Special Collections Research Center
spcoll@wm.eduFinding Aid Authors: Special Collections Staff.
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Use:
Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
Conditions Governing Access:
Collection is open to all researchers. 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, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
Preferred Citation:
Pace Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
The materials in this collection were donated to Special Collections Research Center in batches between 1968 and 2007 by Joseph V. Pace, Maud M. Kelly, Alice M. Lee, Jack Pace, and the Pace Society.
Family History:
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Scope and Contents
Genealogy material of the Pace Family of Virginia and other branches in the United States.
Related Material
See also the Pace family newsletter in the Periodicals Department.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Books
- Genealogy
- Manuscripts (document genre)
- Photocopies
- Reports
- Virginia--Genealogy
Container List
Scope and Contents Volumes of genealogy of the Pace family of Virginia. Chiefly photocopies. "Pace, Your Family and Mine" by Joseph Vernon Pace, Sr." 1967. "Descent from Richard Pace of Pace's Pains and Samuel Macock" by Maud McLure Kelly. 1947. Photocopy of Richard Pace (ca. 1590-1624) genealogical data. (Gift of Alice M. Lee, 1971. Originally filed as MsV. Small Collection Pace Family). Pace-Anderson genealogy. Notebook. Undated. Photocopy of the memoir of Pace Family written by Annie Jones. Original owned by Mrs. Etta E. Pace in 1976.
Extensive Files of genealogical family sheets covering members of the Pace family. Emphasis on Virginia and Louisiana with files also relating to Kentucky, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Indiana, Illinois, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, and Iowa. Alphabetical by name, with list of names on top of each box. Box 1 and 2. Continued as Box 3 - 8 in Mss. Acc. 2007.54.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 id65452
Box 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 id65453
Box 2
Published and unpublished material on the Pace Family with family and individual histories from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Virginia and Germany. Includes material from the Maycock Papers and a coloring book by Helen Jones Campbell about the Indian boy, Chanco, of Jamestown, Virginia. List of publications in first folder.
Folder list is in Box 3. Folders of different Pace Family Members, usually with spouses name on folder label. Filed alphabetically by first name. Boxes 3 - 8, continuation of Boxes 1-2 in Mss. Acc. 2004.25.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 id65446
George S. Pace to James Pace
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 id65447
Allen E. Burch, DNA Genealogy Pamphlets, County Land Books
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 id65448
Material on Collateral Families
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 id65449
Thomas Pace - William Pace
- Mixed Materials Box: 7 id65450
Mary Pace - Susan M. Pace
- Mixed Materials Box: 8 id65451
Abner Pace to David R. Pace
Series has been rehoused but contains unproccessed materials. Includes correspondence between D.E. Jack Pace and Pace family members, family trees, and documents pertaining to Pace family genealogical research.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9
Box 9
- Mixed Materials Box: 10
Box 10
- Mixed Materials Box: 11
Box 11