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100 1 _aWeil, François
245 1 0 _aFamily trees
_b: a history of genealogy in America
_c/ François Weil
260 _aCambridge, MA
_b: Harvard University Press
_c, 2013
300 _a304 p.
_c; 22 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505 0 _aLineage 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.
520 _aTraces 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.
650 4 _aGenealogy
_z-United States
650 0 _aHistory
650 0 _aNational characteristics, American
650 4 _aSocial aspects
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