At some point in our lives; most of us start to wonder about our family: Who were our ancestors? Where did they live? What did they endure? Were they like us? Inspired by the stories he had heard from his relatives; and making use of his experience as a prize-winning historian; Paul C. Nagel started investigating his own heritage. What he discovered will encourage anyone curious about long-ago branches of the family tree. "There is something stirring about finding a bond with a remote grandmother of grandfather who struggle to survive when the Black Death stalked Europe; " Nagel writes; "or who had the courage to travel halfway around the globe to a place called Missouri." With hard work; plenty of luck and a yen to know why thins happened; Nagel found forebears as far back as the 1500s and fleshed out their stories. Then he tracked generation after generation through good times and adversity; through public esteem and private shame. Paul Nagel’s family represents only a fragment of the story of German migration to Missouri; which in turn represents only a fragment of the story of America. Yet in his hands that fragment brings alive the story of all people whose ancestors escaped an Old World and helped build a new.
#4859100 in Books 2001 #File Name: 0965917738124 pages
Review
