Family Trees
Title | Family Trees PDF eBook |
Author | François Weil |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 231 |
Release | 2013-04-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674076370 |
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.
A History of the Family of Early in America
Title | A History of the Family of Early in America PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Stockwell Early |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 72 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN |
Jeremiah Early (d.1795) emigrated from Ireland to Madison County, Virginia and married a Miss Buford. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Indiana, Georgia and elsewhere. Includes some family history and genealogical data about ancestry in Ireland to the fourth century.
A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the Present
Title | A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the Present PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Wallace Calhoun |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 358 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Families |
ISBN |
V. I. Colonial period -- v. II. From Independence through the Civil War -- v. III. Since the civil war.
A History of Stepfamilies in Early America
Title | A History of Stepfamilies in Early America PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Wilson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 155 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 9781469618449 |
The Cox Family in America
Title | The Cox Family in America PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Miller Cox |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 882 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | Cock family |
ISBN |
A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the Present
Title | A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the Present PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Wallace Calhoun |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Families |
ISBN |
A History of the Family of Early in America
Title | A History of the Family of Early in America PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Stockwell 1827- Early |
Publisher | Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | 68 |
Release | 2021-09-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781013772191 |
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