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Alexandria (Va.) -- Genealogy.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Armistead Boothe Papers (MS164)

 Collection
Identifier: MS164
Content Description These papers reflect Armistead Boothe's advocacy of civil rights legislation, and his political activity with such issues as public schools, transportation, segregation and other political issues in Virginia, especially during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Personal papers in this collection relate to family matters such as Gardner Boothe's courtship of Eleanor Carr and to Armistead Boothe's school and military experiences. The collection includes scrapbooks, journals, albums, memorabilia...
Dates: 1803-1990

Esther Holliday Green Collection (MS073)

 Collection
Identifier: MS073
Content Description This collection consists of six series: Correspondence, Literary Productions, Printed Material, Financial Documents, Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion, and Green Family. The correspondence series holds letters only to and from Esther Green. Included three folders (Box 73 Folders 1-3) with letters from Robert Rutledge, a youth for whom she helped secure a DuPont scholarship to the University of Virginia. While in college he updated her on his progress. Correspondence to and from other...
Dates: 1859-1982

Gaines-Hodge Family Bible (MS414)

 Collection — Box 01
Identifier: MS414
Content Description Family history records and vital statistics documented within a 19th century illustrated Bible, published in 1884 by A.J. Holman and Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Four pages of genealogical family records are included in the volume, located in between the text of the Old and New Testaments. These pages include a marriage certificate as well as records of births, marriages, and deaths in the Gaines-Hodge family. This volume includes several introductory texts preceding the text...
Dates: c.1884

Genealogy - Shakes, Carne, Ficklin

 File — Box 1, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of letters, notes, business documents, and genealogical research from and on the Shakes, Carne, and Ficklin families. The materials were donated by various uknown donors from 1983-2015 and compiled into a collection created by Alexandria Library's Lloyd House and later Local History/Special Collections branch.

Dates: 1778-2015

Historic House Tours Collection (MS059)

 Collection
Identifier: MS059
Content Description

This collection contains booklets created by the Auxiliary Board, Alexandria Hospital for the historic house tours of old Alexandria. This is an open collection starting from 1931, with the exception of a few years. Research and writing was performed by various people.

Dates: Publication: 1931 - 2017

John Thomas Ricketts Papers (MS071)

 Collection
Identifier: MS071
Content Description This collection has three series: the papers of JT Ricketts, of Norris Cummings and of Helen Cummings. The Ricketts series makes up the bulk of the collection. Its main focus is on Ricketts' business records, but some personal documents are included. The business records contain financial, legal and administrative materials. They trace the rise of T. Wattson & Sons from a small bakery into an industrial "steam" bakery that supplied organizations such as the US Navy with packaged bread...
Dates: 1787-1904

Mary Crawford Powell Collection (MS236)

 Collection
Identifier: MS236
Content Description

Collection documents the ancestral lines of Dr. Robert Conrad Powell and his wife, Mary Crawford Gregory, also the ancestral lines of Ruth Ashton the wife of Dr. Lewellyn Powell. Done for the benefit of the children by their Grandmother.

Dates: 1987

Miscellaneous Genealogy, 2015

 File — Box 1, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of letters, notes, business documents, and genealogical research from and on the Shakes, Carne, and Ficklin families. The materials were donated by various uknown donors from 1983-2015 and compiled into a collection created by Alexandria Library's Lloyd House and later Local History/Special Collections branch.

Dates: 2015

Powell and Lloyd Families of Alexandria, 1988

 File — Box 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a manuscript of the genealogy of Powell and Lloyd families as told by Frank Snowden Hopkins, focusing on the genealogy of his mother, Selina Lloyd Hepburn Hopkins.

Dates: 1988

Ruth Kaye Collection (MS029)

 Collection
Identifier: MS029
Content Description The collection consists of four series: house histories, genealogy, publications, and miscellaneous. The collection contains reports, bound volumes, photos, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and correspondences. The first and largest series is the complete research on various house histories in the Alexandria, Virginia area, most notably in Old Town. The second series of the collection is genealogical research on various families who have roots in Northern Virginia and Alexandria. The two...
Dates: 1970 - 2010