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Series
Quillen's essentials of genealogy volume 1
Publisher
Cold Spring Press
Language
English
Description
The best introduction to using the Internet to search for your ancestors! Quillen's Essentials of Genealogy series examines one topic per book so you can really go in-depth in the search for your ancestors. Mastering Online Genealogy covers the use of computers and the Internet to successfully do your own genealogical research. The book includes information on: genealogy databases; what they are, where they are, and how to use them; free genealogy...
Author
Language
English
Description
"[I]n New York ... Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance"--Container....
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Before meeting Huckleberry Finn, Mary Jane faces deadly illness, treacherous landowners, and swindlers as she goes on her own thrilling journey down the Mississippi in pre-Civil War America.
"In his classic work Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain briefly introduces "Mary Jane, the red-headed one." In no time Mary Jane becomes the girl Huck thinks about "a many and a many million times." Now author Hope Jahren has created for Mary Jane a life...