Author: ellias warner leaven worth
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
a genealogy of the leavenworth family in the united states
Author: ellias warner leaven worth
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Family Trees
Author: François Weil
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Catalogue
Author: Cadmus Book Shop
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. Kaminkow
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of the Late William H. Whitmore, of Boston, Genealogist and Historian, and for Many Years Registrar of the City of Boston
Author: William Henry Whitmore
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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The American Bibliopolist
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Collections
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Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
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Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
New York State Library [annual Report]
Author: New York State Library
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
From 1889 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
From 1889 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.
Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Library
Author: New York State Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description