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Author Weil, François.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  929.2 WEIL    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  929.2 WEI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  929.1 W42    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  929.2 WE    Check Shelf
Description 304 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography 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.
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.
Subject Genealogy.
Genealogy -- Social aspects -- United States.
National characteristics, American.
ISBN 9780674045835 alkaline paper
0674045831 alkaline paper
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