by Catherine Desmarais, CG | Feb 8, 2014 | Public Records Access, Vermont Court Records Project, Vermont State Archives and Records Administration
Breaking news! (Remember, you heard it here first, gang.) Some very early Vermont court records previously inaccessible to researchers are coming to the Vermont State Archives and Records Administration (VSARA) in Middlesex. These records have been in storage in...
by Catherine Desmarais, CG | Nov 20, 2013 | Civil War, Family
The American Civil War really wasn’t that long ago, as I’ve reminded my children many times. Grammy’s grandfather fought in it, I tell them. The lives of many people alive today overlapped with the lives of these soldiers. So many of us are at most...
by Catherine Desmarais, CG | Oct 28, 2013 | Vermont Church Records, Vermont Genealogy, Vermont Historical Society, Vermont State Archives and Records Administration, Vermont Town Records
Church records are probably one of the most under-utilized sources by Vermont historians and genealogists. (Court records would also be in contention for the title of most under-utilized, but that’s a topic for another day.) The relative inaccessibility of...
by Catherine Desmarais, CG | May 27, 2013 | Forensic Genealogy, Military Repatriation
On this Memorial Day weekend the Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy (CAFG) is proud to announce our partnership with Purple Hearts Reunited as CAFG’s newest Volunteer Initiative Program. Capt. Zachariah Fike of the Vermont Army National Guard has...
by Catherine Desmarais, CG | Jan 9, 2013 | Irish Genealogy
We’ve all wished that we could find a hidden attic containing all our great-great-grandparents’ stuff. If only someone had saved some of it. Well, if your great-grandparents were Irish like mine, someone may have saved some of it. That magical ancestral...
