Learn how to discover your famous ancestors. The author, from an ordinary family background and using a new flexible presentation method, shows how to uncover an unlikely and stunning vast array of famous ancestors across the world. The book demonstrates how to weave these ancestors into the narrative of world history, whereby they become fascinating individuals and not just names. It explores the phenomenon of genetic memory, possible for all. We are not who we think we are. This new knowledge changes the way we think of ourselves and the world. Sheila James began writing about the ground-breaking results of her computer analyses of genealogical data in the early 1980s. The current volume, Women Point the Way, is the first in a set of three volumes.