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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction: Rewriting History | |
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| No Man Left Behind (for Real) | |
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| A decade of forensic consulting for the Army | |
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| Famous Cousins | |
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| Barack Obama and Sarah Palm are related-*Yawn* | |
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| Serial Centenarians | |
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| Could two relatives who knew each other live in four centuries? | |
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| Alex Haley Was Scottish? | |
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| Uncovering the unexpected heritage of Roots author, Alex Haley, through DNA | |
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| Egyptian Roots in a Hurry | |
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| Researching Hoda Koth's roots for the Today show on a fierce deadline | |
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| A House Divided, a Bible Shared | |
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| The strange travels of a Civil War-era Bible | |
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| There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama | |
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| Tracing his roots to the Auld Sod | |
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| Unclaimed Persons | |
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| Why you should call your estranged brother | |
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| Adventures in TV Land | |
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| You need what by when?! | |
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| Finding Melvina, Michelle Obama's Great-Great-Great-Grandmother | |
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| How do you trace a slave girl in South Carolina? | |
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| The Road to a First Lady's Roots | |
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| Road-tripping to discover all that's not online about Michelle Obama's heritage | |
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| King of America | |
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| Who would rule America today if George Washington had been king? | |
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| Skeletons in the Turret | |
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| Could DNA reveal the identity of the men of the USS Monitor? | |
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| Anatomy of an Adoption Search | |
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| Helping adoptees discover who they are | |
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| The Slave Who Rescued Freedom | |
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| Rediscovering Philip Reed, without whom the Capitol would look very different | |
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| No, Your Name Wasn't Changed at Ellis Island | |
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| Why you shouldn't fall for this popular myth | |
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| Paralyzed Prostitute | |
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| Following the trail of an Oregon madam | |
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| Half a Negro Boy | |
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| Finding a hidden connection between Al Sharpton and Strom Thurmond | |
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| A Lonely Tombstone on the Sidewalks of Manhattan | |
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| The wandering memorial of a Jewish pioneer goes home | |
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| Grandma Stepped Out | |
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| My accidental genetic discovery | |
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| They Call Me Yak-Yak | |
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| What I learned from assisting the FBI with civil rights cold cases | |
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| Annie Moore, Ellis Island's First | |
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| Rectifying a case of historical identity theft | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |