Family trees : a history of genealogy in America
- Title
- Family trees : a history of genealogy in America / François Weil.
- Published by
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
- Author
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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.
- Subject
- 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
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2012044769
- ISBN
- 9780674045835 (alk. paper)
- 0674045831 (alk. paper)
- Research call number
- *R-USLHG CS9 .W45 2013