Work on Lucinda (Sargent) Fairman, who lived in a Shaker community in Enfield, New Hampshire, in the 19th century has taken a back seat to other things. However, a contributor to FindAGrave photographed her tombstone in the Shaker Cemetery in Enfield, New Hampshire. According to the information on the cemetery on FindAgrave, Lucinda’s stone is […]

This is the first time I have ever found a relative’s photograph in an archival collection in any library. And a wonderful picture it is. It can be very easy to overlook special collections at regional, college, and university libraries in our ancestral search. Any archival collection has the potential to contain material on a […]