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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Cora Christabel Curry Collection #854, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Cora Christabel Curry of Washington, D.C., in December 1943.

Additional Descriptive Resources

The original finding aid for this collection is contained in folder 1A.

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• Curry family.
• Curry, Cora Christabel, 1852-1944.
• Genealogists.
• Genealogy.

Professional genealogist Cora Christabel Curry was born in Oxford, Ohio, where her father, William Wallace Curry, was the pastor of a Universalist Church. From 1881 to 1930, Cora Christabel Curry was a government clerk, primarily in the Bureau of Navigation. Curry also served as the librarian of the National Genealogical Society and historian of the Henckel Family Association.

Series 1 contains correspondence mostly relating to genealogical research and copies of wills and other papers of Cora Christabel Curry's ancestors. Series 2 contains genealogical data relating to numerous families. Included are charts, notes, copies of documents, and other materials compiled by Cora Christabel Curry in the course of her activities as a professional genealogical researcher.

• Extra Oversize Paper Folder (XOP-854/1)