Margaret M. MacGill Genealogy Collection (MS254)

Access and use

Location of collection:
Alexandria Library
Alexandria Library
Local History/Special Collections
717 Queen Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Patricia Walker, Branch Manager
Phone: (703) 746-1719
Phone: (703) 838-4577
Fax: (703) 706-3912

Summary

Extent:
2 Linear Feet 6 boxes
Creator:
MacGill, Margaert M. O'Meara, 1919-2008
Language:
English .

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of information on the O'Meara, Lynch, Beach, Gossom, and Voorhees families including many collateral lines. Included is correspondence, notes, copies of documents (birth, death, marriage, deeds, wills, military, etc), articles, obituaries, and other miscellaneous items. All pertaining to the history and genealogy of the aforementioned names.

Biographical / historical:

Margaret M. O'Meara was born March 5, 1919 in Washington, District of Columbia. She was the daughter of Ernest C. And Bertha M. Beach O'Meara. She married Leon Herbert MacGill of Arlington, Virginia on March 4, 1950. Mrs. MacGill resides in the Arlington/Alexandria area and has researched and compiled information for her family genealogy for many years.

Arrangement:

Information is by family surname: Beach, Buckley (Shackelford),Downs (Sloper, Wilson), Hume, Gossom (Hampton, Jenkins, Lomax, E. Thomas, Tuttle), Lynch (Allison, Lightfoot, Spates, Thompson, Ball), Maddox, Matthew (Peters, Walker), O'Meara, Voorhees (Bradford, Smith). Military information is that of Revolutionary War and Civil War ancestors. Births, Marriages, Deaths, Obituaries are arranged by surname. Census records, deeds, wills, and other information is arranged by chronological and alphabetical order in place where applicable.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Places:
Virginia -- Genealogy.