Family Tree: The History of Our Family - Hardcover

Rockwell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0865222509 ISBN 13: 9780865222502

Publisher: Bookthrift Co, 1981

Synopsis

The joys of genealogy: An introduction. A pirate on your family tree? A duke or an earl? It's not likely nor is it likely that you will prove yourself heir to a fortune or gain an impressive coat of arms. The unknown-to-you ancestors that you discover when you become an amateur genealogist are almost certain to be farmers, small businessmen or craftsmen who lived and died in relative obscurity, either in the eastern U.S. or, if you go back further, in Europe. That's because most of the men and women who settled this continent were ordinary hard-working people, poor in purse but well endowed with energy and ambition. (Few pirates settled down to produce sons and daughters; few dukes and earls left the comforts of their ancestral estates to establish new homes in the American wilderness.) Why bother, then, to find out who those ancestors were? You will understand, once you begin family-tree-climbing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bookthrift Co
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0865222509
• ISBN 13: 9780865222502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 127