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a case for rethinking family history

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An edition of Jacob's well (2008)

Jacob's well

a case for rethinking family history

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xvi, 279 p. : 24 cm

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English
Pages
279

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Jacob's well: a case for rethinking family history
2008, Minnesota Historical Society Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-279).

Published in
St. Paul, MN

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
929/.1
Library of Congress
CS71.A4816 2008, CS71.A48162008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 279 p. :
Number of pages
279

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL20754366M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0873516133
ISBN 13
9780873516136
LCCN
2007046458
OCLC/WorldCat
182621379
LibraryThing
5704982
Goodreads
2710691

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OL33840W

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