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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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Description
304 pages; 22 cm
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.
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.
Research Call Number
*R-USLHG CS9 .W45 2013
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