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050 00 $aCS21$b.S559 2012
082 04 $a929.1$223
100 1 $aSmolenyak, Megan.
245 10 $aHey, America, your roots are showing :$badventures in discovering news-making connections, unexpected ancestors, long-hidden secrets, and solving historical puzzles /$cMegan Smolenyak ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
260 $aNew York :$bCitadel Press,$cc2012.
300 $axiv, 256 p. :$bill. ;$c21 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aA 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.
505 0 $aNo man left behind (for real) -- Famous cousins -- Serial centenarians -- Alex Haley was Scottish? -- Egyptian roots in a hurry -- A house divided, a Bible shared -- There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama -- Unclaimed persons -- Adventures in TV land -- Finding Melvina, Michelle Obama's great-great-great-grandmother -- The road to a First Lady's roots -- King of America -- Skeletons in the turret -- Anatomy of an adoption search -- The slave who rescued freedom -- No, your name wasn't changed at Ellis Island -- Paralyzed prostitute -- Half a negro boy -- A lonely tombstone on the sidewalks of Manhattan -- Grandma stepped out -- The call me Yak-yak -- Annie Moore, Ellis Island's first.
650 0 $aGenealogy$vAnecdotes.
651 0 $aUnited States$vGenealogy$vAnecdotes.