Guide to the Corum Family Collection, 1844-1986
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California State Library. All rights reserved.
Guide to the Corum Family Collection, 1844-1986
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Contact Information:
- California History Room
- California State Library
- Library and Courts Building II
- 900 N. Street, Room 200
- P.O. Box 942837
- Sacramento, California 94237-0001
- Phone: (916) 654-0176
- Fax: (916) 654-8777
- Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
- URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/
- Processed by:
- The California State Library staff
- Encoded by:
- Brooke Dykman Dockter
© 1998 California State Library. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Corum Family Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1844-1986
Box Number: 2034-2037
Collector:
Corum, Edward A.
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Unrestricted.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Corum Family Collection, California State Library.
Access Points
Corum family.
Genealogy--Societies, etc.
Corum Family Association.
Contents
Photographs, scrapbooks, genealogical charts, biographical notes, Corum Family
Association organizational materials and reports, Boy Scout book binding project, deeds,
will, divorce papers.
History
In 1967 Ed, Richard and Raymond Corum of Sacramento, CA thought it might be interesting
to see if they could find out if they were related. They decided to go through the phone
books for California, Oregon and Washington and make a list of all the Corums. Postcards
were sent to all of the Corums listed in the phone books asking if they would be
interested in getting together to meet other possible relatives. The response was so
favorable that it was decided to have a meeting in Sacramento in October, 1967. Everyone
was asked to bring any and all information they had on their branch of the family,
including memorabilia and pictures. A large amount of information was obtained and it was
decided to make charts showing the different families. Larry Anderson, a charter member,
went to Salt Lake City where he spent two weeks researching files and obtaining
information from the Mormon Genealogical Library. Charles Corum, another charter member,
undertook the formidable task of sorting out the information and making the first set of
charts in 1968. The charts consisted of eleven pages and the only charts that had
continuity were the charts of John Corum and Mary Cobb. The reason for this is that the
majority of the Corums on the West Coast are descendants of John and Mary. The charts
have been redone and updated several times. By 1970 they numbered thirty-six. In 1981 and
1982, the charts were done again by Charles and Warren Corum. At the present time there
are one hundred and nineteen pages of charts and one set of charts includes ten
generations. The Association has hired part-time genealogists at various times, but by
and large the information has come from members who have spent their own time and money
to research information that they have shared with the Association.
Material Transferred from the Collection
14 Portraits:
- Corum, Charles Alexander
- Corum, Clarence
- Corum, Edward
- Corum, Grace McCoy
- Corum, William Thomas
- Lambrecht, Everett Clark
- Lambrecht, Everett Clark, Jr.
- Lambrecht, Nellie E. McCoy
Box Box 2034
Corum Family Association materials
Copies of journal articles
"Maternal ancestors of Edward Alvin Corum"
