Hey, America, your roots are showing
Subtitle: adventures in discovering news-making connections, unexpected ancestors, long-hidden secrets, and solving historical puzzles
By: Megan Smolenyak ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780806534466
Subjects: Genealogy; Anecdotes
Description: A noted genealogist reveals what it is like to be a history detective using twenty-first-century techniques and technology, and discusses some of the cases she has solved, including the families of celebrities and work for the Army and the FBI.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: No man left behind (for real); title: Famous cousins; title: Serial centenarians; title: Alex Haley was Scottish?; title: Egyptian roots in a hurry; title: A house divided, a Bible shared; title: There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama; title: Unclaimed persons; title: Adventures in TV land; title: Finding Melvina, Michelle Obama's great-great-great-grandmother; title: The road to a First Lady's roots; title: King of America; title: Skeletons in the turret; title: Anatomy of an adoption search; title: The slave who rescued freedom; title: No, your name wasn't changed at Ellis Island; title: Paralyzed prostitute; title: Half a negro boy; title: A lonely tombstone on the sidewalks of Manhattan; title: Grandma stepped out; title: The call me Yak-yak; title: Annie Moore, Ellis Island's first.