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These finding aids are related to some of our larger manuscript and special collections.  These finding aids can also be accessed via the Library Catalog.

Guide to Specialty Research for African American and Native American Research

This brochure consists of material relating to three projects of the DAR.  They include the Forgotten Patriots Seminar, held January 11, 2003, the DAR Museum exhibition Forgotten Patriots, October 2002-August 2003, and the DAR book African American and American Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War (2001 and revised edition) and earlier pamphlets.

Salls Collection

This collection deals with the Salls family (primarily of Vermont and Quebec). Other prominent family names are Davison, Morgan, and Thayer. The material includes family group sheets, correspondence, pedigree and descendancy charts for Salls and Davison families, various deeds and commissions, and some photographs. There is no obvious organizational schema to this collection, except that the correspondence is loosely in chronological order. It is unknown if its order was changed while housed elsewhere, but it is generally arranged the way it arrived at the DAR Library. This collection has the summary and notes materials at the beginning of the collection and the research records, correspondence, and documentation at the end of the collection.

Matherly Collection

The Matherly Collection is a collection comprised of the research materials compiled by James Matherly. It contains research correspondence, genealogical research summaries, and research documentation. The surnames that this collection focuses on are the Matherly family, the Tadlock family, and the Haddleston family. There is a robust collection of death records. Sometimes it is not clear how some of the records connect with the whole of the collection. The Matherly Collection is arranged broadly by document type: first is correspondence, then research, and last proof documents. This collection may have been rearranged before coming to the DAR Library and while at the DAR Library.

Genealogical Society of Utah Collection

This is a diverse collection covering many different topics and surnames. There does not seem to be an order or unifying theme to this collection, it seems to be a vertical file collection, filled with small manuscripts, short family histories, typescripts of records, and research aids. Most of the files are labeled with a family name.

Descendants of Signers of the U.S. Constitution Collection

This collection consists of original correspondence, photocopies of DAR applications and Patriot Index cards, and articles about the 200th anniversary of the ratification of the U. S. Constitution. It was created during a search for descendants of those who signed the Constitution. It includes correspondence between the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution and DAR staff as well as draft letters to send to the descendants of signers. There are also photocopies of record copies of descendants of U. S. Constitution signers, pamphlets about those signers, and photocopies of articles or other research about those signers. Not all signers are represented in this collection and some men who were not signers appear in this collection. The collection is organized alphabetically by folder title (Usually the last name of the signer.)

Doolittle Family Bible, 1890-1956

The donation of this collection was made possible by the DAR’s Battle Born Chapter in Nevada, which was founded in 2004. The collection is comprised of a family Bible, a page of a newspaper, two stock certificates, and five photographs. The Bible was published in 1890 and contains vital information for Lafayette and Ada Doolittle and their children, as well as inserted photographs. Most of the information recorded is from the mid- to late 19th century. The newspaper page comes from the Cleveland News and announces the end of WWI. The stock certificates are for the Fennell Texas Oil Company in Buffalo, NY, and were issued to L. Ray and Blanch Johnson in 1919. The loose photographs appear to be family photos and are mostly undated, with a couple listing the date of 1948.

Darrows Family Bible, 1832-1921

This collection was donated by Mary L. Wilson Pauly in 2019. It includes the Bible itself (published in 1832), with the pages of family records separate; an 1898 commencement program; an envelope from 1921 addressed to “C. Ottman” (maybe Clarence Ottman, the son of Henriett and Jacob) from the Batavia Rubber Co.; and notes on the Kilk family, covering ancestry from 1730 to 1789. Dates covered by this collection range from 1730 to 1921.

Lelah Eastwood Crockett Collection, 2001-2006

This collection was donated by the Lelah Eastwood Crockett Trust in 2019. It includes manuscript material related to Lelah Eastwood Crockett’s published family genealogies. It also contains one binder labeled as a special edition of the published Part II, given to a relative. The lineages represented are Eastwood (back to the 14th century) and Pote/Perkins (back to the 16th century).

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