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Author | : Buzzy Jackson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010-07-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781439149263 |
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“WHO ARE YOU AND WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? ” As a historian, Buzzy Jackson thought she knew the answers to these simple questions—that is, until she took a look at her scrawny family tree. With a name like Jackson (the twentieth most common American surname), she knew she must have more relatives and more family history out there, somewhere. Her first visit to the Boulder Genealogy Society brought her more questions than answers . . . but it also gave her a tantalizing peek into the fascinating (and enormous) community of family-tree huggers and after-hours Alex Haleys. In Shaking the Family Tree, Jackson dives headfirst into her family gene pool: flying cross-country to locate an ancient family graveyard, embarking on a weeklong genealogy Caribbean cruise, and even submitting her DNA for testing to try to find her Jacksons. And in the process of researching her own family lore (Who was Bullwhip Jackson?) she meets legions of other genealogy buffs who are as interesting as they are driven—from the boy who saved his allowance so he could order his great-grandfather’s death certificate to the woman who spends her free time documenting the cemeteries of Colorado ghost towns. Through Jackson’s research she connects with distant relatives, traces her roots back more than 250 years and in the process comes to discover—genetically, historically, and emotionally—the true meaning of “family” for herself.
Author | : Lewis Turco |
Publisher | : Bordighera Press |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Nonfiction. "For those of us who have followed Lewis Turco's inventive and engaging poems over the years, SHAKING THE FAMILY TREE is a welcome revelation. His reminiscences of youth and family offer warmth and insights into a body of work that tracks his coming to terms with a heritage and legacy of veracity. One can see one's own self in the events and situations he so carefully describes. For those who may be introduced to Turco by these accounts, they offer a valuable guide to an always lively, changing, and challenging writer" -Jerome Mazzaro, University of California, Davis.
Author | : Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo |
Publisher | : Anvil Books |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Eugenia W. Bell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Gee |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2000-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226284972 |
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Nature has published news about the history of life ever since its first issue in 1869, in which T. H. Huxley ("Darwin's bulldog") wrote about Triassic dinosaurs. In recent years, the field has enjoyed a tremendous flowering due to new investigative techniques drawn from cladistics (a revolutionary method for charting evolutionary relationships) and molecular biology. Shaking the Tree brings together nineteen review articles written for Nature over the past decade by many of the major figures in paleontology and evolution, from Stephen Jay Gould to Simon Conway Morris. Each article is brief, accessible, and opinionated, providing "shoot from the hip" accounts of the latest news and debates. Topics covered include major extinction events, homeotic genes and body plans, the origin and evolution of the primates, and reconstructions of phylogenetic trees for a wide variety of groups. The editor, Henry Gee, gives new commentary and updated references. Shaking the Tree is a one-stop resource for engaging overviews of the latest research in the history of life on Earth.
Author | : Ralph J. Crandall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mark T. Bradbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014-11-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781940720142 |
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Author | : Nick Wilgus |
Publisher | : JMS Books LLC |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2020-03-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1646563190 |
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Wise-cracking Wiley Cantrell is loud and roaringly outrageous -- and he needs to be to keep his deeply religious neighbors and family in the Deep South at bay. A failed writer on food stamps, Wiley works a minimum wage job and barely manages to keep himself and his deaf son, Noah, more than a stone’s throw away from Dumpster-diving. Noah was a meth baby and has the birth defects to prove it. He sees how lonely his father is and tries to help him find a boyfriend while Wiley struggles to help Noah have a relationship with his incarcerated mother, who believes the best way to feed a child is with a slingshot. No wonder Noah becomes Wiley’s biggest supporter when Boston nurse Jackson Ledbetter walks past Wiley’s cash register and sets his sugar tree on fire. Jackson falls like a wet mule wearing concrete boots for Wiley’s sense of humor. And while Wiley represents much of the best of the South, Jackson is hiding a secret that could threaten this new family in the making. When North meets South, the cultural misunderstandings are many, but so are the laughs, and the tears, but, as they say down in Dixie, it’s all good.
Author | : William Maas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2017-09-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780989798440 |
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When you shake this writer¿s family tree, stories come tumbling down, like the gold, purple, red and brown leaves in the fall in his hometown of Iowa City, Iowa. These stories have been repeated hundreds of times over the decades of his life. Like mighty oak trees they have been pruned, trimmed, fertilized, and rained upon. They¿ve been standing for many years.
Author | : Karen Branan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476717192 |
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The provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912--written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them.