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Book

Family trees : a history of genealogy in America

Call Number

  • H 929.1 W4222 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.

Physical Description

304 pages ; 22 cm

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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