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101) Seven brave women
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A young girl recounts the brave exploits of her female ancestors, including her great-great-great grandmother who came to America in a wooden sailboat.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores fascinating ancestries and family mysteries for an array of notable guests. This season features actors Pamela Adlon, Amy Carlson, Terry Crews, Tony Danza, Raúl Esparza, Kathryn Hahn, Rebecca Hall, John Leguizamo, Regina King and Lena Waithe; Broadway stars Nathan Lane and Leslie Odom, Jr.; superstar chef David Chang; talk show host and author Mario Lopez; journalists Erin Burnett and André Leon Talley; producers...
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"Richard Hill's true and intensely personal story of how he pieced together the long-kept secret of his own origins. This highly suspenseful book is a page-turning saga of personal detective work that will appeal to anyone who loves a good mystery. But this isn't fiction. It's an engrossing account of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological family denied him by sealed birth records. This fascinating quest, including the author's landmark use of...
111) First peoples
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200,000 years ago we took our first steps in Africa. Today there are seven billion of us living across the planet. How did our ancestors spread from continent to continent? This is a global detective story, featuring the latest archaeological discoveries and genetic research. On each continent, we track down the earliest members of our species, Homo sapiens. Who were these First Peoples? What drove them to the ends of the earth?
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Includes information on scanning photographs and film, enhancing and repairing photographs, scanning and enhancing documents, using digital cameras, creating audio files and importing them into your genealogy software, documenting family history with videotape, and transferring home movies to videotape.
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Discover the secrets to Ancestry.com success! This book will help you get the most out of your Ancestry.com subscription by showing you how to take advantage of all the world's biggest genealogy website has to offer -- and how to find answers to your family tree questions within its 14 billion records, 60 million family tree and 32,000 databases.