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Family trees : a history of genealogy in America Cover Image Book Book

Family trees : a history of genealogy in America

Weil, François. (Author).

Summary: 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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  • ISBN: 0674045831 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780674045835 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: 304 pages ; 22 cm
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  • Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.

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Subject: National characteristics, American
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