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Title: Finley – McFarling genealogy collection
Dates: 1740-1830
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Creator/Collector:
Finley, Carmen J.
Extent: 8 boxes
Online items available
Repository:
Sonoma State University Library
Abstract: The documents, all in transcribed form and many with copies of the original documents, include deeds, court records, tax and
census records, marriage and other vital records, as well as some extensive probate records, and abstracts taken from standard
sources, both primary and secondary. It also includes correspondence, some GEDCOMs, photographic family albums, and other
documents used in the analysis of problems found in tracing family members. In addition there are reprints of published research
by Carmen J. Finley found in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, The Virginia Genealogist, the American Genealogist,
Tennessee Ancestors, National Genealogical Society Computer Interest Group Digest, and Finley Findings, International. About
80% of this material is available online and all material is available in hard copy form.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research by appointment.
The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claimants of literary
property
Finley – McFarling genealogy collection . Sonoma State University Library
Biography/Administrative History
Carmen J. Finley, PhD., C.G., is a retired research psychologist. Her interest in genealogy began in 1979 and she started
publishing articles in 1988, her first being in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. Since then she has published
additional articles in the NGS Quarterly as well as in The Virginia Genealogist, the American Genealogist and Tennessee Ancestors.
She is the author of The Finleys of Early Sonoma County, California, published by Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland, in
1997.
She has been chairman of the NGS Family History Contest since 1990, for which she received the NGS Distinguished Service Award.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Finley-McFarling Genealogy Collection contains over 700 citations to documents involving early Finley families in Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Texas and California along with a number of collateral lines. These documents,
all in transcribed form and many with copies of the original documents, include deeds, court records, tax and census records,
marriage and other vital records, as well as some extensive probate records, and abstracts taken from standard sources, correspondence,
and other family history documentation.
Bancroft
Bischoff
Boyle
Caldwell
Downing
Ellison
Ellroth/Elrod
Finley
Fullerton
Hackney
Harlan
Head
Heald
Janney
Jenkins
Knevett
Lesh/Loesch
McAra
McFarland
McKnight
Minear
Mount
Pabst
Roy
Stalnaker
Stemple
Walborn
Willis
McFarling