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Antes de la popularidad de AncestryDNA, el periodista y crítico cultural Henry Louis Gates, Jr. divulga los árboles genealógicos de varias celebridades, muchas veces con revelaciones asombro... Leer todoAntes de la popularidad de AncestryDNA, el periodista y crítico cultural Henry Louis Gates, Jr. divulga los árboles genealógicos de varias celebridades, muchas veces con revelaciones asombrosas.Antes de la popularidad de AncestryDNA, el periodista y crítico cultural Henry Louis Gates, Jr. divulga los árboles genealógicos de varias celebridades, muchas veces con revelaciones asombrosas.
- Nominado a 2 premios Primetime Emmy
- 6 nominaciones en total
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I have a complicated ancestry which I've spent a ton of time on; because the dna doesn't lie!
How can I get CeCe to help me get my answers?
Celebrities have money and get this for free; I'm retired living below the poverty line and no help.
I know my father was adopted within family. But of course I'm the black sheep for bringing all this information to lite. I'm just not as young as I used to be and it's difficult for me to picture my matches three dimensionally- I have plenty of tested relatives.
I'd pay what little I have to find the answers before I die. That's all I'm asking for. A mystery solved.
How can I get CeCe to help me get my answers?
Celebrities have money and get this for free; I'm retired living below the poverty line and no help.
I know my father was adopted within family. But of course I'm the black sheep for bringing all this information to lite. I'm just not as young as I used to be and it's difficult for me to picture my matches three dimensionally- I have plenty of tested relatives.
I'd pay what little I have to find the answers before I die. That's all I'm asking for. A mystery solved.
I started to watch this a few days ago and couldn't stop watching. I laughed and I cried while learning about people I never knew existed and had no relationship to me.
Another reviewer complained that the program is not telling the whole story about slavery and our founding fathers. No historical record can tell the whole story. We get bits and pieces from various sources.
When I studied U.S. history in school ---I'm 73, as I write this ---no one mentioned that many of our founding fathers had slaves. I learned that information during the intervening years because I've read a lot of history and watched many documentaries. But for many, who don't read history, this may be new information.
I learned much myself from the episodes I watched. For example, I didn't know that freed slaves were often captured and placed back into slavery. I didn't know that some free slaves bought their relatives and had to keep them as legal slaves so they could not be put back into slavery by someone else. I also learned heartwarming stories of slave owners who freed their slaves and gave them property before the Civil War, which I assumed was extremely rare.
I was impressed at how many people were willing to give DNA samples that could possibly prove that their slave-owning ancestors fathered the children of slaves, thus completing some stories about certain branches of a family.
The one thing that everyone can take away from these episodes is that our genetic makeup is rarely pure. We are mostly a combination of ethnicities and races, and therefore racism is not only harmful but stupid. Most of us don't know where all of our ancestors began their lives and under what hardships they lived in order to make life better for their heirs. No matter where they cam from, they contributed to who we are now.
Another reviewer complained that the program is not telling the whole story about slavery and our founding fathers. No historical record can tell the whole story. We get bits and pieces from various sources.
When I studied U.S. history in school ---I'm 73, as I write this ---no one mentioned that many of our founding fathers had slaves. I learned that information during the intervening years because I've read a lot of history and watched many documentaries. But for many, who don't read history, this may be new information.
I learned much myself from the episodes I watched. For example, I didn't know that freed slaves were often captured and placed back into slavery. I didn't know that some free slaves bought their relatives and had to keep them as legal slaves so they could not be put back into slavery by someone else. I also learned heartwarming stories of slave owners who freed their slaves and gave them property before the Civil War, which I assumed was extremely rare.
I was impressed at how many people were willing to give DNA samples that could possibly prove that their slave-owning ancestors fathered the children of slaves, thus completing some stories about certain branches of a family.
The one thing that everyone can take away from these episodes is that our genetic makeup is rarely pure. We are mostly a combination of ethnicities and races, and therefore racism is not only harmful but stupid. Most of us don't know where all of our ancestors began their lives and under what hardships they lived in order to make life better for their heirs. No matter where they cam from, they contributed to who we are now.
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I enjoy the show, I have learned a lot of information regarding my Irish roots, as well as places to make contacts. Many of the guest are forever entertaining.
I remember one story when the mother escaped by carrying her child on her back only to drown it when she crossed a body of water.
Tony Shaloub was one of my favorites.
Valarie
Valarie.
I enjoy the show, I have learned a lot of information regarding my Irish roots, as well as places to make contacts. Many of the guest are forever entertaining.
I remember one story when the mother escaped by carrying her child on her back only to drown it when she crossed a body of water.
Tony Shaloub was one of my favorites.
Valarie
Valarie.
Genealogical research is often fascinating, illuminating and addictive. But here's the thing about televising something that involves a lot of library time and reading -- you have to make it engaging. Finding Your Roots means well but it is nowhere near as fun or interesting to watch as another genealogical show, Who Do You Think You Are, currently airing on TLC. Unfortunately, it is Gates himself that is a drag on the show. He is a scholar and a professor and his sit downs with his guests come across like a dry lecture. The guests show up like good students for the lecture but they have had little or no personal involvement in the quest up to that point. And frankly some of them don't look too interested in their own stories.
I've been involved in genealogical research for many decades and I have learned some remarkable things at the hands of Professor Gates and his association with PBS. I don't want the show to disappear but I would encourage PBS to reformat it in favor of engaging both the guest and the viewer to a higher degree. They have the perfect opportunity to do that in the wake of the revelation that Gates and the show's producers covered up the facts of Ben Affleck's slave owning ancestry.
I've been involved in genealogical research for many decades and I have learned some remarkable things at the hands of Professor Gates and his association with PBS. I don't want the show to disappear but I would encourage PBS to reformat it in favor of engaging both the guest and the viewer to a higher degree. They have the perfect opportunity to do that in the wake of the revelation that Gates and the show's producers covered up the facts of Ben Affleck's slave owning ancestry.
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- TriviaWhen Stephen King appeared on the show, he looked through a scrapbook very much like the one from Eso (1990), based upon his novel.
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Stephen King: [when discovering his roots] Thankyou.
- ConexionesFeatured in Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America (2019)
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