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Ancestors
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 14.95The National Book Award-winning author of So Long, See You Tomorrow offers an astonishing evocation of a vanished world, as he retraces, branch by branch, the history of his family, taking readers into the lives of settlers, itinerant preachers, and small businessmen, examining the way they saw their world and how they imagined the world to come. ... more...
Name Your Baby
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 5.99From Abigail to Zachary, the most complete book of its kind, with more than 10,000 names! Inside this book: - Accurate meanings for each name - Its country of origin - The historical and literary figures who make it famous - The root word for each name - Nicknames and variations plus The Special Astrology section that reveals your baby's character,... more...
Discover Your Roots
Infinite Ideas 2006; US$ 9.95Finding out about your ancestors and family history is now easier than ever. You can search on the internet, or employ a professional genealogist to do the digging for you, but doing it yourself is often the most rewarding and fascinating method. This however can still be a confusing and complicated business, so where is the best place to start? In... more...
Ethnic Genealogy
ABC-CLIO 1983; US$ 112.95"[This work] will be useful to librarians, to genealogists, and to persons searching American Indian, Asian-American, black American, and Hispanic-American ancestries. . . . Family researchers or librarians will find this comprehensive, user-friendly work invaluable." Reference Books Bulletin more...
A Dictionary of First Names
OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 16.99The fascinating and informative Dictionary of First Names covers over 6,000 names in common use in English, including the very newest names as well as traditional names. From Alice to Zanna and Adam to Zola this book will answer all your questions: it will tell you the age, origin, and meaning of the name, as well as how it has fared in terms of popularity,... more...
Discover Your Scottish Ancestry
Edinburgh University Press 2009; US$ 105.00This illuminating guide to discovering your Scottish family history has been fully revised and updated to take account of changes to resources and methods for researching your Scottish ancestry over the last few years. Accessible in style and comprehensive in coverage, this new edition stresses the importance of traditional methods of family history... more...
Shaking the Family Tree
Touchstone 2010; US$ 14.99?WHO ARE YOU AND WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? ? As a historian, Buzzy Jackson thought she knew the answers to these simple questions?that is, until she took a look at her scrawny family tree. With a name like Jackson (the twentieth most common American surname), she knew she must have more relatives and more family history out there, somewhere. Her... more...
The Bronfmans
St. Martin's Press 2007; US$ 7.99The story of the Bronfman family is a fascinating and improbable saga. It is dominated by ?Mr. Sam,? the single greatest figure in the history of the liquor business, the man who made drinking whiskey respectable in the United States and who in the 1950s and 1960s built Seagram into the first worldwide empire in wine and spirits. After... more...
Canada from Afar
Dundurn 1996; US$ 16.99Canada From Afar is the fruit of the remarkable flowering of obituary writing in the London Daily Telegraph during the past ten years. These lively portraits of Canadians are informed, witty, sometimes quirky, occasionally iconoclastic.They include royal courtiers, politicians, businessmen, soldiers, sailors, airmen, scientists, explorers, novelists,... more...
Christian Names in Local and Family History
Dundurn 2004; US$ 14.99This groundbreaking work challenges assumptions on the frequency of first names and shows that they can be significant in tracing genealogies or studying communities. more...









