Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.
From Henry Louis Gates
My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.
There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.
My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.
All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.
If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.
I'm looking forward to the time when we all look like Polynesians.
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
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