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Before 1900 the largest religious groups in Vermont were the Baptist, Congregational, Episcopal, Methodist, and Roman Catholic churches. For a list of churches in Vermont, see John Gordon Melton’s National Directory of Churches, Synagogues and Other Houses of Worship in United States Church Records. State, county, and town histories often contain biographical sketches of local citizens, including important genealogical information. Wiki articles describing these collections are found at: Obtain additional help Things you can do In order to make this wiki a better research tool, we need your help! To add your knowledge and help expand the wiki click here: Need additional research help? Need wiki, indexing, or website help? Did you find this article helpful?
I You're invited to explain your rating on the discussion page (you must be signed in). PDF: VT Research Outline. VT Links. VT Historical Society. VHS: Research Resources Online. The Vermont Historical Society’s Leahy Library is rich in research resources; see the library resources page for an overview of what can be found within the library.
You can explore online research resources through the menu at the left, or by following the links listed below. Use the VHS library online catalog to search library holdings.Read the full text of various Civil War diaries and letters.Read transcriptions of selected manuscript collections.Search for keywords within manuscript collection finding aids. (Be sure to scroll down the resulting page to the "mansucripts" sectcion.)Read articles from our journal Vermont History.Research with unique genealogy lists and indexes.Listen to The Green Mountain Chronicles radio programs.Study Sanborn fire insurance maps for Vermont (VHS members only).View selections of photographic images and moving images from our collections.
Middlebury College: VT Collection Books & Pamphlets. VNKG: VT Cemeteries. Genealogical Society of Vermont. Genealogical & Family History of VT. DC: VT Newspapers. GSV: Index to VT Newspapers. The Vermont Department of Libraries and the University of Vermont published A Union List of Vermont Newspapers in Oct 2000.
This publication provides an alphabetical list of all known Vermont newspapers, with dates of publishing (where known), along with repositories and their holdings, whether on microfilm or in print version. The Dept. of Libraries also has, at their Montpelier location, a card file listing newspapers by locality. This is an extremely helpful aid for those wishing to research a particular area in a particular year.
For example, a death in a community might be noticed in a number of nearby newspapers; the Union List of Vermont Newspapers, being alphabetically arranged by title, does not make an easy task of locating those newspapers. The following index lists all newspapers in A Union List of Vermont Newspapers by locality, along with the dates of publication, where known. In many cases the publishing location is not noted in the union list. Robert M. VT Digital Newspaper Project. Your resource for Vermont’s historic digitized newspapers!
The Vermont Digital Newspaper Project is committed to providing free online access to historic Vermont newspapers published between 1836 to 1922. This is made possible with the support of federal grants and statewide partnerships. Learn more about us! View Vermont digitized newspapers on ChroniclingAmerica.loc.gov Browse the newspapers on our Google Map: VT Newspaper Project Catalog. VT Chronicle Obits, Etc. 1826-1882. Genealogical & Family History of VT. Discover your family's story.
Enter a grandparent's name to get started. Start Now Title page for the Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont vol 1 At the turn of the 20th century there was a new found interest in publishing of new biographical and genealogical material. Vermont Roots. RootsWeb: Ghost Towns VT. Dust in the Wind - A Guide to American Ghost Towns GHOST TOWNS: Yesterday & TodayTM Become a friend of the book on Facebook Return to Ghost Town USA’s State Listings Visit Ghost Town USA’s Ghost Town of the Month Visit Ghost Town USA’s Home Page Visit Ghost Town USA’s Photo Gallery Send E-mail to Ghost Town USA.
VT Agency of Transportation. VT Historic Preservation. Middlebury College, VT. MC: Digital Collections. MC: 1871 VT Beers Atlas ORIG. University of Vermont, VT. VT French-Canadian Genealogical Society. Vita Brevis: Mapping Vermont. As part of the Society’s Ask a Genealogist service, I was recently asked about locating someone in post-Revolutionary War Strafford, Vermont.
The time frame in which this person lived reminded me of the special considerations for this region, which was once hotly disputed by New Hampshire, New York, Vermont, and even Massachusetts. The territory that would become today’s Vermont was claimed by both New Hampshire and New York in the mid-eighteenth century, a squabble that took years to sort out. In general the land grants made by New Hampshire governor Benning Wentworth between 1749 and 1764 lay in territory already claimed by New York. A royal decree of 1764 awarded jurisdiction over the disputed territory to New York, which created four counties: Albany (established in 1764), and from Albany County Gloucester (1766) and Charlotte and Cumberland Counties (1772). Strafford, in today’s Orange County, Vermont, began its existence in 1761 as one of the Wentworth land grants.
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