We bring our investigation to a close, tracing Moby's tree back to Scotland and talk through all of Herman Melville's own family's ancestral hopes. Gregor Ehrlich Background on Herman Melville’s genealogy and Thomas and Allan Melvill’s at

Moby and Herman: Part Two - Cutting In

Sep 11th, 2023 30m 10s

Our research into Moby's ancestry begins in earnest and leads to a Melville ancestor. Notes: LA Times article about the LA Library Foundation event from September 2013 Moby discussing Moby-Dick from a video made for LA Library Foundation

Moby and Herman: Part One - Loomings

Sep 11th, 2023 28m 13s

My friend Adam brings a question to me: is Moby (aka Richard Melville Hall) really related to Moby-Dick author Herman Melville. Notes: A screenshot of Moby’s Wikipedia page, taken May 2023 Excerpt from the Afterword of Moby’s 2016 memoir, Po

Boris and Hannah

Nov 15th, 2020 23m 40s

Hannah's grandfather always said their family was related to Boris Pasternak. The Genealogy Detective digs for proof, and teaches herself the Cyrillic alphabet. Credits The Genealogy Detective is written, researched, produced, edited, mixed, a

Mariel and Ilona

Oct 30th, 2020 31m 29s

Mariel never knew her grandmother Ilona, a Holocaust survivor, or about Ilona's parents, siblings, and extended family. But she's in a place in her life where questions about her family and their history have begun to take on new importance. In

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The Genealogy Detective

Oct 15th, 2020 1m 3s

Most of us live securely in the knowledge of who our parents are, our uncles, aunts, cousins, our grand-parents and great-grandparents. How can we define who we are, unless we know where we came from, and who we came from? Some of us are still

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