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Ancestry Books
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The Lake of Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.19 — 14,652 ratings — published 2010
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.35 — 2,202 ratings — published 2022
Family Tree Problem Solver (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.98 — 342 ratings — published 2005
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.89 — 46,088 ratings — published 2019
Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.84 — 351 ratings — published 2010
Who Do You Think You Are?: The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.98 — 458 ratings — published 2009
The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.30 — 792 ratings — published 2016
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.04 — 128 ratings — published 1993
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,191 ratings — published 2006
Bloodroot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.80 — 8,399 ratings — published 2010
Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.88 — 704 ratings — published 2006
Herbert & Harry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.82 — 84 ratings — published 1986
Mr McGee and the Blackberry Jam (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.06 — 127 ratings — published 1993
The Postcard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.35 — 39,549 ratings — published 2021
Show Way (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,490 ratings — published 2005
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.55 — 38,596 ratings — published 2016
Scottish Genealogy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.93 — 81 ratings — published 2009
Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,725 ratings — published 2019
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.37 — 20,563 ratings — published 2014
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.48 — 8,913 ratings — published 2020
The Family Tree Scottish Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Ancestors in Scotland (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.04 — 23 ratings — published
All-In-One Basic to Advanced Guide to Genealogy & Ancestry History Research (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published
The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.11 — 108 ratings — published 2014
Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837: A Guide for Family Historians (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.92 — 128 ratings — published 2011
The Return of the Dead: Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Transparent Veil of the Pagan Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.13 — 119 ratings — published 2009
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.95 — 732 ratings — published 2013
Operation Stella Polaris: Signalspanare på flykt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 2008
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.47 — 404,160 ratings — published 2016
The History of White People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,201 ratings — published 2010
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,143 ratings — published 2016
The Ones We Choose (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,586 ratings — published 2018
Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings (Dover Literature: Biographical)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,412 ratings — published 1230
The Stranger in My Genes: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,239 ratings — published 2016
White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,428 ratings — published 2017
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,031 ratings — published 2012
Clans and Tartans of Scotland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.21 — 91 ratings — published 1938
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.89 — 46,237 ratings — published 2006
Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.31 — 272,199 ratings — published 1979
American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.72 — 356 ratings — published 2012
The Hour I First Believed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.84 — 65,786 ratings — published 2008
A Long Time Gone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,763 ratings — published 2014
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.56 — 13,894 ratings — published 2004
The Family Tree Sourcebook: The Essential Guide to American County and Town Sources (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.67 — 12 ratings — published 2010
Tracing Your Family History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.88 — 17 ratings — published 2006
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,642 ratings — published 2001
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 3.94 — 231,194 ratings — published 1995
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
by (shelved 2 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,572 ratings — published 1989
Blood to Poison (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ancestry)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,111 ratings — published 2022
“I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way of the Levant, and passing through Eastern and Central Europe before crossing to the British Isles. And all of this knowable by an analysis of the cells on the inside of my mouth.
I almost prefer the more rambling and indirect and journalistic investigation, which seems somehow less… deterministic.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
I almost prefer the more rambling and indirect and journalistic investigation, which seems somehow less… deterministic.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
“There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.”
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