Becky Fifield
Samuel Adams’s Mother Was a Fifield
RL Fifield vacuuming samplers with a dental vacuum in the old Textile Conservation Lab, MFA Boston, 2001. Back in the early aughts, I was...
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Becky Fifield
Aug 5, 20131 min read
Museum Monday – Chester County Historical Society
Chester County Historical Society. In addition to Swarthmore College’s Friends Historical Library, Wednesday also took me to the Chester...
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Becky Fifield
Apr 1, 20134 min read
Museum Monday: Maryland State Archives in 2013
The stepped structure of the Maryland State Archives on Rowe Blvd, Annapolis. For a building built in 1984, I think the Maryland State...
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Becky Fifield
Sep 16, 20125 min read
Westward Ho! My Third Great Grandfather Travels, in 1851
Ancestry.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...
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Becky Fifield
Sep 13, 20123 min read
What’s Left Behind: A Harford County, Maryland Probate Inventory
George Harrison Bowman, child of John Bowman and Ann Baker Both of my great great great grandparents died in 1857, leaving my fifteen...
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Becky Fifield
May 17, 20122 min read
Potato Rolls – A Family History
Fifty Years in a Maryland Kitchen (1873) has several recipes for fostering yeast from potatoes, including potato and hops mixtures, on...
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Becky Fifield
May 13, 20121 min read
Mothers Montage – An Homage to Mom
In honor of Mom, here are photographs of my mothers, from my own mom, to a couple of my great great great grandmothers. Even if old...
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Becky Fifield
May 10, 20122 min read
Digging Up My Ancestors – Smithsonian Edition
Click here for Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Gibb Archaeological Consulting Crew, Cole Cemetery site, Aberdeen, MD, 2010. GAC photo. And...
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Becky Fifield
May 10, 20122 min read
Digging Up My Ancestors – Smithsonian Edition
Click here for Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Gibb Archaeological Consulting Crew, Cole Cemetery site, Aberdeen, MD, 2010. GAC photo. And...
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Becky Fifield
Apr 28, 20122 min read
Digging Up My Ancestors – Inbred
This post is a continuation of a series chronicling the relocation of my family cemetery, including my 4th Great Grandparents James Cole...
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Becky Fifield
Apr 28, 20122 min read
Digging Up My Ancestors – Inbred
This post is a continuation of a series chronicling the relocation of my family cemetery, including my 4th Great Grandparents James Cole...
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Becky Fifield
Apr 12, 20123 min read
Digging Up My Ancestors
Click here for the first post on the Cole Cemetery relocation. My mother and I were standing in the Target parking lot in Aberdeen one...
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Becky Fifield
Apr 12, 20123 min read
Digging Up My Ancestors
Click here for the first post on the Cole Cemetery relocation. My mother and I were standing in the Target parking lot in Aberdeen one...
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Becky Fifield
Apr 7, 20122 min read
Vaccination – for one, for everyone
Baron Jean Louis Alibert performing the vaccination against smallpox in the Chateau of Liancourt, Constant Desbordes, c. 1820. Musee de...
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Becky Fifield
Apr 7, 20122 min read
Vaccination – for one, for everyone
Baron Jean Louis Alibert performing the vaccination against smallpox in the Chateau of Liancourt, Constant Desbordes, c. 1820. Musee de...
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Becky Fifield
Apr 2, 20122 min read
It’s Here! The 1940 Census
In April of 1940, there were just over 132 million Americans. Today, after the obligatory 72 year wait to protect the privacy of the...
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Becky Fifield
Mar 29, 20122 min read
Digging Up My Ancestors
Cole Family Burial Mound, Aberdeen, MD, 2010. The mound was left after gravel stripping operations in the 1940s, and has now been...
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Becky Fifield
Mar 19, 20122 min read
Welcome to The Still Room.
Barbara Fritchie Restaurant, Frederick MD, RL Fifield photo, 2009. Conjuring the appearance of a 17th or 18th century Still Room yields a...
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