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Dr. Barbara Bennett Peterson is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Hawaii and a former Fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. She is a world renowned biographer and has published twenty-two books related to American, World, Hawaiian, and Oregon history. Dr. Peterson contributes to numerous biographical collections such as the American National Biography and was an Associate Editor for the Social Sciences for the original 24 volume series which won the Dartmouth Medal in 1990 from the American Library Association.

Upon retirement, she served as a Professor of History for Oregon State University and was on their Graduate Faculty. She was an Adjunct Faculty member at Portland State University, and a Professor of History in the Osher Institute of LifeLong Learning for California State University, San Bernardino Palm Desert Campus.

Dr. Peterson is the General Editor for a book series titled First Men, America’s Presidents published with Nova Science Publishers. Her books have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in History and Biography seven times and she is listed in Who’s Who in America. She and her husband Dr. Frank L. Peterson, Emeritus Professor of Geology, University of Hawaii, donate all their book royalties to children’s organizations.

This fascinating book is for everyone interested in writing their own family history and offers a model for researching and presenting your own story with pictures and text. Ancestors, Icons and Memories offers genealogical resources, examples of family photos, and illustrates the basic steps to organize and present your own heritage. Writing your personal family’s “roots” and recording familial accomplishments to “record your own history” is the greatest gift you can provide for your children and for your parents who you wish to honor. This book is a wonderful practical gift idea providing a guide and an example for your own family’s history in the organization of historical documents and materials, preparing individual chapters, beginning and completing the writing, and doing inter-generational research.

“World-Renowned Biographer and Extensively Published Author, Barbara Bennett Peterson, Presents and Scintillates Readers Through the Story of Her Ancestors’ Exodus

Barbara Bennett Peterson pays homage to her progenitors and provides a crash course on history in the book “Ancestors, Icons and Memories: Barclays, Bennetts, Petersons.”

The Scottish Barclay clan started around Aberdeen, Scotland, and extended in America through the Chatfields, Bennetts, Petersons, McNeills, and Eadies. This intriguing book, written for anybody interested in creating their own family history, includes genealogy resources, family images, and basic methods for getting started. For Barbara, the finest present you could possibly offer your children is to write down your unique family “roots” and chronicle familial triumphs to “tell your tale.” A wonderful practical present idea that will serve as a model for preparing, researching, and writing your family history.

“Everyone needs a family history and this book Ancestors, Icons, and Memories hopefully will inspire you to write your own family story praising and honoring your relatives. While your progenitors, especially your parents, are still alive ask them to remember the good times when they were young, where they went to school, who were their friends and mentors, how they selected a career path, what sports and hobbies they enjoyed, who they married and the names and dates of their children, and their major achievements and successes in life and work, and their community activities and friends, for your sake and for theirs. All parents love to give the gift of guidance.”­—Barbara writes.”