Genealogy and Family History

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Family history materials of the Sears family, which has roots in colonial Massachusetts in the 1630s

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Includes a paper, "The Smallpox Epidemic and Its Effects on the Tweten and Hofto Families: 1878-1879." The families lived in rural Grand Forks County.

Scope and Contents The Therese (Emard) Thompson and Raymonde Nelson Correspondence, 1947 and 1961-1980, are mostly letters written by Raymonde to Therese with some by Therese to Raymonde. In the 1940s the letters were written to all of the Emard children while Raymonde was in Europe visiting her son. Later, the letters are generally about each of their lives, the people in them and events that affected them such as children, their husbands, the gas shortage, Vietnam, and moving to new places. These letters...

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1980-1990; Family newsletter published by Louis and Mary Ellen Veigel of Dickinson, North Dakota

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The Verna Stumpf Paterson Papers consist mainly of genealogical information for miscellaneous families in the United States.

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The Walter Erdman Papers consist of baptismal, confirmation, and marriage certificates for members of the Erdman and Voigt families. Also included are two photographs of Walter Erdman from 1979 and 1983.

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Personal history of a North Dakota family.

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The W.H. Elznic Papers consist of "Dakota Pioneers," a 22 page autobiography written in 1961.

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Genealogical records of the Bentley family, with members in North Dakota, Michigan, Connecticut, and Nova Scotia