Fitzpatrick, Colleen.
Summary: "The genetic trail an ancestor leaves behind is every bit as important as his paper trail. Though Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA testing, the modern genealogist has a powerful new tool for researching his roots" -- back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rice Book Press 2005
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.1 FITHumes, Edward
Summary: "After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer-and exposed a looming battle between the pursuit of justice and the right to privacy. When Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook were murdered during a trip to Seattle in the 1980s, detectives had few leads. The murder weapon was missing. No one witnessed any suspicious activity. And there was only a single handprint on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 HUMDubrish, Douglas M. (Douglas Martin)
Summary: The author recounts his search for his biological family, from documents to DNA analysis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUBRISH, DOUGLAS M. DUBBoyer, Susan Azim
Summary: Samira Murphy is caring for her widowed grandmother, and trying to get her older brother into recovery for alcohol addiction. With attendance at her dream college on the line, she takes a long shot DNA test to find the support she so desperately needs from a father she hasn't seen since she was a baby. Henry Owen is torn between his unreliable bio-mom and an overly strick aunt and uncle who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOYSummary: DNA testing companies are trending nationally, with over 30 million Americans hoping to receive clues to family origins and forecasts of their future health -- not knowing the results can be misleading, or not considering that family secrets can tear apart relationships. The biggest risk, however, may be what these companies do with our information once they have it, so this program objectively...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SECNewton, Maud
Summary: "Maud Newton's ancestors have vexed and fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother's father, who came of age during the Great Depression in Texas, was supposedly married thirteen times, and survived being shot in the stomach by one of his wives. His father purportedly killed a man in the street with a hay hook, and later died in a mental institution. On her father's side, a Massachusetts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NEWTON, MAUD NEWTwitty, Michael
Summary: "Culinary historian Michael W. Twitty brings a fresh perspective to our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry--both black and white--through food, from Africa to America and from slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 TWIJacobs, A. J.
Summary: Traces the author's three-year investigation into what constitutes family, describing how, after receiving an e-mail from a stranger who claimed to be a distant cousin, he embarked on an effort to build the biggest family tree in history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 929.1 JACCook, Robin
Summary: When the body of twenty-nine-year-old social worker Gloria Montoya, seven weeks pregnant with her first child, shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery's autopsy table, she's baffled to find no apparent causes of death. With no clues to go on, Laurie enlists the help of Dr. Tricia Albanese, a forensic pathology resident with a background in genetic science, to help her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COOGriffeth, Bill (William C.)
Summary: "In his 2016 best-seller, 'The Stranger in My Genes: A Memoir,' Bill Griffeth told of learning that the father who raised him was not, in fact, his biological father. In this sequel, Bill continues his journey to learn about his newly discovered biological family and shares some of the dramatic stories strangers and friends told him about their own shocking DNA discoveries..."--Inside jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRIFFETH, BILL GRIBettinger, Blaine T.
Contents: Part one: Getting started -- Genetic genealogy basics -- Common misconceptions -- Ethics and genetic genealogy -- Part two: Choosing a test -- Mitochondrial-DNA (mtDNA) testing -- Y-chromosome (Y-DNA) testing -- Autosomal-DNA (atDNA) testing -- X-chromosomal (X-DNA) testing -- Part three: Analyzing and applying test results -- Third-party autosomal-DNA tools -- Ethnicity estimates -- Analyzing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1 BettingerGriffeth, Bill (William C.)
Summary: "Bill Griffeth, longtime genealogy buff, takes a DNA test that has an unexpected outcome: 'If the results were correct, it meant that the family I had spent years documenting was not my own.' Bill undertakes a quest to solve the mystery of his origins, a quest which will shake his sense of identity. As he takes us on his journey, we learn about choices made by his ancestors, parents, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRIFFETH, BILL GRICopeland, Libby
Summary: "You swab your cheek or spit in a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Weeks later you get a report that might tell you where your ancestors came from or if you carry certain genetic risks. Or the report could reveal long-buried family secrets and upend your entire sense of identity. Soon a lark becomes an obsession, a relentless drive to find answers to questions at the core of your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1072 COPLord, Emma
Summary: "A new love, a secret sister, and a summer she'll never forget. From the beloved author of Tweet Cute comes Emma Lord's You Have a Match, a hilarious and heartfelt novel of romance, sisterhood, and friendship... When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it's mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already: Avid photographer. Injury-prone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LORShapiro, Dani
Summary: "In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA, Dani Shapiro received the astonishing news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her. In just a few hours of Internet sleuthing, she was able to piece together the story of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio ShapiroJacobs, A. J.
Summary: Traces the author's three-year investigation into what constitutes family, describing how, after receiving an e-mail from a stranger who claimed to be a distant cousin, he embarked on an effort to build the biggest family tree in history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT 929.1 JACBaker, Ellen
Summary: Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BAKGriffin, Laura
Summary: "Forensic genealogist Rowan Healy has made a name for herself by helping investigators trace the family trees of violent criminals who have eluded justice for years. But the pressure of police cases left her burned out, and she's shifted her focus to helping adoptees find their biological parents. Austin detective Jack Bruner has spent his career successfully tracking down vicious criminals --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GRIBojs, Karin
Summary: Karin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. As a science journalist, she was eager to learn more about herself, her family and the interconnectedness of society using DNA research. After all, we're all related. And in a sense, we are all family. - Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929 BOJCook, Robin
Summary: When the body of twenty-nine-year-old social worker Gloria Montoya, seven weeks pregnant with her first child, shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery's autopsy table, she's baffled to find no apparent causes of death. With no clues to go on, Laurie enlists the help of Dr. Tricia Albanese, a forensic pathology resident with a background in genetic science, to help her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cook 2019Cook, Robin
Summary: When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery's autopsy table, at first it appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine drug overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren't adding up. Kera's family and friends swear she never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COOCoben, Harlan
Summary: Harlan Coben returns to Wilde, the man with a past shrouded in mystery who appeared one day in the Ramapo Mountains with no memory of how he got there or the mother and father who abandoned him. Wilde uncovers a major break in the case that may hold the key to revealing the truth of his origins. But the discovery links him with a present-day disappearance and presumed suicide that is much more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC COBCoben, Harlan
Summary: When a DNA match on an online ancestry database leads him to a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces after an epic fall from grace, Wilde must figure out if his cousin is linked to a cunning conspiracy involving a ruthless killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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Summary: When an at-home DNA test reveals the truth about her father, Summer Sutherland, meeting him for the first time, settles into his Carmel home, ready to get to know her instant family--and pursue a romance with his business partner, which could tear their lives apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023