Author: Sarah Robinson
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Category : Bennington (Vt.)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Genealogical History of the Families of Robinsons, Saffords, Harwoods, and Clarks
Author: Sarah Robinson
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Category : Bennington (Vt.)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Publisher:
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Category : Bennington (Vt.)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Genealogy and American Local History in the Michigan State Library
Author: Michigan State Library
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Genealogies and Town Histories Containing Genealogies
Author: Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Officers, Constitution and By-laws, Historical Sketches of Early Robinson Emigrants to America, Illustrations, Armorial Bearings, Members of Association
Author: Robinson Family Genealogical and Historical Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Languages : en
Pages : 118
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The American Genealogist, Being a Catalogue of Family Histories
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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GUIDE PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS RELATING TO ENGLISH AND FOREIGN HERALDRY AND GENEALOGY
Author: GEORGE GATFIELD
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Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Languages : en
Pages : 686
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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.
Bulletin. Additions
Author: New York State Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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State Library Bulletin
Author: New York State Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Bulletin
Author: New York State Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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