PERSONAL MATERIAL is divided in five sub-series. The first sub-series consists of papers, articles, columns, articles by other authors, and correspondence that Breig thought significant and therefore annotated for explanatory reasons. The annotations are very complete and are significant documents in themselves.

The second sub-series is a collection of documents and certificates belonging to Breig and his family as well as papers and documents (Testaments of George and Clara Breig) that belonged to Breig's parents and aunts. Breig's own documents include his two honorary degrees.

The third sub-series contains clippings of articles about Breig as well as clippings about his immediate family (mostly his son James).

The fourth sub-series contains a family history for his father's side of the family as well as a fragment of a genealogy written by Breig's brother Robert which also includes their mother's side of the family. There is also folder with clippings about the rest of Breig's family.

The photos of this sub-series have been removed (as have all other photos of this collection) to the Breig photo collection (GBRI).Photocopies of the photo have been left in this sub-series. The photos show Breig as a little boy; Breig and his siblings; Breig in his high school yearbook (1923); Breig with a friend; Breig in the Notre Dame yearbook (1927); his family, 1950; Breig in the 1960s, and Breig with colleagues at the regional Catholic Press Convention in Youngstown, Ohio, 1976.