Download or read book Steeped in Blood written by Frances J. Latchford and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What personal truths reside in biological ties that are absent in adoptive ties? And why do we think adoptive and biological ties are essentially different when it comes to understanding who we are? At a time when interest in DNA and ancestry is exploding, Frances Latchford questions the idea that knowing one's bio-genealogy is integral to personal identity or a sense of family and belonging. Upending our established values and beliefs about what makes a family, Steeped in Blood examines the social and political devaluation of adoptive ties. It takes readers on an intellectual journey through accepted wisdom about adoption, twins, kinship, and incest, and challenges our naturalistic and individualistic assumptions about identity and the biological ties that bind us, sometimes violently, to our families. Latchford exposes how our desire for bio-genealogical knowledge, understood as it is by family and adoption experts, pathologizes adoptees by posing the biological tie as a necessary condition for normal identity formation. Rejecting the idea that a love of the self-same is fundamental to family bonds, her book is a reaction to the wounds families suffer whenever they dare to revel in their difference. A rejoinder to rhetoric that defines adoptees, adoptive kin, and their family intimacies as inferior and inauthentic, Steeped in Blood's view through the lens of critical adoption studies decentres our cultural obsession with the biological family imaginary and makes real the possibility of being family in the absence of blood.
Download or read book The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities History and Biography of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes and Queries a Medium of Inter communication for Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genealogical Notes on the Family of John Hartz 1801 1882 also Known as Hatts Hatz Hotz Holtz Hutz and Catharine Hershey 1807 1874 of Dauphin Lebanon County Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes and Queries Historical and Genealogical written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sealed and Secret Kinship written by Judith S. Modell and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoption is a controversial subject in the United States, particularly in the last 30 years. Why that is and how public attention affects the decisions made by those who arrange, legalise and experience adoption forms the subject of this book.
Download or read book Family Matters written by E. Wayne Carp and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family Matters cuts through the sealed records, changing policies, and conflicting agendas that have obscured the history of adoption in America and reveals how the practice and attitudes about it have evolved from colonial days to the present.
Download or read book The Epistle written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Nation of Descendants written by Francesca Morgan and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From family trees written in early American bibles to birther conspiracy theories, genealogy has always mattered in the United States, whether for taking stock of kin when organizing a family reunion or drawing on membership—by blood or other means—to claim rights to land, inheritances, and more. And since the advent of DNA kits that purportedly trace genealogical relations through genetics, millions of people have used them to learn about their medical histories, biological parentage, and ethnic background. A Nation of Descendants traces Americans' fascination with tracking family lineage through three centuries. Francesca Morgan examines how specific groups throughout history grappled with finding and recording their forebears, focusing on Anglo-American white, Mormon, African American, Jewish, and Native American people. Morgan also describes how individuals and researchers use genealogy for personal and scholarly purposes, and she explores how local businesspeople, companies like Ancestry.com, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Finding Your Roots series powered the commercialization and commodification of genealogy.
Download or read book The Lyon Office and the Marjoribanks Family written by Joseph Foster and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Genealogical Index of the Newberry Library Chicago written by Newberry Library and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters from Bruce County written by Dean Wheaton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters from Bruce County documents an English familys 1835 immigration to Ontario where they became pioneers in the unsettled bush. The parents of this family just happen to be the authors great great grandparents, Joseph and Susannah Bacon. The letters were written from Bruce County, Ontario in 1881 and 1882 by Joseph some years after Susannahs death to his son and daughter-in-law, Henry and Elizabeth Couch Bacon, then in Resort Township, Emmet County, Michigan. Henry and Elizabeth are the authors great grandparents. Joseph and Susannah never left Ontario but seven of their eleven children did. Letters is in three parts. Part I has copies of the original letters with printed as written and edited versions annotated to explain what and who Joseph is writing about. Part II is a narrative of the family in England where eight of the eleven children were born, about their immigration and their pioneering in the unsettled Ontario wilderness first in Arthur Township, Waterloo/Wellington Counties and finally in Brant Township, Bruce County. Also included are short synopses of their eleven children. Part III is a three generation modified register genealogy of the family documented with primary source references. The author is indebted to many cousins who are also descendants of Joseph and Susannah and who have contributed information which makes this book more complete.
Download or read book Genealogical Index written by Newberry Library and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
