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It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree
- Title
- It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree / A.J. Jacobs.
- Author
- Jacobs, A. J., 1968-
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 336 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- It is all relative
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Humor.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index.
- 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 -- A brief and subjective guide to getting started on your family tree.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-1608
- ISBN
- 1476734496
- 9781476734491
- LCCN
- 2017470400
- OCLC
- 975113207
- Author
- Jacobs, A. J., 1968- author.
- Title
- It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree / A.J. Jacobs.
- Publisher
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-1608