Summary of Libby Copeland's The Lost Family

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#1 Alice Collins Plebuch is a retired teacher who loves to sew. She is very short, and her grandchildren call her Grandma Nerd for her love of technology. She warned me not to take my shoes off, because sewing pins were scattered all over her house.

#2 Alice’s brain was trained to solve problems and find solutions years before she was asked to answer the most important question of all. She was not wealthy when she was growing up, so she put herself through college by washing dishes and tutoring kids in math and sewing her own clothes.

#3 Alice was a career woman in the field of information systems and data processing. She was promoted constantly, and she always made sure the systems she worked on were better. She was also an early adopter of new technologies.

#4 Alice had long had questions about her family. Her mother, who was also named Alice, was into genealogy, and kept an old family bible from the 1840s with birth, death, and marriage notations that traced back her English roots.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822589476

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Insights on Libby Copeland's The Lost Family

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Alice Collins Plebuch is a retired teacher who loves to sew. She is very short, and her grandchildren call her Grandma Nerd for her love of technology. She warned me not to take my shoes off, because sewing pins were scattered all over her house.

#2

Alice’s brain was trained to solve problems and find solutions years before she was asked to answer the most important question of all. She was not wealthy when she was growing up, so she put herself through college by washing dishes and tutoring kids in math and sewing her own clothes.

#3

Alice was a career woman in the field of information systems and data processing. She was promoted constantly, and she always made sure the systems she worked on were better. She was also an early adopter of new technologies.

#4

Alice had long had questions about her family. Her mother, who was also named Alice, was into genealogy, and kept an old family bible from the 1840s with birth, death, and marriage notations that traced back her English roots.

#5

Jim Collins, the son of Irish immigrants, knew little of his parents. His mother had died when he was a baby, and his father had given him and his siblings away to a Catholic orphanage.

#6

When Alice began researching her father, she knew it would not be as easy as it was for her mother. She knew her father was Irish, and that he had left the orphanage as a young teenager. But she didn’t know much about his childhood or his parents.

#7

Alice was able to learn about her father’s family history, but was unable to find out much about her grandmother Katie’s death certificate. She learned that her grandmother had died of insanity.

#8

Before autosomal DNA testing came onto the market, two types of genetic testing dominated the consumer market: Y-DNA testing examines the Y chromosome a man inherits from his father’s father, and mtDNA testing examines mitochondrial DNA. They can tell you about one particular genetic line,