Title: Jacob's well : a case for rethinking family history /
Authors: Amato, Joseph Anthony.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Amato family.; Genealogy Authorship
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.