Megan Smolenyak
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Megan Smolenyak

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Megan Smolenyak is a real life history detective who loves to solve mysteries. You might have spotted Megan or her handiwork on the front pages of The New York Times and Wall Street Journal or on Top Chef, Finding Your Roots, Who Do You Think You Are?, Faces of America, Good Morning America, the Today Show, CNN, PBS and NPR. Formerly Chief Family Historian for Ancestry, she is the author of seven books and has conducted extensive forensic research for the Army, coroners, NCIS, and the FBI. Kind words about Megan's work: "Watch out Watson and Crick! Megan Smolenyak decodes our fascinating, complicated past in this tour de force of detective work." - Ken Burns, on Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing "Megan’s work is spectacular." - from the Foreword of Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "She is, hands down, America’s greatest genealogist." - Andrew Carroll, editor of the New York Times bestsellers War Letters and Behind the Lines
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