Trace

Edutainment: Learn about genetic genealogy and DNA testing through storytelling.Heather Schmidt, a college student in Michigan, took a DNA test with Ancestry.com to learn about her ethnicity. She finds herself connected to another student a thousand miles away in Atlanta named Anthony LaGuerre. Together they embark on an adventure through history and across the globe as they uncover their common ancestry. Along the way they meet other distant cousins with whom they begin to reveal the story of a family going back to the 17th Century. This novel weaves together a fictional story of distant relatives finding their common roots, despite their many differences and prejudices. At the same time, the reader learns more about genetic genealogy and DNA testing, and about how the world began to change in 1600s as trade became globalized.