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Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (600 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This 10-part series, with the renowned cultural critic and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., delves into the genealogy and genetics of famous Americans, combining history and science in a fascinating exploration of race, family and identity in today's America. Professor Gates shakes loose captivating stories and surprises in the family trees of Kevin Bacon, Robert Downey, Jr., Branford Marsalis, John Legend, Martha Stewart, Barbara Walters and...
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Pub. Date
℗2016.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 23 cm.
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A fascinating and fully comprehensive guide to discovering your roots and unearthing the secrets of your ancestors. Contains all the information you need to get started, from how to access the relevant archives, using public record offices and searching the Internet. Clear and concise instructions on how to log and collate your family history research, and draw up a family tree.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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143 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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The best introduction to using the Internet to search for your ancestors! Quillen's Essentials of Genealogy series examines one topic per book so you can really go in-depth in the search for your ancestors. Mastering Online Genealogy covers the use of computers and the Internet to successfully do your own genealogical research. The book includes information on: genealogy databases; what they are, where they are, and how to use them; free genealogy...
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"You swab your cheek or spit in a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal long-buried family secrets and upend your entire sense of identity. Soon a lark becomes an obsession, a relentless drive to find answers to questions at the core of your being, like "Who am I?" and "Where did I come from?" Welcome...
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"An epic, hilarious, and heartfelt adventure into the idea of family--where it begins and how far it goes--and what it has to tell us about our biology and our genetics, our tribes and our traditions, and our history and our future. A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: "You don't know me, but my wife is your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database."...
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
301 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Description
Sequim is located between Washington's Olympic Mountains and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Once a major dairy farming area, Sequim has become a retirement community for people from all over the country. These 157 family histories, and many photos, show the sharp contrast between life 50 to 150 years ago and life today. This book will be a great resource for both current and future researchers because contributors were asked to include basic family genealogy....
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook.
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In the 12 fascinating lessons of Identity in the Age of Ancestral DNA, Anita Foeman, PhD, Professor of Communication and Media, and founder and primary investigator of the DNA Discussion Project at West Chester University, takes us behind the scenes to examine what really happens when individuals receive their personal DNA ancestry results. By learning about their individual and family reactions, we learn more about our own identity narratives as...
12) The Russian cage
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Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 3
Description
"Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia, and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail...
13) First peoples
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 275 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
200,000 years ago we took our first steps in Africa. Today there are seven billion of us living across the planet. How did our ancestors spread from continent to continent? This is a global detective story, featuring the latest archaeological discoveries and genetic research. On each continent, we track down the earliest members of our species, Homo sapiens. Who were these First Peoples? What drove them to the ends of the earth?
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xviii, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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"In 1838, a group of America's most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their mission, the fledgling Georgetown University. Journalist, author, and professor Rachel L. Swarns has broken new ground with her prodigious research into a history that the Catholic Church has edited out of its own narrative. Beginning in the present, when two descendants of a family enslaved by the church reconnect, Swarns follows their ancestors...
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