000689567 000__ 03120cam\a2200421Ia\4500 000689567 001__ 689567 000689567 005__ 20220707160742.0 000689567 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000689567 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000689567 008__ 121210s2013\\\\mau\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000689567 010__ $$z2012044769 000689567 020__ $$a9780674076341$$qelectronic book 000689567 020__ $$z0674045831 000689567 020__ $$z9780674045835 000689567 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn840416063 000689567 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10689572 000689567 035__ $$a689567 000689567 037__ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674076341$$bDOI 000689567 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$beng$$cCaPaEBR 000689567 05014 $$aCS9$$b.W45 2013eb 000689567 08204 $$a929.20973$$223 000689567 1001_ $$aWeil, François. 000689567 24510 $$aFamily trees$$h[electronic resource] :$$ba history of genealogy in America /$$cFrancois Weil. 000689567 260__ $$aCambridge :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2013. 000689567 300__ $$a1 online resource (304 p.) 000689567 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000689567 5050_ $$aLineage 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. 000689567 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000689567 520__ $$aThe quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, establish local genealogical societies, and carefully filled in the blanks in their Bibles, all in pursuit of self-knowledge and status through kinship ties. This long and varied history of Americans' search for identity illuminates the story of America itself, according to the author, as fixations with social standing, racial purity, and national belonging gave way in the twentieth century to an embrace of diverse ethnicity and heritage. Seeking out one's ancestors was a genteel pursuit in the colonial era, when an aristocratic pedigree secured a place in the British Atlantic empire. Genealogy developed into a middle-class diversion in the young republic. But over the next century, knowledge of one's family background came to represent a quasi-scientific defense of elite "Anglo-Saxons" in a nation transformed by immigration and the emancipation of slaves. By the mid-twentieth century, when a new enthusiasm for cultural diversity took hold, the practice of tracing one's family tree had become thoroughly democratized and commercialized. Today, Ancestry.com attracts over two million members with census records and ship manifests, while popular television shows depict celebrities exploring archives and submitting to DNA testing to learn the stories of their forebears. Further advances in genetics promise new insights as Americans continue their restless pursuit of past and place in an ever-changing world. 000689567 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000689567 650_0 $$aGenealogy$$zUnited States. 000689567 650_0 $$aGenealogy$$xSocial aspects$$zUnited States. 000689567 650_0 $$aNational characteristics, American. 000689567 77608 $$iPrint versionL$$aWeil, Francois.$$tFamily trees.$$dCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013$$z9780674045835$$w(DLC) 2012044769$$w(OCoLC)812067631 000689567 85280 $$bebk$$hHarvard University Press 000689567 85640 $$3Harvard University Press$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674076341$$zOnline Access 000689567 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:689567$$pGLOBAL_SET 000689567 980__ $$aEBOOK 000689567 980__ $$aBIB 000689567 982__ $$aEbook 000689567 983__ $$aOnline