Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series - Hardcover

Gates, Henry Louis

 
9781469618005: Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1469618001 ISBN 13: 9781469618005
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Finding Your Roots, the companion book to the PBS documentary series seen by 30 million people. As Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. shows us, the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical research now allow us to learn more about our roots, looking further back in time than ever before. Gates's investigations take on the personal and genealogical histories of more than twenty luminaries, including United States Congressman John Lewis, actor Robert Downey Jr., CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, President of the "Becoming American Institute" Linda Chavez, and comedian Margaret Cho. Interwoven with their moving stories of immigration, assimilation, strife, and success, Gates provides practical information for amateur genealogists just beginning archival research on their own families' roots, and he details the advances in genetic research now available to the public. The result is an illuminating exploration of who we are, how we lost track of our roots, and how we can find them again.

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Verlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1469618001
ISBN 13 
9781469618005
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
330
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