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Author: Richard Hill
Publisher: Familius
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781945547393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinding Family: My Search for Roots is Richard Hill's true and intensely personal story of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological family denied him by sealed birth records.
Author: Tonya Bolden
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1599908654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDelana has never known her parents. Raised by her Aunt Tilley and a reclusive grandfather, Delana has led a sheltered existence, nurtured on her aunt's wild family histories. But when Aunt Tilley dies, Delana confronts her pent-up curiosities and embarks on a quest to unravel her aunt's fictions and draw out her mysterious grandfather. In searching for her true history, Delana finds herself, and a home in the one place she never thought to look. This moving fictional story is imagined from real antique photographs that author Tonya Bolden has collected. Bolden's well-researched historical details about 1905 Charleston, West Virginia lend authenticity, while spare, lyrical writing make this young girl's coming-of-age resonate.
Author: Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0807882658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Williams explores the heartbreaking stories of separation and the long, usually unsuccessful journeys toward reunification. Examining the interior lives of the enslaved and freedpeople as they tried to come to terms with great loss, Williams grounds their grief, fear, anger, longing, frustration, and hope in the history of American slavery and the domestic slave trade. Williams follows those who were separated, chronicles their searches, and documents the rare experience of reunion. She also explores the sympathy, indifference, hostility, or empathy expressed by whites about sundered black families. Williams shows how searches for family members in the post-Civil War era continue to reverberate in African American culture in the ongoing search for family history and connection across generations.
Author: David Carder
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1575675242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised and updated from the original, this honest and forthwright look at families of all shapes and sizes will help you down the path of healing (whether you know you need it or whether you're just not sure). Unlocking Your Family Patterns combines decades worth of counseling wisdom and pastoral care insights into this one practical resource. Your past may hurt, and your family's patterns may have left emotional scars, but your future has not been laid in stone yet. There is hope for healing, there are lessons to learn, and there are paths toward family health. Using clinical, biblical and practical examples to help you uncover the patterns your family has lived in, this book might lead you toward the family u-turn you've been looking for.
Author: Richard Hill
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1945547596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFinding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA is the highly suspenseful 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 DNA testing, takes readers on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride and concludes with a twist that rivals anything Hollywood has to offer. In the vein of a classic mystery, Hill gathers the seemingly scant evidence surrounding the circumstances of his birth. As his resolve shores up, the author also avails of new friends, genealogists, the Internet, and the latest DNA tests in the new field of genetic genealogy. As he closes in on the truth of his ancestry, he is able to construct a living, breathing portrait of the young woman who was faced with the decision to forsake her rights to her child, and ultimately the man whose identity had remained hidden for decades. Finding Family offers guidance, insight, and motivation for anyone engaged in a similar mission, from ways to obtain information to the many networks that can facilitate adoption searches. The book includes a detailed guide to DNA and genetic genealogy and how they can produce irrefutable results in determining genetic connections and help adoptees bypass sealed records and similar stumbling blocks.
Author: Alexei Prowess
Publisher: Writers Republic LLC
Published: 2022-09-20
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElias, a young wolf abandoned after birth and ignored by everyone at the orphanage, had never known the love of a family. Not until fate had brought Tobias Fretchman and Tyson Clawing to him, a gay couple looking to take their next step in life by creating a loving family. But as the three forge their way forward, they are met with many trials and hardships, each one helping them in realizing what it truly means to be family!
Author: Judith Keim
Publisher: Wild Quail Publishing
Published: 2018-09-22
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0999244817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fourth in a four-book series of beach reads about three sisters who inherit a run-down hotel and have only one year to work together to convert it into a nice seaside hotel on the Gulf Coast of Florida and come together as a family. Family is worth finding and keeping… Sheena Sullivan Morelli and her sisters, Darcy and Regan, work to complete their Uncle Gavin’s challenge of turning his rundown hotel into a profitable operation within one year. Winning means earning a share in their uncle’s sizable estate. More than that, it determines how they’ll spend the rest of their lives. Sheena wants to stay on at the hotel, overseeing the hotel operation. But Darcy and Regan want to move on with their lives—Darcy writing a novel and Regan going into the interior decorating business with Mo. But life has other plans for them. And in the end, all three realize that the only thing that really matters is finding—and keeping—family. A beach read with heart… Be sure to read the other books in the series: Finding My Way and Finding Love. Or read the first book in the series, Finding Me. And check out Judith Keim’s other series – the Hartwell Women, The Beach House Hotel series, the Fat Fridays series, the Salty Key Inn series, the Chandler Hill Inn series, the Desert Sage Inn series, and the Seashell Cottage Books that readers are loving. Contemporary Women’s Fiction, Family Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Sisters Fiction, Contemporary Women’s Romance, Romantic family fiction, Siblings, New beginnings, Beach Read, Mothers and Daughters Fiction, Florida hotel series, Inheritance, Women working to beat challenge, new love, strong women face challenge, Florida hotel renewal
Author: Sharon Leslie Morgan
Publisher: Wellfleet Press
Published: 2023-03-14
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 0760380023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmbarking on a quest to uncover your ancestry? Finding Your Family Tree is the perfect genealogy guide to have at your side, with special research techniques for underrepresented groups. Genealogy offers you the opportunity to understand who you are through your family history. With this knowledge, you can embrace your identity, understand your own health and wellness, reconnect with your roots and family origins, and find an overall sense of wholeness. Finding Your Family Tree: A Beginner’s Guide to Researching Your Family Tree is an ideal starting point for your own journey of self-discovery. Your are eager to learn your ancestry, but in these disconnected times it can be hard to figure out on your own. With author and expert genealogist Sharon L Morgan as your guide, you can explore even the thorniest family tree. Sharon shows you how to embrace the world of genealogical research and provides guidance for underrepresented groups, such as African Americans and Native Americans, and anyone else who is interested in connecting with their family background. In this engaging, accessible guide on how to do family research, you’ll find: Tips and tricks for using major online and offline research sources—without falling for false leads. Techniques for overcoming common research obstacles. Special attention to the challenges of genealogical research for groups that are underrepresented in the historical record. Sample research documents and useful visuals on how to interpret old records. Beyond exploring the practical challenges of researching your family history, this book will show you what’s most exciting about this research—the unique family stories and histories you’ll discover, but also the essential truths that bind and connect us all.
Author: Christina Miller
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-05-25
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1488071187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan he be the man she needs him to be? Now that he’s found them, he can’t let them go. The last person Abe Armstrong thought would walk through the door of his gym is Rosemary Williams, the woman he secretly married as a teen. Even more surprising is the little girl at her side—his daughter. It’s been four years since Abe and Rosemary broke each other’s hearts…and he hopes this time will be different. But first Abe must prove he’s father and husband material. From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.
Author: Elizabeth Ewan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1351936433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this interdisciplinary collaboration, an international group of scholars have come together to suggest new directions for the study of the family in Scotland circa 1300-1750. Contributors apply tools from across a range of disciplines including art history, literature, music, gender studies, anthropology, history and religious studies to assess creatively the broad range of sources which inform our understanding of the pre-modern Scottish family. A central purpose of this volume is to encourage further studies in this area by highlighting the types of sources available, as well as actively engaging in broader historiographical debates to demonstrate how important and effective family studies are to advancing our understanding of the past. Articles in the first section demonstrate the richness and variety of sources that exist for studies of the Scottish family. These essays clearly highlight the uniqueness, feasibility and value of family studies for pre-industrial Scotland. The second and third sections expand upon the arguments made in part one to demonstrate the importance of family studies for engaging in broader historiographical issues. The focus of section two is internal to the family. These articles assess specific family roles and how they interact with broader social forces/issues. In the final section the authors explore issues of kinship ties (an issue particularly associated with popular images of Scotland) to examine how family networks are used as a vehicle for social organization.
