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Remember Me - The Story of My Life (Hardcover): Susan Capurso Remember Me - The Story of My Life (Hardcover)
Susan Capurso
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Lose Your Mother - A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Paperback, Main): Saidiya Hartman Lose Your Mother - A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Paperback, Main)
Saidiya Hartman
R344 R326 Discovery Miles 3 260 Save R18 (5%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. In Lose Your Mother, Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. There are no known survivors of Hartman's lineage, no relatives to find. She is a stranger in search of strangers, and this fact leads her into intimate engagements with the people she encounters along the way, and with figures from the past, vividly dramatising the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and American history.

My Family Tree (Hardcover): Rebecca Yee My Family Tree (Hardcover)
Rebecca Yee
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Our Family Tree Index - A 12 Generation Genealogy Notebook for 4,095 ancestors (Hardcover): House Elves Anonymous Our Family Tree Index - A 12 Generation Genealogy Notebook for 4,095 ancestors (Hardcover)
House Elves Anonymous; Illustrated by S Zar
R1,170 R998 Discovery Miles 9 980 Save R172 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dad's Story - A Memory and Keepsake Journal for My Family (Hardcover): Korie Herold Dad's Story - A Memory and Keepsake Journal for My Family (Hardcover)
Korie Herold
R591 R486 Discovery Miles 4 860 Save R105 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The perfect gift for any dad, this keepsake memory book is a special place to record special moments, stories, and advice that you want to pass down to your children one day. Dad's Story is a guided journal thoughtfully designed to help dads of all ages write down memories that they want to preserve and share with their children and family. Designed by bestselling artist and author Korie Herold, this keepsake book provides dads with thoughtful writing prompts and plenty of journaling pages to record memories from their childhood, school years, early adulthood, and more. Show dad that you love him and want to hear more about his life with this timeless gift that's ideal for Father's Day, birthdays, or any time of year.

Life Gave Me You; I Want to Hear Your Story - A Guided Journal for Stepmothers to Share Their Life Story (Hardcover): Jeffrey... Life Gave Me You; I Want to Hear Your Story - A Guided Journal for Stepmothers to Share Their Life Story (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Mason
R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dear Grandad - Sketch Collection (Hardcover): From You To Me Dear Grandad - Sketch Collection (Hardcover)
From You To Me
R400 R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Save R25 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Have you ever wondered what your Father was like as a child? Intrigued to know about how your grand-parents met? Do you wonder what school life was like for your Mum? These are questions that lead to precious answers. Award-winning 'from you to me' Journals of a Lifetime gift range is made up of beautifully designed hard back journals - the perfect gift for every loved-one, for every occasion. Available in Dear Dad, Dear Mum, Dear Grandma, Dear Grandad, Dear Son, Dear Daughter, Dear Sister, Dear Brother, and Dear Friend. We all have our own story to tell. Each 'from you to me' gift journal contains around 60 fun and inspiring questions carefully designed to inspire your family to enjoy telling their story - to help you to find out amazing things about them.

Jumping in Cowpats (Hardcover): Chris Bicheno Jumping in Cowpats (Hardcover)
Chris Bicheno
R886 Discovery Miles 8 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A genealogical history to the present day enlivened by anecdotes of the Bicheno ancestors An eminently readable book, which is a template for anyone who might wish to write a family history, one hopes with as much humour and flair as this volume.

Researching your Family History Online In Simple Steps (Paperback): Heather Morris Researching your Family History Online In Simple Steps (Paperback)
Heather Morris
R343 R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Save R39 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This title helps the reader understand how to go about researching their family tree, starting with the basics. This practical book will have you achieving immediate results using: a friendly, visual approach simple language practical, task-based examples large, full-colour screenshots. Discover everything you want to know about using online tools and services to research your family history in this easy-to-use guide; from the most essential tasks that you'll want to perform, to solving the most common problems you'll encounter.

Power in the Blood - A Family Narrative (Hardcover): Linda Tate Power in the Blood - A Family Narrative (Hardcover)
Linda Tate
R1,808 Discovery Miles 18 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner of the Colorado Author's League Award for Creative Nonfiction A 2010 Colorado Book Awards Finalist A FEAST Ezine Best of 2009 (Nonfiction) Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate's journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives. In her search for the truth of her own past, Tate scoured archives, libraries, and courthouses throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Illinois, and Missouri, visited numerous cemeteries, and combed through census records, marriage records, court cases, local histories, old maps, and photographs. As she began to locate distant relatives - fifth, sixth, seventh cousins, all descended from her great-greatgrandmother Louisiana - they gathered in kitchens and living rooms, held family reunions, and swapped stories. A past that had long been buried slowly came to light as family members shared the pieces of the family's tale that had been passed along to them. Power in the Blood is a dramatic family history that reads like a novel, as Tate's compelling narrative reveals one mystery after another. Innovative and groundbreaking in its approach to research and storytelling, Power in the Blood shows that exploring a family story can enhance understanding of history, life, and culture and that honest examination of the past can lead to healing and liberation in the present.

From One Root Many Flowers - A Century of Family Life in China and America (Hardcover, New): Virginia C Li From One Root Many Flowers - A Century of Family Life in China and America (Hardcover, New)
Virginia C Li
R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Family history sometimes offers a glimpse of the world stage. Through the collective memories of family members a window to the past is opened and we come to know what it was like to be swept up by major events affecting whole societies. This is both the story of Li's family and a story of modern China. Virginia Li's story offers hope for the future of U.S-Chinese relations and much insight for all Americans into an ancient land, which in the 21st century is playing an increasingly important role.

Migration - From Massachusetts Bay to the Old Northwest (Hardcover): Richard Rawson Migration - From Massachusetts Bay to the Old Northwest (Hardcover)
Richard Rawson
R575 R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Champ & The Chump - A heart-warming, hilarious true story about fighting and family (Hardcover): James McNicholas The Champ & The Chump - A heart-warming, hilarious true story about fighting and family (Hardcover)
James McNicholas
R727 Discovery Miles 7 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

**Winner of Best Sports Entertainment book at the British Sports Book Awards 2022** 'Hard-hitting and hilarious' - James Acaster 'Funny, moving and compelling' - Mike Costello A heart-warming, hilarious true story about fighting and family, based on the acclaimed stage show. For fans of books by Dave Gorman, James Acaster and Danny Wallace, along with boxing tales from the likes of Tyson Fury and Ricky Hatton. THE CHAMP Terry Downes - the charismatic cockney known as 'The Paddington Express' - was a world champion boxer, US Marine, gangsters' favourite and later a film star and businessman. THE CHUMP James McNicholas' PE teacher once told him he was so unfit he'd be dead by the time he was 23. James has spent his life pursuing a career in acting and comedy. In reality, that has meant stints as a car park caretaker and river cruise salesperson. After Terry's death, James finds himself in reflective mood, comparing his story of underachievement against that of his world champ grandad. What follows is an increasingly colourful journey through post-war Paddington to the blood-soaked canvases of Baltimore and Shoreditch, via Mayfair parties with the Krays. Along the way, James begins to dig into his own story, confronting the dysfunctional elements of his childhood, describing his often hilarious efforts to make it in the world of showbiz, and attempting to recreate Terry's trials by enlisting in a brutal military boot camp and boxing gym. When James is diagnosed with a frightening and mysterious neurological condition, the two tales of the fighter and the writer suddenly collide, and what began as a nostalgic journey takes on a far more important significance altogether. 'A wonderfully funny and heartfelt story of what family and lineage means. Even made me like boxing' - Josh Widdicombe 'An extraordinary family history, told with warmth and wit. Two remarkable underdog stories - come for the cockney scrapper who conquered the world, stay for the grandson and the fight of his life' - Greg Jenner 'If you like comedy and boxing this is the perfect book. James McNicholas is a very funny man and a brilliant writer' - Rob Beckett

A Mind of Her Own - Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982 (Hardcover): Helen L Laird A Mind of Her Own - Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982 (Hardcover)
Helen L Laird
R1,005 Discovery Miles 10 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888 - 1982 captures the public achievement and private pain of a remarkable Wisconsin woman and her family, whose interests and influence extended well beyond the borders of the state. The eldest child of William Duncan Connor, a major figure in Wisconsin's emerging hardwood lumber industry and its turbulent turn-of-the-century political scene, Helen Connor Laird spent almost her entire ninety-three years in central and northern Wisconsin. Nevertheless, her voracious reading and probing mind connected her to the world. Her early life in frontier communities, home influences, Presbyterian background, and education, as well as the talents she recognized in herself, impelled her to lead. Marriage, duty, and four sons did not stem that desire. By the time her third child, Melvin R Laird Jr, became secretary of defense in 1969, she had served in leadership positions in her community, district, and state. While business absorbed her competitive family, her own interests lay elsewhere: in politics and education. Throughout her life, she kept records of the evolving world she and her family inhabited, and of her own emotional states. ""Remember, we are all lonely,"" the ""closet poet"" said. Spanning almost a century, the family's history speaks to the way we were and are: a stridently materialistic nation with a deep and persistent spiritual component.

Kinship - It's All Relative. Enlarged Second Edition (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Jackie Smith Arnold Kinship - It's All Relative. Enlarged Second Edition (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Jackie Smith Arnold
R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
My Father's People (Hardcover): Brian C. Luxton My Father's People (Hardcover)
Brian C. Luxton
R1,646 Discovery Miles 16 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Who am I? What are my roots?' These are questions that people ask at sometime in their lives.In "My Father's People" the author tells of his search for his Luxton ancestors. He writes about the origins of the Luxtons in fifteenth and sixteenth century Winkleigh and Brushford in Devon before tracing his own branch of the family at Frogpit Moor, Petton, Bampton from the early eighteenth century. His search took him to the beautiful sylvan villages of Clayhanger, Petton, Morebath, Skilgate,Raddington and Chipstaple and Upton in the foothills of Exmoor on the Devon and Somerset border. They are places he had never heard of and would never have visited if it had not been for the fact he was bitten by the family tree bug! He says,"The journey has taught me a great deal about my ancestors and I have learnt a lot about myself in the process. It's a journey I think we all need to make."

The Campbells - The Origins of the Clan Campbell and Their Place in History (Paperback): John Mackay The Campbells - The Origins of the Clan Campbell and Their Place in History (Paperback)
John Mackay
R123 R110 Discovery Miles 1 100 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Hatfields and the McCoys (Hardcover): Otis K. Rice The Hatfields and the McCoys (Hardcover)
Otis K. Rice
R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been the most famous vendetta of the southern Appalachians. Over the years it has become encrusted with myth and error. Scores of writers have produced accounts of it, but few have made any real effort to separate fact from fiction. Novelists, motion picture producers, television script writers, and others have sensationalized events that needed no embellishment. Using court records, public documents, official correspondence, and other documentary evident, Otis K. Rice presents an account that frees, as much as possible, fact from fiction, event from legend. He weighs the evidence carefully, avoiding the partisanship and the attitude of condescension and condemnation that have characterized many of the writings concerning the feud. He sets the feud in the social, political, economic, and cultural context of eastern Kentucky and southwestern West Virginia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By examining the legacy of the Civil War, the weakness of institutions such as the church and education system, the exaggerated importance of family, the impotence of the law, and the isolation of the mountain folk, Rice gives new meaning to the origins and progress of the feud. These conditions help explain why the Hatfield and McCoy families, which have produced so many fine citizens, could engage in such a bitter and prolonged vendetta

Beth (Hardcover): Faye Bryant Beth (Hardcover)
Faye Bryant
R759 Discovery Miles 7 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Thomas Family Of St. Albans, West Virginia - A Family History (Hardcover): Bob Thomas The Thomas Family Of St. Albans, West Virginia - A Family History (Hardcover)
Bob Thomas
R618 R561 Discovery Miles 5 610 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The history of the Thomas family mirrors the history, struggles, and successes of America. Starting in the 1600s, my ancestors came from Europe and helped settle and build the country; fought in the battles that defined the nation; lost their jobs in the Great Depression, and then enjoyed the prosperity of 20th century America. Along the way was a soldier who fought with George Washington in Braddock's Expedition; four veterans of the American Revolution; a father and son who served on opposite sides during the Civil War, and the engineer who kept the Washington Monument running in it's early days. This book, a family history of my parents and their ancestors, tells their stories and presents the lineage of my family.

My Mother's Life, Volume 5 - Mom, I Want to Know Everything About You - Give to Your Mother to Fill in with Her Memories... My Mother's Life, Volume 5 - Mom, I Want to Know Everything About You - Give to Your Mother to Fill in with Her Memories and Return to You as a Keepsake (Paperback)
Editors of Chartwell Books
R473 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R59 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Family Tree Toolkit - A Comprehensive Guide to Uncovering Your Ancestry and Researching Genealogy (Paperback): Kenyatta D... The Family Tree Toolkit - A Comprehensive Guide to Uncovering Your Ancestry and Researching Genealogy (Paperback)
Kenyatta D Berry
R560 Discovery Miles 5 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The popularity of studying our family history has been fueled by popular TV shows like Genealogy Roadshow, Finding Your Roots, and Who Do You Think You Are? The ability to access records online has opened up the one time hobby for genealogy enthusiasts to the mainstream. Companies like Ancestry.com, Familysearch.org, Findmypast.com, and MyHeritage have spent millions of dollars making records available around the world. DNA technology continues to evolve and provides the instant gratification that we have become use to as a society. But then the question remains, what does that really mean? Knowing your ancestry is more than just ethnic percentages it's about creating and building a story about your family history. The Family Tree Toolkit is designed to help you navigate the sometimes overwhelming and sometimes treacherous waters of finding your ancestors. Here is a roadmap to help you on this journey of discovery, whether you are looking for your African Asian, European, or Jewish ancestry. The Family Tree Toolkit guides you on how and where to begin, what records are available both online and in repositories, what to do once you find the information, how to share your story and of course DNA discoveries.

Vuur in Sy Vingers - Die Verreikende Invloed van NP van Wyk Louw (Afrikaans, Paperback): Ampie Muller, Beverley Roos-Muller Vuur in Sy Vingers - Die Verreikende Invloed van NP van Wyk Louw (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Ampie Muller, Beverley Roos-Muller
R261 Discovery Miles 2 610 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Family History Record Book - An 8-generation family tree workbook to record your research (Hardcover): Heritage Hunter Family History Record Book - An 8-generation family tree workbook to record your research (Hardcover)
Heritage Hunter
R627 Discovery Miles 6 270 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Matej's Legacy - A Czech Family's Journey Through The 20th Century (Hardcover): Donald F. Chmelka Matej's Legacy - A Czech Family's Journey Through The 20th Century (Hardcover)
Donald F. Chmelka
R773 Discovery Miles 7 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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