Family trees
Subtitle: a history of genealogy in America
By: François Weil
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780674045835
Subjects: American National characteristics; Genealogy
Description: Traces the history of genealogy in the United States, from its early preoccupation with social status and lineage, to a nineteenth-century search for Anglo-Saxon roots, to a twentieth-century acceptance of diversity and the introduction of DNA technology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lineage and family in colonial America; title: The rise of American genealogy; title: Antebellum blood and vanity; title: "Upon the love of country and pride of race"; title: Pedigrees and the market; title: Everybody's search for roots.