Family trees : a history of genealogy in America / François Weil.
The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, establish local genealogical societies, and carefully filled in the blanks in their Bibles, all in pursuit of self-knowledge and status through kins...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2013.
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LM copy 1 part of the Michigan Heritage Collection. |
Physical Description: | 304 pages ; 22 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Lineage and family in colonial America
- The rise of American genealogy
- Antebellum blood and vanity
- "Upon the love of country and pride of race"
- Pedigrees and the market
- Everybody's search for roots.