Family History | Family History
Oct.14.2009
While other guidebooks to online genealogy provide a multitude of Web sites, none of them tells readers how to use and analyze the sites themselves.
Finding Your Roots Online is the first to offer readers a step-by-step reference, using real examples, for using the Internet effectively in...
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Jul.07.2009
"I like the wide sweep of it. There are many mysteries between father and son that people don't talk about... There's much leaping, but each line, so to speak, steps firmly on something solid. The father figure comes through consistently, there's a lot of buoyancy, and the son is consistent...
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Jul.07.2009
A Comprehensive guidance on the wealth of governmental, religious and more obscure records available to the family history sleuth. The book was updated in Autumn 2008.
- Useful advice on how to expand and reinvigorate a search when the trail runs cold.
- Tips on using the Internet as both a...
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Nov.17.2008
Opera singer Gerda Christensen Fiske was born in 1916 to Danish immigrants, and raised in New York City. Her father, a poet and philosopher, and her mother, a suffragist, encouraged her interests in writing and the arts. Her beloved husband, writer and photographer A. Richard Fiske, also inspired...
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Jun.22.2008
The endless conflict between sameness and difference is at the heart of Michael Lowenthal's novel The Same Embrace, in which identical twins Jacob and Jonathan battle themselves and one another to become individuals even as they are inextricably linked through genes, family, and history....
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Mar.03.2008
Jane, a loving mother of two, has drowned her toddler son and is charged with his murder in this powerful examination of love, loss, and family legacy. When a prosecutor decides Jane’s husband Tom is partially to blame for the death and charges him with “failure to protect,” Tom’s attorney proposes...
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Jan.12.2008
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has...
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Jan.04.2008
No doubt at the end of The Dim Sum of All Things, the reader is left wondering, “What will happen to this daffy and robust heroine, Miss Lindsey Owyang?” Could there really be a sequel, tentatively titled, Buddha Baby, which would tell of her further exploits as she navigates her sunny...
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Jan.04.2008
When he first published A Hole in the World in 1990, Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes helped launch and legitimate a decade-long publishing phenomenon—the memoir of abused childhood. Rhodes, whose mother committed suicide when he was a year old, recalls how he and his older brother were...
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Dec.27.2007
“People who live in California deny the past,” asserts Alejandro Murguía. In a state where “what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo,” no one has “the time, energy, or desire to reflect on what happened last week, much less what happened ten years ago, or a...
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