records; membership certificates; insurance and funeral records; school records; photographs; news clippings; collected ephemera; and art work.
The earliest family members documented are William W. and Elizabeth (nee...
Dates:
Other: 1880-2013
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Thomas-Jones Family papers
Tri-Cities Chapter, Friends of Amistad collection
Collection
Identifier: 365
Content Description
Collected materials from the Tri-Cities Chapter of the Friends of Amistad, which was based in Elyria, Lorain, and Oberlin, Ohio, and active in the 1970s and 1980s. Collection includes collected materials on family history, African Americans in the Midwest, and other topics. Includes family histories on descendents of Godfrey Brown; a biographical sketch of Thelma C. Quinn Smith; collected materials on Curtis and Pearletha Nelson and Wanda and Howard O. Jones; memoirs of Esther L. Hassell; a...
Dates:
1822-1981