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NOVEMBER 2024 GENEALOGY NEWSLETTER |
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The Deep, Deep SnowBY: Brian Freeman Join us for our monthly book discussion. This month we will be reading the "The Deep, Deep Snow" by Brian Freeman! Books are available to checkout at the library, and the audiobook version is available on the Libby app here. WE WILL BE MEETING OFF-SITE AT THE APPLEBEE'S IN NEW HUDSON! Synopsis: Deputy Shelby Lake was abandoned as a baby, saved by a stranger who found her in the freezing cold. Now, years later, a young boy is missing—and Shelby is the one who must rescue a child. The only evidence of what happened to ten-year-old Jeremiah Sloan is a bicycle left behind on a lonely road. Unearthing the lies of the people in Jeremiah's life doesn't get the police and the FBI any closer to finding him. As time passes and the case grows cold, Shelby worries that the mystery will stay buried forever under the deep, deep snow. But even the deepest snow melts in the spring. |
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Michigan Genealogical Council Fall Event
Saturday, November 16, 2024 9 AM to 4 PM 702 West Kalamazoo Street
Lansing, MI 48912 United States
2024 Michigan Genealogical Council Fall Family History Event (in partnership with Archives of Michigan and Library of Michigan*) Featuring Angie Bush, MS Saturday, November 16, 2024, from 9 am to 4 pm at the Michigan Library and Historical Center 702 W. Kalamazoo, Lansing MI In-person or virtual on Zoom Angie Bush, MS will be our speaker. Angie is a Genetic Genealogist Researcher with Ancestry ProGenealogists in Salt Lake City. Angie has been interested in her genealogy since she was very young. After college, she spent several years working in biotech while continuing to pursue her genealogy hobby. With the growing popularity and introduction of autosomal DNA testing in 2012, she decided to combine her two loves into one career. Although she spends a lot of time working on recent unknown parentage cases (adoptions, unknown fathers), her favorite type of research to do involves solving decades old “brick- walls” using a combination traditional records and genetic evidence.
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Unearthing : A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
by Kyo Maclear
Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship? And what does it mean to be a family? Unearthing is a captivating and propulsive story of inheritance that goes beyond heredity. Infused with moments of suspense, it is also a thoughtful reflection on race, lineage, and our cultural fixation on recreational genetics. Readers of Michelle Zauner's bestseller Crying in H Mart will recognize Maclear's unflinching insights on grief and loyalty, and keen perceptions into the relationship between mothers and daughters. What gets planted, and what gets buried? What role does storytelling play in unearthing the past and making sense of a life? Can the humble act of tending a garden provide common ground for an inquisitive daughter and her complicated mother? As it seeks to answer these questions, Unearthing bursts with the very love it seeks to understand.
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DNA and Genealogy
by Colleen Fitzpatrick
- About DNA -- The ins and outs of genetic genealogy -- Surnames studies -- What kind of test is right for me? -- Are we really cousins? -- WOW, OW, WO, and O stories -- Nonpaternity events -- Starting and managing my own study -- How many markers? How many people? -- What can DNA tell me about my surname? -- SNPS, Clades, and haplogroups -- The last wor(l)d, the typewriter -- Appendix A: MRCA calculations.
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The Forever Witness : How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
by Edward Humes
After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf and CeCe Moore solve the murder of a teenage couple with the help of genetic genealogy, which brings up questions of consent and privacy despite the fact we have the tools to catch the many killers responsible for approximately 250,000 murders in the U.S. Illustrations.
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