If he weren’t already dean of Library and Instructional Services, Richard Cochran would make a good detective. Solving a mystery, after all, got him where he is today.
As a child growing up in Prescott, Ariz., Cochran found a book among his father’s possessions and was drawn to the inscription on the flyleaf, “Guy Cochran, December 25th, 1898.”
“As a child I was absolutely fascinated to have this book without any explanation about who this guy was,” Cochran says. “He was really a kind of mystery man in our family, and that’s what intrigued me.”
What began as puzzlement over a few words written inside a book published late in the previous century started Cochran out on a quest to discover family history. His efforts would unearth a lineage going back nearly 800 years and connect his family not only to fascinating events in world history, but also (surely every genealogist’s secret desire) to royalty.

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Marc Sheehan
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