Bill Griffeth was one of the country’s most respected financial journalists on TV until his retirement in 2019. He began covering Wall Street in 1981 on the Financial News Network (FNN). Bill joined CNBC in 1991 and anchored several programs, including Power Lunch, Closing Bell and The Nightly Business Report which CNBC produced for public television. Since 2003, Bill’s hobby has been genealogy and he has traveled tens of thousands of miles in the United States and Europe researching his and his wife’s family histories. He currently serves as a Trustee of New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston. Bill is the author of Stranger in My Genes and Strangers No More.

Bill Griffeth, a longtime genealogy buff, returns to present his second book, Strangers No More. Three years ago, he shared his first book with the Society, A Stranger in My Genes. Bill had taken a DNA test that had an unexpected outcome: the father that he knew and loved was not his biological father. Bill began a quest a solve the mystery of his origins. He learned of choices made by his ancestors, parents, and others that affected his sense of identity. In this next book, Bill continues his journey to learn about his newly discovered biological family and reveals sone closely guarded family secrets. In his retirement, Bill has released an audiobook, Have at It, Sister, a true crime story about Gloria, a South Dakota woman who shot her abusive husband. Gloria is a cousin of Bill's wife.