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 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 | Sep 6, 2012 | My research projects, Uncategorized, Vermont Genealogy, Vermont Historical Society, Vermont State Archives and Records Administration
I start my client research projects with the best of intentions to stay on task, and within the budgeted hours. I’ve yet to accomplish this. Instead I usually find myself falling down one rabbit hole or another. (On my own dime, of course.) I was researching a...
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...
