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 15, 20121 minNew York Diaries, 1609–2009Teresa Carpenter does not arrange the selected snippets of text in a chronological order. Instead, she starts with January 1, and then...
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 FifieldSep 11, 20121 minTransportation Tuesday: A Moment on the Baltimore and OhioI was inspired by this salted paper print from the 1850s of people posing for a photograph on a Baltimore and Ohio engine. I thought...