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• Shortfall

  Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking

  Echols, Alice

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  Echols discovered her family history in the attic and wrote this book about her grandfather, Walter Davis. In Depression-era Colorado, Davis ran a building and loan association that bankrupted many.

• Futureface

  a Family Mystery, An Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging

  Wagner, Alex,

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  Wagner becomes aware of a troubling mystery in her family history that makes her explore her family's diverse origins. Along the way she examines DNA and questions why genealogy is so important to us.

• Daisy Turner's Kin

  An African American Family Saga

  Beck, Jane C., 1941-

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  Daisy Turner lived to be 104 and kept the oral history of four generations of her family. Beck interviewed her to write this book, which follows Turner's ancestors, taken from Africa as slaves, through to Daisy's own life.

• The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames

  a Memoir

  Cowan, Justine,

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  Soames spent most of her life talking about her upper-class upbringing, but it was only after her death that her daughter Justine Cowan learned about Soames's time living in an orphanage that offered a bleak childhood. By reading her mother's memoir…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess

  Race, Religion, and DNA

  Wheelwright, Jeff

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  A Colorado woman with Indian and Spanish ancestors is diagnosed with breast cancer, which leads to the discovery that she has a genetic marker which is a reliable sign of Jewish descent. In this book the author looks at the history of Jewish people…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Inheritance

  a Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

  Shapiro, Dani,

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  Shapiro innocently took a DNA test that upended her sense of who she was. In this bestselling memoir she shares her story of finding out she was not her father's daughter.

• Common People

  in Pursuit of My Ancestors

  Light, Alison, 1955-

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  Light examines her family history: in part one she looks at her father's family, and in part two her mother's. Throughout English history, her family members had few resources and left few traces, but Light digs deep to create a more complete…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Broken Tree

  How DNA Exposed a Family's Deepest Secrets

  Anderson, Stephen F. (Genealogist),

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  Anderson's mother first admitted that her children were not her husband's children when her husband was unable to donate blood for his son. DNA tests and further research revealed some difficult truths that redefined the Anderson family.

• White Like Her

  My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing

  Lukasik, Gail,

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  Lukasik's mother chose to pass as a white woman in the Jim Crow South, and not even her husband knew the truth. This book follows Lukasik's search for the truth and the way her perception of her heritage changed.

• The Stranger in My Genes

  a Memoir

  Griffeth, Bill (William C.),

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  Griffeth's DNA test for his brother's genealogy research revealed multiple family secrets, which he examines in this book. Having previously written a book about his family history, Griffeth found out that the family tree he had created was…Read moreRead more of this annotation