Tracing Lineages: 5 Classic Books on Genealogy and Family Heritage
Classic Genealogical Chronicles of Ancestry, Migration, and Family MemoryBy Bascom Asbury Cecil Stephens, Agnes Grainger Stewart, Alexander Fraser, William Louis Cuddeback, Geo. F. Horton
Length28h 36m
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Tracing Lineages: 5 Classic Books on Genealogy and Family Heritage gathers five foundational studies in the literary culture of ancestry, where family memory becomes archive, narrative, and historical evidence. Moving among genealogical compilation, biographical record, local history, and reflections on descent, the volume demonstrates the range of forms through which kinship has been preserved. Its most compelling passages illuminate the work of names, dates, household traditions, and inherited places in making the past legible. The contributors—Bascom Asbury Cecil Stephens, Agnes Grainger Stewart, Alexander Fraser, William Louis Cuddeback, and Geo. F. Horton—represent a tradition of genealogical writing shaped by archival inquiry and the desire to connect private families to wider historical worlds. Their varied approaches align with the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cultivation of local history, antiquarian research, and hereditary consciousness. Read together, these voices show that genealogy is not merely a catalogue of descent but a cultural practice through which communities narrate continuity, migration, status, loss, and belonging. This volume is especially rewarding for readers of family history, social history, archival studies, and historical biography. It offers a rare opportunity to compare methods and assumptions across several classic texts while tracing the dialogue between documentary precision and family storytelling. Students and general readers alike will find in it an instructive, expansive introduction to the enduring meanings of lineage and heritage.
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GenreSelf-Help, Literary Classics
Length28 hrs 36 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Stephens Family: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Joshua Stevens
2Written by Bascom Asbury Cecil Stephens, Los Angeles, California, A. D. 1892
3EIGHTH GENERATION.
4NINTH GENERATION.
5The Academic Gregories
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6PREFACE
7CHAPTER I THE GREGORIES
8CHAPTER II DAVID GREGORIE OF KINAIRDY, 1625–1720
9CHAPTER III JAMES GREGORIE, 1638–1675
10CHAPTER IV DAVID GREGORY, 1661–1708
11CHAPTER V DAVID GREGORY, 1696–1767
12CHAPTER VI JAMES GREGORIE, 1666–1742; CHARLES GREGORIE, 1681–1754; DAVID GREGORIE, 1712–1765
13CHAPTER VII JAMES GREGORIE, 1674–1733 JAMES GREGORIE, 1707–1755
14CHAPTER VIII JOHN GREGORY, 1724–1773
15CHAPTER IX JAMES GREGORY, 1753–1821
16CHAPTER X WILLIAM GREGORY, 1803–1858
17CHAPTER XI RETROSPECT
18Horton Genealogy
19Horton Genealogy
20ERRATA.
21Third Generation.—Joseph I.
22Seventh Generation.—Joseph I.
23Eighth Generation.—Joseph I.
24Ninth Generation.—Joseph I.
25Third Generation.—Caleb I.
26Sixth Generation.—Caleb I.
27Seventh Generation.—Caleb I.
28Eighth Generation.—Caleb I.
29Ninth Generation.—Caleb I.
30Fifth Generation.—Joshua I.
31Fifth Generation.—Jonathan I.
32Seventh Generation.—Jonathan I.
33Eighth Generation.—Jonathan I.
34HORTON INDEX.
35APPENDIX.
36SUBSCRIBERS.
37The Clan Fraser in Canada: Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering
38The Clan Fraser in Canada: Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering
39Introductory (pt. 1)
40Introductory (pt. 2)
41Caudebec in America
42Caudebec in America
43INTRODUCTION
44FIRST GENERATION
45FOURTH GENERATION
46FIFTH GENERATION (pt. 1)
47FIFTH GENERATION (pt. 2)
48SIXTH GENERATION
49SEVENTH GENERATION
50CAUDEBEC IN NORMANDY, FRANCE
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