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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition |
Descript |
xiv, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index |
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Introduction -- The eighth cousin -- The world family tree -- DNA sharing is caring -- A great (or possibly terrible) idea -- A pandemonium of genealogists -- Historical voyeurism -- Genetic jambalaya -- Groundhog Sam and my 2,585 southern cousins -- Embracing failure -- Should family be abolished? -- The good cousin -- Adam and Eve -- Kissing cousins -- The Greatest Generation (and the upside of cigarettes) -- Thank you for having sex -- Biological and logical families -- Ellis Island -- Our Neanderthal cousins -- Family feuds -- Who's your father? -- Son-in-law of the American Revolution -- The mega-tree revolution -- Our animal cousins -- Big love -- The other side of the dash -- Privacy -- The genius of Isaac Newton -- Fathers and sons -- Twins and twins, also more twins -- Five mothers -- Black sheep -- My presidential cousin -- Tradition! -- The Kevin Bacon delusion -- The pilgrimage -- An ocean of cousins -- Cheers to the dead -- My celebrity cousins -- 51 percent of the family tree -- The melting pot -- The FBI and my grandpa -- The great surname challenge -- Awkward family photos -- Brother versus brother -- The global family reunion -- We are, without a doubt, irrefutably, family -- A brief and subjective guide to getting started on your family tree |
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Traces the author's three-year investigation into what constitutes family, describing how, after receiving an e-mail from a stranger who claimed to be a distant cousin, he embarked on an effort to build the biggest family tree in history |
Subject |
Jacobs, A. J., 1968- -- Family
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Jacobs, A. J., 1968-
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Jacobs family.
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Genetic genealogy -- United States
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Genealogy -- Humor
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Families.
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Genetic genealogy.
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United States
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Humor.
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Biographies.
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Jacobs, A. J., 1968-
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Släkter
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Släktberättelser
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Genealogi
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Classmark |
929.1
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Add Title |
It is all relative |
ISBN/ISSN |
1476734496 (hardcover) |
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9781476734491 (hardcover) |
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