It's all relative adventures up and down the world's family tree
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.
| Main Author: | Jacobs, A. J., 1968- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index.
- 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.