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The Genealogical Sublime (Paperback)
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The Genealogical Sublime (Paperback)
Series: Public History in Historical Perspective
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Since the early 2000s, genealogy has become a lucrative business,
an accelerating online industry, a massive data mining project, and
fodder for reality television. But the fact remains that our
contemporary fascination with family history cannot be understood
independently of the powerful technological tools that aid and abet
in the search for traces of blood, belonging, and difference.In The
Genealogical Sublime, Julia Creet traces the histories of the
largest, longest-running, most lucrative, and most rapidly growing
genealogical databases to delineate a broader history of the
industry. As each unique case study reveals, new database and DNA
technologies enable an obsessive completeness -- the desire to
gather all of the world's genealogical records in the interests of
life beyond death. Archival research and firsthand interviews with
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officials, key industry
players (including Ancestry.com founders and Family Search
executives), and professional and amateur family historians round
out this timely and essential study.
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