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Sanders, Ralph; Heide, Carole Sanders

 
9781425795726: GENERATIONS: A Thousand-Year Family History

Sinopsis

In general approach and content, this book resembles Alex Haley’s best-selling novel, Roots, except that this work contains no fiction. It chronicles thirty generations and a thousand years of Sanders (and Saunders) family evolution beginning before England’s earliest days and ending across the Atlantic in colonial Virginia and eventually frontier and later Kentucky. Family figures are portrayed in their own distinctive historical contexts and an extensive genealogy focused on old world lineage is appended. Nearly a thousand chapter notes on sources and names are furnished to assist readers interested in discovering their own ancestry.

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In general approach and content, this book resembles Alex Haley's best-selling novel, Roots, except that this work contains no fiction. It chronicles thirty generations and a thousand years of Sanders (and Saunders) family evolution beginning before England's earliest days and ending across the Atlantic in colonial Virginia and eventually frontier and later Kentucky. Family figures are portrayed in their own distinctive historical contexts and an extensive genealogy focused on old world lineage is appended. Nearly a thousand chapter notes on sources and names are furnished to assist readers interested in discovering their own ancestry.

Biografía del autor

Ralph Sanders received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Syracuse University, the State University of New York, and at Monash University in Australia, publishing numerous articles on urban and environmental subjects. For a decade he chaired a Department of Environmental Studies, helping to establish an environmental research institute, and served as Dean of a School of Landscape Architecture in Syracuse. He volunteered for the United States Peace Corps in Nigeria and has traveled extensively on five continents.

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ISBN 10:  1425795838 ISBN 13:  9781425795832
Editorial: Xlibris, 2007
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