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1 comments about Searching for Your Ancestors: The How and Why of Genealogy.

1. I have been searching for my ancestors for approx 2 years. I borrowed this book from a friend and found that it had so much information in it that I had to purchase it. It gave me information on more places to search along with information on items in history that I hadn't thought of. This book is a big help!

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1 comments about Virtue, Fortune, and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance (Borderlines).

1. This is a very compelling book that shows how financial markets of many types are created through politicized processes of discourse, court challenges, and regulatory regimes. What is particularly useful about this book is that the author does not just stake out an interesting argument, she also provides a good deal of evidence to make her case. For example, she charts how different forms of finance are made distinct from "gambling" through discourse, regulation, and court decisions.

1 comments about Jacob's Well: A Case for Rethinking Family History.

1. Amato has written an unusual, nay a unique book, that blends his substantial skills as a professional historian with the tools of the anthropologist, geographer, philosophy, and genealogy in order to trace the history of his family back seven generations. He writes of the struggle of his poor "mongrel family," tracing their roots to Ireland, Prussia, Sicily, French Acadia and elsewhere, describing the difficult struggles against poverty, disease, wars, and discrimination, in a relentless but mostly futile quest for the American Dream. This is much more than a family history. It is a "bottoms-up" look at the underside of American history as generation after generation struggled to survive against great obstacles, moving inexorably westward in a largely failed search for productive farmland, and then in the twentieth century, joining the new migration to industrial cities in a renewed quest for decent wages and a modicum of security. Written eloquently, solidly documented, and well grounded in historical literature, "Jacob's Well" subjects Amato's ancestors to the harsh scrutiny of historical fact. This is a must read for those interested in a new type of family history, and for those interested in the plight of the American poor from early colonial times to the near-present.