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a history of genealogy in America

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An edition of Family trees (2013)

Family trees

a history of genealogy in America

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Traces the history of genealogy in the United States, from its early preoccupation with social status and lineage, to a nineteenth-century search for Anglo-Saxon roots, to a twentieth-century acceptance of diversity and the introduction of DNA technology.

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English
Pages
304

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Family trees: a history of genealogy in America
2013, Harvard University Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
929.20973
Library of Congress
CS9 .W45 2013, CS9.W45 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
304 pages
Number of pages
304

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Open Library
OL27148649M
Internet Archive
familytreeshisto0000weil
ISBN 10
0674045831
ISBN 13
9780674045835
LCCN
2012044769
OCLC/WorldCat
812067631

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