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Collection Number: 05573

Collection Title: William Woodruff Taylor Collection on Virginia Families, 1960s-2000s

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Size 3 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1000 items)
Abstract The collection of white genealogist William Woodruff Taylor (1912-2008) of Warrenton, N.C., contains research files related to white Virginia families and compiled between the 1960s and 2000s. Family names include Poindexter, Taylor, Stuart, Gordon, Hatcher, Brown, Cooke, and Fitzhugh. Narrative family histories, family charts and trees, family newsletters and directories, correspondence with family members, notes, newspaper clippings, and other printed items comprise the genealogical research files. Some files contain scattered original historical documents and photographs, but most historical items are copies or transcriptions. In addition to family histories and biographical sketches of individual family members, the materials contain information about organizations such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy, historical markers related to the families, and family reunions.
Creator Taylor, William Woodruff, 1912-2008.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
This collection is not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting this collection.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the William Woodruff Taylor Collection on Virginia Families #05573, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from William Woodruff Taylor, III in July 2013 (Acc. 101853).
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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This summary description was created in July 2019 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Hart, July 2019

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William Woodruff Taylor (1912-2008) of Warrenton, N.C., practiced law in North Carolina beginning in 1933. He served in the United States Army during the Second World War.

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