Honoring Our Ancestors: Inspiring Stories of the Quest for Our Roots
Honoring Our Ancestors has fifty stories that hold one common thread- the seemingly endless way to creatively pay tribute to our ancestors. You'll find stories ranging from building an ancestral ship and quilting a family history, to commemorating an ancestral homeland with a museum and writing music to memorialize the past. The heartwarming stories found within the pages of Honoring Our Ancestors are just what the family historian has always needed. They put life in the names and dates, and give us fifty more reasons to continue researching our past.
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Book details
- Author
- Megan Smolenyak
- Imprint
- Ancestry.com, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Reference › Genealogy & Heraldry
- Topics
- genealogy · family history · ancestor tributes · heritage preservation · ancestral homeland · personal stories · commemorating the past
- ISBN-13
- 9781931279000 (Paperback)9781630263577 (Hardcover)
About the author
MEGAN SMOLENYAK is a genealogist and the author of six books, including Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing, Trace Your Roots with DNA, and In Search of Our Ancestors.
Smolenyak has received the National Genealogical Society’s Award of Merit. She holds a BSFS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, an MBA in International Business from George Washington University, and an MAS in Information Technology from Johns Hopkins University.
When she’s not writing, Smolenyak conducts forensic genealogy research for clients including the U.S. Army, the FBI, NCIS, and coroners, and has served as Chief Family Historian and spokesperson for Ancestry.com. Her work has brought her to Good Morning America, the Today Show, CNN, NPR, and the BBC, and she has consulted on Who Do You Think You Are? and Finding Your Roots.