Ancestry

Author : Spencer Wells
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781426202117

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Deep Ancestry by Spencer Wells Pdf

Travel backward through time from today's scattered billions to the handful of early humans who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago and are ancestors to us all. In Deep Ancestry, scientist and National Geographic explorer Spencer Wells shows how tiny genetic changes add up over time into a fascinating story. Using scores of real-life examples, helpful analogies, and detailed diagrams and illustrations, he explains exactly how each and every individual's DNA contributes another piece to the jigsaw puzzle of human history. The book takes readers inside the Genographic Project—the landmark study now assembling the world's largest collection of DNA samples and employing the latest in testing technology and computer analysis to examine hundreds of thousand of genetic profiles from all over the globe—and invites us all to take part.

Author : Simon Mawer
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635423204

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Ancestry by Simon Mawer Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room brings a slice of his own family history to life through extensive research and rich storytelling. Beginning with his great-great-grandfather Abraham Block, acclaimed novelist Simon Mawer sifts through evidence like an archaeologist, piecing together the stories of his ancestors. Illiterate and lacking opportunity in the bleak Suffolk village where his parents worked as agricultural laborers, Abraham leaves home at fifteen, in 1847. He signs away the next five years in an indenture aboard a ship, which will circuitously lead him to London and well beyond, to far-flung ports on the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. In London he crosses paths with Naomi Lulham, a young seamstress likewise seeking a better life in the city, with all its prospects and temptations. Another branch of the family tree comes together in 1847, in Manchester, as soldier George Mawer weds his Irish bride Ann Scanlon—Annie—before embarking with his regiment. When he is called to fight in the Crimean War, Annie must fend for herself and her children on a meager income, navigating an often hostile world as a woman alone. With a keen eye and a nuanced consideration of the limits of what we can know about the past, Mawer paints a compelling, intimate portrait of life in the nineteenth century.

Author : George G. Morgan
Publisher : Ancestry.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : 1593313047

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The Official Guide to Ancestry.com by George G. Morgan Pdf

You know that Ancestry.com is the #1 website for family history research. Now, let author and family history lecturer George G. Morgan take you on a detailed tour through the site's many exciting features. Learn how to search for your ancestors, explore thousands of databases, organize and share your research in dynamic family trees, and join a worldwide community of family historians.

Author : Sairish Hussain
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008297473

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The Family Tree by Sairish Hussain Pdf

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 ________

Author : James J. Fox,Clifford Sather
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781920942878

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Origins, Ancestry and Alliance by James J. Fox,Clifford Sather Pdf

This collection of papers, the third in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project, explores indigenous Austronesian ideas of origin, ancestry and alliance and considers the comparative significance of these ideas in social practice. The papers examine social practice in a diverse range of societies extending from insular Southeast Asia to the islands of the Pacific.

Author : Nancy Hendrickson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781440336263

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Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com by Nancy Hendrickson Pdf

Master the world's #1 genealogy website and discover the secrets to Ancestry.com success! This book, updated in 2016 to include the most recent changes to the site, will help you get the most out of your Ancestry.com subscription by showing you how to take advantage of all the world's biggest genealogy website has to offer--and how to find answers to your family tree questions within its 14 billion records, 60 million family tree and 32,000 databases. What you'll learn: • Step-by-step strategies for structuring your searches to find what you're looking for faster • How to drill down to specific records, time periods and topics using the card catalog • Details on each of Ancestry.com's historical record collections, including what you can expect to find in them--and when you need to look elsewhere • Tips for creating and managing your family tree on Ancestry.com, as well as connecting your tree to others on the site • Timesaving tricks to maximize your Ancestry.com Hints (the "shaky leaf"), Tree Sync with Family Tree Maker, and the Ancestry.com mobile app Each chapter includes step-by-step examples with illustrations to show you exactly how to apply the techniques to your genealogy. Whether you've just begun dabbling in family history or you're a longtime Ancestry.com subscriber, this book will turn you into an Ancestry.com power user!

Author : Karen A. Crook,Carolyn Hay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210024732594

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Do You Know which 1990 Products Contain Data on Ancestry? by Karen A. Crook,Carolyn Hay Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0788106201

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Ancestry of the Population of the U. S. by Anonim Pdf

Presents U.S.-level data on selected ancestry groups by nativity, citizenship, and year of entry. Tables show data on such subjects as household size, household type and relationship, unmarried-partner households, ability to speak English, educational attainment, labor force status, occupation, income, gross rent, mortgage status, and selected monthly owner costs. 100s of charts and tables.

Author : George G. Morgan
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781618589866

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Official Guide to Ancestry.com, 2nd edition by George G. Morgan Pdf

Whether you are coming to Ancestry.com for the first time or have used it for years, you need The Official Guide to Ancestry.com. Written by noted genealogist and lecturer George G. Morgan, this official guide takes you inside the #1 website for family history research for an unprecedented tour. This second edition includes chapters on the new search at Ancestry, MyCanvas, and Ancestry DNA. In addition, it helps you create and develop your own Family Tree, explore obscure databases you didn't know existed, and more. You've always known Ancestry.com was a valuable resource. Now you can learn to use it like never before.

Author : Jonathan Owens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027218346

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Neighborhood and Ancestry by Jonathan Owens Pdf

Over the past 35 years urban sociolinguistics has developed upon the base of detailed case studies carried out mainly in western countries. A fundamental dichotomy informing the interpretation of variation has been carried out within what is termed the “standard-vernacular model”. Higher vs. lower social class, power vs. solidarity, open networks vs. closed networks are a few of the conceptual dyads which have been invoked to order linguistic variation operating with an input from a standard/vernacular source. The present study, based on the spoken Arabic of Maiduguri, Nigeria, focuses on a linguistic landscape where the notions of “standard” and “vernacular” are of little relevance in ordering urban linguistic variants. It is argued that linguistic variation is best conceptualized and ordered in terms of the twin variables of neighborhood and ancestral norms. A detailed analysis of 13 linguistic variables based on a corpus of about 500,000 words invokes an urban linguistic world different from that in the West. To integrate this landscape into current sociolinguistic thinking a typology of urban variation is outlined using familar, yet relatively unutilized sociolinguistic parameters: neighborhood, ancestry, minority status and institutionalization.

Author : Stéphane Jettot
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192690746

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Selling Ancestry by Stéphane Jettot Pdf

Often cited but rarely studied in their own right, family directories allow a reconsideration of how ancestry and genealogy became an object of widespread commercialization across the eighteenth century. These directories replaced the expensive, locally-produced, early modern artefacts (tombs, windowpanes, illuminated pedigrees), and began to reach a wide audience of readers in the British Isles and the colonies. From the first Peerage in 1709 to the guidebooks of Debrett's and Burke's in the 1830s, Stéphane Jettot offers an insight into the cumulative process leading to the creation of these hybrid products — a combination of court almanacs, county histories, and town directories. Employed by contemporaries as reference tools to navigate through a dynamic and changing society, they could be used as a means to probe contemporary attitudes towards social status and political events. Published by the most prominent London booksellers who shared their copyrights among themselves, they relied on the considerable involvement of thousands of families in the counties. In their correspondence with publishers, many new and old elites desired to insert their own narrative into a general history of Britain by dispatching documents, quotations, and anecdotes. Based on a unique source-base, this book provides a systematic review of these directories, their production, and sale, but also their potential role in shaping the character of social change. Jettot demonstrates the wider ramifications of genealogy and its structural ability to reinvent itself, associate amateurs and antiquarians alike, and thrive on the wavering lines between facts and fiction, offering an exciting and unique insight into the social history of eighteenth-century Britain.

Author : Leilani Holmes
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824867720

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Ancestry of Experience by Leilani Holmes Pdf

As Hawaiians continue to recover their language and culture, the voices of kupuna (elders) are heard once again in urban and rural settings, both in Hawai‘i and elsewhere. How do kupuna create knowledge and “tell” history? What do they tell us about being Hawaiian? Adopted by a Midwestern couple in the 1950s as an infant, Leilani Holmes spent much of her early life in settings that offered no clues about her Hawaiian past—images of which continued to haunt her even as she completed a master’s thesis on Hawaiian music and identity in southern California. Ancestry of Experience documents Holmes’ quest to reclaim and understand her own origin story. Holmes writes in two different and at times incongruent voices—one describing the search for her genealogy, the other critiquing Western epistemologies she encounters along the way. In the course of her journey, she finds that Hawaiian oral tradition links identity to the land (‘aina) through ancestry, while traditional, scholarly theories of knowing (particularly political economy and the discourse of the invention of tradition) textually obliterate land and ancestry. In interviews with kupuna, Holmes learns of the connectedness of spirituality and ‘aina; through her study and practice of hula kahiko comes an understanding of ancient hula as a conversation between ‘aina and the dancer’s body that has the power to activate historical memory. Holmes’ experience has special relevance for indigenous adoptees and indigenous scholars: Both are distanced from the knowledge agendas and strategies of their communities and are tasked to speak in languages ill-suited to the telling of their own stories and those of their ancestors. In addition to those with an interest in Hawaiian knowledge and culture, Ancestry of Experience will appeal to readers of memoirs of identity, academic and personal accounts of racial identity formation, and works of indigenous epistemologies. A website (www.ancestryofexperience.com) will include supplementary material.

Author : TC Cottrell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780359752683

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Cottrell-Lashbrook-Brashear-Campbell Family Lineage Volume I Cottrell Ancestry by TC Cottrell Pdf

In This four volume set the author traces his Cottrell, Lashbrook, Brashear, and Campbell Family Lineage from Europe to the present day. Details on descendants of each generation is carried down through at least four descendant generations when known. Volume I and II cover the author's Father's beginnings (Cottrell and Lashbrook Lines). Volume III and IV cover the author's Mother's beginnings (Brashear and Campbell Lines). Sources are extensively documented. Timeline and ancestor charts are also included as well an "all name" index for each volume that provides page number references for each individual found in the respective volume. This Volume (Volume I) traces the author's Cottrell ancestry to William Cottrell who was born around 1615 in Stockport, England. William's son Thomas Cottrell, the author's seventh great-grandfather, who was also born in Stockport in 1635 was the first Cottrell in the author's lineage to immigrate to the New World and settle in New Kent County, Virginia.

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Hispanic Americans
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173025367939

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Data on the Spanish Ancestry Population Available from the 1970 Census of Population and Housing by United States. Bureau of the Census Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Douglas Richardson
Page : 2352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781461045137

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Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011 by Anonim Pdf