Author: National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New YorkPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Catalogue of the Genealogical and Historical Library of the Colonial Dames of the State of New York
Author: National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court, 1691-1780
Author: John A. SchutzPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555533045
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This single volume contains meticulously researched biographies of the men who served as representatives in the General Court from the Charter of 1691 to the end of the American Revolution. Schutz also provides readers with enlightening essays on the history and workings of the Massachusetts General Court, and its influence in shaping the political and cultural milieux of colonial and revolutionary America.
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.
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. KaminkowPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Genealogical Guide to the Early Settlers of America
Author: Henry WhittemorePublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806303786
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
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Genealogy of the Bliss family in America, from about the year 1550-1880
Author: John Homer BlissPublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
The Genealogy and History of the Family of Williams in America, More Particularly of the Descendants of Robert Williams of Roxburg
Author: Stephen West WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
A Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316680
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Previously published by Magna Carta, Baltimore. Published as a set by Genealogical Publishing with the two vols. of the Genealogies in the Library of Congress, and the two vols. of the Supplement. Set ISBN is 0806316691.
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