text Family trees : a history of genealogy in America
- Summary
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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.
- Contents
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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.
- Format
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- Description
- 304 p. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press 2013
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