A.J. Jacobs book of Adventures Up and Down the World\u2019s Family Tree
by A. J. Jacobs<\/strong> A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: \u201cYou don\u2019t know me, but I\u2019m your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s enough family members to fill Madison Square Garden four times over. Who are these people, A.J. wondered, and how do I find them? So began Jacobs\u2019s three-year adventure to help build the biggest family tree in history.<\/p>\n Jacobs\u2019s journey would take him to all seven continents. 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. After all, we can choose our friends, but not our family.<\/p>\n \u201cWhether he\u2019s posing as a celebrity, outsourcing his chores, or adhering strictly to the Bible, we love reading about the wacky lifestyle experiments of author A.J. Jacobs\u201d (Entertainment Weekly<\/i>). Now Jacobs upends, in ways both meaningful and hilarious, our understanding of genetics and genealogy, tradition and tribalism, identity and connection. It\u2019s All Relative<\/i> is a fascinating look at the bonds that connect us all.<\/div><\/div>