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When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Genealogies of German, Italian and Polish Families, [Box #, Folder #], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
This box contains a very few histories and genealogical charts of Polish and Italian families. Almost all, however, are of German families, for the most part from Bavaria. With rare exceptions, the charts and histories are handwritten in German script. The time covered usually begins about the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries and is continued to the middle of the nineteenth century. One family is traced back to 846. Included with the names listed on the charts are usually the birth and death dates, the marriages, and frequently the positions held in the particular communities.
Nearly all the papers bear a label marked: "Bibliotheca Caroli Hopfii," with identifying numbers.