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adventures in discovering news-making connections, unexpected ancestors, long-hidden secrets, and solving historical puzzles

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An edition of Hey, America, your roots are showing (2012)

Hey, America, your roots are showing

adventures in discovering news-making connections, unexpected ancestors, long-hidden secrets, and solving historical puzzles

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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.

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Publisher
Citadel Press
Language
English
Pages
256

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Subjects
Genealogy, Anecdotes
Places
United States

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Hey, America, your roots are showing: adventures in discovering news-making connections, unexpected ancestors, long-hidden secrets, and solving historical puzzles
2012, Citadel Press
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Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing
2012, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Table of Contents

No 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.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
929.1
Library of Congress
CS21 .S559 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 256 p. :
Number of pages
256

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25360070M
ISBN 10
080653446X
ISBN 13
9780806534466
LCCN
2011278342
OCLC/WorldCat
727702751

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