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Family histories

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Scope Note: Narrative studies of families and the tracing of their lineages and histories.

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

African American Burial Sites At Mount Hope Cemetery

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-0120
Content Description

Genealogical research related to African Americans buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor, Maine. Includes biographical information on individuals and families; three paper maps that locate the burial sites; and an addendum/guide to the maps.

"This paper was written in the hopes that it would aid those Amrican Americans who might be researching their family members, especially if they immigrated from Canada, in finding where their resting places are at Mount Hope."

Dates: 2022

Clifton, Maine; also, the Thomas Penney Family

 Collection
Identifier: S-Coll-0025
Content Description

Handwritten history of the houses and people of Clifton, Maine, organized by road. Also includes "Odds and Ends" and a typescript genealogy of the Penney family.

Dates: 1957

Frances Edwards Godfrey genealogical papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-0052
Content Description

Genealogical research, photographs, family documents, newspaper clippings, books, and other materials compiled by Frances Edwards Godfrey of Bangor, Maine. Collection primarily documents the Godfrey, Eastman, Edwards, Pierce, and related families but also contains research on other New England families. Includes some materials compiled by Godfrey's father, Harold Ransom Edwards.

Dates: 1790 - 2016; Majority of material found within 1938 - 2016

The Story of My Life by Gertrude (Sylvester) Gordon

 Collection
Identifier: S-Coll-0054
Content Description

Printed by the family of Gertrude Gordon in her memory, June 1981. Compiled from Gertrude's autobiographical writings, stories, and newspaper columns by a granddaughter, Sandra Gordon Olson, Belfast, Maine.

Dates: 1981

Sylvester family genealogy

 Collection
Identifier: Coll-0115
Content Description

Photocopy of a handwritten genealogy of the descendants of Richard Sylvester (1608-1663).

Dates: 1990