07_The_Household_and_family_of_Edward_p_22-28.pdf

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title	The Household and Family of Edward Jarvis, 1828 - 1852
creator	Bumsted, J. M.
subject	Island Magazine
subject	Prince Edward Island Museum
description	While a good deal has been written over the years about families on Prince Edward Island, very little attention has been paid to the family as an institution. How were families organized, what were their preoccupations and ambitions, how did their households function? One of the principal difficulties, of course, in gaining an interior view of a family or household in the past, is that the necessary evidence is not always available. What is needed is not merely genealogical information and scattered documentation, but a substantial body of personal, indeed intimate, papers which carry a long enough span of time to enable some sort of reconstruction. Obviously not every family has such resources surviving in attics or archives, but Prince Edward Island has been fortunate in that there are some collections of family papers which can be employed to recover the functioning of the family as an institution.
publisher	Prince Edward Island Museum
date	1983
type	Document
format	application/pdf
identifier	vre:islemag-batch2-187
source	14
language	en_US
rights	Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.

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title	The Household and Family of Edward Jarvis, 1828 - 1852
creator	Bumsted, J. M.
subject	Island Magazine
subject	Prince Edward Island Museum
description	While a good deal has been written over the years about families on Prince Edward Island, very little attention has been paid to the family as an institution. How were families organized, what were their preoccupations and ambitions, how did their households function? One of the principal difficulties, of course, in gaining an interior view of a family or household in the past, is that the necessary evidence is not always available. What is needed is not merely genealogical information and scattered documentation, but a substantial body of personal, indeed intimate, papers which carry a long enough span of time to enable some sort of reconstruction. Obviously not every family has such resources surviving in attics or archives, but Prince Edward Island has been fortunate in that there are some collections of family papers which can be employed to recover the functioning of the family as an institution.
publisher	Prince Edward Island Museum
date	1983
type	Document
format	application/pdf
identifier	vre:islemag-batch2-187
source	14
language	en_US
rights	Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.