Vermont Fast Facts and Key Resources

• First Federal census: 1790

• Statewide birth and death records begin: 1857

• Statewide marriage records begin: 1857

• State-land state

• Counties: seven in 1791 (Addison, Bennington, Chittenden, Orange, Rutland, Windham and Windsor), 14 today

Web Sites

• American Memory Panoramic Maps of Vermont 1847-1929 <memory.loc.gov>: Click Maps, then run a search on Vermont.

• ArcCat Catalog of Vermont Archives and Manuscripts <arccat.uvm.edu>

• Cyndi’s List Vermont <cyndislist.com/vt.htrn>

• Northeast Kingdom Genealogy: Vermont <freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/-nekg3/nekg.htrn>

• US GenWeb: Vermont <rootsweb.com/-usgenweb/vt/vtfiles.htm>

• Vermont in the Civil War <vermontcivilwar.org>

• Vermont Mailing Lists <rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen-mail_states-vt.html>

• Vermont Newspaper Project Catalog <vtnp.uvm.edu>

• Virtual Vermont <www.virtualvermont.com>

• WPA Life Histories of Vermont <Icweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/vtcat.html>

Books

• Collecting Vermont Ancestors by Alice Eichholz (New Trails)

• The Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists edited by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack and Erin Nevius (Family Tree Books)

• The History of Vermont, From its Discovery to its Admission into the Union in 1797 by Hiland Hall (Michigan Historical Reprint Series)

• New Hampshire Vermont: Atlas of Historical County Boundaries edited by John H. Long (Simon& Schuster)

• Two Vermonts: Geography and Identity, 1865-1910 by Paul M. Searls (University of New Hampshire Press)

• Vermont: A Bibliography of Its History edited by T.D. Seymour Bassett (University Press of New England)

• Vermont: A History by Charles Morrissey (W.W. Norton & Co.)

• Vermont: An Illustrated History by John J. Duffy and Vincent Feeney (American Historical Press)

• The Vermont Encyclopedia by John J. Duffy, Samuel B. Hand and Ralph H. Orth (University Press of New Hampshire)

• Vermont Newspaper Abstracts, 1783-1876 by Marsha Hoffman Rising (NEHGS)

Organizations and Archives

• Genealogical Society of Vermont

Box 14, Randolph, VT 05060, <rootsweb.com/-vtgsv>

• Middlebury College Library

110 Storrs Ave., Middlebury, VT 05753, (802) 443-5000, <www.middlebury.edu/acadernics/lis>

• New England Historic Genealogical Society

101 Newbury St., Boston, MA 02116, (617) 536-5740, <www.newenglandancestors.org>

• University of Vermont Bailey-Howe Library

Burlington, VT05405, (802)656-2138, <library.uvm.edu/about/specialcollections>

• Vermont Department of Libraries

109 State St., Montpelier, VT 05609, (802) 828-3261, <dol.state.vt.us>

• Vermont Historical Society Library

Vermont History Center, 60 Washington St., Barre, VT 05641, (802) 479-8500, <vermonthistory.org>

• Vermont State Archives

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