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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onMarch 1, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: A blues singer thinks he is descended from Lincoln's mom; his daughter seeks advice.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 22, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: Search the records of the Freedmen's Bureau kept by the National Archives.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 13, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: What to look for in antebellum documents in your family tree search.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 8, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: Help is needed to find the family link to a 19th-century head of state.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 6, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: A reader's hunt for 19th-century records halts with the fire-damaged 1890 poll.
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by Henry Louis Gates Jr. onFebruary 1, 2013
Tracing Your Roots: We kick off our genealogy column with tips for finding Native American ancestry.
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July 20, 2011
In an episode of African American Lives 2 that aired in 2008, the Olympic gold medalist talked about the hurt and pain the older women in her family carried with them.
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May 31, 2011
The Root's editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., introduces our Roots section, where you can get advice on researching your family history.
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May 31, 2011
In an episode of African-American Lives that originally aired on PBS in 2009, Tina Turner learns about her family's origins as sharecroppers.
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May 26, 2011
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s passion for genealogy manifested itself in four PBS series. It brought such enormous satisfaction that we at The Root wanted to perform a public service and help the readers find their roots as well. Send your questions to tracingyourroots.com.
