Jacob's well
Subtitle: a case for rethinking family history
By: Joseph A. Amato.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: St. Paul, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780873516136
Subjects: Amato family; Genealogy -- Authorship
Description: xvi, 279 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-279).
Table of contents: title: Preface : family history, a way to know our selves and our times; title: Introduction : putting on the coat of the past; title: Rosalia, a misery as ancient as Sicily; title: "Forty acres, and all mine"; title: Banished from Acadia, exiled in Plymouth colony; title: Up and down the hills of Maine, and off to Wisconsin; title: Migrants west; title: A memorable death, a common lot; title: Jacob, the rise and fall of a plebian patriarch; title: Cousins of the tongue; title: Workers to the bone, east siders to the end; title: Conclusion : the reason for, and the matter of, family history; title: Appendix : Amato, Linsdeau, and associated families.