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Youve heard of the Dog Whisperer? Meet the Ancestor Rescuer.
Part forensic scientist, part master sleuth, Megan Smolenyak has solved some of Americas oldest and most fascinating genealogical mysteries. Youve read the headlines; now get the inside story as the Indiana Jones of genealogy reveals how she cracked her news-making cases, became the face of this increasingly popular field--and redefined history along the way.
How did Smolenyak discover Barack Obamas Irish ancestry--and his relation to Brad Pitt? Or the journey of Michelle Obamas family from slavery to the White House? Or the startling links between outspoken politicians Al Sharpton and Strom Thurmond? And why is Smolenyaks name squared? Test your own skills as she shares her exciting secrets.
Whether shes scouring websites to uncover the surprising connections between famous figures or using cutting-edge DNA tests to locate family members of fallen soldiers dating back to the Civil War, Smolenyaks historical sleuthing is as provocative, richly layered, and exciting as America itself.
Thank you for taking the time to lay out our family map. . . Youre practically family. You certainly know more about us than we do. Stephen Colbert
Megan is a genealogists dream, a forensic investigator who can also tell a great story. Sam Roberts, The New York Times
Megan is a blessing to cold case detectives and a master genealogist. Julie M. Haney, special agent, NCIS Cold Case Homicide Unit
The Indiana Jones of genealogy. . . Megan Smolenyak is a national treasure. Buzzy Jackson, author of Shaking the Family Tree
In this breezy narrative, Smolenyak allows us to look over the shoulder of a relentless genealogist as she works the puzzle pieces of her craft. Whether unearthing evidence from Internet databases, newspaper offices, court houses, libraries and cemeteries, consulting translators, historians or her vast network of fellow genealogists, pioneering the use of genealogical DNA testing, solving the mystery or occasionally hitting a brick wall, Smolenyak remains wholly committed, curious and cheery, eager to share her methods and excitement. Bottom-up history from a top-shelf researcher.-Kirkus Review
Part forensic scientist, part master sleuth, Megan Smolenyak has solved some of Americas oldest and most fascinating genealogical mysteries. Youve read the headlines; now get the inside story as the Indiana Jones of genealogy reveals how she cracked her news-making cases, became the face of this increasingly popular field--and redefined history along the way.
How did Smolenyak discover Barack Obamas Irish ancestry--and his relation to Brad Pitt? Or the journey of Michelle Obamas family from slavery to the White House? Or the startling links between outspoken politicians Al Sharpton and Strom Thurmond? And why is Smolenyaks name squared? Test your own skills as she shares her exciting secrets.
Whether shes scouring websites to uncover the surprising connections between famous figures or using cutting-edge DNA tests to locate family members of fallen soldiers dating back to the Civil War, Smolenyaks historical sleuthing is as provocative, richly layered, and exciting as America itself.
Thank you for taking the time to lay out our family map. . . Youre practically family. You certainly know more about us than we do. Stephen Colbert
Megan is a genealogists dream, a forensic investigator who can also tell a great story. Sam Roberts, The New York Times
Megan is a blessing to cold case detectives and a master genealogist. Julie M. Haney, special agent, NCIS Cold Case Homicide Unit
The Indiana Jones of genealogy. . . Megan Smolenyak is a national treasure. Buzzy Jackson, author of Shaking the Family Tree
In this breezy narrative, Smolenyak allows us to look over the shoulder of a relentless genealogist as she works the puzzle pieces of her craft. Whether unearthing evidence from Internet databases, newspaper offices, court houses, libraries and cemeteries, consulting translators, historians or her vast network of fellow genealogists, pioneering the use of genealogical DNA testing, solving the mystery or occasionally hitting a brick wall, Smolenyak remains wholly committed, curious and cheery, eager to share her methods and excitement. Bottom-up history from a top-shelf researcher.-Kirkus Review
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Citadel; Original edition (February 1, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 080653446X
- ISBN-13: 978-0806534466
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PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT
Megan Smolenyak
Ive got to thank the genealogist.
President Barack Obama, at a May 2011 rally in Dublin, Ireland, where he personally thanked Megan Smolenyak for tracing his roots to the village of Moneygall
Megans work is spectacular.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Thank you for taking the time to lay out our family map. Its something every family should have, and I cant wait to tell my far-flung brothers and sisters about it. Youre practically family. You certainly know more about us than we do.
Stephen Colbert
Watch out, Watson and Crick! Megan Smolenyak decodes our fascinating, complicated past in this tour de force of detective work.
Ken Burns
Megan Smolenyak is a genealogists dream, a forensic investigator who can also tell a great story.
Sam Roberts, The New York Times
Smolenyak is a world-renowned genealogical sleuth.
Philadelphia Daily News
Megan Smolenyak is the genealogists genealogist: the go-to person for building your family tree and solving stubborn historical mysteries.
Dr. Spencer Wells, director of the Genographic Project, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, and author of Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
No one but Megan Smolenyak could have written this book. The Indiana Jones of genealogy, Smolenyaks passion for cracking historical mysteries is on full display here. Many people daydream about tracking down their ancestors; a small subset of those actually make a few stabs at research; but Megan Smolenyak takes it to the nth degree, using paper trails, oral histories, and DNA to unlock the door of the past. Whether its reconstructing the lives of long-forgotten tenant farmers or re-contextualizing the family history of world leaders, Smolenyaks sleuthing reveals that, in fact, all these lives are connected. Anyone interested in genealogy or in the history of this country will love this book. Smolenyak teaches Americans something important: its good to let your roots show! Megan Smolenyak is a national treasure.
Buzzy Jackson, author of Shaking the Family Tree
No one is better than Megan Smolenyak at findingand getting to the bottom ofhistorys mysteries. Once she latches on to a subject, she doesnt let go until shes turned up every shred of hard evidence. And she makes the search itself more compelling than any detective thriller. In this sensational book, Megan invites us along as she excavates the past for incredible stories and champions those whove been overlooked by history. She is, hands down, Americas greatest genealogist, and this book is proof of it.
Andrew Carroll, editor of the New York Times bestsellers War Letters and Behind the Lines
Megan Smolenyak is a blessing to cold case detectives and a master genealogist.
Julie M. Haney, special agent, NCIS Cold Case Homicide Unit
Megan Smolenyak manages to make this book a fun, informative read while still filling it with information. The tales are illuminating, fascinating, and in some cases, heartbreaking. Megan solves genealogical mysteries with a combination of humanity, empathy, and skill that makes for a great read.
Tara Calishain, co-author of Googles Hacks and editor/writer of the ResearchBuzz blog
The authors are smart... Their book offers a comprehensive overview of a frontier that no website currently offers. It is a wonderful portal to this coming century.
Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired, on Trace Your Roots with DNA, co-authored with Ann Turner
I loved it! Thanks so much.
Malcolm Gladwell, on an article Megan Smolenyak wrote about the genealogical aspects of his bestselling book Outliers
Megan Smolenyaks unusual ability to find living relatives of deceased individuals assists coroners and medical examiners with the critical task of next-of-kin notification. Her skills in tracking down families, however remote and distant, are amazing.
Gretchen Geary, Medical Examiner Investigator, San Diego
ALSO BY MEGAN SMOLENYAK
Who Do You Think You Are?
Trace Your Roots with DNA
Honoring Our Ancestors
They Came to America
In Search of Our Ancestors
Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing
Adventures in Discovering
News-Making Connections,
Unexpected Ancestors,
Long-Hidden Secrets, and
Solving Historical Puzzles
News-Making Connections,
Unexpected Ancestors,
Long-Hidden Secrets, and
Solving Historical Puzzles
MEGAN SMOLENYAK
FOREWORD BY HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
CITADEL PRESS
Kensington Publishing Corp. www.kensingtonbooks.com
All copyrighted material within is Attributor Protected.
For BrianId wait another 40 years for you!
For Stacysimply the best sister in the world ever.
And for Annie, Melvina, Fulmoth, Coleman, Hinda,
Philip, and Mabelwelcome back.
For Stacysimply the best sister in the world ever.
And for Annie, Melvina, Fulmoth, Coleman, Hinda,
Philip, and Mabelwelcome back.
Table of Contents
Foreword
HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.
The Alphonse Fletcher University Professor
The Alphonse Fletcher University Professor
The great philosopher Isaiah Berlin, drawing upon the ancient Greek poet Archilochuss witty observation that the fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing, famously divided the worlds great thinkers into those two categories: hedgehogs (including Plato, Dante, Hegel, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Proust), interpret things through one overarching idea while foxes (Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, Pushkin, Joyce), approaching subjects from a variety of perspectives, eschew a single interpretive framework as they write about ideas.
We can, perhaps, draw upon Berlins distinction when we think about the talents of genealogists. Since producing and hosting the popular PBS series African American Lives and Faces of America , it has been my pleasure to work with a few truly great genealogists. And one of these is Megan Smolenyak. Megan is, without question, a fox, if we modify Berlins classification a bit for the kinds of genealogists at work today in this ever-expanding field. Consider the following sentence, taken from one of the chapters in this book and you will see what I mean:
As it was, I e-mailed a friend in Jerusalem, who called a cousin in Cairo, who forwarded some googled links to me in New Jersey, which I then shared with an American cousin in Poland, who passed them on to a professor in
Cairo, who shot the translations to me back in New Jersey, where I facebooked my way to Hodas cousin, who digitized some wonderful family photosall in the space of one week so that I could have something semi-intelligent to say about Hodas remarkable heritage on the Today show. Phew!
And Phew! is right! I know of very few, if any, genealogists who are as adept at the traditional painstaking sort of genealogical research in dusty archives and this sort of speed-of-light research enabled by the Internet. As Megan also says, Admittedly, this isnt conventional genealogy, but family history is constantly evolving, and social networking is one of the newer tools we now have at our disposal. Had all this happened a decade ago, I probably would have been out of luck. She is being characteristically modest: few genealogists have mastered these new tools of social networking as thoroughly as Megan has. When I need a quick answer to a perplexing problem about someones family tree, Megans is the e-mail address that I summon first.
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