by Jerry Carbone | Jun 25, 2019 | News
Hoping for a good turnout for this series of talks I am giving at the Dover (Vt.) Free Library upon the invitation of long-time library director, John Flores. The schedule looks likes this: July 6—Genealogy 101- Where you Confuse the Dead and Irritate the...
by Jerry Carbone | Apr 18, 2019 | News
The last footnote, 162 (yes that is 162 footnotes in a 41 page article) of this scholarly essay in Winter/Spring issue of Vermont History, mentions a map, which is “…the first cartographic effort utilizing the caption “State of Vermont” to represent...
by Jerry Carbone | Feb 1, 2019 | News
Highway during blizzard near Brattleboro Vermont 1941. The Library of Congress digital collections are not to be missed. Subscribe to one or several of the 93 different blogs or services from the LoC. They range from General News, Preservation News, Folklife News and...
by Jerry Carbone | Jan 29, 2019 | News
Wesselhoeft Water Cure. Photograph 1869?-1890? by D. A. Henry. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. You may recall over the past several years I had this itch to document all of the visitors to the Wesselhoeft Water Cure whose names, dates, and residence were...
by Jerry Carbone | Jul 3, 2018 | Italian Genealogy, News
As we know from the recent headlines, immigrants to this country are being met with something other than open arms. And we know from the historical record this treatment is not atypical. The immigrants of the past century had no less a perilous journey, and once they...
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