Family trees : a history of genealogy in America

• Tác giả: François Weil
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 0674045831 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780674045835 (alk. paper)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 929.1 Genealogy
• Mô tả vật lý: 304 pages ; , 22 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Lịch sử, Địa lý
• ID: 277118
• Chủ đề: 1. Genealogy--Social aspects--United States; 2. Genealogy; 3. National characteristics, American

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

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.