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 | Oct 5, 2012 | professional genealogy, Public Records Access, Vermont Genealogy, Vermont Town Records
Breaking news… Family Search has added over 50% more Vermont Vital Records images! I dashed onto the Family Search website today to quickly look up a birth record, and saw something I didn’t expect. Two groups of Vermont Vital Records? If you are not...
by Catherine Desmarais, CG | Aug 15, 2012 | Public Records Access, Vermont Genealogy, Vermont State Archives and Records Administration
Black sheep ancestors are often the most interesting. If your black sheep ancestor lived in nineteenth- or twentieth-century Vermont, they just got even more interesting. The Vermont State Archives and Records Administration (VSARA) recently accessioned records from...
by Catherine Desmarais, CG | May 5, 2012 | My research projects, Public Records Access, Vermont Genealogy, Vermont Town Records
I’ve heard other researchers talk about being denied access to records, but I hadn’t encountered this myself. Until yesterday, that is. I was planning to drive to a local courthouse to search for 19th-century divorce records for a client, but after the...
