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Title Statement | It's all relative: adventures up and down the world's family tree / [largetype] : A.J. Jacobs. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Adventures up and down the world's family tree It is all relative |
Series | Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction |
Author | Jacobs, A. J., 1968- |
Publication | Farmington Hills, Mich: Thorndike Press,2017.©2017 |
Edition | Large print edition. |
Extent of Item | 459 pages |
ISBN | 1432844458 9781432844455 |
Other Number | 3313545 |
Contents | 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. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses. |
Summary | 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. |
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By Topic | Genetic genealogy--United States |
Genealogy | |
Large type books | |
By Name | Jacobs, A. J.,1968---Family |
Jacobs family |