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Jacobs, A. J., 1968-
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Jacobs, A. J., 1968- -- Family.
Jacobs family.
Genetic genealogy -- Anecdotes.
Genealogy -- Humor.
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Jacobs, A. J., 1968-
Jacobs, A. J., 1968- -- Family.
Jacobs family.
Genetic genealogy -- Anecdotes.
Genealogy -- Humor.
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It'
s
all
relative
:
adventures
up
and
down
the
world
's
family
tree
/ by A. J. Jacobs.
by
Jacobs, A. J., 1968-
Call #:
LP 929.1 J17i
Subjects
Jacobs, A. J., 1968- --
Family
.
Jacobs
family
.
Genetic genealogy -- Anecdotes.
Genealogy -- Humor.
ISBN:
9781432844455 (hc.)
Alternate title:
It is
all
relative
:
adventures
up
and
down
the
world
's
family
tree
Adventures
up
and
down
the
world
's
family
tree
Edition:
Large print edition.
Description:
459 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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
.
Summary:
The author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes
family
- where it begins and how far it goes - and attempts to untangle the true meaning of the "
Family
of Humankind." A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: "You don’t know me, but I'm your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database." That'
s
enough
family
members to fill Madison Square Garden four times over. Who are these people, A.J. wondered, and how do I find them? So began Jacobs's three-year adventure to help build the biggest
family
tree
in history. Jacobs's journey would take him to
all
seven continents. He drank beer with a US president, found himself singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and unearthed genetic links to Hollywood actresses and real-life scoundrels. After
all
, we can choose our friends, but not our
family
. A.J. Jacobs is the editor at large of Esquire magazine and a contributor to National Public Radio.
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Adult Large Print Nonfiction
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