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Jacob's well : a case for rethinking family history
- Title
- Jacob's well : a case for rethinking family history / Joseph A. Amato.
- Author
- Amato, Joseph Anthony.
- Publication
- St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2008.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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- Description
- xvi, 279 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-279).
- Contents
- Preface : family history, a way to know our selves and our times -- Introduction : putting on the coat of the past -- Rosalia, a misery as ancient as Sicily -- "Forty acres, and all mine" -- Banished from Acadia, exiled in Plymouth colony -- Up and down the hills of Maine, and off to Wisconsin -- Migrants west -- A memorable death, a common lot -- Jacob, the rise and fall of a plebian patriarch -- Cousins of the tongue -- Workers to the bone, east siders to the end -- Conclusion : the reason for, and the matter of, family history -- Appendix : Amato, Linsdeau, and associated families.
- Call Number
- APV (Amato) 08-3246
- ISBN
- 9780873516136 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0873516133 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007046458
- OCLC
- 182621379
- Author
- Amato, Joseph Anthony.
- Title
- Jacob's well : a case for rethinking family history / Joseph A. Amato.
- Imprint
- St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-279).
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- Research Call Number
- APV (Amato) 08-3246