Steven R. Butler, author, historian, and an Associate Professor of History atCollin College in Plano Texas, has spent nearly fifty years researching hisfamily's history. During all that time, he had his share of surprises, butnothing ever prepared him for what was undoubtedly the biggest surpriseof all: Learning that a revered grandparent had taken a secret to the grave,a secret which when revealed, had the effect of changing nearly everythinghe knew, or thought he knew, about his paternal ancestry.