Megan Smolenyak is a United States based commercial genealogist and story teller. Her most recent books are Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing and Who Do You Think You Are?: The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History, companion guide to the TV series.
Among Megan’s most satisfying genealogy achievements are;
- Discovering Michelle Obama’s roots (as featured on the front page of The New York Times), tracing Barack Obama’s roots to Moneygall, Co. Offaly, Ireland, resulting in his pint-in-a-pub moment, and uncovering Joe Biden’s Irish and English heritage.
- Correcting history by revealing the true Annie Moore, first immigrant through Ellis Island (as featured on the front page of The New York Times).
- Providing 25 years of forensic consulting services to the U.S. Army to locate thousands of family members of more than 1,700 soldiers still unaccounted for from WWI, WWII, Korea and Southeast Asia
- Using her sleuthing skills to help coroners locate the next of kin for unclaimed persons and establishing a group of volunteers to tackle this quiet epidemic.
