- Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 279 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Jacob's well (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Jacob's well (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-279).
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2007046458
- OCLC
- ssj0000607328
- Author
Amato, Joseph Anthony.
- Title
Jacob's well [electronic resource] : 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).
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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