Genealogy Books - In Search Of Our Ancestors

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Summary: A Most Enjoyable and Entertaining Book
Comment: I was given this book as a gift for the holidays and couldn't put it down. The books is easy to
read and VERY entertaining. As an amateur genealogist I found the stories heart warming, spine
tingling, and most fascinating. It also gave me ideas of what else I need to do to find additional
ancestors. I have already ordered four additional copies to give to friends and fellow
genealogists.

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Summary: A Book That Warms Your Heart
Comment: I bought this book to read one article, but I got hooked. As I read article after article, I found
that I couldn't put the book down. The book shares unique stories about everyday people who found
information about their own past in surprising and wonderful ways. Now, I find myself telling
friends about the fascinating articles that were in this book.

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Summary: "In Search of Our Ancestors" breaks new ground
Comment: Megan Smolenyak's, "In Search of Our Ancestors; 101 Inspiring Stories of Serendipity and Connection
in Rediscovering Our Family History" breaks new ground in the long-known but little discussed area
of the seemingly divine help millions of researchers have known when they commenced to discover
their kindred dead. The book chronicles the most remarkable--but believable--instances of
individuals who sought to learn of their ancestors and their heritage but who encountered brick
walls along the way, only to have the walls smashed by acts of kindness or happy and unexpected
breakthroughs.

Some of the accounts in the book border on the miraculous, such as when books
fall-off shelves to reveal portraits and biographical sketches of ancestors. There are accounts of
distant cousins from different continents meeting in the same county court house on the same day,
looking for the same ancestors. There are accounts of microfilmed records seemingly scrolling to
the exact spot necessary to find an ancestor. There are accounts of cousins working on genealogy
who discover one another by serendipitous accident: one accidentally leaving his genealogy on a
photocopier the other was next to use.

In all, "In Search of Our Ancestors" is a life-affirming
work, edifying us in our knowledge that we live not just for ourselves and that there is more than
this life alone. It is a remarkable contribution to the hobby and the practice of family history
research.

As a professional genealogist, I have already purchased dozens of the books and given
them to my clients. Everyone should own a copy.

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Summary: Wow...I Never Thought of That...
Comment: Gems of genealogical tidbits wrapped in one hundred and one surprising and fun stories. I was
inspired by, and will never forget, the researchers who thought to ask to actually see the burnt
records, the daughter's pursuit of information about her father who died in the war three months
after she was born, using the Internet to find a sister not seen for six decades -- or any of the 98
other inspiring, sad, sometimes-scary, humorous or (mostly) very happy stories. Even my friends who
are not interested in genealogy wound up carrying the book around to read the stories...everyone
enjoyed it!

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Summary: Simply Inspiring!
Comment: So many times we associate genealogy with just names and dates. This book reminds us that there so
much more to genealogy... the stories of our search, what motivates us, and the reminder that we
all have a fabulous tale to tell. Read and be truly inspired!

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