Research Catalog
Gentry collection of genealogical research files
- Title
- Gentry collection of genealogical research files, 1675-1957.
- Author
- Gentry, Franklin Marion, 1898-
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11 Items
| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Box 1 | Mixed material | Supervised use | NYGB Coll 135 Box 1 | Offsite | |
| Box 2 | Mixed material | Supervised use | NYGB Coll 135 Box 2 | Offsite | |
| Box 3 | Mixed material | Supervised use | NYGB Coll 135 Box 3 | Offsite | |
| Box 4 | Mixed material | Supervised use | NYGB Coll 135 Box 4 | Offsite | |
| Box 5 | Mixed material | Supervised use | NYGB Coll 135 Box 5 | Offsite | |
| Box 6 | Mixed material | Supervised use | NYGB Coll 135 Box 6 | Offsite | |
| Box 7 | Mixed material | Supervised use | NYGB Coll 135 Box 7 | Offsite | |
| Box 8 | Mixed material | Supervised use | NYGB Coll 135 Box 8 | Offsite | |
| Box 9 | Mixed material | Supervised use | NYGB Coll 135 Box 9 | Offsite | |
| Box 10 | Mixed material | Supervised use | NYGB Coll 135 Box 10 | Offsite | |
| Box 11 | Mixed material | Supervised use | NYGB Coll 135 Box 11 | Offsite |
Details
- Additional Authors
- New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.
- Description
- 4.5 lin. ft. (11 boxes)
- Summary
- The Gentry Collection is primarily research correspondence and notes of Franklin Marion Gentry who was compiling genealogical information on all lines of his and his wife, Violet Dewey Young's, families in order to secure memberships in the Society of Mayflower Descendants and the Daughters of the American Revolution for his wife and daughter.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
- Subjects
- Mississippi > Genealogy
- Terrell family
- Adams family
- Brooks family
- Massachusetts > Genealogy
- Foster family
- Virginia > Genealogy
- Harris family
- Smith family
- Thruston family
- Young family
- Allen family
- Kentucky > Genealogy
- Genealogy
- Harrison family
- Gentry family
- Dewey family
- Gentry, Franklin Marion, 1898- > Family
- Louisiana > Genealogy
- Norton Brothers
- Source (note)
- New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
- Provenance (note)
- Presented to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society by Violet Young DeVeau in 1981.
- Call Number
- NYGB Coll 135
- OCLC
- 493452223
- Author
- Gentry, Franklin Marion, 1898-
- Title
- Gentry collection of genealogical research files, 1675-1957.
- Biography
- Franklin Marion Gentry, scientist and author of Manhasset, Long Island, New York, was born on March 10, 1898 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He married Violet Dewey Young on August 6, 1925 in Lexington, Kentucky. She was born on June 24, 1900 in Lexington. They had one daughter, Courtenay Dewey Gentry, born on January 18, 1931 in New York City. Franklin M. Gentry was the son of Franklin Marion Gentry I (1853-1904) of Kentucky and Helen Norton Harrison (1864-1933) of Georgia. Gentry I and Harrison were married on June 30, 1897 in New Orleans. The Gentry family in America began with Nicholas Gentry I and his brother Samuel who came to Virginia as British soldiers around 1677.
- Provenance
- Presented to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society by Violet Young DeVeau in 1981.
- Source
- New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Gift 2008
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.
- Research Call Number
- NYGB Coll 135