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Collection Overview
| Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 600 items) |
| Abstract | Members of the Beggs and Janssen families of New Orleans, La. Materials, 1859-1962, including genealogy, family records, correspondence, and photographs. Nineteenth-century letters include those from John Thomas Beggs, C.S.A., in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia, to his family, and others from various family members to one another discussing life during and after the Civil War. The 20th-century letters recount family events and are primarily focused on collecting and reconstructing family history. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Subject Headings
The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.
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Biographical Information
Hermann Janssen, a New Orleans, La., restaurateur, descends from the Janssen family of Germany and New Orleans and from the Beggs family of New Orleans.
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Scope and Content
Genealogy, family records, correspondence, and photographs of the Beggs and Janssen families. Included are Civil War letters of John Thomas Beggs, C.S.A.
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Series 1. Family Records.
Arrangement: by material type.
Extensive genealogy collected by Hermann Janssen of both the Beggs and Janssen families includes family trees, brief biographies of many ancestors, birth and marriage certificates, newspaper and photograph photocopies, land grants, and last wills and testaments.
| Folder 1 |
Paternal Genealogy, part 1 |
| Folder 2 |
Paternal Genealogy, part 2 |
| Folder 3 |
Maternal Genealogy, part 1 |
| Folder 4 |
Maternal Genealogy, part 2 |
| Folder 5 |
Land grants |
| Folder 6 |
Wills |
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Series 2. Correspondence, 1859-1962.
Arrangement: chronological.
Correspondence of the Beggs and Janssen families. Nineteenth-century letters include those from John Thomas Beggs, C. S. A., to his family, mostly to his father E. W. Beggs and his sister, Rebecca Virginia (Ginnie) Beggs. Beggs wrote from Corinth, Miss., and Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1862; from Jackson, Miss., in 1863; and from Atlanta, Ga., where he was wounded and died, in 1864. There are also letters from various family members to one another discussing life during and after the Civil War.
The twentieth-century letters recount family events and are primarily focused on collecting and reconstructing family history. Most early letters are attached to transcriptions. The Civil War letters are preceded by a volume of bound transcriptions. The folder of miscellaneous material contains identification cards and ration books.
| Folder 7 |
Transcripts 1862-1864 |
| Folder 8 |
Letters 1859- April 1862 |
| Folder 9 |
Letters April 1862- July 1863 |
| Folder 10 |
Letters July 1863-April 1866 |
| Folder 11 |
Letters 1900-1908 |
| Folder 12 |
Letters 1910-1943 |
| Folder 13 |
Letters 1946-1951 |
| Folder 14 |
Letters 1956-1962 |
| Folder 15 |
Miscellaneous |
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Series 3. Pictures.
Photographs of Beggs and Janssen family members, mostly identified.
| Image Folder P-4812/Folders 1-4 |
Photographs of Beggs and Janssen family members, mostly identified |
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