Correspondence

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This collection contains correspondence and postcards from the Baird family in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Most of the collection dates to the 1940s and is related to Roger A. Baird's service in the Navy during World War II. The collection also contains letters from Alice Baird, who was married to Roger Baird in 1942. Another folder includes postcards from 1918 and 1944, as well as Report Cards from the University of Wisconsin.

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials primarily collected by, created by, and about the Betz Family in Kansas City, Missouri. This includes original deeds from Kansas City, as well as family correspondences in both English and German. The collection also contains a number of photographic negatives, including many taken by Carl Egmont Betz, a family tree in French of the Garrigues family, and a folder of materials related specifically to Carl Betz. Also contained in the collection is a Poll Book...

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This collection contains manuscripts and notes used to write family histories on both the Stevens family and Gray family. Casimir P Stevens used the information from his genealogical research to write several books on both families from about 1918 to 1940. Typed original copies of his books were included in the donation and have been added to the Midwest Genealogy Center book collection. Photographs of family members in the collection date around the early twentieth century.

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This collection documents the life of Harold Clute, the Clute family and other related families. Records within the collection include: correspondence, official documents, family genealogy journals, and photographs.

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This collection consists of personal items and photographs from John B. Moritz. The personal items include correspondence and memorial books for John and his mother, Nora. The rest of the collection is photographs; both loose and photo album pages.

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials related to the Maki family and its genealogy. The different lines of the family immigrated to the United States from Finland and Germany, and many of the individuals documented in the collection lived in Wisconsin. The collection contains numerous photographs, correspondences, telegrams, family research, and other legal documents related to specific family members. There are also postcards from Finland, as well as a family bible from 1826, a Finnish prayer...

Scope and Contents The collection includes research done in 1940s and 1950s by Margaret Hubbard Countryman on both her family, the Hubbard line, and her husband’s family, the Countryman line. The collection includes unique family items some dated from the nineteenth century. The oldest item in the collection is a pension request for Godfrey Young dated 1806. Some other interesting items include a calling card from Paulina Hubbard circa 1830, Alonzo Hamlin’s bank notes from the 1850s and 1860s, a Palmer family...

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This collection contain genealogy research for the Norman, Allen, Cort, Cation, Cannady, Griffith, Ross, Steele, and Wuebbold families. This collection also contains family photographs, correspondences, an autograph book from 1938, and a newsletter from Zion Lutheran Church in St. Louis, Missouri.

Scope and Contents This collection primarily contains correspondences, which are sorted into two files. The first file contains correspondences to and from Edward Coles, documenting his experiences in the U.S. Navy near the end of World War I in 1918. Many of these letters come from and were sent to family members located in California. The second file contains correspondences to and from Paul Osmond, who describes his experiences in India and Sri Lanka during and after World War II. The collection also...

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This collection contains correspondences between Kenneth Bien and Florence Gorman from the 1939 to the 1940s during World War II, as well as some misc. correspondences. The collection also contains several folders of family photographs, most of which are unidentified. There is also a scrapbook containing numerous photographs and other items from the military servicemen in the 1940s, as well as a folder containing an army air force training certificate from 1945 for Charles DeBaar.