Family History

Name Game: Celebrities Have Nothing on the Rest of Us

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 12.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Roots, Names, Genealogy, Humor, Family History, Name Game, Name Play, Celebrities, Entertainment News
Megan Smolenyak

Jason Lee and Beth Riesgraf named their son Pilot Inspekter in 2003, but Pilot Light of Tennessee was born 101 years earlier.

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Michelle Obama: Family History Of First Lady Is Complex, Tied To Slavery

The New York Times | RACHEL L. SWARNS and JODI KANTOR | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Relatives, Dolphus Shields, Great-Great-Great-Grandparents, Melvinia Shields, First Lady, Michelle Obama, White Father, Ancestry, Slavery, Roots, Slave Mother, Family History, Michelle-Obama-Ancestry, Politics News

Melvinia Shields, the enslaved and illiterate young girl, and the unknown white man who impregnated her are the great-great-great-grandparents of Mich...

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A Sort of Hajj: The Pull of Ancestral Homelands

Daniel Cubias | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living

Read More: El Salvador, Latinos, Travel, Immigration, Hispanics, Family History, Hajj, Motherland, Homeland, Political Activism, Ancestry, El Salvador Junta, Ancestral Heritage, Travel Destinations, Hitlist, Living News
Daniel Cubias

With all the dream destinations in the world that I have yet to conquer, why am I hung up on visiting a tiny country best known for warfare and which my family abandoned a generation ago?

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