Surname Search: "Anderson"

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Anderson

Related surnames or alternate spellings: Andersson, Andersen, Anderssen, Andersone

Notable ancestors include:

Anna Anderson, Grand Duchess Anastasia imposter
Carl David Anderson, physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, comedian
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author of “The Little Mermaid” and others
Louie Anderson, comedian
Lynn Anderson, country singer
Marian Anderson, singer
Mr. Harry Anderson, Titanic passenger and survivor
Philip Warren Anderson, physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Poul Anderson, sci-fi writer
Thomas Anderson, Scottish chemist

Photographs:

“Adelaide Anderson” Hennepin County Library
“Anderson family and dogs, xmas 1920” Museums of Western Colorado
“Anderson family of Nephi, Charlotte, Bertha and Lawrence Anderson” Emery County Archives
“Anderson family of Olive Anderson, daughters Eva and Edda, son Lowry” Brigham Young University
“Anderson family of Sparky Anderson” Thousand Oaks Library
“Anderson family, 1012 12th Street” Golden History Museum & Park
“Anderson family: Lt. Thomas M. Anderson Jr, Bessie, others” Clark County Historical Museum
“Anderson family” Delta (UT) City Library
“Anderson, 1873” Library of Congress
“Anderson, 1901, infant” Library of Congress
“Anderson, 1901” Library of Congress
“Anderson, 1903” Library of Congress
“Anderson, H.P., 1873” Library of Congress
“Anna H. Morrow Anderson” Knox County Public Library
“Augusta Anderson, Olaf, Inez, and Harry” and “another Anderson family photo” Clark County Historical Museum
“Anderson, Helena, and Anderson, Leonora” Fairview Museum of History and Art
“Anderson” Brigham Young University
“Camilla Anderson, Lillie Anderson” Brigham Young University
“Charity Anderson, 1936” Library of Congress
“Clifford W. Anderson” Hennepin County Library
“Constance Lane Anderson, 1939” Hennepin County Library
“Evelyn Klahre Anderson, Bill Anderson” Pennsylvania Highlands Community College
“George E. Anderson” Brigham Young University
“Glen Anderson and William Anderson” Hennepin County Library
“Hannah Anderson, Olaf, Ellen, Peter, and Annie” Clark County Historical Museum
“Jeremiah Anderson” Library of Congress
“Joseph Anderson, brother of Mary Anderson” New York Public Library Digital Collections
“Kristina Ellen Henrichsen Anderson, Neils Anderson, Emma Anderson” Clark County Historical Museum
“Lawrence and Vera Anderson with daughters Carol and Judy…” Emery County Archives
“Mattie Anderson (Freeman) & Daisy Anderson (Salisbury), History San Jose Research Library
“Mrs. Larz Anderson, 1897” Library of Congress
“Olaf Anderson and family 2 Month Scandinavian vacation, 1950” Hennepin County Library
“Olive Anderson and Lowry Anderson” Brigham Young University
“Portrait of Marian Anderson” Library of Congress
“Robert Anderson and Robert Anderson, Jr.” Allen County Public Library
“Ted Anderson Family” HathiTrust
“The Anderson family stands in front of their cottage “Sleepy Hollow” Pepperdine University
“Varney Anderson, baseball player, 1894” Library of Congress
“William T. Anderson” Missouri Historical Society
“Wm. H. Anderson, 1915” Library of Congress

Website clippings, news articles, blog posts (no paywalls)

“Anderson Ancestor Search: An Excuse to visit Scotland and Ireland” 2013, ancestorsinaprons.com
“Anderson Family” Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center
“Anderson Family” Delaware County NY Genealogy and History Site
“Anderson Family of Antrim Township” Green Castle Museum
Coleman, Brent. “Meet the Andersons, a family of repute with local roots that shaped the course of U.S. history: they’re the namesake of East Side township” 19 July, 2016. wcpo.com
“Letter from Jourdon Anderson: A Freedman writes his former master” 14 March 2016. Facing History and Ourselves
“Sambo Anderson” George Washington’s Mount Vernon
“The Anderson Family in Chester County” 2021. Chester County, Pennsylvania

Artifacts

“Anderson Family Bible” Ontariohistory.org
“Anderson family: newspaper clippings throwing light upon the origin of some institutions most valuable and identified with “Cincinnati" (Full view on Internet Archive)
“Robert Person Anderson family Bible records” North Carolina Digital Collections

Correspondence and letters

“Dr. Garrett Anderson to Mrs. Garrett Anderson, 1909” Library of Congress
“Letter from J.R. Anderson to John Muir, 1897 Oct 21” University of the Pacific
“Letter from John Anderson to Sarah Anderson, 1775” New York Public Library Digital Collections
“Letters to Alexander Anderson from his mother, 1795” New York Public Library Digital Collections
“Sherwood Anderson through the correspondence lens” VT Special Collections

Homes & historical markers

Anderson, Edward House” Olympia Historical Society & Bigelow House Museum
“Anderson Homestead” Fort Dalles Museum
“Anderson House” The Monrovia Historical Society
“Anderson House” washington.org
“Anderson Log House” Chippewa Valley Museum
“James Buchannan Anderson House” Tampa, Florida
“Oscar Anderson House Museum” Anchorage, Alaska
“The Story of Anderson House” The Society of Cincinnati

Oral histories and transcripts

“Aubrey W. Anderson Collection, 1943” (audio only) Library of Congress
“Buford Clinton Anderson Collection, 1981” (audio only) Library of Congress
“Glenn B. Anderson Collection, 1984” Library of Congress
“Greg Anderson Collection, 1964” (audio only) Library of Congress
“Harold Anderson and Tom Anderson interview, 1987” (audio only) University of Washington
Interview with Marguerite Anderson, 1994” (text only) Library of Congress
“Lisa Anderson Todd Oral History interview, 2013” Library of Congress
“William G. Anderson Oral History interview, 2011” Library of Congress

Other multimedia

“Anderson Family History: Marvins” youtube, by Ron Anderson
“Family chart of the Andersons of Kentucky and Ohio” 1902. HathiTrust

Finding aids (may not have any online content)

“A guide to the papers of the Anderson family, 1824 - 1924” University of Virginia Library
“Alma W. Anderson papers and photographs” BYU Library
“Anderson family collection” Maryland Center for History and Culture
“Anderson family photographs” BYU Library
“Anderson / Wendling Family Genealogy” South Dakota State Historical Society
“Charles Anderson family papers” Ohio History Connection
“J. Stanley Anderson photographs and postcards” BYU Library
“Manuscript Group 608, Anderson Family papers, 1762 - 1950” The New Jersey Historical Society”
“Thomas Earl Anderson Collection” and “John Fain Anderson Scrapbooks” on Archives of Appalachia

Books (Online & In Print)

Anderson, Andy Elmer. “Descendants of William Anderson (1776 - ?), the eldest son of Capt. John Anderson (1750 - 1817) and Rebeccah Skillern Anderson” 1960, reproduced 2017. (Full view on ACPL Genealogy Center)
Anderson, Edward Lee. “A history of the Anderson family 1706 - 1955…” The R.L. Bryan Company, Columbia, South Carolina, 1955. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Anderson, William Pope. “Anderson family records” 1936. (Full view on HathiTrust)
Anderson, William Pope. “Anderson-Overton; a continuation of Anderson family records…” Cincinnati, Gibson and Perin; 1945. (Full view on HathiTrust)
“Genealogy in part, of the Anderson-Owen-Beall families” Whittet & Shepperson, Printers, Richmond, VA; 1909 (Full view on Internet Archive)
Graham, Lottie Maud Anderson and James M. Anderson. “Scottish Andersons from Mossend farm, a genealogy of a branch of Andersons who came to the United States of America” Lake Wales, Florida, 1961. (Full view on internet Archive)
Hakan Anderson Family Organization. “The Hakan Anderson families” Provo, UT: 1962. (Full view on HathiTrust)
Hart, Lillie Anderson. “Impressions: history of the Anderson family” Taylorville, Illinois; 1946 (Full view on Internet Archive)
Kaufman, Amanda Anderson. “Descendants of John Anderson” 1979 (Full view on Internet Archive)
“Origin and history of the name of Anderson; with biographies of all the most noted persons of that name; an account of the origin of surnames and forenames…” 1901 (Full view on HathiTrust)
“The Anderson-Krogh genealogy including ancestral lines and descendants” St Petersburg, Florida, 1956. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Wilson, Samuel Tyndale. “Isaac Anderson Memorial” 1932 (Full view on Internet Archive)
Wise, Jennings C. “Genealogical record and chart of the family of Elizabeth Lydecker Anderson…” 1916. (Full view on HathiTrust)
Wright, Ernest Neall. “Peter Wright and Mary Anderson: a family record: genealogy of their descendants and of those of Cecelia Anderson, who married Daniel Neall” 1947. (Full view on HathiTrust)

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