What a great Christmas gift from my step daughter! Genealogy and a good story - what's not to like? The author stumbles into his family genealogy and then decides to host the largest family reunion ever. The friendships he forms and the people he meets on his journey are funny, touching and oh so real. We really are one big family!
Some quotes I flagged:
"...writer Andrew Solomon has a different language. He talks about the 'horizontal family' (who share your passion or worldview or condition) and 'vertical family' (parents, kids, grandparents, etc.)."
"Yaniv Erlich...a geneticist at Columbia University...crunched the data from 13 million Geni relatives to figure out patterns of migration. ...on YouTube [he has] time-lapse animation showing how humans have spread out onto all continents."
"The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins...taught me a new word: concestor. This is the common ancestor linking two species."
"Luca stands for Last Universal Common Ancestor".
Published: 2017 Read: February 2018 Genre: Genealogy, non-fiction
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