Download or read book Remembering Our Ancestors written by Jean McCullough and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering Our Ancestors, A Family History of the Pointer, Gage, Schenck, Townsend & Related Families, contains research of these particular families for several generations. It covers some of the Dutch families who settled in New Amsterdam (New York). Included in the research are the English, French and Scottish ancestors; the English ones arriving in early Virginia, the French ones arriving in New Amsterdam and the Scottish settling in New Jersey. These ancestors helped settle the areas they migrated to including Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas. Various ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War and these named along with records such as Revolutionary War pension applications, and wills. Family pictures are included, as well as some family stories, which gives us insight into the lives of those who have gone before us.
Download or read book 31 Days to Better Genealogy written by Amy Johnson Crow and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crow believes that family history is an exploration not only of the past, but also of ourselves. She shares her favorite tips, tricks, and resources for discovering your family history-- and having fun while you do it!
Download or read book My Family Tree and Me written by Duýan Petri?i? and published by Kids Can Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-of-a-kind picture book provides a beautifully simple introduction to the concept of family ancestry. It uses two stories in one to explore a small boy's family tree: the boy tells the family story of his father's side starting from the front of the book, and that of his mother's side starting from the back of the book. Four previous generations are introduced for each, from his great-great-grandparents to his parents. The grand finale in the center of the book reveals the boy's entire extended family, shown in one drawing with all the members from both sides identified by their relationship to him. Of particular interest is the cultural diversity of the boy's family, which includes European and Asian ancestors, and readers can visually interpret the family members' physical characteristics as they get passed on through the generations. Award-winning illustrator Du?an Petri?i?'s classic artwork contains thoughtfully selected details with a touch of play and humor. And, since most of the story is told in the art, this is a wonderful tool for enhancing children's visual literacy as they spend time making connections and looking for clues. This book makes a great springboard for lessons on describing and sharing family histories and naming family relationships. Applicable in-class activities could include having children build their own family trees or imagine and draw portraits of their ancestors featuring period and cultural details. This title also lends itself to discussions on multiculturalism in families and in the larger community.
Download or read book Me and My Family Tree written by Joan Sweeney and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where am I on my family tree? A beloved bestseller that shows children how to understand their place among their relatives, now refreshed with new art from Emma Trithart. Who is part of your family? How are they related to you? In this edition of Me and My Family Tree, with new art by Emma Trithart, a young girl uses simple language, her own childlike drawings, and diagrams to explain how the members of her family are related to each other and to her. Clear, colorful, detailed artwork and a fill-in family tree in the back help make the parts of the family--from siblings to grandparents to cousins--understandable to very young readers.
Download or read book My Family Tree Workbook written by Rosemary A. Chorzempa and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how to create a family tree, discussing getting started and conducting genealogical research
Download or read book Finding Family written by Richard Hill and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA is the highly suspenseful account of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological family denied him by sealed birth records. This fascinating quest, including the author's landmark use of DNA testing, takes readers on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride and concludes with a twist that rivals anything Hollywood has to offer. In the vein of a classic mystery, Hill gathers the seemingly scant evidence surrounding the circumstances of his birth. As his resolve shores up, the author also avails of new friends, genealogists, the Internet, and the latest DNA tests in the new field of genetic genealogy. As he closes in on the truth of his ancestry, he is able to construct a living, breathing portrait of the young woman who was faced with the decision to forsake her rights to her child, and ultimately the man whose identity had remained hidden for decades. Finding Family offers guidance, insight, and motivation for anyone engaged in a similar mission, from ways to obtain information to the many networks that can facilitate adoption searches. The book includes a detailed guide to DNA and genetic genealogy and how they can produce irrefutable results in determining genetic connections and help adoptees bypass sealed records and similar stumbling blocks.
Download or read book The Family Tree written by Sairish Hussain and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS’ CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF CALIBRE AUDIO’S ‘HIDDEN GEM’ AWARD ________
Download or read book Meet Your Ancestors written by Diane Marelli and published by How To Books Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to the whole process of discovering your own family history. Topics covered include searching for birth, marriage and death cerificates, census and church records, newspaper archives, and using the Internet. How to think laterally to solve mysteries, asking for help, storing your records and other useful tips.
Download or read book Ancestors and Related Families written by Carl Barnard Smith and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genealogy of the Robertson Small and Related Families written by Archibald Robertson Small and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Robertson (1752-1825) was born in Scotland, and in 1762, as an orphan, went to Ireland to live with his bachelor uncle, Gilbert Robertson. They immigrated in 1772 to Washington County, New York. William married Mary Livingston in 1775. Descendants lived throughout most of the United States.
Download or read book Ancestors and Relatives written by Eviatar Zerubavel and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eviatar Zerubavel casts a critical eye on how we trace our past—individually and collectively—arguing that rather than simply find out who our ancestors are from genetics or history, we actually create the stories that make them our ancestors.
Download or read book Fancy Nancy My Family History written by Jane O'Connor and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy wants to do an interesting school report on her ancestor. (That's fancy for a family member who lived long ago.) But will she remember to stick to the plain truth?
Download or read book Ancestors written by William Maxwell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-01-17 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award-winning author of So Long, See You Tomorrow offers an astonishing evocation of a vanished world, as he retraces, branch by branch, the history of his family, taking readers into the lives of settlers, itinerant preachers, and small businessmen, examining the way they saw their world and how they imagined the world to come.
Download or read book Ancestors written by David Hertzel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People involve their ancestors in every aspect of culture. Individuals and societies worldwide and throughout history have incorporated ancestors into rituals public and private, religious and secular. Societies often organize their aristocracies, tribes, and other kinship groups around ancestral constructions which are defined through laws and customs governing marriage, naming, guardianship, inheritance, and other social practices. Medical professionals consider ancestral information important to a patient’s diagnosis and to the study of disease; many psychiatrists consider one’s relationship to ancestors important in understanding the mental and emotional disposition of subjects. Ancestry and perceptions of ancestry frequently function as a determinant of personal, ethnic, racial, and national identity. For all its larger philosophical, medical, psychological, and religious implications, one fascinating aspect of ancestry is how passionately many people hold to ‘their own’ ancestry, and to their own perceptions of the same. In Ancestors, David Hertzel offers an introductory foray into the nature of relationships people today have with their ancestors, and explores the significance of ancestry and ancestral belief in our modern world. Guided by two questions—“who are your ancestors?” and “what is your relationship to your ancestors?”—Hertzel interviewed thirty-five elders and people of prominence within particular social or intellectual communities. Interviewees were accomplished in an area related to ancestry, its nature or its meaning, and included genealogists, geneticists, tribal chiefs and elders, researchers in some aspect of family or ancestry, family elders, and experienced practitioners or supervisors of particular ancestral rituals. Interviewees were selected from a variety of cultural backgrounds for purposes of contrast, comparison, and breadth—but they are not spokespeople and were not asked to ‘represent’ particular belief systems, doctrines, or Peoples. Rather, the interviewees describe their own personal experiences and beliefs involving ancestors. From these interviews, Hertzel identifies common themes to ancestral practices and beliefs, such as the way we sanctify our ancestors, how we create a living narrative of our ancestry, and how experiences like suffering and love are shared across generations and appear to transcend death. Excerpts from interviews serve as examples throughout his narrative exploration of the concept of ancestry; a selection of full interviews are embedded throughout the text and offer glimpses into the diversity of ways that people think about who they are and where they come from.
Download or read book A Look at Our Ancestors written by Geoffrey I. Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My European Family written by Karin Bojs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. As a science journalist she was eager to learn more about herself, her family and the interconnectedness of society. After all, we're all related. And in a sense, we are all family. My European Family tells the story of Europe and its people through its genetic legacy, from the first wave of immigration to the present day, weaving in the latest archaeological findings. Karin goes deep in search of her genealogy; by having her DNA sequenced she was able to trace the path of her ancestors back through the Viking and Bronze ages to the Neolithic and beyond into prehistory, even back to a time when Neanderthals ran the European show. Travelling to dozens of countries to follow the story, she learns about early farmers in the Middle East and flute-playing cavemen in Germany and France, and a whole host of other fascinating characters. This book looks at genetics from a uniquely pan-European perspective, with the author meeting dozens of geneticists, historians and archaeologists in the course of her research. The genes of this seemingly ordinary modern European woman have a truly fascinating story to tell, and in many ways it is the true story of Europe. At a time when politics is pushing nations apart, this book shows that, ultimately, our genes will always bind us together.
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.
