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My Family and Other Strangers

Author : Jeremy Hardy
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 140703099X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book My Family and Other Strangers written by Jeremy Hardy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jeremy Hardy decided to explore his ancestry it was, in part, to get to the bottom of his grandmother Rebecca's dubious claims that the family descended from a certain 17th-century architect and that, more recently, Jeremy's great-grandfather was a Royal bodyguard. Other legends ranged from the great aunt who ran illegal hooch during Prohibition to the wronged Victorian servant girl who bore an illegitimate Hardy, not forgetting the family's rightful claim to a large country estate. Wild stories aside, Jeremy sets out to such diverse locations as the Croydon one-way system and the hostile waters around Malta in order to find traces of recognisable family traits and a sense of how he came to be. With wry humour and a keen eye for the absurd and the frustrating, Jeremy takes us on a by turns funny and moving journey into the world of family ancestry. My Family and Other Strangers will be enjoyed by anyone who has tried to decipher the 1901 census records, or simply wishes they too had asked their grandparents more about their lives.

Adventures in Ancestry

Author : Lucy Mary Kellogg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Ancestry written by Lucy Mary Kellogg and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adventures in Genealogy

Author : Patrick G. Wardell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Genealogy written by Patrick G. Wardell and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adventures in Genealogy

Author : Daniel W. Hancock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Genealogy written by Daniel W. Hancock and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

It's All Relative

Author : A.J. Jacobs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1786073765
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book It's All Relative written by A.J. Jacobs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: “You don’t know me, but I’m your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database.” And so begins A.J. Jacobs’s quest to build the biggest family tree in history. In an era of us-versus-them thinking, this book is a hilarious, heartfelt and profound exploration of what binds us all – where family begins, how far it goes, and the science that is revolutionizing the way we think about ethnicity, history and the human species. This book is about A.J. Jacobs’s family. But it’s also about your family. Because it is the same family.

Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing:

Author : Megan Smolenyak
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0806535520
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing: written by Megan Smolenyak and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed genealogist and New York Times–bestselling author reveals how she solved some of the most fascinating mysteries of family lineage. Part forensic scientist, part master sleuth, Megan Smolenyak has a unique way of digging up our historical roots. She discovered Barack Obama’s Irish ancestry—and his relation to Brad Pitt. She revealed the true story of Ellis Island’s first immigrant, Annie Moore. And she shed light on a startling link between politicians Al Sharpton and Strom Thurmond. In Hey America, Your Roots Are Showing, the “Indiana Jones of genealogy” reveals how she cracked these and other news-making cases. Along the way, she shares her own story of becoming genealogy’s celebrity face. She even explains why her name is squared (Buzzy Jackson, author of Shaking the Family Tree). Whether she's scouring websites to uncover the surprising connections between famous figures or using cutting-edge DNA tests to locate family members of fallen soldiers dating back to the Civil War, Smolenyak's historical sleuthing is as provocative, richly layered, and exciting as America itself. “Megan is a genealogist's dream, a forensic investigator who can also tell a great story.” —Sam Roberts, The New York Times

It's All Relative

Author : A. J. Jacobs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476734518
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book It's All Relative written by A. J. Jacobs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, poignant quest to understand what constitutes family—where it begins and how far it goes—in It’s All Relative, a “thought-provoking…delightful, easy-to-read, informative book” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: “You don’t know me, but I’m your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database.” That’s enough family members to fill Madison Square Garden four times over. Who are these people, A.J. wondered, and how do I find them? So began Jacobs’s three-year adventure to help build the biggest family tree in history. In It’s All Relative, he “muses on the nature of family and the interconnectedness of humanity in this entertaining introduction to the world of genealogy” (Publishers Weekly). Jacobs’s journey would take him to all seven continents. He drank beer with a US president, sung with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and unearthed genetic links to Hollywood actresses and real-life scoundrels. After all, we can choose our friends, but not our family. “Whether he’s posing as a celebrity, outsourcing his chores, or adhering strictly to the Bible, we love reading about the wacky lifestyle experiments of author A.J. Jacobs” (Entertainment Weekly). Now Jacobs upends, in ways both meaningful and hilarious, our understanding of genetics and genealogy, tradition and tribalism, identity and connection. “Whimsical but also full of solid journalism and eye-opening revelations about the history of humanity, It’s All Relative is a real treat” (Booklist, starred review).

Adventures in Ancestors

Author : Eli Herbert Botsford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Ancestors written by Eli Herbert Botsford and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5: Families G-P

Author : John Frederick Dorman
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806317632
Total Pages : 1126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5: Families G-P written by John Frederick Dorman and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The foundation for this work is the Muster of Jan 1624/25 which had never before been printed in full."--Page xiii, volume 1.

Adventures in Ancestry

Author : Lucy Mary Kellogg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Ancestry written by Lucy Mary Kellogg and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spit, History, and Friendship

Author : Anita Foeman PhD
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480888796
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Spit, History, and Friendship written by Anita Foeman PhD and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who we are is a combination of many things. It is how we look, who we love, what we eat, what we think is important, where we grow up, and the genes that make up our bodies. Our genes are like a history book. Spit, History, and Friendship: The Kids’ DNA Adventure follows a group of middle schoolers—eight in all—as they learn about what DNA can tell them about their ancestry. The kids are from different backgrounds, and they are surprised by the results. Each has a rich and fascinating story; they share their excitement and what they learn with each other and their classmates. The kids discover they are more connected than they realized. A work of fiction, the characters in Spit, History, and Friendship were inspired by the real stories of people who participated in the West Chester University DNA Discussion project, the basis for this book.

The Fiddler on Pantico Run

Author : Joe Mozingo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451627610
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Fiddler on Pantico Run written by Joe Mozingo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gorgeously written and “vividly fascinating” (Elle) account, a prize-winning journalist digs deep into his ancestry looking for the origins of his unusual last name and discovers that he comes from one of America’s earliest mixed-race families. “My dad’s family was a mystery,” writes journalist Joe Mozingo, having grown up with only rumors about where his father’s family was from—Italy, France, the Basque Country. But when a college professor told the blue-eyed Californian that his family name may have come from sub-Saharan Africa, Mozingo set out on an epic journey to uncover the truth. He soon discovered that all Mozingos in America, including his father’s line, appeared to have descended from a black man named Edward Mozingo who was brought to America as a slave in 1644 and, after winning his freedom twenty-eight years later, became a tenant tobacco farmer, married a white woman, and fathered one of the country’s earliest mixed-race family lineages. Tugging at the buried thread of his origins, Joe Mozingo has unearthed a saga that encompasses the full sweep of America’s history and lays bare the country’s tortured and paradoxical experience with race. Haunting and beautiful, Mozingo’s memoir paints a world where the lines based on color are both illusory and life altering. He traces his family line from the ravages of the slave trade to the mixed-race society of colonial Virginia and through the brutal imposition of racial laws.

Adventures in Living

Author : Bobbie Cole
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544655710
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Living written by Bobbie Cole and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youngsters often say they want to join a circus, become a fireman or police officer, or sail the seas looking for adventure, but those types of excitement often elude the majority of us. Not so with this family. Circus life was a business, sea-faring became more than a far-fetched dream. Imagine if you can, a broken-hearted violinist playing a last request for his dying wife. Picture a circus owner coping with escaping gorillas and out-of-control lions. How about an aging man waiting for marriage and children until he's past the age when most men are dead and buried? Doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, judges, soldiers, aristocracy as well as those who have nothing but the clothes on their back. Members of Kim Gilley's family were strong participants, not spectators, in their own lives. The legacies they left their children and grandchildren were those of love, passion, commitment, and unwavering courage. Families included: Gilley, Wardell, Stromberg, Manders, Freeman, Hoffman, Hammond, Mulcahy, O'Brien, Nevin, Anzmann, and others.

A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Irish Ancestors

Author : Dwight A. Radford
Publisher : Cincinnati, Ohio : Betterway Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Irish Ancestors written by Dwight A. Radford and published by Cincinnati, Ohio : Betterway Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family genealogists will find easy step-by-step suggestions for determining an Irish ancestor's place of origin, and advice for researching Irish records in America and on the Emerald Isle itself. Readers will find a wealth of information, such as: * the basic strategies of Irish research * working with home sources * accessing, making sense of and working with Irish records inside and outside of Ireland * making the most of Internet resources * using cemetery records, church records, estate records, military records and more! Dwight A. Radford and Kyle J. Betit are widely respected in the field of genealogy as Irish researchers. For the past six years, they have built their reputation through articles in their highly acclaimed journal, the Irish at Home and Abroad, as well as in other genealogical publications. They speak internationally on the subject of Irish research and live in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Buried Under the Family Tree

Author : Max A. Geyer
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440103860
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Buried Under the Family Tree written by Max A. Geyer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Max set out to discover his family roots, he had no inkling that he was about to embark on an unbelievable adventure. Who could have guessed that researching one's genealogy, a seemingly innocuous pastime, could have such dangerous, even life-threatening consequences? The whole experience taught him one important lesson: One should not be overly greedy in his/her quest for family treasure. Max and Lucy, a retired couple, were in no way prepared for their first encounter with the convicted ax murderer. Would Max's later alliance with his long-time friend Johnny prove to be the solution for bringing this hair-raising adventure to a successful conclusion?

Practical Genealogy

Author : Brian Sheffey
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1646115678
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Practical Genealogy written by Brian Sheffey and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncover facts and mysteries of your ancestors—a clear approach to genealogy The pursuit of family history tends to be shaped by several motives, including finding a larger familial historical picture, preserving the past for future generations, and storytelling. Practical Genealogy provides a method for investigating your family history by establishing an understanding of genealogy and the factors, tasks, and obstacles involved in the research. The end goal: find the information necessary to piece together your heritage. Follow 50 steps that will fill in the puzzle of your lineage. Learn how to perform your own investigation through the lens of real-world obstacles like tracing ancestry through adoptions and orphanages. Practical Genealogy simplifies and breaks down the complex research process into actionable tips that can be conducted over a period of time. And most importantly, no blood test is necessary. Inside Practical Genealogy you'll find: Break through barriers—Learn how to negotiate common "brick wall" issues like missing chunks of family history or multiple names found for the same person. Case studies—Examples of actual genealogy research are provided to support the comprehension of each step of your exploration. See the BIG picture—Large fonts and easy-to-read images make learning easy for older adults. When you take genealogy research into your own hands, your potential for discovery is limitless.

Deep Ancestry

Author : Spencer Wells
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426202113
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Deep Ancestry written by Spencer Wells and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-11-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel backward through time from today's scattered billions to the handful of early humans who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago and are ancestors to us all. In Deep Ancestry, scientist and National Geographic explorer Spencer Wells shows how tiny genetic changes add up over time into a fascinating story. Using scores of real-life examples, helpful analogies, and detailed diagrams and illustrations, he explains exactly how each and every individual's DNA contributes another piece to the jigsaw puzzle of human history. The book takes readers inside the Genographic Project—the landmark study now assembling the world's largest collection of DNA samples and employing the latest in testing technology and computer analysis to examine hundreds of thousand of genetic profiles from all over the globe—and invites us all to take part.