- unitid
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{"value"=>"NYGB Coll 176", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"21995", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1884/1992", "value"=>"ca. 1884-1992", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
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1884
- date_inclusive_end
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1992
- keydate
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1884
- date_start
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1884
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1992
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Howard A. Thomas genealogical research files"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"11.5 linear feet (26 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Howard A. Thomas (ca. 1899-1998) was a genealogist who received a B.F.A. degree from Cornell University in 1934; he and his wife, Ida Mae Sincerbeaux Thomas, lived in Long Island City, New York. Genealogical research papers of Howard A. Thomas, mostly relating to his and his wife's family histories, in the form of typed and handwritten research notes, correspondence (much of it with family members), charts, copies of legal documents, certificates, wills, deeds, and vital records. The principal famlies researched are Ambler, Berry, Doyle, Draper, Dungan, Odell, Peet, Sincerbeaux (Sinsabaugh), Thomas, Timpson (Timson), and Vanderburgh, who settled in Connecticut, Maryland, New York, Nova Scotia, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and elsewhere. There is also some 19th century correspondence between Berry family members; also included are notes from the actresses Glenn Close and Julie Harris, and cartoonist Dick Moores, as well as material on the ancestry of model and actress Brooke Shields."}
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Howard A. Thomas genealogical research files, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Thomas, Howard A", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Howard A. Thomas (ca. 1899-1998) was a genealogist who received a B. F. A. degree from Cornell University in 1934. He and his wife Ida Mae Sincerbeaux Thomas lived in Long Island City, New York.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>Presented to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society by Howard A. Thomas in 1994.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>Genealogical research papers of Howard A. Thomas, mostly relating to his and his wife's family histories, in the form of typed and handwritten research notes, correspondence (much of it with family members), charts, copies of legal documents, certificates, wills, deeds, and vital records. The principal families researched are Ambler, Berry, Doyle, Draper, Dungan, Odell, Peet, Sincerbeaux (Sinsabaugh), Thomas, Timpson (Timson), and Vanderburgh, who settled in Connecticut, Maryland, New York, Nova Scotia, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and elsewhere. There is also some 19th century correspondence between Berry family members; also included are notes from the actresses Glenn Close and Julie Harris, and cartoonist Dick Moores, as well as material on the ancestry of model and actress Brooke Shields.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Alphabetical</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Presented to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society by Howard A. Thomas in 1994.</p>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"Julie Harris' note is filed in Noxon Family folder; Glenn Close's and Dick Moores' notes are filed in the Moore/Shields folder"}
- extent_statement
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11.5 linear feet (26 boxes)