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Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours > Family history
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
**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
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.
'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 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
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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.
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.
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