Greater Light: A House History

The first of a series that will present histories of the historic buildings in the collections of the Nantucket Historical Association, this is a history of the house of Hanna & Gertrude Monaghan home on Nantucket.

Written by Betsy Tyler; Ben Simons, editor; Elizabeth Oldham, copy editor; Eileen Powers/Javatime Design, Design & Production

Available for purchase in our museum shop and online.
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The Other Islanders

Frances Karttunen documents the diversity of Nantucket's population through the centuries. Beginning with the people already resident when English settlement began in 1659, Karttunen chronicles survivals, arrivals, and changes. Available here online.

Keeping History

In the summer of 2004, Georgen Gilliam Charnes wrote a column for a local newspaper, The Inquirer and Mirror. Some of the articles are reproduced here.

• Daguerreotypes : First Photographs
• Cartes-de-Visite - the first pocket photographs
• Drying Wet Books
• The More Things Change: Diary of Charles Dyer
• Preserving Your Family Papers
• Taking Care of Your Family Photographs
• Processing History
• Records Management for Your Club or Small Organization
• Researching your Nantucket House History
• Where You Can Always Find a "'Turkish Bazarre'" : Sanborn Maps
• Ship's Logs and Journals at the NHA Research Library
• "So you say your great-great-great grandfather is Tristam Coffin": Using the Barney Genealogical Record
• Getting started in genealogy
• Winged Skulls and Garlanded Urns: Recording the Cemeteries of Nantucket

"Identify this" column

Every week for two years, the Nantucket Independent has run a column with a photograph that needs identifying or more information, selected by NHA staff member Georgen Charnes.