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Tools and Machinery
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WPA
Life Histories Collections: Search for "The Vermont Farmer"
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Vermont
Agricultural History
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Taking Care of
Your Old Barn
Architecture
o U.S. Route 7
- P.O. Box 10 - Shelburne, VT 05482.
o Historic Home and Community Buildings
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Architecture
and Interior Design 20th Century America
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The
Ethan Allen Homestead: 1789 homestead in Burlington Intervale off Vermont Rt. 127.
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National
Register of Historic Places in Vermont
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Vermont's
Official Tourism Site: The Statehouse
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A Guide to Lithic Tool Types / Points
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The Vermont
Archaeological Society
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Stone Walls & Cellar Holes: A Guide
for Landowners on Historic Features and Landscapes in Vermont's Forests.
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Vermont's
Painted Theater Curtains
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Bennington
Museum: Grandma
Moses - moved to Bennington in 1932 timeline of her life (1860-1961)
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Literature
o The Cambridge History of English and
American Literature, An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes: Colonial and Revolutionary Literature,
Edited by W. P. Trent, J. Erskine, S. P. Sherman & C. Van Doren.
o Historical
Guide to American Literature
o The Guilded
Page (ca. 1866-1901) a virtual library of texts by U.S. authors during the
Guided Age.
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Drama
o Vermont's Painted Theater
Curtains
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Music
o Lyrics to "Hail
Vermont": The Official State Song by Josephine Hovey Perry
o Loyalist and
British Songs of the American Revolution
o Songs and Ballads of the
American Revolution
Miscellaneous
1.
Daguerreotype
Portraits and Views (1839-1864)
·
A History
of Photography from its beginnings till the 1920s, by Dr. Robert Leggat MA M.Ed Ph.D. FRPS FRSA
·
Everything
You Ever Wanted to now about Your Family Photographs,
by David L. Mishkin
Biographies
·
Library
of Congress American Memory Collection - W.P.A. Life Histories - VT
·
Ethan Allen,
Born: January 10, 1738, Litchfield, Connecticut; Died: February 12, 1789,
Burlington, Vermont
·
Ethan
Allen. [Harper's new monthly magazine. , Volume 17, Issue 102, November
1858], from Cornell University Making of American - includes gravestone
inscription on p.
722.
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Calvin Coolidge -
born on July Fourth, 1872 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont
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Lemuel
Haynes (1756-1836) - "As the
first black in America to serve as pastor of a white congregation, Haynes
ministered to Rutland's West Parish for thirty years starting in 1783. .
."
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Stephen
Arnold Douglas (1813-1861) was born in Brandon, VT
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Grandma
Moses - moved to Bennington in 1932 timeline of her life (1860-1961)
Newspapers/Magazines/Publications/Books
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Archiving Early America
- historic documents from 18th century America
·
Vermont:
The Green Mountain State, By Walter Hill Crockett, Published by The
Century history company, inc., 1921.
<http://books.google.com/books?id=UnYUAAAAYAAJ>
·
DigitalBookIndex.com
- This index is intended as a "Meta-index" for most major eBook sites,
along with thousands of smaller specialized sites.
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Gathered
Sketches from the Early History of New Hampshire and Vermont, by
Francis Chase, Claremont, N.H. : Tracy, Kenney & Co., 1856. - early
NH and VT history.
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A
History of Vermont, by Edward Day Collins, Ph.D., Boston : Ginn & Company, Publishers, 1903.
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Gazetteer
of Washington County, Vt., 1783-1889, by Hamilton Child, William Adams
(editor), Syracuse, N. Y. : The Syracuse Journal Company, Printers and
Binders, April, 1889.
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Ethan Allen and the
Green-Mountain heroes of '76. With a sketch of the early history of Vermont, By Henry
W. De Puy, New York : Phinney,
Blakeman & Mason Buffalo, Breed, Butler &
co., 1861.
·
A Catalogue
of the Principal Officers of Vermont, as Connected with its Political History
from 1778 to 1851, with some biographical notices, by Leonard Demming, 1851.
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"A
Curious Chapter in Vermont History," By J. M.
French, M.D., The Other Side. [The New England magazine. / Volume 6,
Issue 32, February 1888].
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The History of Vermont,
from its Discovery to its Admission into the Union, in 1791, By Hiland Hall, Albany, N.Y. : J. Munsell,
1868.
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History of Vermont,
natural, civil, and statistical, By Zadock Thompson,
Burlington : Stacy & Jameson, Printers, 1853.
·
A History of Bradford,
Vermont, containing some account of the place of its first settlement in 1765,
and the pricipal improvements made, and events which
have occurred down to 1874--a period of one hundred and nine years. With
various genealogical records, and biographical sketches of families and individuals,some deceased, and others still living ... Written
by request of said town, By Silas McKeen, Montpelier,
Vt. : J.D. Clark & son, 1875.
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A History of Coventry,
Orleans County, Vermont ..., By Pliny Holton White, Irasburgh
: A. A. Earle, 1859.
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History of the town of
Pittsford, Vt., with biographical sketches and family records, By
A.M. Caverly, Rutland : Tuttle & co., printers,
1872.
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LOC: The
Vermontville colony, its genesis and history, with personal sketches of the
colonists, by Edward W. Barber, Lansing, Mich., Robert Smith printing co.
[1897].
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The
Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States, Second Edition, by
Henry Gannett, Washington : Government Printing Office, 1905.
·
Internet Archive - search for Vermont
(or by town name, county, etc.)
Printing and Publishing
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Early American
Magazines and Newspapers
Cemeteries
·
Vermont Old
Cemetery Association (VOCA)
·
Find A Grave - search for a
cemetery or search
for a name
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The
Professional Car Society: Funeral Coach
History and Terminology
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Mourning and
Funeral Usages, from Harper's Bazar- April 17, 1886.
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Etiquette
of Funerals, from Polite Life and Etiquette or What is Right and The
Social Arts, written by Georgene Corry Benham, published by Chicago : Louis Benham
& Company, 1891.
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Jewish
Funeral and Mourning Customs
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The
Poorhouse Story, by Linda Crannell and CCS - a collection
of information, by state, which invites submissions to help tell this untold
tale, including cemeteries
associated with Vermont 'poorhouses' - read "Emma's Story"
to see the touching story behind the site!!!
Census
·
Index to 1790 U.S. Census Vermont Info. - Note: Vermont joined the Union in March, 1791, so its
1790 census was actually taken in 1791. At that time, Vermont consisted
of 7 counties. Present-day counties were later formed from all or
portions of these seven counties.
·
1790 Census Info: Chittenden County - (includes
towns which later became part of the counties of Franklin, Chittenden, Lamoille
and portions of Orleans, Washington and Addison Counties)
·
1790 U. S. Census of Orange County, Vermont
Towns which were soon to become part of Caledonia County when formed, in 1792,
from Orange County, (includes towns which came to be within the counties of
Caledonia, Essex, Orange, Orleans and Washington) abstracted by Jim
Dresser, dedicated Town Coordinator for Groton, VTGenWeb. Thank you
Jim!!! Note: This census of Vermont was actually taken
in 1791.
·
familysearch.org – 1790 Census
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familysearch.org – 1800 Census
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familysearch.org – 1810 Census
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familysearch.org – 1820 Census
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familysearch.org – 1830 Census
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familysearch.org – 1840 Census
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familysearch.org – 1850 Census
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familysearch.org – 1860 Census
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familysearch.org – 1870 Census
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familysearch.org - 1880 Census Index
- Excellent resource!!!
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familysearch.org – 1900 Census
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familysearch.org – 1910 Census
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familysearch.org – 1920 Census
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Obtaining EDs for the 1930
Census in One Step (Large Cities), by Stephen P. Morse, PhD, Joel D. Weintraub, PhD and David R. Kehs,
PhD
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familysearch.org – 1930 Census
·
familysearch.org – 1940 Census
- USGenWeb Census Project for Vermont,
coordinated by Linda Talbott
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NARA: National Archives and
Records Administration
o Clues in
Census Records, 1790-1840
o Clues in
Census Records, 1850-1930
o Nonpopulation
Census Records
o Prologue, Spring
1996, Vol. 28, No. 1, "First
in the Path of the Firemen" The Fate of the 1890 Population Census,”
by Kellee Blake.
Church & Religion - Historical and Genealogical Information
o The Quaker History Archives,
o Friends Meetings- by U.S.
State.
o Links to Churches in Vermont - Many sites
express points of view
o Business and
Industry
§ Bethel Mills History - "Our
story began during the Revolutionary War when the founding fathers of Bethel
offered 550 acres and a mill site on the river to a Colonel named Joel
Marsh...."
§ Vermont Quarrying (Barre, VT...)
- scroll down the online issue to read "Take
granite out of Barre, and it would be like taking the Capitol out of Montpelier".
§ WPA Life Histories from
Vermont.
§ A Barre
Family: Miss Mari Tomasi, 23 AUG 1940, "Men Against Granite"
o Money
§ University of Notre Dame Online
Exhibit - Colonial Coins & Currency
§ 18th Century
Vermont
Coinage
§ The History of U.S.
Currency
§ The Inflation Calculator
online, created by S. Morgan Friedman, is reported to "...adjusts any
given amount of money for inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index,
from 1800 to 1999..."
§ "Current Value of
Old Money," by Roy Davies, attempts to answer the frequent question is
"how much would a specified amount of money at a certain period of time be
worth today?", with resources for Europe, U.S.A., Spain and even ancient
Rome.
[Women/Men] [Native American] [African-American]
[Asian/Pacific] [Canadian]
[English] [Irish] [French]
[Macedonian] [Puerto Rican-Hispanic] [Scottish]
[Spanish] [The Poor]
Try
Native Web (resources for indigenious cultures around
the world)
o Women/Men -
History & Herstory
§ Girls on the Mayflower (1620)
- This site is worth a visit for any New Englander
§ Vermont
Women's History Project
§ Vermont in the Civil War: Civil War Women, online by
Tom Ledoux.
§ Women
Soldiers of the Civil War, by DeAnne Blanton (Prologue, Spring 1993)
§ Votes for Women -
Selections of National American Women Sufferage
Assoc. (1848-1921)
§ Any
woman who is now or hereafter may be married... Women and Naturalization, ca.
1802-1940, by Marian L. Smith (Prologue, Summer 1998)
§ From
Slave Women to Free Women: The National Archives and Black Women's History in
the Civil War Era, By Noralee Frankel (Prologue, Summer 1997)
§ Women's
Legal Status in Vermont, by Lyn Blackwell
o Native
Americans
§ First Nations -
§ First Nations Histories,
by Lee Stultzman
§ Geographic Overview of First
Nations Histories
§ Abenaki History, by
Lee Stultzman - "...Currently there about 2,500
"Vermont Abenaki" in both Vermont and New Hampshire but concentrated
in northwest Vermont near Lake Champlain. Organized as the Sokoki-St.
Francis Band of the Abenaki Nation, a tribal council was established in 1976 at
Swanton, Vermont..."
§ Massachuset
History by Lee Stultzman
§ Narragansett History by Lee Stultzman
§ Abenaki Nation
- "...The St. Francis/Sokoki Band is part of
Vermont's Abenaki community. Our home for thousands of years has centered on
the Masipskiwibi (Missisquoi,
"Crooked River") River in Northwestern Vermont. Our tribal
headquarters is located in Swanton, Vermont..."
§ Native
Tech: Native American History Resources
o African
American
§ Lemuel Haynes
(1756-1836) - "As the first black in America to serve as pastor of
a white congregation, Haynes ministered to Rutland's West Parish for thirty
years starting in 1783. . ."
§ Progress of A
People - A Special Presentation of The African American Pamphlet Collection
§ The Underground
Railroad: Distinguished landmark of the Northeast
§ The Underground Railroad
Conductors
§ A
Guiding Light: Black History: A Guide to Civilian Records in the National
Archives, By Debra Newman Ham (Prologue, Special Issue, Summer 1997).
§ Preserving
the Legacy of the United States Colored Troops, by Budge Weidman
(Prologue, Summer 1997)
§ From
Slave Women to Free Women: The National Archives and Black Women's History in
the Civil War Era, By Noralee Frankel (Prologue, Summer 1997)
§ Africa Research Central -
"...gateway to the archives, libraries, and museums with important
collections of African primary sources..."
§ Slavery Abolished in Outright
in 1777 Vermont Constitution
§ Afrigeneas
- "... a mailing list focused on genealogical research and resources in
general and on African ancestry in particular..." by Don Mabry.
§ Library of
Congress: Slaves and
the Courts
§ Library of
Congress: African-American
related articles and links
o Asian/Pacific
o Canadian
§ Canada Government Online (in English
& Francois)
§ Genealogy and Family History
§ Our Roots: Canadian Local Histories
§ Upper
Canada and Canada West Naturalization Records, 1828-1850, Library and
Archives Canada (Canadian Naturalization Records - If your ancestor relocated to
Canada, these may be helpful.)
§ Canadian
Naturalization Records, 1915-1932, Library and Archives Canada
(Canadian Naturalization Records - If your ancestor relocated to Canada, these
may be helpful.)
o English
o Irish
o French
§ Read more: Virtual Museum
of New France
§ Colonies
and Empires: French Colonial Expansion and Franco-Amerindian Alliances
§ Filles du roi or girls
for marrying
§ Exploration
and Early European Cartography, 1534-1710 - Newberry
Library
§ American-French Genealogical Society
A.F.G.S. - P.O. Box 830 - Woonsocket, RI 02895-0870
§ Association
Touristique des Cantons-de-I'Est,
The Eastern Townships: Quebec’s most southern region, straddling the
U.S. border at Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
o Macedonian
Researching
your Macedonian Family : Genealogy Macedonia, by Jill Jugloff - (Archived) For General Genealogical and History
information and Research of Macedonian ancestors.
o Puerto
Rican/Hispanic
§ Puerto Rican / Hispanic Genealogical
Society P.O. Box 260118 - Bellerose, NY 11426-0118
(Miguel J. Hernández - President
Email: [email protected])
o Scottish
o Spanish
o The Poor
§ The Poorhouse Story, by Linda Crannell and CCS - a collection of information, by state,
which invites submissions to help tell this untold tale - read "Emma's Story"
to see the touching story behind the site!!!
o Your
suggestions for additional are welcome
o The origin of
Vermont's name?: Verd Mont, or Green Mountain
o Champ
is a sea monster that lives in Lake Champlain...?
o Encyclopedia Mythica:
Encyclopedia of Mythology, Folklore and Legend
Vermont Genealogy and Links
o Index to The
Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Local History of All the Towns in the
State, transcribed by Rod Skinner (County Coordinator for Windham
County, VTGenWeb), 2006. The VERMONT HISTORICAL GAZETTEER is a 5 volume
set of historical information, by Abby Maria Hemenway,
with Volume I published in 1867, and Volume V completed in 1891 after her
death.
Vital Records Resources:
Birth, marriage and death records may be requested
from the town clerk's office of the town where the event occurred. Also,
many of the original town records were extracted and indexed. The
microfilmed, indexed Vermont vital records may be researched at the Vermont
Public Records Division, Department of Buildings & General Services.
Microfilmed copies of all, or portions of these for the 1760-1908 era may also
be researched through the New England Historical Genealogical Society, the
Allen County Public Library and the FHL.
Vermont
vital records may be obtained through the town clerk of the town in which the
event occurred and/or through the resources below:
Ø How
to Obtain Vital
Records for Vermont ?
Ø Vermont State Archives
& Records Administration
o
Online
and Informational Copies of Vital Records
Ø Index to Vermont
Vital Records, 1760-1954, (familysearch.org) –
note this index may not be complete, some towns and records may not be included
among state records.
Ø Index to Vermont
Vital Records, 1955-2003, (familysearch.org).
Ø Vermont, Town Clerk,
Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005, (familysearch.org)
- Vital and town records acquired from
local town clerk offices.
o Vermont Department of Health
Vital Records Section
P.O. Box 70
108 Cherry Street
Burlington, VT 05402
records for the latest 10 years
§ Obtaining
Vital Records in Vermont
o Vermont
Archives - Archival
Records
National Archives Resources:
·
NARA: National Archives and
Records Administration
§ African-American :
Introduction to Research
§ Immigration Records
and Naturalization
Records
§ "Any
woman who is now or hereafter may be married... Women and Naturalization, ca.
1802-1940", by Marian L. Smith (Prologue, Summer 1998)
§ By
Way of Canada: U.S. Records of Immigration Across the U.S.-Canadian Border,
1895-1954, By Marian L. Smith (St. Albans Lists) (Fall 2000) — A guide
to using immigration records of the U.S.-Canada border.
§ Military Records available
from the National Archives
§ Military
Service and Pension Records: Requesting Pre-WWI
§ Civil
War Records: An Introduction and Invitation, By Michael P. Musick
(Prologue, Summer 1995)
§ Women
Soldiers of the Civil War, by DeAnne Blanton (Prologue, Spring 1993)
§ Sailors,
Soldiers, and Marines of the Spanish-American War: The Legacy of USS
Maine, By Rebecca Livingston (Prologue, Spring 1998).
§ They
Answered the Call: Military Service in the United States Army
during World War I, 1917-1919 (Prologue, Fall 1998).
-- A guide to looking for information about World War I army veterans - By
Mitchell Yockelson.
§ The
World War II Army Enlistment Records File and Access to Archival Databases, by
Theodore J. Hull (Prologue, Spring 2006).
§ State-level
Lists of Casualties from the Korean Conflict (1951-1957) and the Vietnam
Conflict , By Theodore J. Hull, (Prologue, Spring 2000).
§ Indian
Bounty Land Applications, By Mary Frances Morrow (Prologue,
§ Snakes
& Scribes: The Dawes Commission and the Enrollment of the Creeks, By Kent
Carter, in "Prologue" (Prologue, Spring 1997)
§ Genealogical
Fallout from the War of 1812, By Ruth Priest Dixon (Prologue, Spring 1992)
- "...The impressment of American seamen by the
British was one of the causes of the War of 1812. The practice also resulted in
the creation of extensive records about merchant seamen that are of great value
to genealogists and historians..."
§ Genealogical
Records of the War of 1812, By Stuart L. Butler (Prologue, Winter 1991)
- "...National Archives records created during and after the War of 1812
offer the genealogist a diverse and fertile ground in which to obtain
invaluable family information..."
§ Preserving
the Legacy of the United States Colored Troops, by Budge Weidman
(Prologue, Summer 1997)
§ A
Guiding Light: Black History: A Guide to Civilian Records in the National
Archives, By Debra Newman Ham (Prologue, Special Issue, Summer 1997).
§ From
Slave Women to Free Women: The National Archives and Black Women's History in
the Civil War Era, By Noralee Frankel (Prologue, Summer 1997)
§ Riding
the Rails Up Paper Mountain: Researching Railroad Records in the National Archives,
By David A. Pfeiffer (Spring 1997).
More....:
o Vermont Historical Society
VHS Museum: Pavilion Building, 109 State Street -
Montpelier, VT 05609-0901
Phone: (802) 828-2291
VHS Offices & Library: 60 Washington Street (Route 302),
Barre, VT 05641
Phone: (802) 479-8500 - E-mail: [email protected]
§ Genealogy Research in
Vermont
o Genealogical Society of Vermont
P. O. Box 1553 - St. Albans, VT 05478-1006
o Family
Search for Vermont Resources: Vermont Probate Files, 1791-1919
(choose location of U.S.A., then scroll down)
o Vermont
Genealogical Queries - You should find queries pages, or links to
queries pages, on each VTGenWeb county site. For statewide or unknown
queries, you may post a query on the rootsweb
board.
o Northeast Kingdom Genealogy, by
Janice Boyko.
o Vermont
Genealogy Resources, by Jalanne C. Barnes.
o Vermont, The
Green Mountain State: History Timeline -
o ...In 1763,
England was granted the area via the Treaty of Paris, which ended the French
and Indian War. Locally, the land was at various times claimed by both New
Hampshire and New York; however, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys put an
end to that, and by 1777 Vermont had achieved independence. In fact, Vermont
remained an independent republic until 1791, at which point it joined the
United States as that fledgling nation's fourteenth member..."
o VTGEN-L, is an
administrators' list. This administrative list is intended to allow
ease of communication, between VTGenWeb Coordinators and database volunteers, as
they author and maintain their state, county, town and topic sites for online
researchers. For this reason, it is restricted to VTGenWeb
volunteers. e-mail: [email protected] You may also browse or search
the Archives.
o VERMONT-L Website, by
Karima, includes a varied collection of interesting and helpful Vermont
History, Biography, Records, Lore,
and a VERMONT-L
Mailing List, resources for Vermont researchers! Maingateway!
o A Windsor
County, VT Genealogy Mailing List: <[email protected]> is
moderated by Cynthia. If you
would like to subscribe, e-mail to [email protected]with
the word "subscribe" in the message. To post messages to
this list use the address [email protected],
after you have subscribed.
o The
Connecticut River Valley Mailing List: <[email protected]>
covers all the counties that border the Connecticut River in Massachusetts,
Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont. If you would like to subscribe,
e-mail to [email protected]with
the word "subscribe" in the message. To post messages to this
list use the address [email protected],
after you have subscribed.
o The Poorhouse Story, by Linda Crannell and CCS - a collection of information, by state,
which invites submissions to help tell this untold tale - read "Emma's Story"
to see the touching story behind the site!!!
o Rootsweb
o The Search Beat for Genealogy
and Roots
o VitalChek Vermont Vital Records
o Genealogy
Resources on the Internet for Vermont
o Access Vermont Regional Sites
Online Guide
o A Genealogical
Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692, Vols. 1-4,
By James Savage.
o A
Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692,
Vols. 1-4, By James Savage.
Genealogy Research - Professional
o Ann McRoden
Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist Researching with
the vast resources of The Allen County Public Library in IN
Visit the web site of The Allen County
Public Library in Indiana to see some of the resources available for
New England, and all U.S.A., research.
o Pre-Colonial
o Native
Americans
First Nations
First Nations Histories by
Lee Stultzman
Geographic
Overview of First Nations Histories
Massachuset
History by Lee Stultzman
Narragansett History by Lee Stultzman
o Colonial
§ Soldiers in King
Philip's War (1675 to 1677)
§ French and Indian
Wars: an essay (1750s-)
§ French and Indian Wars
(18th Century)
§ The Practice of
Scalping During the French and Indian War (1754-1760), By George A.
Bray III
Republic of Vermont (January 15, 1777 to
March 4, 1791)
§ In 1777,
Vermont declared her independence from Britain, ratified her own Constitution,
and became an independent Republic. Fourteen years later, in 1791, Vermont
joined the union of the United States as the 14th state. Vermont Constitution
(1777, 1786 and 1793)
§ Vermont Constitution
(1777)
§ Vermont's Historic
State House
o Revolutionary
§ Documents of the
Continental Congress & Constitutional Convention (1774-1789)
§ The
Smithsonian: In Vermont a Valiant Stand for Freedom by soldiers from NH, MA,
....
§ The Paris
Peace Treaty (1783)
o United
States
National
§ George
Washington: Letter,
May 9, 1792 - Vermont Port of Entry
§ American Battle Monuments Commission - War
Dead - "...maintains a listing of those interred at the American
military cemeteries overseas and those Missing in Action from World War I,
World War II, Korea and Vietnam. In addition it has a listing of
war veterans buried at our Corozal American Cemetery
and those who lost their lives during the Korean War..."
·
NARA: National Archives and
Records Administration
§ Military Records
available from the National Archives
§ Military
Service and Pension Records: Requesting Pre-WWI
§ Women
Soldiers of the Civil War, by DeAnne Blanton (Prologue, Spring 1993)
§ Sailors,
Soldiers, and Marines of the Spanish-American War: The Legacy of USS
Maine, By Rebecca Livingston (Prologue, Spring 1998).
§ State-level
Lists of Casualties from the Korean Conflict (1951-1957) and the Vietnam
Conflict , By Theodore J. Hull, (Prologue, Spring 2000).
§ State of Vermont, "The Green Mountain
State"
§ State of
Vermont Department of Buildings & General Services
Middlesex Complex Reference & Research
US Route 2, Middlesex - Drawer 33 - Montpelier,
VT 05602
Phone: (802) 828-3286
§ Vermont State Archives
...located at the Redstone building in Montpelier, Vermont. The reading room
may be visited between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. each business day. State
Archivist, Greg Sanford
Office of the Secretary of State
Street address: 26 Terrace Street - Montpelier,
VT Phone: (802) 828-2397
Mailing address: 109 State Street - Montpelier, VT
05609-1103
§ ARCCAT - catalog describing manuscript
and archival collections held by various Vermont institutions.
§ Guide
to Vermont Town Clerks
§ Constitution of the
State of Vermont, as established July 9, 1793, and amended through September
21, 1995, online by the State of Vermont Legislature.
§ Vermont State
Archives Databases
§ Old
Constitution House State Historic Site - Vermont's Declaration of
Independence (New Connecticut)
§ George
Washington Letter to Congress, February 9, 1791 - Governor of Vermont
§ George
Washington Letter to Senate, March 4, 1791 - Admission of Vermont as State
§ George
Washington Letter to Vermont Legislature, December 12, 1796
§ USConstitution.net -
The U. S. Constitution Online & Vermont Constitution
§ The History of Vermont,
from its Discovery to its Admission into the Union, in 1791, By Hiland Hall, Albany, N.Y. : J. Munsell,
1868.
§ History of Vermont,
natural, civil, and statistical, By Zadock
Thompson, Burlington : Stacy & Jameson, Printers, 1853.
Vermont State Symbols
§ Vermont Name, Flag,
Motto and more
o History of
Eastern Vermont, from its Earliest Settlement to the Close of the Eighteenth
Century, with Biographical Chapter and Appendixes, by Benjamin H. Hall
o Index to Vermont
Historical Gazetteer, vols. 1-5, by Abby Maria Hemenway,
published 1867-1891, index by Rod Skinner.
o Vermont Historical
Gazetteer, vols. 1-5 (partial), by Abby Maria Hemenway,
published 1867-1891, transcribed by Rod Skinner.
o Wars/Military
- U.S.
- French & Indian Wars - American Revolution - War of 1812 -
- Civil War - Spanish
American War - WWI - WWII
-
- Korean Conflict - Vietnam
- Misc. -
o American Battle Monuments Commission - War
Dead - "...maintains a listing of those interred at the American
military cemeteries overseas and those Missing in Action from World War I,
World War II, Korea and Vietnam. In addition it has a listing of
war veterans buried at our Corozal American Cemetery
and those who lost their lives during the Korean War..."
§ NARA: National Archives and Records
Administration
1.
Military
Records available from the National Archives
2.
Military
Service and Pension Records: Requesting Pre-WWI
French and Indian War
Revolutionary War
§ Pictorial
Field Book of the Revolution, by Benson J. Lossing,
1850, transcribed.
§ Battle
of Bennington (1777)
§ Revolutionary
War Battles: "The Battle of
Bennington" August 16, 1777.
§ Valleys to
Freedom: Battle of Bennington
§ Vermont
- Mount Independence
§ Drums
Along the Mohawk The American Revolution on the New York Frontier
(1775-1783)
§ Loyalist and
British Songs of the American Revolution
§ Songs and Ballads of the American
Revolution
War of 1812
§ Burlington, Vermont
during the War of 1812, by James P. Millard
§ Macdonough Shipyard
- Vergennes, Vermont (War of 1812), by James P. Millard
§ War of 1812 Educators Resources
§ Key Events &
Causes: War of 1812, by Greg D. Feldmeth
§
Genealogical
Fallout from the War of 1812,
By Ruth Priest Dixon (Prologue, Spring
1992) - "...The impressment of American seamen
by the British was one of the causes of the War of 1812. The practice also
resulted in the creation of extensive records about merchant seamen that are of
great value to genealogists and historians..."
§
Genealogical
Records of the War of 1812, By
Stuart L. Butler (Prologue, Winter 1991) - "...National Archives records
created during and after the War of 1812 offer the genealogist a diverse and
fertile ground in which to obtain invaluable family information..."
· United States War of
1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815
§ Vermont in the Civil War, by Tom Ledoux.
§ Civil
War: NPS: Civil
War Soldiers and Sailors System
§ Family Search:
Vermont Enrolled Militia Records, 1861-1867
§ MOA (Making of America):
Browse Civil War Documents
§ MOA (Making
of America): The
War of the Rebellion -
"...a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate
armies published under the direction of the Secretary of War, The Honorary Elihu Root, Brig. Gen. Fred. C. Ainsworth, the Chief of the
Record and Pension Office, U.S. War Department, and Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley (Mr. John S. Moodey,
indexer). ("...All volumes have been scanned from originals
held by the Cornell University Library...")
§ MOA (Making
of America): The
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the
Rebellion - "...a compilation
of the official records of the Union and Confederate navies published under the
direction of the Secretary of Navy, The Honorable H.A. Herbert, Lieut.
Commander Richard Bush, Superintendent of Naval War records, U.S. Navy, and Mr.
Robert H. Woods in 1894..." ("...All volumes have been
scanned from originals held by the Cornell University Library...")
§ U.S. Army Military History Institute:
American Civil War Unit
Bibliographies
§ American Battle Monuments Commission - War Dead - "...maintains a listing of
those interred at the American military cemeteries overseas and those Missing
in Action from World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. In
addition it has a listing of war veterans buried at our Corozal
American Cemetery and those who lost their lives during the Korean War..."
o NARA: National Archives and Records
Administration
§ Military Records
available from the National Archives
§ Military
Service and Pension Records: Requesting Pre-WWI
o Civil
War Records: An Introduction and Invitation, By Michael P. Musick
(Prologue, Summer 1995)
o Women
Soldiers of the Civil War, by DeAnne Blanton (Prologue, Spring 1993)
o Library of Congress: Civil War Photographs
(enter state name for search)
§ Civil War
Maps (ca. 1861-1865)
§ Sgt Joseph
E. Averill - Co. K, 6th VT Infantry
§ John Miller
- Co. K, 9th VT Infantry
§ Corp.
Charles W. Chase - Co. C, 7th VT Infantry
§ Pvt. George
F. Norris - Co. K, 5th VT Infantry
§ Pvt. William
W. Heath - Co. H, 4th VT Infantry
§ Elijah S.
Brown wrote to his sister,
Frances (Frank) Laura Brown, in South Woodbury and Craftsbury,
Vermont, from February 3, 1861 to February 4, 1863.
and Edwin Horton letters was written by
§ Edwin
Horton, of Chittenden, VT, and his wife, Ellen.
§ Civil War Women:
Primary Internet Sources
§ Women Soldiers of the
Civil War, by DeAnne Blanton (Prologue, Spring
1993)
§ Sailors,
Soldiers, and Marines of the Spanish-American War: The Legacy of USS Maine, By Rebecca
Livingston (Prologue, Spring 1998).
§ U.S. Army Military History Institute:
§ American Battle Monuments Commission -
War Dead - "...maintains a
listing of those interred at the American military cemeteries overseas and
those Missing in Action from World War I, World War II, Korea and
Vietnam. In addition it has a listing of war veterans buried at our
Corozal American Cemetery and those who lost their
lives during the Korean War..."
WWI
§ U.S.
Army Military History Institute: Unit Histories - Search catalogue
unit history
§ The Doughboy Center - presented by The Great War Society.
§ They
Answered the Call: Military Service in
the United States Army during World War I, 1917-1919 (Prologue, Fall
1998). -- A guide to looking for information about World War I army veterans -
By Mitchell Yockelson.
§ World War I Casualties - search
§ American Ship Casualties of World War I
WWII
§ Vermont County
Casualties World War II: Honor List of Army and Army Air Corps, online by AccessGenealogy.com
§ American Battle Monuments Commission - War Dead - "...maintains a listing of
those interred at the American military cemeteries overseas and those Missing
in Action from World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. In
addition it has a listing of war veterans buried at our Corozal
American Cemetery and those who lost their lives during the Korean War..."
§ National WWII Memorial - registry and search
§ State-level
Lists of Casualties from the Korean Conflict (1951-1957) and the Vietnam
Conflict, By Theodore J. Hull, (Prologue, Spring
2000).
§ American Battle Monuments Commission - War Dead - "...maintains a listing of
those interred at the American military cemeteries overseas and those Missing
in Action from World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. In
addition it has a listing of war veterans buried at our Corozal
American Cemetery and those who lost their lives during the Korean War..."
§ Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall
§ American Battle Monuments Commission - War Dead - "...maintains a listing of
those interred at the American military cemeteries overseas and those Missing
in Action from World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. In
addition it has a listing of war veterans buried at our Corozal
American Cemetery and those who lost their lives during the Korean War..."
o Foreign
Affairs & Misc.
o Lake Champlain and Lake George:
America's Historic Waterways by Jim
Millard
§ Table of Contents-
includes the following and much more!!!
§ Lake
Champlain and Lake George Area MAPS and Historic sites
§ Historic TOUR! A
Trip through the Lake Champlain Islands South from the Quebec border...Alburg,Vermont.
§ Historic
TIMELINES!
§ "...Some
of the conflicts that the lakes were to play a significant role in
are:..." Algonquin/ Iroquois Wars, King William's War (1689-1697), Grey Lock's War/Dummer's War (1723-1727),
Queen Anne's War (1702-1713), King George's War (1744-1748), The
French and Indian War (1755-1763), The American Revolution (1775-1783),
and The War of 1812 (1812-1815).
§ The Battle of
Plattsburg, NY (11 SEP 1814).
§ Crown Point, NY: An Outline History by Gregory T. Furness.
§ Fort
Carillon/Ticonderoga "...Fort
Carillon Built 1756 by French partially destroyed by French in 1759 Rebuilt as
Fort Ticonderoga 1759-60 by British..."
Health
Care/Medicine
o Colonial
Diseases and illnesses
o Children
§ Clothing
§ Through
the Key Hole: A Peek into a 17th Century Lady's Wardrobe
§ The Regency Fashion Page (1800-1825 real men's & women's fashions,
info and links)
§ Fashion and Fun Regency Style Year-by-Year
page
§ The
Costumer's Manifesto: The Cut of Men's Clothes,
1700-1800-
§ The Costume Gallery : Research Library
§ The Handbook of German Dress.
§ La Couturiere Parisienne
Costume and Fashion Site
§ History
of Hats for Women - Vintage Fashion Guild
§ "American
Hats for American Women", Ladies Home Journal, May 1912.
§ CLOTHING
of the 1830s, by Jane Wheeler, formerly Director of
Programs at Conner Prairie.
§ Explore
Godey's Lady's Book Online (1850s)
§ The History of Costume, by Braun
& Schneider, ca. 1861-1880
§ Victorian
Bridal Gowns from Harper's Bazaar library
§ College
Girls and Fashions, By Mary Billings
Eddy, Good Housekeeping, 1907
§ Domestic
Arts
§ Quilts,
Counterpanes & Throws -
§ La Couturiere Parisienne
Costume and Fashion Site
o Food &
Cooking
§ Early
American Food and Drink
§ Native American
Foods and Recipes
Lifestyle
§ The Old Tavern at Grafton, VT
§ The Roaring
20s and the Great Depression - Temperance
and Prohibition
§ The Poorhouse Story, by Linda Crannell and CCS - a collection of information, by state,
which invites submissions to help tell this untold tale - read "Emma's Story"
to see the touching story behind the site!!!
§ Society for the Preservation of Old Mills
Immigration/Naturalization/Migration
o Vermont
Naturalization Records, Vermont State
Archives
o Tracing
French-Canadians from Vermont Back to Quebec in the 19th Century, by Gerald O. Lesperance, 17 March 2001.
o Immigration
to Vermont, 1840-1930, by Elise A. Guyette
o When Vermont Went West, by Vincent H. Malmstrom
o NARA: National Archives and Records
Administration
o Immigration Records
and Naturalization
Records
o "Any
woman who is now or hereafter may be married... Women and Naturalization, ca.
1802-1940", by Marian L. Smith (Prologue, Summer 1998)
o By
Way of Canada: U.S. Records of Immigration Across the U.S.-Canadian Border,
1895-1954, By Marian L. Smith (St. Albans Lists) (Fall 2000) — A guide
to using immigration records of the U.S.-Canada border.
o Immigration and Naturalization
Service (INS) - History,
Genealogy, and Education - Historical Reference Library collection and
services, documents concerning the history of the Service as well as of
immigration law, procedure, and immigration stations, and instructions for
historical and genealogical research using INS records, for: Genealogy
o Guide to Immigration
Records and Ship's Passenger Lists
o Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
§ Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild: Ports of Arrival
§ Welcome to Bremen, Germany - a port of departure for many...
§ Hamburg : Link
to Your Roots -"...The
Hamburg Emigration Lists are a data bank which includes the personal data of 5
million people who emigrated via Hamburg from 1850 to 1934..."
§ Ballinstadt: Emigration Museum, Hamburg
§ American
Family Immigration - search
passenger arrivals to The Port of New York (Ellis Island) from 1892 to 1924
- Port of entry for many immigrants.
§ Finding Passenger Arrival
Records at the Port of Galveston, Texas,
Compiled by Joe Beine, German Roots Webmaster.
§ Irish Passenger Lists:
for emigrants from Ireland to the United States and Canada (note:
partial).
§ Polish Genealogical
Society of America: Primer on
Emigration, Immigration, and Associated Subjects: "...Emigration is
defined as departing from one country or region...Immigration is defined as
settlers coming into a country of which one is not a native for permanent
residence..."
o Upper
Canada and Canada West Naturalization Records, 1828-1850, Library and
Archives Canada (Canadian Naturalization Records - If your ancestor relocated
to Canada, these may be helpful.)
o Canadian
Naturalization Records, 1915-1932, Library and Archives Canada
(Canadian Naturalization Records - If your ancestor relocated to Canada, these
may be helpful.)
Nature
Weather
· Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St.
Johnsbury, VT
Natural Disasters
Horticulture
§
Shelburne
Museum's Gardens and Grounds
Wildlife
§
Vermont: U. S. Fish & Wildlife
Service Refuges & Field Stations
Rivers & Lakes
§
Lake Champlain Ferries
History
o Lake Champlain and Lake George:
America's Historic Waterways by Jim
Millard
§ Table of Contents-
includes the following and much more!!!
§ Lake
Champlain and Lake George Area MAPS and Historic sites
§ Historic TOUR! A
Trip through the Lake Champlain Islands South from the Quebec border...Alburg,Vermont.
§ Historic
TIMELINES!
§ "...Some
of the conflicts that the lakes were to play a significant role in
are:..." Algonquin/ Iroquois Wars, King William's War (1689-1697), Grey Lock's War/Dummer's War (1723-1727),
Queen Anne's War (1702-1713), King George's War (1744-1748), The
French and Indian War (1755-1763), The American Revolution (1775-1783),
and The War of 1812 (1812-1815).
Topography
Parks
§
Vermont Forests, Parks and Recreation
§
Green Mountain National Forest
§
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
§
Smithsonian:
Between a Rock and a Hard Place - History of American Sweatshops, 1820-Present
§
U. S. Railroad Retirement
Board and Genealogical Information before 1937
§
U. S. Railroad Retirement Board and
Genealogical Information after 1936
§
NARA: Records
of the Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] (Record Group 35), 1933-53 (bulk 1933-48) -
"...Provided employment and vocational training for unemployed youths and,
to a lesser extent, for war veterans and Indians, through conservation and
natural resources development work, and beginning in May 1940, defense work on
military reservations and forest protection..."
§
Civilian
Conservation Corps in Vermont,
by the CCCA
§
Civilian Conservation
Corps - articles and links
§
Human
Resources and the Civilian Conservation Corps, by W. Frank Persons.
§
With The Civilian
Conservation Corps, published
in American Forests, July, 1933, Publisher: The
American Forestry Association - "...At the same time it was announced that
8,000 unemployed war veterans from nine eastern states would be sent to Vermont
on flood control work on July 1..."
§
Works Relief Program, The, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, April
28, 1935.
§
WPA Workers' Handbook, by the Works Progress Administration, 1936.
§ Voices
from the Thirties: Life Histories from the Federal Writers' Project
o
The
Great Depression and the New Deal - "...During the Great Depression of the 1930s, when as many as one
out of four Americans could not find jobs, the federal government stepped in to
become the employer of last resort. The Works Progress Administration (WPA), an
ambitious New Deal program, put 8,500,000 jobless to work, mostly on projects
that required manual labor. With Uncle Sam meeting the payroll, countless
bridges, highways and parks were constructed or repaired..."
§ Vermont Quarrying
(Barre, VT...) - scroll down
the online issue to read "Take granite out
of Barre, and it would be like taking the Capitol out of Montpelier".
Society
§ The Old Tavern at Grafton, VT
·
Family
Search: Vermont: Land
Records, Early to 1900
·
Use the query form, at USGS,
to map features including cemeteries, churches, populated places, and more.
Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map
reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually
located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature. This
database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.
·
Maps
from the Library of Congress
·
Vermont Area Map of ca. 1756:
An accurate
map of His Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire in New England & all the
adjacent country northward to the River St. Lawrence, & eastward to
Penobscot Bay, containing the principal places which relate to the present war
on the continent of North America. By Saml. Langdon (1723-1797).
·
Vermont - New England Area Map
ca. 1776 - showing early counties in the area which would become Vermont. A general map of the northern British
colonies in America. Which comprehends the province of Quebec, the government
of Newfoundland, Nova-Scotia, New-England and New-York. From the maps published
by the Admiralty and Board of Trade, regulated by the astronomic and
trigonometric observations of Major Holland and corrected from Governor Pownall's late map 1776. London, Printed for Robt. Sayer
& Jno. Bennett, map & sea chartsellers,
1776. (online by The Library of
Congress)
·
Ca. 1780
Map which shows land grants and purchases in northeastern New York
State and granted townships in Vermont and parts of New Hampshire, and
Massachusetts: A
chorographical map of the Northern Department of North-America, drawn from the
latest and most accurate observations, at Amsterdam by Cóvens and Mortier and
Cóvens, junior. By H. Klockhoff, sculp.,
[Amsterdam] 1780. Repository: Library of Congress Geography and Map
Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA, url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3715.ar082800>
·
Ca. 1781
Map: An Accurate map of New Hampshire in New England, from a late survey.
[London, 1781]. From the Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure.
March, 1781. Repository: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA, url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3740.ar087200>
·
Ca. 1784
Map: An accurate
map of the State and Province of New-Hampshire in New England, taken from
actual surveys of all the inhabited part, and from the best information of what
is uninhabited, together with the adjacent countries, which exhibits the
theatre of this war in that part of the world, by Col. Blanchard and the Revd. Mr. Langdon. Engraved by Thomas Jefferys.
With many additions by Abel Sawyer. Boston, 1784. Repository: Library of
Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA, url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3740.ar087100>
·
1795 Map of
Vermont, from actual survey. By Doolittle, Amos
(1754-1832). From Carey's American Atlas, Philadelphia, 1795. DLC.
Philadelphia, 1795. Repository: Library of Congress Geography and Map
Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA, url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3750.ct000093>
·
1814 Map of
Vermont, from actual survey. By Carey, Mathew (1760-1839). From Carey's
General Atlas of the World. DLC. [S.l.],
1814. Repository: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA, url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3750.ct000094>
·
1817 Map of
Vermont, from actual survey. By Doolittle, Amos, 1754-1832. From
Samuel Lewis' Atlas, 1817. DLC. [S.l.,
181-]. Repository: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA, url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3750.ct000097>
·
1826 Map of
Vermont. By Lucas, Fielding, 1781-1854. [S.l.],
1826. Repository: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA, url: <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3750.ct000096>
·
Transportation
Land
· Roads
Early
American Roads and Trails
Transportation
and Movement : "...Before
1800, Vermonters walked, rode horses, or drove wagons on miserable roads if
they wanted to get anywhere.
The
Appalachian Trail
Railroad
1848: Vermont's
first train passes on the
twenty-seven miles of tracks from White River Junction to Bethel..., online
from the VHS.
American
Memory, Library of Congress - Railroad Maps 1828-1900
Remembering the Rutland, a web site dedicated to preserving the
memory of the late, lamented Rutland Railroad.
§
U. S. Railroad Retirement Board and
Genealogical Information after 1936
Automobile
§
Funeral
Coach History and Terminology
· Sea
§
Ships
§
Palmer List of Merchant
Vessels, by Michael P. Palmer.
· Air
§
Maps for
Transportation and Communication from the Library of Congress
§
Travel-Touring
Vermont
§
Official Vermont Tourism Site
§
Vermont Chambers of Commerce
Links
Vermont State History Resources
Societies, Archives and Libraries
§
Archaeology
§
The Vermont Archaeological Society
§
Genealogy
§
Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society
§
Genealogical Society of Vermont
P. O. Box 1553 - St.
Albans, VT 05478-1006
§
60 Washington Street - Barre, Vermont
05641-4209 Phone: (802) 479-8500.
§
Genealogy Research in
Vermont
§
The State of Vermont, "The Green
Mountain State"
§
State of
Vermont Department of Buildings & General Services Middlesex
Complex Reference & Research
US Route 2, Middlesex - Drawer 33 - Montpelier,
VT 05602
Phone: (802) 828-3286
§
Local Historical
Societies in Vermont
§
National Historic
Landmarks in Vermont
§
Vermont Historic Sites Guide
§
Libraries & Repositories
· State of Vermont Department of Buildings & General
Services Middlesex Complex Reference & Research
US Route 2, Middlesex - Drawer 33 - Montpelier,
VT 05602; Phone: (802) 828-3286
· Bennington's History and Genealogy Library
· Vermont Department of Libraries
· The Library of Congress American Memory Collection for
Vermont
§
Mailing Lists
§
Museums
·
Montshire Museum of Science, in Norwich, VT
· Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, VT
· Vermont State Historic Sites Guide
§
More
· Photos of the Vermont State Capital
· Bososeen Slate
History Trail
· Southern Vermont Natural History Museum
· University of Vermont: Historic Preservation Program.
· Cyndi's List for Vermont, by Cyndi Howells
· The Library of Congress American Memory Collection for
Vermont
General and Miscellaneous History Links
· Library of Congress Map Collection - you can search by
cities & towns.
· Archiving America - Digital
display of original documents
· Geographic Nameserver - look up
a place name to find its location
Vermont Eras
Please submit links or suggestions for Vermont Eras
· 17th Century New England Links
· The Roaring 20s and the Great Depression - Temperance and Prohibition
· Welcome to the Roaring Twenties
· The Politics of Prohibition: The 1920s,
an outline, by Stanley K. Schultz, Professor of History.
· The Worst Flood in Vermont (1927), by
Jason Stone.
About this
site?
When you find ancestors, are you interested in learning more about the
history they lived? Do you want to explore new directions to solve the
unsolved mystery? What was home and family life like? What did they
eat? wear? read? What were the important happenings? Why were the wars fought
and who fought them? How in the world did they move about? Did the
Revolutionary war veterans who settled in Vermont continue to side with America
during the War of 1812 or were there some who changed sides?
This page is being created, on a volunteer basis, to explore the
world of our ancestors who resided in Vermont. Through your genealogical
research, you have learned something about your ancestors. How do you
learn more? How do you solve the unsolved mystery? My answer to
both is to learn more about genealogical research by learning more about the history
your ancestors lived. After all, isn't genealogy the history of
individuals and families?
I believe our ancestors would want us to know more about them than
just their names and dates of birth and death. Don't you?
How can You help others to answer these questions?
If you have a page that helps to answer questions like these, or you know of
such a site, please submit the URL, (and your suggestion for the category it
would fit) by e-mail to me, so I can add it to this page. After all, we
can only learn from the past when we learn about the past. You will be
helping others to gain knowledge of our history by doing so.
You may e-mail the link to Webweaver
of this page. Please include your name and e-mail
address.
This is not a for-profit page. I reserve the right to
content decisions for this page. Copyright remains with the owner of the
site linked. I will only add a link to your site.
Links are checked before being posted to this page, however, due to the
nature of the internet, the content may change. Though there is a seamier
side to history, I want to keep this page appropriate to family viewing.
I want only the cleaned up versions. Please inform me if you find a link
to be inappropriate to family viewing or not working.
I would greatly appreciate suggestions for additional categories
or criticisms, and hope you will keep me informed if the content on any link
changes or becomes inappropriate for family viewing.
The VTGenWeb for
Vermont Local History <->Genealogy graphic below
may be used to create a link to this site on your web page: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~vtgenweb/VT_History.htm
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Rights Reserved.
Additional Links
o NARA:
National Archives and Records Administration
§ Military Records available from the National Archives
§ Military Service and Pension Records:
Requesting Pre-WWI
§ African-American : Introduction to Research
§ Immigration Records and Naturalization Records
§ Military Records available from the National Archives
§ Military Service and Pension Records:
Requesting Pre-WWI
§ Civil War Records: An Introduction and Invitation,
By Michael P. Musick (Prologue, Summer 1995)
§ Women Soldiers of the Civil War, by
DeAnne Blanton (Prologue, Spring 1993)
§ Indian Bounty Land Applications, By
Mary Frances Morrow (Prologue,
§ Preserving the Legacy of the United States Colored Troops,
by Budge Weidman (Prologue, Summer 1997)
Copyright
1998-2017, by Ann Mensch.