Manuscripts

Often our research requires us to dig deeper than the records readily available online or in the standard libraries and databases. Some sources such as family bibles, personal journals, letters, wills and land records can prove to be invaluable. Included here you will find the records such as these IGS has in its collection.

Diary of a Seneca Chief, Maris B Pierce 1845-1857

Courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Ely Samuel Parker Papers

A subjective selection of documents from the Ely S. Parker Papers.

Courtesy of the American Philosphical Society.

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Family Bible of Mrs.GERTRUDE EDITH (Pierce) MAYBEE

Transcribed by: Miss. Gertrude Henriella Jones , May 12th, 1955 Courtesy of the Buffalo History Museum

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Records found in an old ledger of MRS. ULESSUS (SalINA MaBee) KENNedy

Transcribed by: Miss. Gertrude Henriella Jones , October 1954 Courtesy of the Buffalo History Museum

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Covenant Chain.jpg — Covenant Chain Wampum Belt

Records of Mrs. Arthur (Florence Silverheels) Wakolee

Transcribed by: Miss. Gertrude Henriella Jones , September 1954 Courtesy of the Buffalo History Museum

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Tonawanda Genealogies

Collected by Elisabeth Tooker First Revision, July 1966 Department of Anthropology Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. 19122 Second Revision, January· 1973 Veronica Evaneshko Department of Anthropology University. of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85719

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Notes on the Six Nations of New York

Compiler notes from the 1892 Extra Census Bulletin, These notes were taken for the eleventh Census of the U.S., 22nd Division. It lists chiefs, crops, population, diseases, houses, other property and values of the Iroquois in New York. Courtesy of the American Philosophical Society

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Census & Genealogies from Coldspring

Compiled by William N. Fenton during his time on the Allegany Territory.

Courtesy of Jare Cardinal

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