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Family trees : a history of genealogy in America / François Weil

By:

Weil, François

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013Description: 304 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780674045835

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

929.20 WEI

LOC classification:

CS9 .W45 2013

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.

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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	929.20 WEI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		024371

Includes bibliographical references and index

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.

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