Generations and Change: Genealogical Perspectives in Social History

This book discusses the history of genealogy in the United States, and tries to not only bring genealogy into the main stream of historical sources, but also demonstrate the serviceability of genealogy to historians.

Contents:
Historians and genealogists : an emerging community of interest / Robert M. Taylor, Jr. and Ralph J. Crandall -- History and genealogy : patterns of change and prospects for cooperation / Samuel P. Hays -- Anthropology, genealogy, and history : a research log / John W. Adams and Alice Bee Kasakoff -- The place of genealogy in the curriculum of the social sciences / Robert Charles Anderson -- Ethnicity and the Southern genealogist : myths and misconceptions, resources and opportunities / Elizabeth Shown Mills -- Reconstructing Catholic family history / James M. O'Toole -- Genealogies as evidence in historical kinship studies : a German example / Andrejs Plakans -- The stability ratio : an index of community cohesiveness in nineteenth-century Mormon towns / Dean L. May, Lee L. Bean, Mark H. Skolnick -- The Massachusetts towns and the legislature, 1691-1776 : contributions of genealogy to collective biography / John A. Schutz -- "Belovid wife" and "inveigled affections" : marriage patterns in early Rowley, Massachusetts / Patricia Trainor O'Malley -- The fertility transition in New England : the case of Hampton, New Hampshire, 1655-1840 / Lawrence J. Kilbourne -- Forenames and the family in New England : an exercise in historical onomastics / David Hackett Fischer -- "In nomine avi" : child-naming patterns in a Chesapeake county, 1650-1750 / Darrett B. Rutman and Anita H. Rutman -- Migration, kinship, and the integratio of colonial New England society : three generations of the Danforth family / Virginia DeJohn Anderson -- The Wilsons move West : family continuance and strain after migration / Claudia L. Bushman -- Problems and possibilites of individual-level tracing in German-American migration research / Walter D. Kamphoefner.