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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1101029086 Title: The genealogical sublime Author: Julia Creet Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020] ISBN/ISSN: 9781625344793 1625344791 9781625344809 1625344805 OCLC:1101029086

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The genealogical sublime

Author:	Julia Creet
Publisher:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
Series:	Public history in historical perspective.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"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 Read more...
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Subjects	Genealogy -- Computer network resources. Genealogy -- Databases -- History. Genealogy -- Databases.
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Genre/Form:	History
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Julia Creet Find more information about:
ISBN:	9781625344793 1625344791 9781625344809 1625344805
OCLC Number:	1101029086
Description:	ix, 204 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Contents:	CONFUCIUS: The Oldest Genealogy in the World -- THE MORMONS: Doctrine and Data -- ANCESTRY.INC -- ICELAND: End Games -- GENETIC GENEALOGY: The Double Helix of Inheritance -- THE NEW NATIVE: Sublime Percentages of Self and Belonging -- THE GENEALOGICAL SUBLIME: We Are All Related.
Series Title:	Public history in historical perspective.
Responsibility:	Julia Creet.

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Traces the histories of the largest, most lucrative, and rapidly growing genealogical databases to delineate a broader history of the industry. As each unique case study reveals, new database and DNA Read more...

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An engaging overview of the growth and resourcing of family history in North America."-Jerome de Groot, author of Consuming History: Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture

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