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The Lake of Dreams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.19 — 14,742 ratings — published 2010
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.35 — 2,219 ratings — published 2022
Family Tree Problem Solver (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 345 ratings — published 2005
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 46,526 ratings — published 2019
Shaking the Family Tree: Blue Bloods, Black Sheep, and Other Obsessions of an Accidental Genealogist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 351 ratings — published 2010
Who Do You Think You Are?: The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 459 ratings — published 2009
The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 795 ratings — published 2016
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancestry)
avg rating 4.04 — 128 ratings — published 1993
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 2,218 ratings — published 2006
Bloodroot (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 8,443 ratings — published 2010
Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 708 ratings — published 2006
Herbert & Harry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 88 ratings — published 1986
Mr McGee and the Blackberry Jam (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 131 ratings — published 1993
The Postcard (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 41,906 ratings — published 2021
Show Way (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 3,502 ratings — published 2005
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.55 — 40,655 ratings — published 2016
Scottish Genealogy (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.93 — 82 ratings — published 2009
How Green Was My Valley (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 19,194 ratings — published 1939
Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 2,822 ratings — published 2019
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
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avg rating 4.37 — 21,295 ratings — published 2014
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 9,137 ratings — published 2020
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 182,594 ratings — published 2018
The Family Tree Scottish Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Ancestors in Scotland (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 24 ratings — published
The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy: Trace Your Roots, Share Your History, and Create Your Family Tree (Everything®)
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avg rating 3.88 — 252 ratings — published 2008
All-In-One Basic to Advanced Guide to Genealogy & Ancestry History Research (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published
The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.12 — 110 ratings — published 2014
Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837: A Guide for Family Historians (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.91 — 131 ratings — published 2011
The Return of the Dead: Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Transparent Veil of the Pagan Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 120 ratings — published 2009
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 737 ratings — published 2013
Operation Stella Polaris: Signalspanare på flykt (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 2008
Homegoing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 418,400 ratings — published 2016
The History of White People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 3,226 ratings — published 2010
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 25,542 ratings — published 2016
The Ones We Choose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 10,042 ratings — published 2018
Heimskringla: or, The Lives of the Norse Kings (Dover Literature: Biographical)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,425 ratings — published 1230
The Stranger in My Genes: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 1,244 ratings — published 2016
White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 2,448 ratings — published 2017
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 25,071 ratings — published 2012
Clans and Tartans of Scotland (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 92 ratings — published 1938
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (ebook)
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avg rating 3.89 — 46,774 ratings — published 2006
Kindred (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 285,427 ratings — published 1979
American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 358 ratings — published 2012
The Hour I First Believed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 66,666 ratings — published 2008
A Long Time Gone (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 8,872 ratings — published 2014
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.56 — 14,904 ratings — published 2004
The Family Tree Sourcebook: The Essential Guide to American County and Town Sources (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.67 — 12 ratings — published 2010
Tracing Your Family History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 17 ratings — published 2006
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 7,687 ratings — published 2001
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 232,399 ratings — published 1995
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
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avg rating 4.38 — 3,656 ratings — published 1989
“After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...”
― The Return
― The Return
“I call this place the mother ache rather than the mother wound because it is not only pain but also longing—the pull toward wholeness beneath the wound. The word wound belongs to the language of fixing and repair, but the word ache speaks in the language of reverence. It is the tender pulse that reminds us we are made of love and that our journey is a remembrance of this truth. To ache is to honor this love, intrinsic belonging, and the yearning to return home to ourselves.”
― The Mother Ache: Healing the Wounded Daughter Within
― The Mother Ache: Healing the Wounded Daughter Within












