| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Genealogical Papers Relating to the Root Family
| | | | Creator: | Root, Joseph Cullen | | | | Dates: | 1900-1939 | | | | Abstract: | Joseph C. Root (1844-1913) was proprietor of the Root Genealogy Company of Omaha, Nebraska. He solicited information from related individuals throughout the United States in order to compile a genealogy of the Root family. Root was also an official of the Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal benefit life insurance society organized in Illinois in 1883. Additional information pertaining to the Root genealogy was compiled after his death, probably by his son. The collection consists largely of voluminous correspondence with relatives in request of information on members of the Root family, including family record and lineage questionnaires, and copious notes. The collection contains a series of notebooks with information on more than 7000 members of the Root family, including notebooks of information on miscellaneous untraced individuals. There are also postcards of the ancestral home of the Root family in Badby, North Hamptonshire, England, and name/address lists, coats of arms, and card files of individuals, all pertaining to a compilation of the Root family genealogy. | | | | Call #: | MS 3318 | | | | Extent: | 7.80 linear feet (12 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Root, Joseph Cullen, 1844-1913. | Root family. | Root Genealogy Co. | Genealogists -- Nebraska -- Omaha -- Archives.
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