Genealogy & local history

Content Description

This collection consists of papers of the Backus family and includes genealogy hand written and typed, and the "Memorables of the Montgomeries" manuscript. It also includes a daguerreotype of Gerrit Fitzhugh Backus and his mother. the collection also contains a copy of "Sonnets of War and Peace and Other Poems" by Thomas Rochester Shepard, 1929. The book is signed by Thomas Rochester Shepard to Mr. and Mrs. Backus.

Content Description

Notes, letters, family trees, articles, statistical records and other genealogical information produced by the Genealogy Round Table of Monroe County (formerly the Genealogy Round Table of Rochester) from 1933 to approximately 2000. These records consist primarily of notes made by the members of the Round Table, and do not generally provide comprehensive information on any given person or family.

Content Description This collection consists of material on family genealogy assembled by Geraldine Kingsbury of Rochester, N.Y. The collection focuses on the Greentree, Stern, and Wile families, including material on the important involvement of all three families in Rochester’s clothing industry. Additional material relates to Jewish genealogy both in general and in relation to Ms. Kingsbury’s extended family. A comprehensive typescript family history written by Ms. Kingsbury rounds out the collection....

Abstract

This collection contains information on genealogical trees of multiple families that date back to New England and over to England going back to the 1600s. Some families included in this collection are Brown, Woodworth, Wood, Bulson. The collection contains correspondence that go between Leon R Brown and people looking for help with their ancestry along with correspondence of sending information in between people to build their family trees.

Abstract

This series consists of the records created during the daily operations of Rochester City Historian, Edward Foreman. The materials date between 1921 and 1939, with a bulk of the materials dated between 1921 and 1930. The materials consist mostly of correspondence but also include newspaper clippings, budgets, reports, and information on the historical marker program.