Download or read book Shaking the Family Tree written by Irene M. Shreve and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thomas Macy was born in Chilmark, Wiltshire Parish, England in 1608. His wife was Sara Hopcott, born there in 1612"--Page 9. He came from England in 1635 and settled in Salisbury, Mass. He and his family moved to Nantucket Island in 1659 and were the first white settlers on the island. Descendants lived in New York, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, North Carolina, Illinois, Colorado, California and elsewhere.
Download or read book Shaking the Family Tree written by Buzzy Jackson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “WHO ARE YOU AND WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? ” As a historian, Buzzy Jackson thought she knew the answers to these simple questions—that is, until she took a look at her scrawny family tree. With a name like Jackson (the twentieth most common American surname), she knew she must have more relatives and more family history out there, somewhere. Her first visit to the Boulder Genealogy Society brought her more questions than answers . . . but it also gave her a tantalizing peek into the fascinating (and enormous) community of family-tree huggers and after-hours Alex Haleys. In Shaking the Family Tree, Jackson dives headfirst into her family gene pool: flying cross-country to locate an ancient family graveyard, embarking on a weeklong genealogy Caribbean cruise, and even submitting her DNA for testing to try to find her Jacksons. And in the process of researching her own family lore (Who was Bullwhip Jackson?) she meets legions of other genealogy buffs who are as interesting as they are driven—from the boy who saved his allowance so he could order his great-grandfather’s death certificate to the woman who spends her free time documenting the cemeteries of Colorado ghost towns. Through Jackson’s research she connects with distant relatives, traces her roots back more than 250 years and in the process comes to discover—genetically, historically, and emotionally—the true meaning of “family” for herself.
Download or read book Shaking the Family Tree written by Mark T. Bradbury and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shaking the Family Tree written by Lewis Turco and published by Bordighera Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonfiction. "For those of us who have followed Lewis Turco's inventive and engaging poems over the years, SHAKING THE FAMILY TREE is a welcome revelation. His reminiscences of youth and family offer warmth and insights into a body of work that tracks his coming to terms with a heritage and legacy of veracity. One can see one's own self in the events and situations he so carefully describes. For those who may be introduced to Turco by these accounts, they offer a valuable guide to an always lively, changing, and challenging writer" -Jerome Mazzaro, University of California, Davis.
Download or read book Shaking the Family Tree written by Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo and published by Anvil Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shaking Our Family Tree written by Eugenia W. Bell and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shaking the Sugar Tree written by Nick Wilgus and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wise-cracking Wiley Cantrell is loud and roaringly outrageous -- and he needs to be to keep his deeply religious neighbors and family in the Deep South at bay. A failed writer on food stamps, Wiley works a minimum wage job and barely manages to keep himself and his deaf son, Noah, more than a stone’s throw away from Dumpster-diving. Noah was a meth baby and has the birth defects to prove it. He sees how lonely his father is and tries to help him find a boyfriend while Wiley struggles to help Noah have a relationship with his incarcerated mother, who believes the best way to feed a child is with a slingshot. No wonder Noah becomes Wiley’s biggest supporter when Boston nurse Jackson Ledbetter walks past Wiley’s cash register and sets his sugar tree on fire. Jackson falls like a wet mule wearing concrete boots for Wiley’s sense of humor. And while Wiley represents much of the best of the South, Jackson is hiding a secret that could threaten this new family in the making. When North meets South, the cultural misunderstandings are many, but so are the laughs, and the tears, but, as they say down in Dixie, it’s all good.
Download or read book Shaking the Family Tree written by William Maas and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you shake this writer¿s family tree, stories come tumbling down, like the gold, purple, red and brown leaves in the fall in his hometown of Iowa City, Iowa. These stories have been repeated hundreds of times over the decades of his life. Like mighty oak trees they have been pruned, trimmed, fertilized, and rained upon. They¿ve been standing for many years.
Download or read book Shaking the Family Tree written by Louis Fulton Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shaking Your Family Tree Workbook written by Maureen Elizabeth McHugh and published by Yankee Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This workbook is designed to complement the basic guidebook to tracing your family's genealogy, Shaking Your Family Tree. Step-by-step directions show how to log in all the facts -- good and bad -- on more than 20 basic forms that are reprinted in this workbook.
Download or read book Shaking My Tree written by Faye Walker Howell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After Alex Haley s "Roots" aired on television, I thought to myself, how interesting it would be for me to research my family s history. I thought everyone should be interested in his or her ancestral past. After watching this soul stirring saga about an African American tracing his roots all the way back to Africa, and to the tribe from which he descended. I was so intrigued that I thought, if Alex Haley could do it, so can I. It was such a comfort to discover my fore parents migration pattern and how many of them lived as sharecroppers."
Download or read book Shaking Your Family Tree written by Ralph J. Crandall and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It s All Relative written by A.J. Jacobs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: “You don’t know me, but I’m your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database.” And so begins A.J. Jacobs’s quest to build the biggest family tree in history. In an era of us-versus-them thinking, this book is a hilarious, heartfelt and profound exploration of what binds us all – where family begins, how far it goes, and the science that is revolutionizing the way we think about ethnicity, history and the human species. This book is about A.J. Jacobs’s family. But it’s also about your family. Because it is the same family.
Download or read book Shaking the Money Tree written by Mary Pat Mullaney and published by Apple. This book was released on 1991 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kate Gormley and her family have to leave their farm and move to Cincinnati, Kate has trouble adjusting to her new life and getting along with Freddie and Juanita Wolcott, the neighborhood bullies, until she finds the special message her grandfatherh
Download or read book Shaking Your Family Tree written by Myra Vanderpool Gormley and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shaking the Bats Out of the Family Tree written by Louise Masterson Pierce and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Family Tree written by Karen Branan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, the provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912—written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them. Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctions the lynching of a black woman and three black men, all of them innocent. For Karen Branan, the great-granddaughter of that sheriff, this isn’t just history, this is family history. Branan spent nearly twenty years combing through diaries and letters, hunting for clues in libraries and archives throughout the United States, and interviewing community elders to piece together the events and motives that led a group of people to murder four of their fellow citizens in such a brutal public display. Her research revealed surprising new insights into the day-to-day reality of race relations in the Jim Crow–era South, but what she ultimately discovered was far more personal. As she dug into the past, Branan was forced to confront her own deep-rooted beliefs surrounding race and family, a process that came to a head when Branan learned a shocking truth: she is related not only to the sheriff, but also to one of the four who were murdered. Both identities—perpetrator and victim—are her inheritance to bear. A gripping story of privilege and power, anger, and atonement, The Family Tree transports readers to a small Southern town steeped in racial tension and bound by powerful family ties. Branan takes us back in time to the Civil War, demonstrating how plantation politics and the Lost Cause movement set the stage for the fiery racial dynamics of the twentieth century, delving into the prevalence of mob rule, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the role of miscegenation in an unceasing cycle of bigotry. Through all of this, what emerges is a searing examination of the violence that occurred on that awful day in 1912—the echoes of which still resound today—and the knowledge that it is only through facing our ugliest truths that we can move forward to a place of understanding.
