Shared Photo: Family Record Sampler 1858

Question

I wanted to share this family "Sampler" of the Briggs, Emery, Fuller, and Williams family because it is such a beautiful work of thoughtfulness by Nancy Emery (Carrie's elder sister) recording family history. Perhaps the coming generations will rediscover this elegant form. Created: Brookfield, Orange, Vermont, United States. Date: Aug 5th 1858. Current location; New Canaan, CT.
-Warmest Regards, Tom W.

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Answer 1

Thank you for sharing this. It is such a wonderful thing for someone to take the time and do. I have seen a number of records from which people get their information such as family Bibles, etc. Perhaps Nancy got the information from a like source and decided to make this chart.

The closest I have is a hand written list by my father's mother of her 2 husbands (widowed then remarried) and her children with birth dates for everyone and death dates for the 3 children who died young.

Comments

Thank you Luther, glad you like it. Even your grandmother's handwritten list is a treasure... scan it and post it!  I'm looking online to find a "sampler kit" without the cross-stich aspect. I'm a Scout leader, and will be teaching the Genealogy Merit Badge this Spring... I can get the boys to do a lot of things, but (just maybe) cross-stiching is a bridge too far... some sort of stick-on letters to a poster might work.  -Cheers

Answer 2

Thank you for sharing my 8th cousin's artwork!  See, it runs in the family! Today we would giver a computer and subscription to Illustrator!  Wooo Hooo!  She would be in business!

Comments

Oh, how true! Actually... you just gave me an alternative idea... per my comment above about teaching the Scouts... some would indeed prefer to "design" something... thank you! :-)

Answer 3

Thanks for sharing the image on G2G Thomas.