Twisted Roots & Strong Branches

Twisted Roots & Strong Branches
Author: Blue Rose Books
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2019-05-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781070518459

Tell your family story through this journal! The perfect way to gather family history is through a guided journal. For years, I've been urging my family and friends to tell their stories and to get their family history before it's too late. But, I understand that it's sometimes hard to get those conversations started - even for me. That's where this journal comes in. Think about your parents and grandparents. I'm sure you can think of things you wish you'd known about them. Think about your children, grandchildren, or family friends. What are the things you'd like them to remember about you? Maybe this journal is about preserving memories for yourself for one day when your mind gets tired. Regardless of the reason, this prompt journal will become a priceless possession to you and your family. No one can tell your story or biography like you can. Happy Journaling . . . 8.5 x 11 interactive guided journal 120 pages Lined Notebook with Prompts Questions for you, your parents, grandparents, & relatives 10 Empty Family Tree diagrams Extra lined pages for own questions, ideas, details, and history Paperback, non-spiral Perfect for gathering/collecting family stories - or telling your own. Great gift for anyone for any holiday, event, or celebration: Christmas New Years Mother's Day Father's Day Birthdays Graduation, etc. We focus less on who begat who and more on the living they did along the way! This will become a precious keepsake of someone's legacy. Sometimes elderly individuals have difficulty carrying out tasks such as reading and writing. An ideal solution would be to have younger generations record the responses for the aging parent and/or grandparent. Not only would it provide a valuable service when needed, but the bonding that can come from those moments is simply immeasurable.

Ancestry Quest

Ancestry Quest
Author: Mary Beth Sammons
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1632281252

Who am I? Where do I come from? Why am I the way I am? In Ancestry Quest: How Stories of the Past Heal the Future, Mary Beth Sammons follows dozens of individuals as they delve deep into their family mysteries—attempting to discover the truth of their identities—all through the results of a simple DNA test and online ancestry searches. Each journey is dramatically different: some joyously unite with long-lost siblings while others are forced to reckon with a fractured and devastating past. These stories, heart-wrenching and warming, intimate and inspiring, showcase and distill the lessons learned in the search for what makes us who we really are—and promise to redefine family in ways never before possible.

Tales of magic, tales in print

Tales of magic, tales in print
Author: Willem De Blecourt
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1526162822

Since the beginning of the nineteenth century folklorists, and the general public in their wake, have assumed the orality of fairy tales. Only lately have more and more specialists been arguing in favour of at least an interdependence between oral and printed distribution of stories. This book takes an extreme position in that debate: as far as Tales of magic is concerned, the initial transmission proceded exclusively through prints. From a historical perspective, this is the only viable approach; the opposite assumption of a vast unrecorded and thus inaccessible reservoir of oral stories, presents a horror vacui. Only in the course of the nineteenth century, when folklorists started collecting in the field and asked their informants for fairy tales, was this particular genre incorporated into a then feeble oral tradition. Even then story tellers regularly reverted to printed texts. Every recorded fairy tale can be shown to be dependent on previous publications, or to be a new composition, constructed on the basis of fragments of stories already in existence. Tales of magic, tales in print traces the textual history of a number of fairy tale clusters, linking the findings of literary historians on the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries to the material collected by nineteenth- and twentieth-century field workers. While it places fairy tales as a genre firmly in a European context, it also follows particular stories in their dispersion over the rest of the world.

Ancestry magazine

Ancestry magazine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2003-05
Genre:
ISBN:

Ancestry magazine focuses on genealogy for today’s family historian, with tips for using Ancestry.com, advice from family history experts, and success stories from genealogists across the globe. Regular features include “Found!” by Megan Smolenyak, reader-submitted heritage recipes, Howard Wolinsky’s tech-driven “NextGen,” feature articles, a timeline, how-to tips for Family Tree Maker, and insider insight to new tools and records at Ancestry.com. Ancestry magazine is published 6 times yearly by Ancestry Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com.

The Deserter's Tale

The Deserter's Tale
Author: Nathan Dylan Goodwin
Publisher: Nathan Dylan Goodwin
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2023-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

When forensic genealogist Morton Farrier accepted an invitation to travel to Salt Lake City, Utah, to speak at the RootsTech genealogy conference, he had been unaware that one of his co-panellists was to be none other than his former girlfriend, Madison Scott- Barnhart. Whilst he prepares anxiously to meet her for what will be the first time in twenty- six years—and hopefully to discover the unresolved truth behind her abrupt ending of their relationship—he takes on the case of researching his wife’s mysterious great- grandfather: a man who deserted his Sussex family shortly after the First World War. In the course of his investigations and time in the States, Morton uncovers some shocking truths, some of which are uncomfortably close to home…

Poetic Castles in Spain

Poetic Castles in Spain
Author: Diego Saglia
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789042004283

Saglia, a scholar of some sort whose academic affiliations are not noted, charts the various ways in which, between the 1810s and 1820s, Spain figured in British literary culture. Mainly concerned with narrative versions of Spain, specifically metrical tales and verse romances, he traces the contours of the Spanish "imaginary" in British Romanticism, offering a cultural geography of Romantic Spain as a space of war involving not only France and Britain or the Spanish and Moorish armies, but ideological conflicts between public and private; republicanism, nationalism, and imperialism; and competing models of masculinity and femininity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Irish Genealogy Tips, Techniques, and Tales

Irish Genealogy Tips, Techniques, and Tales
Author: M. D. Healy
Publisher: M. D. Healy
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2014-03-26
Genre:
ISBN:

Irish Genealogy Tips, Techniques and Tales makes a great addition to an Irish family researcher's reference library. The book contains Irish genealogy problem solving tips and techniques, to include: finding an ancestor's birthplace, deciphering illegible handwriting, translating Irish place names, working with transcription errors, and much more. Some Irish roots travel tips, Irish immigration patterns, children name customs, a "brick wall" case study, and a list of popular Irish genealogy reference books are also included. The book ends with a few short Irish traditions and Celtic history stories told with some humorous twists. Beautiful scenic Ireland photos appear throughout the book. May you be blessed with the opportunity to travel to Ireland someday to visit your Irish ancestors' birthplaces and walk in their foot steps. Five percent of the book sales' royalties support selected Irish youth programs in Ireland.