A Vance Family History
Author : Robert M. Vance
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Page : 54 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : Robert M. Vance
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Page : 54 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : Vance Voss Smith
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 1981
Category : North Carolina
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In 1882, Dewitt "De" Martin Vance (1857-1932), the son of William Martin and Hepsa Jane Vance, married Florella Augusta Crews (1862- 1959). They had 12 children. Descendants lived chiefly in the South, but eventually scattered westward.
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Page : 26 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 19??
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Author : J. D. Vance
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 33,4 MB
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0062300563
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Author : William BALBIRNIE
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : Clyde Runyon
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Page : 67 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
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Category : Logan County (W. Va.)
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Author : Edward MacLysaght
Publisher : Irish Academic Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 24,62 MB
Release : 1988-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1911024647
Ireland was one of the earliest countries to evolve a system of hereditary surnames. More than 4,000 Gaelic, Norman and Anglo-Irish surnames are listed in this book, giving a wealth of information on the background and location of Irish families. Edward MacLysaght was a leading authority on Irish names and family history. He served as Chief Herald and Genealogical Officer of the Irish Office of Arms. He was also Keeper of Manuscripts of the National Library of Ireland and was Chairman of the Manuscripts Commission. This book, which was first published in 1957 and now is in its sixth edition, is being reprinted for the fourth time and remains the definitive record of Irish surnames, their genealogy and their origins.
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File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 1818
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Author : Paula Vance Chandler
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Page : 83 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Nancy Jean Wach
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Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 1997
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In 1782, Joseph Vance (1753-1838) married Nancy Bradley (1764-1854) were married. They had ten children. Descendants and relatives lived in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, Illinois and elsewhere.