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Start Over Repository Library of Virginia Collection Katherine Gentry Bushman Papers, 1961-1997 Level Collection

Katherine Gentry Bushman Papers, 1961-1997

Genealogical research files of Katherine G. Bushman, including family research files, subject files, compilations, and oversize genealogical charts and maps. The majority of the collection are family research files containing correspondence with clients for whom Bushman did research, as well as genealogical notes abstracted from court records, including deed books, order books, will books, and marriage records. Patriotic organization applications, family group sheets, extracts from published sources, Bible records, census records, and genealogical charts also appear in these files. There is a substantial amount of information on the Alexander, Bell, Bushman, Craig, Curry, Davis, Fauber, Fulkerson, Greaver, Hogshead, Kinkead, McCutchan, Polk, Rankin, Robertson, Sheets, Steele, Tate, and Wilson families. Families researched are from the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia, including Augusta, Bath, Botetourt, Rockbridge, Rockingham, and Shenandoah Counties, as well as the cities of Harrisonburg, Lexington, Staunton, and Waynesboro. There is a surname card index to these materials filed at the end of the series.

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