Beverley Crisp

A former obituary writer for the Des Moines Register who discovered that dead people are considerably more interesting when you go back far enough. Beverley covers the absurdities of genealogical research — the surname changes that make no sense, the ancestors who lied about their ages for forty consecutive census years, the family bibles with pages suspiciously torn out. If genealogy is detective work, Beverley is writing the comedy of errors.