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Ancestry travel on pause? These books will inspire your next trip. Raphael Kadushin © Photograph by NATALIJA GORMALOVA, AFP/Getty Images A young tourist watches fishing boats on the shores below Cape Coast Castle in Ghana. The white-washed fort was one of dozens studding the Atlantic coast where slaves were held before their journey to the New World. Like many Americans, I never knew where I came from, with any real certainty. My grandparents had migrated, along with the great wave of persecuted East European Jews, in the early 20th century, so my dad could grow up in the transplanted shtetl of the Bronx, and my mother on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. But beyond my immediate family, any sense of a deeper heritage was a mystery until I discovered a whole lost world one afternoon, museum-hopping in Washington, D.C.

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