Have you read the latest Morton Farrier genealogical mystery?  If not, you are in for another treat from the pen (computer?) of Nathan Dylan Goodwin. Nathan is a master at presenting believable characters in intriguing plots and time periods.  From 19th century smuggling through women's suffrage and World War II to post-war life, forensic genealogist Morton Farrier has used the latest tools available to construct family histories and solve mysteries for his clients as well as in his own life. The Mystery The Foundlings deals with three women who, abandoned as babies in the 1970s, have found that they are half sisters.  They ask Morton to help them find their common link. Nathan's books are subtle lessons in developing solid research techniques and his characters are so real, I want to search for them on Ancestry along with Morton.  I have to remind myself that they are fictional! Do Genealogy with Morton! www.freepik.com/photos/background' So, sharpen your pencils an...

By Janet O'Conor Camarata Willis, Linda, Looking for Mr. Smith: Seeking the Truth Behind the Long Walk, the Greatest Survival Story Ever Told., New York, New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. Readers familiar with the book, The Long Walk , first published in 1956, remember a survival story about a group of men caught up in the events preceding World War II. Each was sent to a labor camp in Siberia where they joined together in escaping during a blizzard and walking south-southeast for over a year. They walked from Siberia through Mongolia, into China, skirting Tibet and into India between April 1941 and the spring of 1942. The group experienced difficulties and hardships suffered defeats and deaths, and finally, as a much-shrunken band of survivors, they reached India and freedom. The men who began their walk to freedom are all East European: young and old, skilled and unskilled workers from Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, and the Balkans. The oldest escapee at fifty-one ...