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Genealogy--Research

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Found in 350 Collections and/or Records:

Digges Family Papers

 Collection — 6 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-519
Scope and Contents

Personal letters of the Digges, Calvert, and Hill families, mostly in the areas of Petersburg, Newport News, and Hampton, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1779-1886, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Edgar T. Brown Genealogy Research Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-0000-007
Scope and Contents Genealogy research consisting primarily of photocopies from the 1980s-2000s relating to families in Virginia Beach, Virginia and surrounding areas. Some family surnames include Adams, Bass, Beasley, Bonney, Cherry, Congleton, Frederick, Keeling, McCoy, Midyette, Petree, Waterfield, West, and Woodhouse. The collection includes genealogical charts, family histories, excerpts from secondary sources, correspondence, handwritten notes, copies of official documents, and photocopies of primary...
Dates: created: 1980s-2000s; Other: Date acquired: 01/30/2006
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Edmonia Lee Whittle Scrapbook

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-082
Scope and Contents One mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century scrapbook containing clippings, genealogical information, and other materials related to the Whittle family, Christ Church, and Christ and Saint Luke's Church in Norfolk, Virginia. Handwritten genealogies trace the ancestry of several prominent connected Norfolk families, including Calvert, Dabney, Neilson, Page, and Walke. The scrapbook traces the Whittle family genealogy to Pocahontas. Much of the loose materials from the scrapbook relate to the...
Dates: created: 1860-1965, undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/18/1997
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Elizabeth B. Wingo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0000-051
Content Description Contains a genealogy-based collection pertaining to local families, slides, newspaper clippings, and board games about Norfolk. Also includes papers related to the Jamestowne Society, First Families of Virginia, Daughters of the American Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution, Children of the American Revolution, First Families of North Carolina, the Norfolk Historical Society, the Order of Cape Henry, and the Sargant Memorial Room. Other resources include financial records, personal...
Dates: 1600 - 2000
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Estelle V. Callender Papers

 Collection — 2 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2019-020
Scope and Contents

Circa 1910s-1930s correspondence and genealogical notes relating to the genealogy of Estelle Victoria Hudgins Callender of Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: created: 1913-1932, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1916; Other: Date acquired: 05/14/2019
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Ferebee Genealogy Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-0000-012
Scope and Contents A genealogical collection of the Ferebee family, created by Annie Adelia Ferebee and continued by her niece, Sarah Cason Ferebee. This collection contains their research manuscripts, notes, photographs, correspondence, obituaries, articles, and Sarah's personal copy of the Ferebee book with her many notations. Most of the items in this collection are photocopies and research copies acquired from various sources. The Ferebee Genealogy Collection includes information organized by Annie that...
Dates: created: 1860s-1990s; Other: Majority of material found in 1910-1954; Other: Date acquired: 03/24/2005
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

"First Landing"

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-0000-720
Content Description

50 volumes of the "First Landing" newsletter dated between 2000-2016 and published by the Virginia Beach Genealogical Society.

This newsletter is the successor to the "VBGS Newsletter" that ran from 1984 to August 2000. It's statement of purpose has remained the same, containing "articles of interest to genealogical researchers, search queries, as well as notice of coming society events."

Dates: 2000-2016
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Groom(s)

 File — Box 8, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Family history of the Groom (Grooms) family of Tennessee.

Dates: 1600 - 2000
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection / Elizabeth B. Wingo Collection / Genealogical Records / Virginia and North Carolina Families / Box 8

H. P. C. Wilson Letter

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-573
Scope and Contents

One 1886 letter written to Mr. Savage, Wilson's relative from England, about visiting one another in their respective countries.

Dates: created: 1886; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Haggard

 File — Box 8, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Copies of legal records to include land surveys, estate inventories, bill of answers, and a copy of a civil suit of Haggard vs Butt with the original document pertaining to the Haggard family of Norfolk, Virginia.

Dates: 1600 - 2000
Found in: Sargeant Memorial Collection / Elizabeth B. Wingo Collection / Genealogical Records / Virginia and North Carolina Families / Box 8

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