ENDNOTES

1 Frank Delaney, Shannon (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2010), 3.

2 “Customer Care page,” 23andMe.com, “What unexpected things might I learn from 23andMe?” 2020, https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202907980.

3 Pat Mertz Esswein, “Discover Your Roots With DNA Testing,” Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, October 3, 2019, https://www.kiplinger.com/article/spending/T065-C000-S002-discover-your-roots-with-dna-testing.html.

4 Global Market Insights, “Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Market to Hit $2.5 Bn by 2024: Global Market Insights, Inc.,” PRNewsWire.com, December 11, 2018, https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/direct-to-consumer-genetic-testing-market-to-hit-2-5-bn-by-2024-global-market-insights-inc--830436085.html.

5 Antonio Regalado, “More than 26 million people have taken an at-home ancestry test,” MIT Technology Review, February 11, 2019, https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/02/11/103446/more-than-26-million-people-have-taken-an-at-home-ancestry-test/.

6 Nikki Graf, “Mail-in DNA test results bring surprises about family history for many users,” Pew Research Center, August 6, 2019, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/06/mail-in-dna-test-results-bring-surprises-about-family-history-for-many-users/.

7 Ibid.

8 Wendy Bottero, “Practising family history: ‘identity’ as a category of social practice,” Wiley Online Library, July 14, 2015, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-4446.12133.

9 Amy Dockser Marcus, “The Family Secret Uncovered by a Writer’s DNA Test,” Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-family-secret-uncovered-by-a-writers-dna-test-11546626551.

10 “About Us,” Vanderbilt University, 2020, https://wp0.anderbilt.edu/fndp/about-us/.

11 Ree Hines, “Carson Daly Reveals the Sweet Story Behind Baby Goldie’s Name,” NECN, March 27, 2020, https://www.necn.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/carson-daly-reveals-the-sweet-story-bsehind-baby-goldies-name/2252160/.

12 Kristine Celorio, “Irish I Were Mexican” (blog), http://irishiweremexican.com/at-post.html.

13 Sam Stanton and Darrell Smith, “How detectives collected DNA samples from the East Area Rapist suspect,” June 1, 2018, https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article212334279.html.

14 Laurel Wamsley, “After Arrest of Suspected Golden State Killer, Details of His Life Emerge,” NPR/WBEZ.95.1, April 26, 2018, https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/26/606060349/after-arrest-of-suspected-golden-state-killer-details-of-his-life-emerge.

15 Ryan Osborne, “A Colorado teen’smurderwas cold for 38years. This cracked the case in weeks,” ABC/TheDenverChannel.com, September 16, 2019, https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/a-colorado-teens-murder-was-cold-for-38-years-this-cracked-the-case-in-weeks.

16 “How Two Lives Met in Death,” Newsweek, April 14, 2002, https://www.newsweek.com/how-two-lives-met-death-143283.

17 Valerie Wingfield, “The General Slocum Disaster of June 15, 1904,” New York Public Library, June 13, 2011, https://www.nypl.org/blog/2011/06/13/great-slocum-disaster-june-15-1904.

18 Ibid.

19 Sarah Jean Green, “‘A wrong had finally been righted’: Tribes bury remains of ancient ancestor known as Kennewick Man,” Seattle Times, February 19, 2017,https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/tribesbury-remains-of-ancient-ancestor-also-called-kennewickman/.

20 Emma Sparks, “Top Travel Trends for 2019,” Lonely Planet, October 22, 2018, https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/top-travel-trends-for-2019.

21 Michael O’Donnell, “Heritage Travel on the Rise with Airbnb and 23andMe,” New York PR Web, June 13, 2019, https://www.prweb.com/releases/heritage_travel_on_the_rise_with_airbnb_and_23andme/prweb16379006.htm.

22 Christian Jarrett, “The Benefits of Thinking About Our Ancestors,” The British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, December 20, 2010, https://digest.bps.org.uk/2010/12/20/the-benefits-of-thinking-about-our-ancestors/.

23 Peter Fischer, Anne Sauer, Claudia Vogrincic, and Silke Weisweiler, “The ancestor effect: Thinking about our genetic origin enhances intellectual performance,” European Journal of Social Psychology 41, no. 1 (February 2011): 11-16, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.778.

24 Christian Jarrett, “The Benefits of Thinking About Our Ancestors,” The British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, December 20, 2010, https://digest.bps.org.uk/2010/12/20/the-benefits-of-thinking-about-our-ancestors/.

25 “The Great Thanksgiving Listen,” StoryCorps, 2003–2020, https://storycorps.org/participate/the-great-thanksgiving-listen/.

26 Mike Brozda, “The Power of Telling Family Stories,” AgingCare, 2020, https://www.agingcare.com/articles/sharing-family-history-95687.htm.

27 Steven J. Hanley, “Your Storied Life,” The Psychogenealogist (blog), https://www.psychogenealogist.com/your-storied-life/.

28 Jaimie Eckert, JaimieEckert.com (blog), 2020, https://jaimieeckert.com/.

29 Isaiah 41:4 (Holman Christian Standard Bible).

30 Steve Anderson, “52 Questions in 52 Weeks: Writing about Your Life Has Never Been Easier,” FamilySearch blog, September 28, 2015, https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/52-questions-52-weeks-writing-life-easier/.