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Author | : Francesca Morgan |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469664798 |
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From family trees written in early American bibles to birther conspiracy theories, genealogy has always mattered in the United States, whether for taking stock of kin when organizing a family reunion or drawing on membership—by blood or other means—to claim rights to land, inheritances, and more. And since the advent of DNA kits that purportedly trace genealogical relations through genetics, millions of people have used them to learn about their medical histories, biological parentage, and ethnic background. A Nation of Descendants traces Americans' fascination with tracking family lineage through three centuries. Francesca Morgan examines how specific groups throughout history grappled with finding and recording their forebears, focusing on Anglo-American white, Mormon, African American, Jewish, and Native American people. Morgan also describes how individuals and researchers use genealogy for personal and scholarly purposes, and she explores how local businesspeople, companies like Ancestry.com, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Finding Your Roots series powered the commercialization and commodification of genealogy.
Author | : George L. Williams |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2004-08-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780786420711 |
Download Papal Genealogy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The papacy has often resembled a secular European monarchy more than a divinely inspired institution. Roman pontiffs bestowed great wealth on their families and forged strategic alliances with other powerful families to increase their power. Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), for example, forced his daughter Lucrezia into a series of marriages for political reasons. When her marital alliance was no longer advantageous, as was the case in her second marriage, her husband was brutally murdered. Many papal families also intermarried in hopes of forming a hereditary papacy; at least two members of the Fieschi, Piccolomini, Della Rovere, and Medici families served as pope. Papal families since the early history of the church are fully covered in this comprehensive work. Genealogical charts graphically show the descendants of the popes, presenting in many cases the interrelationships between the papal families and their relationships with many of the leading families of Europe. Detailed histories examine the impact of the papacy on each pope's family and how each influenced the history of the church.
Author | : Joseph Adger Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
Download Descendants of Valentine Hollingsworth, Sr Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Valentine Hollingsworth emigrated in 1682 and settled in what is now Delaware. Subsequent generations lived in Maryland.
Author | : Lucian K. Truscott |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2019-05-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1978800762 |
Download Slavery's Descendants Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Slavery's Descendants brings together twenty-five contributors from a variety of racial backgrounds, to tell their personal stories of exhuming and exorcising America's racist past. Together, they help us confront the legacy of slavery and reclaim a more complete picture of U.S. history, one cousin at a time.
Author | : Johanna Frank |
Publisher | : Marrow Publishing |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download The Gatekeeper's Descendants Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A supernatural fiction with high relationship drama and adventure, sure to please many fantasy lovers – epic, coming of age, spiritual, metaphysical – from young adults up to all ages. She died long ago. Now destiny needs her intervention. Pipiera barely remembers living. And in the many years since she left Earth, the only real connection she’s built is with the head gatekeeper to the ethereal kingdom. So she hates leaving his side when his future replacement falls into trouble and she must go back to stop the boy from taking a dark path. Resolving to make her mentor proud, Pipiera is horrified after she arrives to find her charge beaten and left for dead with his spirit on the loose. As she struggles to rescue his incorporeal form, she faces a fight for his trust against a shadowy opponent, only to discover she'd been trapped. And forgotten. Will she overcome? Or will she succumb to her mentor's curse? The Gatekeeper's Descendants is the extraordinary first book in a unique inspirational fantasy series. If you like characters worth connecting to, rich allegories and supernatural stories that take place in a world beyond, you'll definitely enjoy Johanna Frank's thrilling adventure through the heart. “The words simply flowed across each page, I couldn’t put the book down.” A fantasy novel reviewer.
Author | : George Chandler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1418 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Massachusetts |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Linda Allen Bryant |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2004-07-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0595767087 |
Download I Cannot Tell a Lie Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
THE FIRST PRESIDENT Documented national history states that the nation's first president had no children. But the oral history of the descendants of this African American family tells a different story. THE CONTROVERSY Many people will believe the story of George Washington fathering a slave son. Others will find it difficult, if not impossible, to believe that Washington had an intimate relationship with a slave named Venus. Their fateful union during the era of antebellum slavery produced a son, West Ford. THE SECRET As time and space distanced the Ford family from its beginnings at Mount Vernon, each generation continued to walk a precarious line, bearing the weight of their heritage and battling issues of skin color, status, and identity. Linda Allen Bryant, a descendant of West Ford, pens her family's narrative history in I Cannot Tell a Lie. Their genealogy is rich in adventure, love, tragedy, sacrifice and courage-a story that will haunt you long after you turn the last page.
Author | : E.A. Doty |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 627 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 5875640995 |
Download The Doty-Doten Family in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Book is divided into two parts. The first volume contains a list of families Edward, John, Thomas, Samuel, Desire and Isaac Doty, and the second volume begins with the family of Joseph Doty
Author | : Disney Book Group |
Publisher | : Disney Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-10-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781368049559 |
Download Welcome to Auradon: A Descendants 3 Sticker and Activity Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Filled with fun activities and more than 200 stickers, this interactive Descendants 3 title invites fans to imagine stepping into the halls of Auradon Prep. Fans can fill out applications to the prestigious school, decorate their dorm rooms, design wickedly cool outfits, and more! A great complement to previously published Descendant and Descendants 2 books, this engaging book details the memorable characters and magical world of this Disney Channel's hit movie series.
Author | : Eugene Y. Park |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2014-04-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804790868 |
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Koreans are known for their keen interest in genealogy and inherited ancestral status. Yet today's ordinary Korean would be hard pressed to explain the whereabouts of ancestors before the twentieth century. With A Family of No Prominence, Eugene Y. Park gives us a remarkable account of a nonelite family, that of Pak Tŏkhwa and his descendants (which includes the author). Spanning the early modern and modern eras over three centuries (1590–1945), this narrative of one family of the chungin class of people is a landmark achievement. What we do know of the chungin, or "middle people," of Korea largely comes from profiles of wealthy, influential men, frequently cited as collaborators with Japanese imperialists, who went on to constitute the post-1945 South Korean elite. This book highlights many rank-and-file chungin who, despite being better educated than most Koreans, struggled to survive. We follow Pak Tŏkhwa's descendants as they make inroads into politics, business, and culture. Yet many members' refusal to link their family histories and surnames to royal forebears, as most other Koreans did, sets them apart, and facilitates for readers a meaningful discussion of identity, modernity, colonialism, memory, and historical agency.