A Guide to the Raghnild Bairnsfather Papers, 1977-2010
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 51485
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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.