Megan Smolenyak is a real life history detective who loves to solve mysteries. You might have spotted Megan or her handiwork on Top Chef, Finding Your Roots, Who Do You Think You Are?, Faces of America, African American Lives, Good Morning America, the Today Show, The Early Show, CNN, PBS, BBC and NPR.

She's the author of 6 books, including Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing and Who Do You Think You Are? (companion to the TV series) and conducts forensic research for the Army, coroners, NCIS and the FBI.

More information about Megan -- including her programs, books, and a library of many of her articles -- is available at megansmolenyak.com.

Testimonials
"Watch out Watson and Crick! Megan Smolenyak decodes our fascinating, complicated past in this tour de force of detective work." - Ken Burns

"This splendid book makes genealogy come alive in the most vivid and compelling manner." - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (foreword)

"Megan is a genealogist's dream, a forensic investigator who can also tell a great story." - Sam Roberts, The New York Times

"Megan is a blessing to cold-case detectives and a master genealogist." - Julie M. Haney, special agent, NCIS Cold Case Homicide Unit

"Megan . . . is, hands down, America's greatest genealogist, and this book is proof of it." - Andrew Carroll, editor of the New York Times bestsellers War Letters, Behind the Lines & Here Is Where

"Megan Smolenyak is the genealogist's genealogist - the go-to person for building your family tree and solving stubborn historical mysteries." Dr. Spencer Wells, former Director of the Genographic Project, National Geographic

Publications/Media
See www.megansmolenyak.com for details about my books and links to hundreds of my articles

Research Time Periods

• 21st Century
• 20th Century
• 19th Century

Affiliations
APG, NGS, NYGBS, NEGHS, CRS

Degrees
BSFS (Foreign Service, Georgetown), MBA (International Business, George Washington), MAS (Information Technology, Johns Hopkins)