Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Finley – McFarling genealogy collection
Consult repository  
View entire collection guide What's This?
Search this collection
Collection Details
 
Table of contents What's This?
  • Descriptive Summary
  • Access
  • Publication Rights
  • Preferred Citation
  • Acquisition Information
  • Biography/Administrative History
  • Scope and Content of Collection
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Finley – McFarling genealogy collection
    Dates: 1740-1830
    Collection Number: Consult repository
    Creator/Collector: Finley, Carmen J.
    Extent: 9 linear feet; 10 boxes
    Repository: Sonoma State University Library
    Rohnert Park, California 94928
    Abstract: 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.
    Language of Material: English

    Access

    Collection is open for research by appointment.

    Publication Rights

    The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claimants of literary property

    Preferred Citation

    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 recently received the NGS Distinguished Service Award. She is especially interested in methodology as it applies to the study of family history. In 1998 she and the Sonoma State University Library jointly received the GENTECH Applied Technology award for outstanding contributions to technological and genealogical quality, based on the development of her database of the Finley family collection. She is a native of Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, and the fourth generation of her family to live in Sonoma County.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    The Finley - McFarling Genealogy Collection consists of 10 boxes of genealogical material as well as a full text digital database with library catalog access. Further information is available on Carmen Finley’s website “Finley-McFarling Family History” [http://sites.rootsweb.com/~cascgs/].

    Indexing Terms

    Armstrong family
    Bancroft family
    Bischoff family
    Boydston family
    Boyle family
    Caldwell family
    Downing family
    Ellison family
    Ellroth/Elrod family
    Finley family
    Fullerton family
    Hackney family
    Harlan family
    Head family
    Heald family
    Janney family
    Jenkins family
    Jones family
    Knevett family
    Lesh/Loesch family
    McAra family
    McFarland family
    McFarling family
    McKnight family
    Minear family
    Mount family
    Pabst family
    Roy family
    Stalnaker family
    Stemple family
    Walborn family
    Willis family