Do you have any famous relatives or ancestors?
I am related to Sam Houston and Henry Clay (hence my name, Mary Clay). This person is not famous, but I just found out I may be related to my best friend, Bethie. Do you like (or have you ever tried) www.ancestry.com?
Hillary Clinton, Angelina Jolie, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Louis Riel, and René Bénard de Bourjoly (the first European, as far as I can determine, to be convicted of witchcraft in North America — for casting a spell of impotence, in 1658).
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Are You Related to Someone Famous: The 7 Secrets to Discovering your Famous Relatives $5.95 “I had no idea I was related to Abraham Lincoln. The steps were easy to follow, and the results were fun to share with our family and friends.” -Angie CaplinHave you ever asked yourself the question:”Am I Related to Someone Famous?”In the past, finding your famous relatives required loads of foot work and travel to genealogical societies, city records departments, libraries and other institutions…. |
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Ancestry.com $71.7 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Ancestry.com, Inc., formerly The Generations Network, is an Internet company based in Provo, Utah, USA, and the largest forprofit genealogy company in the world. It runs a network of genealogy and familyrelated websites. In addition to its main sites, Ancestry.com, Inc., operates FamilyHistory.com, which contains free basic information, but primarily serves as a portal to Ancestry.com. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 76 Publication Date: 2010/12/19 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.18 inches |
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Ancestors and Relatives (Hardcover) $44.65 Genealogy has long been an obsession. From the Sons of Confederate Veterans to Ancestry.com, today`s family-tree researchers crowd libraries and eagerly exchange tips on Internet message boards. But with the dramatic rise of genetics, and increasing media attention through programs like Henry Louis Gates Jr.`s Faces of America, the public is now being told that genetic markers can definitively tell each of us where we came from.The problem, writes sociologist Eviatar Zerubavel, is that they don`t. Why, he asks, do we consider Barack Obama a black man, even though he has a white mother? Why did the Nazis believe that unions of Germans and Jews would produce Jews rather than Germans? Do we find any meaning in the fact that chimpanzees are genetically closer to humans than to gorillas? In this provocative book, Zerubavel presents a fresh new understanding of relatedness. Rather than a biological fact, traditions of remembering and classifying shape the way we trace our ancestors, identify our relatives, and delineate the families, ethnic groups, nations, and species to which we supposedly belong. Drawing on a wide range of cultural and historical evidence, he introduces the concepts of braiding, clipping, pasting, and stretching to shed light on how we expand and collapse genealogies to accommodate personal and collective agendas of inclusion and exclusion. Rather than simply find out who our ancestors were, we actually construct the narratives that make them our kin.There`s an old saying that you can choose your friends, but not your family. In Ancestors and Relatives, Eviatar Zerubavel argues that we do indeed choose our families, in this engaging new look at one of the most universal human concerns. |
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