A Guide to the Raghnild Bairnsfather Papers, 1977-2010 Bairnsfather, Raghnild, Papers, 1977-2010 51485

A Guide to the Raghnild Bairnsfather Papers, 1977-2010

A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 51485

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Processed by: Jim Greve

Repository

The Library of Virginia

Accession Number

51485

Title

Raghnild Bairnsfather Papers, 1977-2010

Physical Description

.675 cubic feet (2 boxes)

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Raghnild Bairnsfather Papers, 1977-2010. Accession 51485. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Raghnild Bairnsfather, Winchester, Massachusetts.

Biographical Information

Raghnild Munson Bairnsfather (b. 1938) is a resident of Winchester, Massachusetts. She has written numerous genealogical works, including Six Generations of Potters in North Carolina, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky: The Ancestry of James Thompson Potter of Lexington, Kentucky (1988), Some Descendants of Robert Hodgen (1742-1810) of Virginia and Kentucky (1991), and The Potter Family of North Carolina, Indiana and Kentucky: Descendants of Robert Potter (ca. 1700-1757) of New Hanover County, North Carolina : Including Allied Families Long and Carruthers (2003).

Scope and Content

Papers, 1977-2010, of Ragnhild Bairnsfather (b. 1938) of Winchester, Massachusetts, containing her genealogical research on the Carter, Harris and Salling families of Amherst, Lancaster, Russell, Scott, and Washington Counties, Virginia, and Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. The collection includes abstracts, copies, and transcriptions of census records, court orders, deeds, tax records, tombstone inscriptions, vital statistics, and wills, as well as correspondence and genealogical charts.

Contents List

Box 1 Folder 1

Carter - Census and Tax Records.

Box 1 Folder 2

Carter - Charts.

Box 1 Folder 3

Carter - Correspondence.

Box 1 Folder 4

Carter - Correspondence (Elva Bishop).

Box 1 Folder 5

Carter - Correspondence (Dorothy Munson).

Box 1 Folder 6

Carter - "The Hoopers of Caswell and Durham County, North Carolina and Allied Families, With Their Virginia Origins" by F. Claiborne Johnston, Jr. (portion).

Box 1 Folder 7

Carter - Photographs.

Box 1 Folder 8

Carter - Prayer Book of Captain Thomas Carter.

Box 1 Folder 9

Carter - Published Sources.

Box 1 Folder 10

Carter - "Verville" (Lancaster County, VA).

Box 1 Folder 11

Carter - "Who Was the Real Dale Carter?"

Box 1 Folder 12

Carter - "Who Was the Real Dale Carter?" - Rebuttal.

Box 1 Folder 13

Carter - Wills.

Box 1 Folder 13

Harris - Census and Tax Records.

Box 1 Folder 15

Harris - Chancery and Other Orders.

Box 1 Folder 16

Harris - Correspondence.

Box 1 Folder 17

Harris - Correspondence (Della Warren Dawdy).

Box 1 Folder 18

Harris - Correspondence (Bernice Harris).

Box 1 Folder 19

Harris - Correspondence (Bunny Jeanne Harvey).

Box 1 Folder 20

Harris - Correspondence (Dorothy Munson).

Box 1 Folder 21

Harris - Correspondence (Bruce Penwell).

Box 1 Folder 22

Harris - Correspondence (Bernice Taylor Quinn).

Box 1 Folder 23

Harris - Correspondence (Mildred Wonn).

Box 1 Folder 24

Harris - Deeds.

Box 1 Folder 25

Harris, Lewis.

Box 1 Folder 26

Harris - Published Sources.

Box 1 Folder 27

Harris - Research Notes.

Box 1 Folder 28

Harris - Vigo County IN Maps.

Box 1 Folder 29

Harris - Vital Statistics and Cemetery Records.

Box 1 Folder 30

Harris - Wills and Inventories.

Box 2 Folder 1

Salling - Census, Tax Records, Charts.

Box 2 Folder 2-3

Salling - Correspondence.

Box 2 Folder 4

Salling - Deeds.

Box 2 Folder 5

Salling - Vital Statistics, Tombstone Inscriptions.

Box 2 Folder 6

Salling - Wills, Court Orders.