"A Touchstone book."

Ask yourself why you're doing this, or, Genealogy for beginners -- They see dead people but I stick to the living, or, Join your local Genealogical Society -- Interview your relatives and go to your high school reunion, or, Rust never sleeps -- CSI: Lido deck : the genealogy cruise, part 1 -- Beaches and Burke's peerage, or, The genealogy cruise, part 2 -- Information wants to be free, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love DNA testing -- Get back to where you once belonged, or, Hitting the road to Alabama with cousin Mooner -- The mountain and the cloud, or, A pilgrimage to Salt Lake City's Family History Library -- Ask yourself why you're doing this-- and keep asking

"In Shaking the Family Tree, Jackson dives headfirst into her family gene pool: flying cross-country to locate an ancient family graveyard, embarking on a weeklong genealogy Caribbean cruise, and even submitting her DNA for testing to try to find her Jacksons. And in the process of researching her own family lore (Who was Bullwhip Jackson?) she meets legions of other genealogy buffs who are as interesting as they are driven?from the boy who saved his allowance so he could order his great-grandfather's death certificate to the woman who spends her free time documenting the cemeteries of Colorado ghost towns"--Page 4 of cover