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Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America
  • Karin Wulf
2025
Oxford University Press

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Collage of documents and a sampler that record genealogical information.
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Why 18th-Century Americans Were Just as Obsessed With Their Genealogy as We Are Today

People living in British America and later the nascent United States recorded their family histories in needlework samplers, notebooks and newspapers.
by Karin Wulf via Smithsonian Magazine on July 17, 2025
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