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Help Me to Find My People

Author : Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807882658
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Help Me to Find My People written by Heather Andrea Williams and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Williams explores the heartbreaking stories of separation and the long, usually unsuccessful journeys toward reunification. Examining the interior lives of the enslaved and freedpeople as they tried to come to terms with great loss, Williams grounds their grief, fear, anger, longing, frustration, and hope in the history of American slavery and the domestic slave trade. Williams follows those who were separated, chronicles their searches, and documents the rare experience of reunion. She also explores the sympathy, indifference, hostility, or empathy expressed by whites about sundered black families. Williams shows how searches for family members in the post-Civil War era continue to reverberate in African American culture in the ongoing search for family history and connection across generations.

Finding Family

Author : Richard Hill
Publisher : Familius
ISBN 13 : 9781945547393
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Finding Family written by Richard Hill and published by Familius. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Family: My Search for Roots is Richard Hill's true and intensely personal story of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological family denied him by sealed birth records.

A Crime in the Family

Author : Sacha Batthyany
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 030682583X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book A Crime in the Family written by Sacha Batthyany and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of brutality, heroism, and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of World War II One night in March of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, a local countess hosted a party in her mansion, where guests and local Nazi leaders mingled. The war was almost over and the German aristocrats and SS officers dancing and drinking knew it was lost. Around midnight, some of the guests were asked to "take care" of 180 Jewish enslaved laborers at the train station; they made them strip naked and shot them all before returning to the bright lights of the party. It was another one of the war's countless atrocities buried in secrecy for decades--until Sacha Batthyany started investigating what happened that night at the party his great aunt hosted. A Crime in the Family is the author's memoir of confronting his family's past, the questions he raised and the answers he found that took him far beyond his great aunt's party: through the dark past of Nazi Germany to the gulags of Siberia, the bleak streets of Cold War Budapest, and to Argentina, where he finds an Auschwitz survivor whose past intersects with his family's. It is the story of executioners and victims, villains and heroes. Told partly through the surviving family journals, A Crime in the Family is a disquieting and moving memoir, a powerful true story told by an extraordinary writer confronting the dark past of his family--and humanity.

Reinventing the Family

Author : Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745622149
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing the Family written by Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim and published by Polity. This book was released on 2002-04-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional image of the family as a life-long unit is fading fast. There are fewer marriages, more divorces, and ever more children born to unmarried or single parents. The forms of our private life are changing rapidly, and people are embarking on new lifestyles based on cohabitation, separation and same-sex partnerships. In this lively and accessible new book, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim looks at the future of our lives after the family. Examining the breakdown of the conventional family unit, she explores the new choices that are open to individuals, and analyses our anxiety over the ensuing loss of stability. In Reinventing the Family, Beck-Gernsheim describes how men and women are being confronted with competing and often incompatible demands. Our areas of personal choice have been redrawn, but in a space that involves new social regulations and controls. The talk of 'family values' sits uneasily with the reality of long working-hours, business trips, weekend seminars and career moves. At work, we are encouraged to pursue competition, speed and change; at home we are expected to find community and conciliation. Beck-Gernsheim examines the impact of these conflicting expectations on the relationships between men, women and children, and searches for possible solutions. Reinventing the Family is an important and timely contribution to the growing debate about the family and its future. It will be ideal reading for students of sociology and gender studies, but will also appeal to a wide general readership.

In Search of Emma

Author : Armando Lucas Correa
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063070820
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Emma written by Armando Lucas Correa and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated with a new introduction by the author—and available in English for the first time—the moving story of a man who always wanted to be a father and the long emotional road to making his dream come true. Born in Cuba and raised in the USA, Armando Lucas Correa epitomized the American dream. He had everything he wanted: an incredible job as the editor of People magazine, meeting and interviewing glamorous celebrities; a steady partner; and a comfortable life filled with travel. But with the new millennium, he realized something vital was missing. A child. In the years before gay marriage was widespread and legal across the nation, the road to parenthood was difficult for gay couples. Though his family would not be traditional, Correa was undaunted. Every setback, each emotional challenge was fuel that drove him to fulfill his dream. Exhaustively researching the possibilities, Correa eventually chose surrogacy—a long, arduous, and expensive method involving seemingly endless tests, paperwork, and difficult decisions. But with the help of science, a lot of patience, an egg donor, a gestational mother, and the unconditional support of her partner and family, Correa’s dream finally came true with the birth of his beloved daughter, Emma. In Search of Emma is an inspiring and beautiful story of love, family, and fatherhood that reminds us of that, despite the odds, we must never stop fighting to achieve our dreams. Completely revised and updated to reflect his growing family.

The Search

Author : Eric Heuvel
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374464553
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book The Search written by Eric Heuvel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After recounting her experience as a Jewish girl living in Amsterdam during the Holocaust, Esther, helped by her grandson, embarks on a search to discover what happened to her parents before they died in a concentration camp.

Raceless

Author : Georgina Lawton
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063009498
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Raceless written by Georgina Lawton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut of the Year From The Guardian’s Georgina Lawton, a moving examination of how racial identity is constructed—through the author’s own journey grappling with secrets and stereotypes, having been raised by white parents with no explanation as to why she looked black. Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georgina’s insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or access to black culture, she lacked the coordinates to make sense of who she was. It was only after her father’s death that Georgina began to unravel the truth about her parentage—and the racial identity that she had been denied. She fled from England and the turmoil of her home-life to live in black communities around the globe—the US, the UK, Nicaragua, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and Morocco—and to explore her identity and what it meant to live in and navigate the world as a black woman. She spoke with psychologists, sociologists, experts in genetic testing, and other individuals whose experiences of racial identity have been fraught or questioned in the hopes of understanding how, exactly, we identify ourselves. Raceless is an exploration of a fundamental question: what constitutes our sense of self? Drawing on her personal experiences and the stories of others, Lawton grapples with difficult questions about love, shame, grief, and prejudice, and reveals the nuanced and emotional journey of forming one’s identity.

At the Heart of Work and Family

Author : Anita Ilta Garey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813549558
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book At the Heart of Work and Family written by Anita Ilta Garey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Heart of Work and Family presents original research on work and family by scholars who engage and build on the conceptual framework developed by well-known sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild. These concepts, such as "the second shift," "the economy of gratitude," "emotion work," "feeling rules," "gender strategies," and "the time bind," are basic to sociology and have shaped both popular discussions and academic study. The common thread in these essays covering the gender division of housework, childcare networks, families in the global economy, and children of consumers is the incorporation of emotion, feelings, and meaning into the study of working families. These examinations, like Hochschild's own work, connect micro-level interaction to larger social and economic forces and illustrate the continued relevance of linking economic relations to emotional ones for understanding contemporary work-family life.

The Family Tree

Author : Karen Branan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476717206
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book The Family Tree written by Karen Branan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, 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. Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctions the lynching of a black woman and three black men, all of them innocent. For Karen Branan, the great-granddaughter of that sheriff, this isn’t just history, this is family history. Branan spent nearly twenty years combing through diaries and letters, hunting for clues in libraries and archives throughout the United States, and interviewing community elders to piece together the events and motives that led a group of people to murder four of their fellow citizens in such a brutal public display. Her research revealed surprising new insights into the day-to-day reality of race relations in the Jim Crow–era South, but what she ultimately discovered was far more personal. As she dug into the past, Branan was forced to confront her own deep-rooted beliefs surrounding race and family, a process that came to a head when Branan learned a shocking truth: she is related not only to the sheriff, but also to one of the four who were murdered. Both identities—perpetrator and victim—are her inheritance to bear. A gripping story of privilege and power, anger, and atonement, The Family Tree transports readers to a small Southern town steeped in racial tension and bound by powerful family ties. Branan takes us back in time to the Civil War, demonstrating how plantation politics and the Lost Cause movement set the stage for the fiery racial dynamics of the twentieth century, delving into the prevalence of mob rule, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the role of miscegenation in an unceasing cycle of bigotry. Through all of this, what emerges is a searing examination of the violence that occurred on that awful day in 1912—the echoes of which still resound today—and the knowledge that it is only through facing our ugliest truths that we can move forward to a place of understanding.

Organizing Your Family History Search

Author : Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
Publisher : North Light Books
ISBN 13 : 9781558705111
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Organizing Your Family History Search written by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents methods for tracing your family history with tips and sample charts to follow.

Family Roots

Author : Marian Shannon Miller Lord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947309050
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Family Roots written by Marian Shannon Miller Lord and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family Roots: A Mother's Search for Meaning is a memoir of rising from seemingly insurmountable obstacles to discovering power to live a full life. Shannon Lord's journey from a soul-searing revelation sent her into a very dark place but eventually an ascension to freedom, joy and exhilaration. She recommends that, over time, if you tell your story enough to those who will listen, you will begin to realize that sadness and loss start to diminish when you assume control over your attitude no matter what befalls you.

A Family Secret

Author : Eric Heuvel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Family Secret written by Eric Heuvel and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Finding Emma

Author : Amy Whorf McGuiggan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937650957
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Finding Emma written by Amy Whorf McGuiggan and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Emma takes readers on a compelling genealogical journey of discovery ,beyond the names and dates on vital records, to reclaim the lost branches of the author's ancestry: one rooted in early Salem, Massachusetts, and the other in Ancient Acadia. Along the way, she spins a story of survival against the longest of odds-one that had been being buried for more than a century.

In Search of a Family

Author : Queensland Family Quest Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book In Search of a Family written by Queensland Family Quest Council and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Search of a Family

Author : Ginger Carlisle
Publisher : Atlantic Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1601385110
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book In Search of a Family written by Ginger Carlisle and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of a Family: A Story of an International Adoption takes the reader inside a personal journey through the unknowns of an international adoption. This true story takes place in the ex-Soviet bloc country of Ukraine. As they travel through this young, independent republic, Kevin and Ginger Carlisle encounter numerous obstacles that could derail their hopes of achieving their dream of creating a new family. Braving Ukrainian election tensions and protestors, heartbreaking events, financial concerns, and changing adoption policies, they navigate the emotional and psychological maze of the bureaucracy and physical logistics of an international adoption. An eleventh hour attempt by the children's family member jeopardizes their attempt in searching for a family. The Carlisles endure the hardships of the language barrier and infrastructure but are able to uncover the little-known beauty of Ukraine and its people, all while placing their life in the United States on hold. As their destiny patiently waits, they keep reciting the mantra of all those who had come before them: Keep your focus on the goal of bringing home your children. Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company president's garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.

The Search for One Family’s History

Author : S. Chandra Mohan
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1543768407
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book The Search for One Family’s History written by S. Chandra Mohan and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the unique story of more than five generations of Malaysians and Singaporeans who originated from South India and settled first in British Malaya and later in what was then the crown colony of Singapore. It is a remarkable personal tale of the efforts to trace the original village of their ancestors in a remote part of Trichy in South India, a task made difficult by the passage of time and the lack of a common family surname for people of South Indian origin. It is also a poignant tale of the trials and tribulations of one family in a foreign land, put together with painstaking research. It is a welcome addition to Asian literature as very few narratives exist of the family history of South Indian Tamils in Singapore and Malaysia.

Discover Your Family History Online

Author : Nancy Hendrickson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440318549
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Discover Your Family History Online written by Nancy Hendrickson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Guide to Online Genealogy The internet has made millions of records available to search any time, anywhere. Start finding your ancestors with just a few strokes of a keyboard using the detailed instruction in this book. Inside you'll find: • An overview of where and how to start your family history research • Detailed descriptions of the best online databases for family historians • Hundreds of helpful websites to further your research • Step-by-step search instructions to help you find exactly what you're looking for • Chapters dedicated to finding specific records, including birth, marriage and death; census; military; land; and immigration • Case studies that apply key concepts to real-life searches • Ideas for connecting with fellow researchers and distant relatives through social media, blogging and newsletters • Special resources for researching American Indian, African-American and Jewish ancestors • Plus access to bonus online video demonstrations If you're curious about who's hanging out in your family tree, there's never been a better time to find out. Get this book, get online and get started today!