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| Introduction: Rewriting History |
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1 No Man Left Behind (for Real) |
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A decade of forensic consulting for the Army |
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Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are related---*Yawn* |
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Could two relatives who knew each other live in four centuries? |
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4 Alex Haley Was Scottish? |
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Uncovering the unexpected heritage of Roots author, Alex Haley, through DNA |
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5 Egyptian Roots in a Hurry |
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Researching Hoda Kotb's roots for the Today show on a fierce deadline |
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6 A House Divided, a Bible Shared |
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The strange travels of a Civil War-era Bible |
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7 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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Why you should call your estranged brother |
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10 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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11 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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Who would rule America today if George Washington had been king? |
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13 Skeletons in the Turret |
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Could DNA reveal the identity of the men of the USS Monitor? |
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14 Anatomy of an Adoption Search |
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Helping adoptees discover who they are |
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15 The Slave Who Rescued Freedom |
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Rediscovering Philip Reed, without whom the Capitol would look very different |
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16 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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Following the trail of an Oregon madam |
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Finding a hidden connection between Al Sharpton and Strom Thurmond |
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19 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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My accidental genetic discovery |
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What I learned from assisting the FBI with civil rights cold cases |
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22 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 |
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