After all, we can choose our friends but not our family. He drank beer with a US president, found himself singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and unearthed genetic links to Hollywood actresses and real-life scoundrels. Jacobs' journey would take him to all seven continents. wondered, and how do I find them? So began Jacobs' three-year adventure to help build the biggest family tree in history. That's enough family members to fill Madison Square Garden four times over. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database." Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: "You don't know me, but I'm your eighth cousin. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes family - where it begins and how far it goes - and attempts to untangle the true meaning of the "family of humankind".Ī. New York Times best-selling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically A.
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