We grew up with wedding albums and family Bibles.

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That's when nationwide conservative radio program Focus on the Family broadcast a 15-minute interview with Anderson, who compared scrapbooks with family Bibles and preached how they could heal wounds, increase children's self-esteem and generally save the world.

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Using expensive Internet databases, census reports, passenger lists, graveyards, family Bibles, "even turning over cardboard boxes and tapping people awake on the street, " says Morse, the hunters track down the rightful heirs, many of whom never even knew the deceased.

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