Becky FifieldDec 30, 20152 minSamuel Adams’s Mother Was a FifieldRL Fifield vacuuming samplers with a dental vacuum in the old Textile Conservation Lab, MFA Boston, 2001. Back in the early aughts, I was...
Becky FifieldJun 14, 20132 minVanishing History: Recording African-American Burial GroundsOn a Sunday afternoon in 1992, I was collecting fallen autumn leaves along Chapel Road outside Havre de Grace, Maryland where my...
Becky FifieldApr 5, 20131 minA Maryland Breakfast: Fried Red Tomatoes in Cream GravyI recently visited my great uncle, Uncle B, in Arizona. Having left our ancestral seat for a life of western adventure in 1947, we don’t...
Becky FifieldApr 4, 20133 minConnecting the Dots: Convict Servants in MarylandEddie Izzard puns on the Church of England: “Cake or Death?” For people found guilty of committing small crimes in England,...
Becky FifieldApr 1, 20134 minMuseum Monday: Maryland State Archives in 2013The stepped structure of the Maryland State Archives on Rowe Blvd, Annapolis. For a building built in 1984, I think the Maryland State...
Becky FifieldFeb 22, 20131 minCommunities Past: Former Commerce in Rock Run, Harford County, MDRock Run United Methodist Church. Harford County was a site of early Methodist activity in America. Rock Run, Harford County, Maryland....
Becky FifieldSep 16, 20125 minWestward Ho! My Third Great Grandfather Travels, in 1851Ancestry.com, as a genealogical tool, is a start for many doing genealogy. I see it as a way to sketch and share only. There are a lot of...
Becky FifieldSep 13, 20123 minWhat’s Left Behind: A Harford County, Maryland Probate InventoryGeorge Harrison Bowman, child of John Bowman and Ann Baker Both of my great great great grandparents died in 1857, leaving my fifteen...
Becky FifieldJun 23, 20121 minNames of the Forgotten – Runaway Clothing Database ProjectMaryland Gazette, August 9, 1787. Library of Congress. RL Fifield photo. The Runaway Clothing Database project uses newspaper runaway...
Becky FifieldMay 10, 20122 minDigging Up My Ancestors – Smithsonian EditionClick here for Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Gibb Archaeological Consulting Crew, Cole Cemetery site, Aberdeen, MD, 2010. GAC photo. And...
Becky FifieldMay 10, 20122 minDigging Up My Ancestors – Smithsonian EditionClick here for Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Gibb Archaeological Consulting Crew, Cole Cemetery site, Aberdeen, MD, 2010. GAC photo. And...
Becky FifieldApr 28, 20122 minDigging Up My Ancestors – InbredThis post is a continuation of a series chronicling the relocation of my family cemetery, including my 4th Great Grandparents James Cole...
Becky FifieldApr 28, 20122 minDigging Up My Ancestors – InbredThis post is a continuation of a series chronicling the relocation of my family cemetery, including my 4th Great Grandparents James Cole...
Becky FifieldApr 12, 20123 minDigging Up My AncestorsClick here for the first post on the Cole Cemetery relocation. My mother and I were standing in the Target parking lot in Aberdeen one...
Becky FifieldApr 12, 20123 minDigging Up My AncestorsClick here for the first post on the Cole Cemetery relocation. My mother and I were standing in the Target parking lot in Aberdeen one...
Becky FifieldApr 7, 20122 minVaccination – for one, for everyoneBaron Jean Louis Alibert performing the vaccination against smallpox in the Chateau of Liancourt, Constant Desbordes, c. 1820. Musee de...
Becky FifieldApr 7, 20122 minVaccination – for one, for everyoneBaron Jean Louis Alibert performing the vaccination against smallpox in the Chateau of Liancourt, Constant Desbordes, c. 1820. Musee de...
Becky FifieldApr 2, 20122 minIt’s Here! The 1940 CensusIn April of 1940, there were just over 132 million Americans. Today, after the obligatory 72 year wait to protect the privacy of the...
Becky FifieldMar 29, 20122 minDigging Up My AncestorsCole Family Burial Mound, Aberdeen, MD, 2010. The mound was left after gravel stripping operations in the 1940s, and has now been...