Finley – McFarling genealogy collection, 1740-1830

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Summary

Creators:
Finley, Carmen J. Carmen Finley
Abstract:
Extent:
9 linear feet; 10 boxes
Language:
Preferred citation:

Finley – McFarling genealogy collection . Sonoma State University Library

Background

Scope and content:

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/].

Biographical / historical:

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.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research by appointment.

Terms of access:

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

Location of this collection:
Special Collections
1801 E. Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928, US
Contact:
(707) 664-4152
specialcollections@sonoma.edu
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