Family trees : a history of genealogy in America
Weil, François
Family trees : a history of genealogy in America / François Weil - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013 - 304 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.
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.
9780674045835
2012044769
Genealogy---United States
History
National characteristics, American
Social aspects
CS9 / .W45 2013
929.20 WEI
Family trees : a history of genealogy in America / François Weil - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013 - 304 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.
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.
9780674045835
2012044769
Genealogy---United States
History
National characteristics, American
Social aspects
CS9 / .W45 2013
929.20 WEI
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