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It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree / A.J. Jacobs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobs, A. J., 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jacobs, A. J., 1968---Family.
- Jacobs, A. J.
- Jacobs family.
- Jacobs, A. J., 1968-.
- Genetic genealogy--United States.
- Genetic genealogy.
- Genealogy--Humor.
- Genealogy.
- Families.
- United States.
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Extended Family.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
- HUMOR / Topic / Marriage & Family.
- Local Subjects:
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Extended Family.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
- HUMOR / Topic / Marriage & Family.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Other Title:
- It is all relative
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017]
- Summary:
- Traces the author's three-year investigation into what constitutes family, describing how, after receiving an e-mail from a stranger who claimed to be a distant cousin, he embarked on an effort to build the biggest family tree in history.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The eighth cousin
- The world family tree
- DNA sharing is caring
- A great (or possibly terrible) idea
- A pandemonium of genealogists
- Historical voyeurism
- Genetic jambalaya
- Groundhog Sam and my 2,585 southern cousins
- Embracing failure
- Should family be abolished?
- The good cousin
- Adam and Eve
- Kissing cousins
- The Greatest Generation (and the upside of cigarettes)
- Thank you for having sex
- Biological and logical families
- Ellis Island
- Our Neanderthal cousins
- Family feuds
- Who's your father?
- Son-in-law of the American Revolution
- The mega-tree revolution
- Our animal cousins
- Big love
- The other side of the dash
- Privacy
- The genius of Isaac Newton
- Fathers and sons
- Twins and twins. Also more twins
- Five mothers
- Black sheep
- My presidential cousin
- Tradition!
- The Kevin Bacon delusion
- The pilgrimage
- An ocean of cousins
- Cheers to the dead
- My celebrity cousins
- 51 percent of the family tree
- The melting pot
- The FBI and my grandpa
- The great surname challenge
- Awkward family photos
- Brother versus brother
- The global family reunion
- We are, without a doubt, irrefutably, family
- A brief and subjective guide to getting started on your family tree.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1476734496
- 9781476734491
- OCLC:
- 975113207
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