Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Writer Stefan Kanfer, tells some of the reasons why. "White Roots: Looking for Great-Grandpa" in the Living section tells how to do it-with specific instructions for the beginner. Its author, Senior Writer Michael Demarest, believes passionately in what he calls the "joy of genealogy." But then, to trace the 14 generations of his American ancestry, he has only to drop by the New York Public Library to read two volumes on The Demarest Family, a project first published in 1938 and financed in part by his grandfather. Or he can cross the Hudson River to Demarest...
...fire-bomb problems. But like Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, Bramlet is a labor leader who apparently made one enemy too many: the Mafia. Last week, with a chilling sense of déjà vu, the FBI and Nevada authorities were wondering if they would ever find a trace...
...leave this exhibition struck by a mixture of primitivism and sophistication. These sculptures have all the energy of children's art, excited without a trace of self-doubt or self-consciousness. And they have also that elegance and grace that is supposed to compensate an adult for losing that initial confidence. Where Mildred Thompson shows her art is chiefly in this combination of what others would call opposites into a spare, yet memorable, artistic statement...
Fell responds to Lamberg-Karlovsky's letter by saying that the American Indians themselves are very supportive of his work: "[they] are the friends of epigraphy [the deciphering of ancient inscriptions] and are proud to trace their lineage back to the bold mariners of the Bronze...
Reflecting the new interest in genealogy, letters to the National Archives in Washington requesting information have tripled, to 2,300 a week; applications for permits to use the research facilities have jumped by 40%, to 560 a week. Most blacks, however, may not be able to trace their family trees before the Civil War. One reason: until 1870 the federal census listed most blacks by age and sex but not by name. Free blacks were an exception, but they were not very numerous. Some won their freedom through service in the Revolutionary War; nobody knows the precise number, but there...