City of Remembering: A History of Genealogy in New Orleans

by Susan Tucker

City of Remembering represents a rich testament to the persistence of a passionate form of public history. In exploring one particular community of family historians in New Orleans, Susan Tucker reveals how genealogists elevate a sort of subterranean foundation of the city--sepia photographs of the Vieux Carr , sturdy pages of birth registrations from St. Louis Cathedral, small scraps of the earliest French Superior Council records, elegant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496806212
• ISBN13: 9781496806215
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.2"