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Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦<p>Henry Louis Gates Jr. Searched His Own Past and Made a Surprising Discovery</p><p>The ‘Finding Your Roots’ host talks about his family tree, giving up on med school and buying the house his mother once cleaned</p><p>🎁🔗: <br><a href="https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/henry-louis-gates-jr-finding-your-roots-pbs-fd59959d?st=3fb5a734omsp7j0&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wsj.com/real-estate/henry-loui</span><span class="invisible">s-gates-jr-finding-your-roots-pbs-fd59959d?st=3fb5a734omsp7j0&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FindingYourRoots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FindingYourRoots</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HenryLouisGates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HenryLouisGates</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a></p>
AnneTheWriter<p>NEW episodes of <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FindingYourRoots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FindingYourRoots</span></a> with <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/HenryLouisGatesJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HenryLouisGatesJr</span></a> begin THIS TUESDAY (tomorrow) on <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PBS</span></a> (also <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/streaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>streaming</span></a> on <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AmazonPrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmazonPrime</span></a>)! </p><p>Guests this season 10 will include:<br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/LevarBurton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LevarBurton</span></a><br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AlanisMorissette" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlanisMorissette</span></a> <br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BrendanFrasier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrendanFrasier</span></a><br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ValerieBertinelli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ValerieBertinelli</span></a> <br>Comic <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TracyMorgan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TracyMorgan</span></a><br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SammyHagar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SammyHagar</span></a> <br>...And more.</p><p>This year, the show will also uncover the roots of some lucky NON-celebrities.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genealogy</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Geneadons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geneadons</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FamilyTrees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FamilyTrees</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Ancestry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ancestry</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/HenryLouisGates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HenryLouisGates</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FYR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FYR</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/FindingYourRoots10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FindingYourRoots10</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/geneadons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>geneadons</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/T4y1aSeg2h4?si=L5MbJCp5NHRGbgxc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/T4y1aSeg2h4?si=L5MbJC</span><span class="invisible">p5NHRGbgxc</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Which turns out, with DNA work done, to be an Irish Lynch family whose surname morphed to Lindsey when our immigrant ancestor, an indentured servant, came from Ireland to Virginia in 1718….</p><p>And now I find that my "Snead" family, on which I've worked for years — to get past a brick wall I could never get past, which tells you something right there — isn't genetically a Snead family at all, but an Edgeworth family.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/FamilyHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FamilyHistory</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/HenryLouisGates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HenryLouisGates</span></a> </p><p>(3 of 4)</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>You can spend years doing research on "your" family, only to discover, as I have done several times, that the family you imagine is your family isn't your family at all. I spent years accumulating filing cabinet drawers full of information about Virginia Lindsey families I thought were my relatives, but which turn out to have no connection to my own family — </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/FamilyHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FamilyHistory</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/HenryLouisGates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HenryLouisGates</span></a> </p><p>(2 of 4)</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Henry Louis Gates' "Finding Your Roots" is, as ever, riveting this season. A key takeaway: as DNA analysis becomes an ever more prevalent and powerful tool of genealogical research, we all need to prepare ourselves for surprising discoveries that may overturn everything we thought we ever knew about our family lines.</p><p>It truly is always a matter of mama's baby, but daddy's maybe. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/FamilyHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FamilyHistory</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/HenryLouisGates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HenryLouisGates</span></a></p><p>(1 of 4)</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPVpkui03Y8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=iPVpkui03Y</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a></p>
kilombavita<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/skip-ancestors" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/skip-ances</span><span class="invisible">tors</span></a></p><p>Ancestors of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia from Africa, West Africa, and Europe by Jane Ailes; Johni Cerny; Oprah Winfrey; D. Brenton Simons; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.</p><p>Topics<br><a href="https://rage.love/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genealogy</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/maryland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maryland</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/virginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>virginia</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/westvirginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>westvirginia</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/WestAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WestAfrica</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>europe</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/Africanhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africanhistory</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/historyofAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historyofAfrica</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/Africanamerikanhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africanamerikanhistory</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/Africanamerikangenealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Africanamerikangenealogy</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/Afroamerikanhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Afroamerikanhistory</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/Afroamerikangenealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Afroamerikangenealogy</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/unitedstatesofamerika" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unitedstatesofamerika</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/blackchattelslavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackchattelslavery</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/transatlanticslavetrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transatlanticslavetrade</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/HenryLouisGates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HenryLouisGates</span></a>, <a href="https://rage.love/tags/HenryLouisGatesJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HenryLouisGatesJr</span></a>., <a href="https://rage.love/tags/genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genetics</span></a></p><p>Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society</p>
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