| Author | Weil, François.
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| Title | Family trees : a history of genealogy in America / François Weil.
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| Published | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
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| Description | 304 pages ; 22 cm
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| ISBN | 9780674045835 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0674045831 (alk. paper) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Note | 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.
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| Summary Note | 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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| Acq. Note Source | Purchase ; WRHS Genealogical Committee, 2014.
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| Subjects | Genealogy.
Genealogy -- Social aspects -- United States.
National characteristics, American.
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| LC Card Number | 2012-44769 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: CS 9 W422 2013
CA-1400580 c.1: LC class, open stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 148019] |
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