Download or read book American Ancestry of Our Day Family written by Amos Day and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Ancestry of Our Day Family written by Amos Abner Day and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Day Family History written by Sandy Hudnall Day and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Day emigrated from England in 1635 and settled in Massachusetts. He married Susannah Matchett in about 1650. They had nine known children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Ohio, Illinois and California.
Download or read book Our Family Tree written by and published by Poplar. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful gift and keepsake album to record the genealogy and family history.
Download or read book The Social History of the American Family written by Marilyn J. Coleman and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 2111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American family has come a long way from the days of the idealized family portrayed in iconic television shows of the 1950s and 1960s. The four volumes of The Social History of the American Family explore the vital role of the family as the fundamental social unit across the span of American history. Experiences of family life shape so much of an individual’s development and identity, yet the patterns of family structure, family life, and family transition vary across time, space, and socioeconomic contexts. Both the definition of who or what counts as family and representations of the “ideal” family have changed over time to reflect changing mores, changing living standards and lifestyles, and increased levels of social heterogeneity. Available in both digital and print formats, this carefully balanced academic work chronicles the social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of American families from the colonial period to the present. Key themes include families and culture (including mass media), families and religion, families and the economy, families and social issues, families and social stratification and conflict, family structures (including marriage and divorce, gender roles, parenting and children, and mixed and non-modal family forms), and family law and policy. Features: Approximately 600 articles, richly illustrated with historical photographs and color photos in the digital edition, provide historical context for students. A collection of primary source documents demonstrate themes across time. The signed articles, with cross references and Further Readings, are accompanied by a Reader’s Guide, Chronology of American Families, Resource Guide, Glossary, and thorough index. The Social History of the American Family is an ideal reference for students and researchers who want to explore political and social debates about the importance of the family and its evolving constructions.
Download or read book Ancestors written by Jim Willard and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to the PBS television series: Ancestors, a ten-part series celebrating the significance of family history.
Download or read book Meeting the Family written by Donovan Webster and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the author's DNA-guided quest for his ancestry, which took him through time and across continents, learning lessons about evolution, genetics, and the amazing diversity of human culture along the way.
Download or read book Colonial Families of the United States of America written by George Norbury Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An American Heritage Story written by Gloria Peoples-Elam and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With all its tidbits of historical facts, Gloria Elam's story of her ancestors would be of interest to people even outside her family. She paints a picture of characters reaching hundreds of years back, one that rolls nicely and is fun to read. You very quickly get involved with the tale." Carolea Hassard, Texas weekly newspaper journalist "In her book, Gloria Peoples Elam has traced her family from the ancient border area between Scotland and England to the present time. The coverage of the historical events in this book is impressive and complete. From 1649 and the first ancestry on the James River to the American Revolution, the Battle for Texas Independence, the Civil War, World War I, to World War II, Peoples ancestors have been involved. They have been part of the history of Parker County Texas, where she resides; and also throughout Texas and the State of Oklahoma. Down through the years the caretakers of our history have been invaluable. Gloria has been a very effective caretaker of her family history and much, much more." Laurie Moseley III, Curator, Springtown Legends Museum, Texas State Archaeological, Society Member and Past President, Retired Texas Educator As you read the pages of this wonderful book you will quickly see Gloria's passion for history as she unfolds the history of her family in the settling of these United States. Her ancestry will come alive before you and you will be gently reminded that in some way we are all a part of this Great American Heritage. Pastor Doug Harris, Agnes Baptist Church, Springtown Chamber of Commerce President 2011-2012 It was fascinating to read this genealogical history of Gloria's family that she so cleverly has woven through different eras of America's history. She managed to account for her family ancestors and established a legacy by placing them in the important events taking place in America from the 1600's to the late 1800's. Debbie Edwards, Genealogist/Historian
Download or read book Family Trees written by François Weil and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, established 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 François Weil, 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.
Download or read book How to Find Your Family History in U S Church Records A Genealogist s Guide With Specific Resources for Major Christian Denominations Before 1900 written by Harold a. Henderson and published by Genealogical Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Ancestry Vol 9 written by Thomas Patrick Hughes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Ancestry, Vol. 9: Giving the Name and Descent, in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, A. D. 1776; Embracing Lineages From the Whole of the United States, 1894 HE purpose of this work is, principally, to register in a convenient and simple form the pedigree of any one person, and thus record for all time many important facts in the history of families which would otherwise be lost. Another primary object is to publish here the ancestry of a person as complete as it is known, as a means of obtaining additional information regarding it. It is also designed to be a convenient work of reference, to show the origin of the various American families. However indifferent some may affect to be regarding this question of ancestry, those who have a good pedigree will usually have a natural pride in it. Many lineages must of necessity contain nothing but simple records of uneventful generations, but they will preserve facts of great interest to descendants which would otherwise in many cases be lost in the history of a family. The plan of the work is somewhat similar in idea to the well-known English works, but altered to suit the conditions of American society, and in detail is as follows: The surname or family name is given first, with the given name, residence, birthplace, and date of birth. This is followed by remarks of a brief biographical character, giving the principal events in the individual's life, such as occupation, college degrees if any, author ship, public service, experiences, and if married, date, wife's name and parentage, with remarks relating to her ancestry. If the individual whose lineage is given had brothers, the same facts may be stated respecting each of them, in order of their birth, commencing with the eldest. This completes the first generation in tracing back the lineage. Next is given the father's name, followed by same class of facts, and so continued back in male line as far as can be traced. The name of son, father, grandfather, etc., in direct male line are printed in black type. As the abbreviations are all of the most ordinary kind, it is unnecessary to mention them here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Psychology of Family History written by Susan Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book examines the motives that drive family historians and explores whether those who research their ancestral pedigrees have distinct personalities, demographics or family characteristics. It describes genealogists’ experiences as they chart their family trees including their insights, dilemmas and the fascinating, sometimes disturbing and often surprising, outcomes of their searches. Drawing on theory and research from psychology and other humanities disciplines, as well as from the authors’ extensive survey data collected from over 800 amateur genealogists, the authors present the experiences of family historians, including personal insights, relationship changes, mental health benefits and ethical dilemmas. The book emphasises the motivation behind this exploration, including the need to acknowledge and tell ancestral stories, the spiritual and health-related aspects of genealogical research, the addictiveness of the detective work, the lifelong learning opportunities and the passionate desire to find lost relatives. With its focus on the role of family history in shaping personal identity and contemporary culture, this is fascinating reading for anyone studying genealogy and family history, professional genealogists and those researching their own history.
Download or read book The Everything Family Tree Book written by Kimberly Powell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-01-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely updated for today's search tactics and blockades, The Everything Family Tree Book has even more insight for the stumped! Whether you're searching in a grandparent's attic or through the most cryptic archiving systems, this book has brand-new chapters on what readers have been asking for: Genetics, DNA, and medical information Surname origins and naming Appendix on major genealogical repositories, libraries, and archives Systems for filing and organizing The latest computer software Land, probate, and estate records Chock-full of tips the competitors don't have, this is the one-stop resource for successful sleuthing!
Download or read book The 400 Year Story of an American Family written by Paul B. Lee and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is primarily about the American ancestry of Theodore and Anna Wray Lee. In every instance, our family benefited from a new start in America, and our ancestors, some with humble beginnings, thrived, prospered and grew. Our American story is about families that played active and sometimes leading roles in communities as constables, councilors, representatives, and jurists. They were close to the land and worked as farmers, millers, coopers, wheelwrights, and blacksmiths. They fought in every war, especially as part of their colonial militias, and as minutemen in the Revolution. They were the frontier faithful, church members, deacons, elders, pastors, baptismal sponsors and witnesses, and missionaries. They were, foremost in their own minds, mothers and fathers, grandparents and great grandparents, daughters and sons, sisters and brothers and cousins, nieces and nephews, and always connected to extended family and community. The family has many stories about those who fit in well and had a sense of belonging where they were. Others were activists who challenged practices that they saw as unfair, and succeeded in many ways to serve their communities according to their conscience. Much of the American environment in which our family developed included European political, economic, cultural, and spiritual influences that the immigrants brought with them. In many respects, these European characteristics are evident in how our society operates to this day. The union of the Reverend Theodore and Anna Myrtilla Wray Lee brought together two ancestries that were different in important ways. The Wray line we have traced back to Ireland and Ulster Province, and that provides a Scots-Irish thread to the story of the family's character and make-up. The Lee line originates with the union of Reverend Theodore's parents, William Newland and Maggie (van Arsdale) Lee. William Lee's ancestry goes back to the founding of Connecticut, and this was a family of English origins. The van Arsdales go back to the early years of the Dutch colonization of what were then New Amsterdam and Breuklyn in New Netherlands, and are now Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York. Many of our ancestors were in the first group of colonists in the towns that they co-founded. It was common for these original immigrants to have been born in the 1500's. The 98 ancestors born in the 1500's includes these earliest pioneers and their immediate forbearers. In addition, this book contains the genealogical and historical information from before 1500 for 22 individuals. The families traced back into the Reformation and even the Middle Ages are illustrative of various sociological, economic, and cultural patterns that help us understand the character and values passed on to the emigrants to America. War, famine, economic collapse, atrocities carried out in the name of religion, and constraints on social mobility all spurred our ancestors to embark on their voyages to America. We have traced the migrations from Europe to America of 58 ancestors. Of these original emigrants, 51 arrived in the 1600's, while seven arrived in the 1700's. These migrations follow six distinct patterns. Our ancestors from England primarily immigrated to Connecticut, and some had Pennsylvania as their destination. All of our Scots-Irish ancestors found their way to Western Pennsylvania. Our emigrant ancestors from Germany had destinations in both Pennsylvania and New York. Our emigrants from France went to New York and then New Jersey. Our ancestors from the Netherlands also immigrated to New York and New Jersey. Our ancestors who were from Denmark, Norway, and Belgium immigrated to New York. At each step along the way we have discovered a rich narrative of the family history, and its strong connection to the communities it helped form. This is a narrative that always involved a new frontier, a push forward into an ever newer world.
Download or read book A History of the Hole Family in England and America written by Charles Elmer Rice and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cherokee America written by Margaret Verble and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line, an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center. It's the early spring of 1875 in the Cherokee Nation West. A baby, a black hired hand, a bay horse, a gun, a gold stash, and a preacher have all gone missing. Cherokee America Singer, known as "Check," a wealthy farmer, mother of five boys, and soon-to-be widow, is not amused. In this epic of the American frontier, several plots intertwine around the heroic and resolute Check: her son is caught in a compromising position that results in murder; a neighbor disappears; another man is killed. The tension mounts and the violence escalates as Check's mixed race family, friends, and neighbors come together to protect their community--and painfully expel one of their own. Cherokee America vividly, and often with humor, explores the bonds--of blood and place, of buried histories and half-told tales, of past grief and present injury--that connect a colorful, eclectic cast of characters, anchored by the clever, determined, and unforgettable Check.
