Megan - Articles

Articles

• March 14, 2008 - US Weekly article - "It's All Relative - Famous Family Trees" Read this article in PDF format
• February 4, 2008 - The Press-Enterprise - "Genealogist to speak in Hemet" by Erica Shen
• October 28, 2007 - New York Post - "Cousins by Dozens"
• September 29, 2007 - Des Moines Register - "Event brings hunter of family history"
• May 13, 2007 - The Washington Post - "Tiny Irish Village Is Latest Place to Claim Obama as Its Own" by Mary Jordan
• May 3, 2007 - Irish Times - "Moneygall is Offaly pleased with Obama connection" by Mark Rodden
• March 21, 2007 - BBC News - "Black roots seekers face hurdles" by Richard Allen Greene
• March 13, 2007 - New York Daily News - "Even a wee bit o' Irish in Barack" by Helen Kennedy
• March 13, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - "Sharpton case drives more to find roots on Web site" by Monica Haynes
• February 2007 - Assorted articles regarding Sharpton-Thurmond
• February 26, 2007 - BBC News - "Sharpton slave link to US senator"
• February 26, 2007 - New York Times - "Sharpton Learns His Forebears Were Thurmonds' Slaves" by Fernanda Santos. Purchase of article required.
• February 26, 2007 - New York Daily News - "Slavery links Al Sharpton, Strom Thurmond" by Austin Fenner
• February 25, 2007 - Washington Post - "Sharpton's Ancestor Was Owned by Thurmond's" by Robin Shulman
• October 10, 2006 - The Wall Street Journal - "Searching for Life's Connection With the Past" by Riva Richmond. Purchase of article required.
• October 6, 2006 - Time for Kids - "Rewriting History: A case of mistaken identity is solved" by Andrea Delbanco
• September 20, 2006 - The Irish Echo - "Putting things right: Annie Moore lived, and died, in New York's hardscrabble streets" by Ray O'Hanlon
• September 14, 2006 - The New York Times - "Story of the First Through Ellis Island Is Rewritten" by Sam Roberts
• Feb. 6, 2006 - Newsweek - "DNA Testing: In Our Blood" by Claudia Kalb
• October 22, 2005 - The Genealogue - "The Mother of Genetealogy" by Christopher Dunham
• August 22, 2005 - Cool Tools - "Trace Your Roots with DNA + The Genographic Project: Practical genetic literacy" by Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired
• July 25, 2005 - The New York Times - "Blacks Pin Hope on DNA to Fill Slavery's Gaps in Family Trees" by Amy Harmon. Registration is needed to read the article.
• March - April 2005 - AARP The Magazine - "The DNA Connection" by Nanette Varian
• February 08, 2005 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - "DNA helping to untangle roots of family trees" by Bob Batz Jr.
• January 10, 2005 - Newsweek - "Tipsheet/Lifestyle: Books" by Lisa Helem
• Autumn 2004 - Colonial Williamsburg Journal article - "Of Surnames, Escutcheons and DNA"
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• May - June, 2004 - American Spirit article - "The Quest for Closure"
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• April 24, 2003 - Richmond Times-Dispatch article - "Who's your daddy? Genealogists look inside their cells for clues to their ancestors" Richmond Times-Dispatch, used with permission.

Audio

• October 18, 2007 - NPR, Day to Day - Maybe Politicians are Cut from the Same Cloth
• June 22, 2007 - NPR, Talk of the Nation - Putting the 'Genes' Back into Genealogy
• June 14, 2007 - listen to The Genealogy Guys Podcast - Drew Smith talks to Megan about Roots Television.
• April 6, 2007 - listen to Family Roots Radio, Voice America - Kory Meyerink talks with Megan about techniques for finding the living.
• February 2, 2007 - listen to Irish Roots Café Podcast - Mike O'Laughlin chats with Megan about Annie Moore, DNA and other genealogical topics
• September 15, 2006 - listen to NPR’s Morning Edition - "Life of First Ellis Island Immigrant Revealed"
• October 2, 2005 - listen to The Genealogy Guys Podcast - Drew interviews Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, co-author of "Trace Your Roots with DNA".
• July 26, 2005 - listen to NPR's Talk of the Nation feature - "Genealogy, Forensics and the Digital Age"
• February 2005 - listen to Written Voices Radio - Allan Hunkin interviews Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, co-author of "Trace Your Roots with DNA."
• August 22, 2003 - listen to NPR's Marketplace feature - "The Lucrative Business of Genealogy"