The Quilt Index
One of my favorite websites is the Quilt Index. You
may be wondering how a quilt website can help you with your genealogy. Well
this website, rather than being one that is all about making quilts, is about
vintage quilts and their makers. Its database allows you to search quilts by a
person’s name or a place where the quilt was made. Your female ancestor could
be listed as a quilt maker or as a signature found on one of the many signature
quilts in the Index. (A signature quilt is one where a community, church
or group of friends worked together to piece a quilt and
included their signatures in ink or embroidery on the front of the quilt.
Sometimes community members paid to have their signature included and the
finished quilt was raffled off or given to someone).
Quilts in the Quilt Index
are from collections that include the American Quilt Study Group, Daughters of
the American Revolutionary Museum, and the Library of Congress. State quilt
projects, state historical societies and museums represented include those
from, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New England, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Wyoming.
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