Miles Away from Butler is the story of how a DNA test led a veteran genealogist to discover a ninety-one-year-old family secret that not only had the effect of pruning several branches from his family tree, while at the same time rendering decades of research an enormous waste of time,money and effort, but also led him to have a crisis of conscience: Should he tell the person who lay at the heart of the secret, or remain silent for fear of potentially doing more harm than good?