A previous post describes the exhibit and events. Links to many chapters chronicling the research process can be found below. I hope you enjoy the saga as much as I enjoyed it!
Here are links to the data. (Depending on your browser and browser settings, you may see the pages here or you may find them in your downloads.)
List of Names on the Quilt - Includes names as written and more complete names when found
Census Records Closest to 1895-1900 - Household members, ages, professions, stories
Census Data Used to Date the Quilt
Summation of Interesting Facts and Stories
Names Listed in Order of Street Name and Number - In case you visit Melrose and want to look for houses where these people lived
Age Chart - Ages from census records closest to 1895-1900
Here are all the previous posts:
Part 1 describes the quilt and the initial research. Part 2 details how I narrowed down the dates, and relates some of the interesting family stories I began finding. Part 3 tells the story of the Phinney, Dyer, and Hersey families. Part 4 has general observations on life in the late 1890s. Part 5 sums up my research. Part 6 shares the first information from librarians and historians in Melrose. I wrote a little aside about the fun of being able to look at original records online. And, since the quilt did initially come to me for repair, and I did eventually stop reading census forms and do the repair work, and wrote up the techniques and choices involved. And then I went back to the research, and continued to find lots of great information. After the events, I described the homecoming experience and the exhibits, and wrote about the little quilt I made that was inspired by the historical quilt. And a very astonishing coincidence with another quilt and a family tree. I was given a photo of one of the people named on the quilt.
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