Bringing Your Family History to Life Through Social HistoryKatherine Scott Sturdevant shows you how to use social history -- the study of "ordinary people's everyday lives" -- to add depth, detail, and drama to your family's saga. Book jacket. |
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... traditional ways of life . The skills to make these artifacts pass from person to person in a local community rather than ... tradition and imita- tion , and the artifact represents the shared values of the crafter's group . Although we ...
... traditional ways of life . The skills to make these artifacts pass from person to person in a local community rather than ... tradition and imita- tion , and the artifact represents the shared values of the crafter's group . Although we ...
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... TRADITION We need to take family oral tradition ( the handed - down stories ) seriously , as a valuable source of private information , viewpoints , and feelings . Many genealo- gists , however , will reject oral tradition because of ...
... TRADITION We need to take family oral tradition ( the handed - down stories ) seriously , as a valuable source of private information , viewpoints , and feelings . Many genealo- gists , however , will reject oral tradition because of ...
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... tradition for us to locate , docu- ment , and write about in our family histories . Consider family food traditions as a theme for oral history interviewing and family document collecting . Research what the foodways might have been for ...
... tradition for us to locate , docu- ment , and write about in our family histories . Consider family food traditions as a theme for oral history interviewing and family document collecting . Research what the foodways might have been for ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Culture Citing and Caring | 56 |
A Historians Approach to Family | 85 |
Copyright | |
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