Jacob's Well: A Case for Rethinking Family History Book

Preface: Family History, a Way to Know Our Selves and Our Times     ix
Introduction: Putting on the Coat of the Past     3
Rosalia, a Misery as Ancient as Sicily     15
"Forty Acres, and All Mine"     43
Banished from Acadia, Exiled in Plymouth Colony     63
Up and Down the Hills of Maine, and Off to Wisconsin     87
Migrants West     105
A Memorable Death, a Common Lot     126
Jacob, the Rise and Fall of a Plebian Patriarch     147
Cousins of the Tongue     176
Workers to the Bone, East Siders to the End     200
Conclusion: The Reason For, and The Matter Of, Family History     241
Amato, Linsdeau, and Associated Families     247
Source Notes     251