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January 24, 2010 - San Luis Obispo Tribune - "Genealogy expert Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak to speak at seminar sponsored by sponsored by the San Luis Obispo County Genealogical Society" by Sarah Linn
December 30, 2009 - AFP - "Photographs unearthed of first Ellis Island immigrant"
December 28, 2009 - The New York Times - "Relatives Say Photos Depict Ellis Island's First Immigrant" by Sam Roberts
October 11, 2009 - Voice Online - "Michelle Obama's roots traced back to six-year-old slave girl"
October 10, 2009 - Kansas City Star - "Modern and abstract art adorns the Obama White House"
October 9, 2009 - The Guardian - "Michelle Obama may have white slave-owner ancestor" by Ed Pilkington
October 9, 2009 - Irish Times - "White slave-owner roots of Michelle Obama unearthed" by Lara Marlowe
October 9, 2009 - Daily Mail Online - "White 'slave-owner' roots of Michelle Obama revealed" by Paul Thompson and Wil Longbottom
October 8, 2009 - BBC News - "US first lady 'slave roots' found"
October 7, 2009 - New York Times - "In First Lady's Roots, a Complex Path From Slavery" by Rachel L. Swarns and Jodi Kantor
October 7, 2009 - Chicago Breaking News - "Genealogist traces Michelle Obama's roots" by Katherine Skiba
October 7, 2009 - Leader-Post - "Michelle Obama's roots traced to mixed-race family" by Sheldon Alberts
September 3, 2009 - The Spokesman Review - "High Noon: Genealogy Buffs To Meet"
May 16, 2009 - Tuscaloosa News - "DNA research finally confirms 'Roots' author's ties to Alabama" by Michael E. Palmer
April 7, 2009 - USA Today - "DNA testing: 'Roots' author Haley rooted in Scotland, too" by Rita Rubin
March 24, 2009 - The Post and Courier - "Charleston connection to bronze cast: Statue of Freedom by Wevonneda Minis" (watch ABC News video about Philip Reed)
March 17, 2009 - Washington Examiner - "Obama, Biden both feeling their Irish heritage today: Long lost brothers?" by Kiki Ryan and Jeff Dufour
February 15, 2009 - The San Bernardino Sun - "Sadness, reality attach themselves to unclaimed persons list" by Stacia Glenn
February 3, 2009 - San Diego Union-Tribune - "Answers found in county push to identify the nameless dead" by David Hasemyer (featuring a case researched by Unclaimed Persons)
January 20, 2009 - New York Times - "A Portrait of Change: Nation's Many Faces in Extended First Family" by Jodi Kantor
January/February 2009 - Ancestry - "Unclaimed Persons"
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December 2008/January 2009 - Irish America - "A New Dawn in American Politics"
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December 2008/January 2009 - Irish America - "A Celtic Cross for Annie Moore"
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November/December 2008 - Ancestry Magazine - "The Quest for Obama's Irish Roots"
October 15, 2008 - The Irish Echo - "Annie's Place" by Ray O'Hanlon
October 13, 2008 - Irish Times - "Ellis Island's first immigrant honoured" by Lucy Kennedy
October 8, 2008 - The Irish Echo - "Annie's Day" by Ray O'Hanlon
October 8, 2008 - Newsweek - "The Man Who Would Be King" by Kurt Soller
October 8, 2008 - Reuters UK - "Palin may be related to Princess Diana and Roosevelt" by Ellen Wulfhorst
October 7, 2008 - USA Today - "Texan is Washington's kin, and could've been king" by Michelle Roberts
October 5, 2008 - Cleveland Plain Dealer - "Presidential candidate Obama has Irish kin in southern Ohio" by Margaret Bernstein (includes PDF download of Obama's Family Tree)
October 1, 2008 - Newsweek - "O'Bama? Why Irish Eyes are Smiling" by Carl Sullivan
September 2008 - Irish Times - "Four Green Fields" (about 2008 U.S. elections)
September 2008 - Ancestry Magazine - "The Man (or Woman) Who Would Be King"
August 29, 2008 - AFP - Google News - "Obama, Biden descended from Irish cobblers: researcher"
August 13, 2008 - Irish Echo Online - "Annie will finally get her marker"
June 2008 - North and South Magazine - "Barking up the Family Tree" by Stacey Anyan
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July 2, 2008 - The Times-Picayune - "Expert has riveting take on genealogy"
March 14, 2008 - US Weekly - "It's All Relative - Famous Family Trees"
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February 27, 2008 - ABC News - "Genealogy: Digging Into Your Roots" by Eleanor Hong
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" - Pay to View Archive article
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 (registration may be required to read the article)
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
December 6, 2007 - Tuoi Tre Online - "Viet lich su nuoc My qua ADN" by THÛY TÛNG - translation and remarks
October 20, 2006 - Monterey County Herald - "Finding and losing his brother on the same day Carmel man learned of sibling after Army identified remains" by Kevin Howe (one of Megan's Army cases)
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
February 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 - "Of Surnames, Escutcheons and DNA"
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May 27, 2004 - Washington Post - "Fallen but Never Forgotten: Remains Buried 60 Years After Flier's Disappearance" by Matt Schudel, Washington Post Staff (one of Megan's Army cases)
May/June, 2004 - American Spirit - "The Quest for Closure"
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April 24, 2003 - Richmond Times-Dispatch - "Who's your daddy? Genealogists look inside their cells for clues to their ancestors" by A.J. Hostetler
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Audio

March 10, 2010 - - MPR News - "The genealogy craze". Guests: Megan Smolenyak - genealogist. Her new book is "Who Do You Think You Are?: The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History." The Internet and DNA testing are enabling amateur and professional genealogists to trace family lines back hundreds of years. These tools, combined with a growing interest in our roots, are leading many people to investigate their family history.
February 10, 2010 - NPR's Marketplace - "How Big Is Genealogy?"
September 2, 2008 - listen to Dear Myrtle's Family History Hour Podcast
April 25, 2008 - Ancestry.ca on the John Donabie Show, CFRB-AM - Listen to Donabie and Megan Smolenyak discuss celebrity cousins, millions of names in the Drouin Collection and more
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"

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