Author: Josiah AdamsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
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The Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Haven, of Lynn
Author: Josiah AdamsThe Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Haven, of Lynn
Author: Joseph HavenAmerican and English Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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The American Genealogist
Author: William Henry WhitmorePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Author: Colonial Society of MassachusettsPublisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
American and English genealogies in the Library of Congress. Preliminary catalogue. Compiled under the direction of the chief of the catalogue division
Author: A Handbook of American Genealogy: Being a Catalogue of Family Histories and Publications Containing Genealogical Information, Chronologically Arranged. F.P.
Author: William Henry WHITMOREPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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American and English genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: M.A. GilkeyPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
Book Description
Family Trees
Author: François WeilPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674076370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, established local genealogical societies, and carefully filled in the blanks in their bibles, all in pursuit of self-knowledge and status through kinship ties. This long and varied history of Americans’ search for identity illuminates the story of America itself, according to François Weil, as fixations with social standing, racial purity, and national belonging gave way in the twentieth century to an embrace of diverse ethnicity and heritage. Seeking out one’s ancestors was a genteel pursuit in the colonial era, when an aristocratic pedigree secured a place in the British Atlantic empire. Genealogy developed into a middle-class diversion in the young republic. But over the next century, knowledge of one’s family background came to represent a quasi-scientific defense of elite “Anglo-Saxons” in a nation transformed by immigration and the emancipation of slaves. By the mid-twentieth century, when a new enthusiasm for cultural diversity took hold, the practice of tracing one’s family tree had become thoroughly democratized and commercialized. Today, Ancestry.com attracts over two million members with census records and ship manifests, while popular television shows depict celebrities exploring archives and submitting to DNA testing to learn the stories of their forebears. Further advances in genetics promise new insights as Americans continue their restless pursuit of past and place in an ever-changing world.
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