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Family trees : a history of genealogy in America
- Title
- Family trees : a history of genealogy in America / François Weil.
- Author
- Weil, François.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | *R-USLHG CS9 .W45 2013 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Reference Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- 304 pages; 22 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- CS9
- ISBN
- 9780674045835 (alk. paper)
- 0674045831 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012044769
- OCLC
- 812067631
- Author
- Weil, François.
- Title
- Family trees : a history of genealogy in America / François Weil.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- *R-USLHG CS9 .W45 2013