Ironically, James Crowley, whose name in Gaelic means "hardy warrior," is also descended from the same line as Gates, having very close links to Niall of the Nine Hostages. Two men at the center of the controversy are linked by their Irish heritage. They lived together. That's how much the science of genetics has changed in terms of the retail market since 2009. 1104, certified through 10 November 2023. guide for finding a professional genealogist. You may yet have your own Bernie Sanders-style moment of genealogy-fueled surprise in the near future (though I cant say whether itll be because youre related to Larry David). Henry Louis Gates is an American literary critic, historian, professor, filmmaker, and public intellectual. And they fought in the Revolutionary War. And there were a lot of people who voted for Donald Trump as a repudiation vote. It's a gift - and for my mom. This is FRESH AIR. Henry Louis Gates Jr. was born on 16 September, 1950 in Keyser, West Virginia, United States, is an American professor. HENRY LOUIS GATES: Well, let's see what we found on your mom's side of the family. Dozens of your favorite THIRTEEN and PBS programs are available to watch on-demand on many popular platforms. To put it simply, Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a man who knows his history, and if knowledge is power, he is a powerful man indeed. A professional genealogist is the person who will build your family tree using records youre familiar with from the show, like censuses and vital records. They had kids, and they're buried next to each other. Now you can get a full sequence for less than $5,000 - some people say $1,000 or $2,000. GROSS: So you assume it was not a consensual relationship, but she managed to own her own home five years after being freed from slavery. #FindingYourRoots#FindingYourRoots airs Tuesdays. Elizabeth Shotbolt , Phillip Fordham, Bridget Shelley , Anthony Hungerford. The researchers also found that as many as one in 12 men in Ireland have the same DNA as the Irish king -- and in Ireland's northwest, that figure rises to one in five. Variety has an exclusive first look at Gates' appearance; scroll down for [] Now think about that. I love my mother, and I love my nickname. Season 9 of "Finding Your Roots" on PBS has seen actors Danny Trejo and Julia Roberts discover more about their family history. The latest episode of Finding Your Roots airs on Tuesday January 31, and features 76-year-old Scottish actor Brian Cox. And my father would just make up stories and tell my brother and me. There have been a lot of TV crossover episodes over the years, but this may be the most unique one yet: PBS' "Finding Your Roots" and host Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. will make a major appearance on Fox's "The Simpsons" this Sunday. Remember all the talk about post-racialism that GATES: We thought when Obama - we had turned a corner, and we could, you know, beat our - the plowshares into pruning hooks - right? Even the Native Americans came from someplace else about 16,000 years ago. In general, however, a family history book is a bound or digital book with sections devoted to your ancestors. One, dated Saturday, January 7, 1888, was from the Cumberland Evening Times. And she invents this pancake mix, and they become fabulously wealthy. Finding Your Roots airs weekly on Tuesdays on PBS. S7 E7 | 0:01:16. There are no review sites like Yelp for genealogists, so it can be tough to know where to start. And on my desk set a red Webster's dictionary. 1913 June 8, 1913. Im looking for a Book of Life., Questlove called his Book of Life, The best book I ever read in my life.. He was 97, as you said. GATES: For which she paid cash. The controversy centered on an episode about the family history of star Ben Affleck. James Crowley, who was responding to a 911 caller's report of men breaking and entering the residence. Last year, Gates uncovered a manuscript of a novel purportedly written in the 1850s by an African American woman who had been a slave. Jeff Daniels sits with "Finding Your Roots" host Henry Louis Gates Jr. in an episode from Season 9 on PBS. In my experience, cousins are usually more receptive to requests for pictures from known family members (as opposed to friendly but unfamiliar genealogists). It would be rather seeing restored the names of their enslaved ancestors." NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. GROSS: Terry Gross interviewed Henry Louis Gates last May when he was in Philadelphia to accept the WHYY Lifelong Learning Award. And you don't have a Y DNA, so that's why you're a woman. And he mustered in in Winchester, Va., on Christmas Day, 1778, and was mustered down the Continental Army in April of 1784. They know about their heritage.' Legend has it that it was Niall of the Nine Hostages who, on a raid in Wales, captured a young slave and brought him to Ireland. Tax ID: 26-2810489. Henry Louis Gates Jr. 0:30. When it came to the bedroom, it seems that Niall of the Nine Hostages was even more fearless and energetic than he was on the battlefield. DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. And finally, PBS has a brand as a trusted provider of nonfiction entertainment, so they have to really safeguard that brand by making sure the stuff they present to viewers is accurate. Even if you were free and you were black GATES: In most states, you weren't allowed to vote. A team of geneticists at Trinity College led by professor Dan Bradley have discovered that as many as 3 million men worldwide may be descendents of the Irish warlord, who was the Irish "High King" at Tara, the ancient center of Ireland from A.D. 379 to A.D. 405. Thank you. FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Nine is a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Media, Kunhardt Films and WETA Washington, D.C. Corporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH . GROSS: And then your slightly more contemporary ancestors not having any rights in the country, you know, or very few rights - not being able to vote, having to live in segregation. He is an American professor, historian, filmmaker, and literary critic. Race is a social construction. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. And the title is Race Is A Social Construction, But Mutations Are Real" (ph). The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. If you have an ancestor that you are particularly interested in, its a good idea to let your genealogist know. I killed my mama. You know, no matter how different we appear phenotypically, under the skin we're 99.99 percent the same. Nobody knows about their heritage, and that's been the biggest surprise.". The new season of his TV series "Finding Your Roots" is now showing on PBS. When my daughters were born, I had them tested for sickle cell because - black people are not the only people in the world that have sickle cell. GROSS: OK. On your mother's side, you found out that you had three men in the family who were freed slaves - freed before 1776. Henry Louis Gates : biography 16 September 1950 - Supporters of Afrocentrics such as Molefi Asante and others say that they assert not that the study of Africa should be exclusively Black, but that the approach of Afrocentricity is critical for setting up black people as agents of their own history. The fifth season of Gates' TV series "Finding Your Roots" is now running on PBS. CLIP. And it's for my father. There are similar shows on TV, but the host knows why his is a cut above the rest. But I think that you should have to get permission before someone is creeping around in your DNA. I've been looking all over Africa and I couldn't find anybody, so I ended up here. Some people get really excited about what goes on under the hood, but some peoples eyes glaze over a bit. GATES: Yeah, yeah. I found the first edition when I was an adult. It makes sensethe format allows Mr. Gates to interpret the findings for the guest and audience by pointing to images and text and then talking about them. We started to roll. Testing showed he had ancestors from sub-Saharan Africa, Ireland and England. And the DNA tests we were doing at that time - when they analyzed my Y DNA, it went to Ireland. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross. Biology matters. African American Studies scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. was born in Keyser, West Virginia on September 16, 1950, the son of Henry Louis Gates Sr. and Pauline Augusta Coleman. And consequently, you are now a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes actors Claire Danes and Jeff Daniels on a journey into their roots, uncovering primal scenes from our nation's past. If you dislike a persons writing style, or if you have difficulty understanding what theyre saying, its probably not a good idea to hire them to write a 100-page book for you. They were buried next to each other. 2023 WNET. There is also the question of What is exhaustive? when it comes to family tree research. He also wrote many non-fiction books on African American history, and won many awards in the process. So (laughter) given the example that President Obama set in calming down that kind of argument in America over you and this officer, what do you hear now coming from our president? Henry Louis Gates Jr. doesn't seem too worried about "critical race theory" or "white fragility" or "woke warriors" or any of those ridiculous buzzwords . And when they analyzed my mitochondrial DNA, it went to England. Ahead of the latest episode on PBS, which features Brian Cox and Viola Davis, Gates Jr. sat down with Newsweek to discuss the origins of the show, and why it's superior to other ancestry shows on TV. JustWatch. And your driver was helping you - well, he was shoving his shoulder against the door trying to open it. "I've been in school since August 31 1956, when I started first grade, I've never left school," Gates Jr. said. I don't think that's true for very many people in this room or any - or many people who are watching this show. GATES: So obviously somebody gave her that money. We wanted to see what more we could tell Ben Affleck about the roots of his family's interest in social justice. And that is a long time. Affleck himself posted an apology on Facebook, saying that he'd talked to Gates about these changes, but the process was, quote, "collaborative." But it's just not those two genetic lines. So maybe you can help me. You should also have an opportunity to view a proof of the book before printing. When I was a boy, I was closer to my mother than my father. well-spoken characters in his father's tales actually existed and were related to him." view all Henry Louis Gates, Sr.'s Timeline. Finding the right genealogist for your projectmaking sure they are qualified, signing a contract, etccan be a confusing task, even if you have been researching your tree for awhile. Henry Louis Gates Jr. told CBS News that marking Juneteenth as a federal holiday was a long time coming.#cbsnews #juneteenth CBS News Streaming Network is th. It's the damnedest thing I ever heard. He co-wrote Lincoln on Race and Slavery, with Donald Yacovone (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009). And I watched reruns of early black films like "Amos 'n' Andy" and "Beulah." But maybe youre thinking, But Im not here for a research report. And so he introduced me to the Yoruba people. Of course not. There he found that he shared 10 of the 11 DNA matches with offspring of Niall of the Nine Hostages, the fourth century warlord who created one of the dominant strains of Irish genealogy because he had so many offspring. Writing samples might range from blog posts to published research in peer-reviewed journals. Combining family tree records with DNA genealogy technology, he initially pitched the show as "Alex Haley in a test tube" (Haley was the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family). Age, Biography and Wiki. So I thought that I had a pretty good chance. If youve found this blog post helpful, please consider buying me a coffee to say thanks. We know that BRCA1, BRCA2 - they're genetic. - Part 01 HD Watch. You might have breast cancer. Lucy was the daughter of Lou Isaac Clifford and Elizabeth Jane Redman. So we knew he was Irish. (These numbers have been updated since this post was written to reflect current market rates.) Or they stayed home, and they drew. Preview E. Larry is joined by professor, historian, and host of the PBS series Finding Your Roots Henry Louis Gates Jr. I said, well, I've never met Donald Trump. That slave would later escape, and go to become Ireland's patron saint, St. Patrick. And my mother used to write the eulogies, the obituaries for all the black people in the Potomac Valley, where I grew up. No one's ever asked me that, but the answer's yes because I studied with a person who has been on your show, Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian playwright, when I went to the University of Cambridge. Birth of Henry Louis Gates, Sr. And I sat down. Then he'd come back. GATES: We know he was Irish from my DNA. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University and Director of the W. E. B. 44 Copy quote. I mean, they know Donald Trump. GROSS: And it was reported as if it was a break-in, and a police officer came and arrested you. And we knew the name of his great-great-grandmother and the name of this white man. Why book banning is back in 2022 - Vox . African-American - I love to joke about this. Gates Jr. explained how mitochondrial DNA, inherited from the female ancestry line, doesn't change. After another successful round with African American Lives 2, with Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman, Maya Angelou and more, Gates Jr. was given an instruction by PBS. They spoke in front of an audience last May when Gates received WHYY's annual Lifelong Learning Award. A family history book can also be expensive, as weve covered, so its worth doing your research to find the best genealogist for your project. (Well cover how to hire a genealogist later in this blog post.). But mutations exist. On July 16, 2009, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested at his Cambridge, Massachusetts home by local police officer Sgt. I'm Dave Davies This is FRESH AIR. That the emotional apex would not be around them discovering where in Africa their mother's mother's line came from. They came in slave ships. He went to Trinity College in Dublin to have his DNA analyzed. Wrong username or password. As I mentioned before, be sure to inquire about digital options, if that is a priority for you. "militia" and "Native Guard" which all seem "soldier related" even if inaccurate. So I would say, you know, no, I don't think so. And it's just crazy. They flew him in from San Francisco. Was this an equal sexual relationship? His father worked in a paper mill and moonlighted as a janitor, while his mother cleaned houses, as described in his memoir Colored People (1994). My mother used to read me - the greatest book ever written to me was "The Poky Little Puppy," right? (SOUNDBITE OF ALLEN TOUSSAINT'S "EGYPTIAN FANTASY"). And my Y DNA, which is - comes in an unbroken chain, descends from this Irishman. It is the first known work of its kind and has great historical and literary significance. Terry will be one of the guests whose family history is explored next year in the sixth season of the show. In my experience, family history books may cost anywhere from $5,000 to over $50,000. GROSS: Whoa. In front of all these people and all these viewers. Related Links. It's incredible that the mystery to my family tree - I'm looking toward Africa, and it was 18 miles away in Moorefield, W.Va., County Courthouse. One important distinction between the Books of Life on Finding Your Roots and a book that you might get from a genealogist is that the books from the show are scrapbooks with relatively little context written down. GATES: And I gave it to my mother once. But just in case youre not, there are other ways to get the Finding Your Roots experience off-screen. Jakes and Chris Tucker. DAVIES: Henry Louis Gates spoke with Terry Gross before a live audience in Philadelphia last May. If you hadnt already guessed, family history books tend to be expensive. GATES: Terry Gross speechless - first time in 35 years. Gates first enrolled in college at Potomac State College in 1968, before transferring to Yale University in 1969. Now she was born in 1819; died in 1888. GATES: Don't you? Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates has apologized after PBS found he violated their editorial standards. Where does your nickname Skip come from? It's a lot of data to process. in England and in the U.S. is the use of DNA. My father loved sports, and I didn't care about sports that much. Henry Louis Gates. So you found out that your ancestors were, like, 18 miles away from where you lived. GROSS: Huge story. GROSS: Thank you for all of all of the things you've written for your TV shows, for your movies. But I think that Donald Trump's rhetoric and some of his actions - for instance, after Charlottesville - encourage unfavorable race relations in the United States. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. My mother was a seamstress, as you know. - like the Aunt Jemima figure. The words Certified Genealogist and its acronym, CG, are registered certification marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by authorized associates following peer-reviewed competency evaluations. When Henry Louis Gates Sr was born on 8 June 1913, in Patterson Creek, Mineral, West Virginia, United States, his father, Edward St. Lawrence Gates, was 34 and his mother, Helen Gertrude Redman, was 31. RELATED VIDEOS. And they got the brothers in uniforms with swords and stuff coming out of the church with this sad, black church music. It is astonishing," he says, "that I have a kinship with someone (Niall of the Nine Hostages) dating back to the fourth century A.D.". Reader, ed. The blog walks you through how to evaluate a genealogists resume, potential red flags, and tips for where to find qualified professionals online. And I'm wondering if being laid up from an injury for a while affected your desire to - and your time to immerse yourself in books. "My wife, Marial Iglesias Utset, is a Cuban citizen and a historian of slavery and the slave trade to Cuba," he explained. GATES: So if you were a Martian and came down to look at my DNA results, you'd think I was a white boy, you know? GROSS: But you had family that passed for white. GATES: Well, the average African-American GATES: The average African-American is 24 percent European. Henry Louis Gates Jr., 72, is a professor, historian and documentary filmmaker. ", Gates Jr. said he'd originally focused on Black guests as African and African American studies were his "brand as it were.". Professor Henry Louis 'Skip' Gates Jr AP. ET: The headline on this article was updated for further clarity around Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s remarks. That's a long time when you're young. Famed Harvard University Professor Henry Louis 'Skip' Gates Jr. got a major surprise when he started researching his own ancestry - in his . And I couldn't imagine what, but two sets of those fourth great-grandparents are from my mother's line. I'm going to be black. And you realize it's Peola, grown up, coming back. Henry serves as a Trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Every reveal [on Finding Your Roots] is another chapter in world history. The way to get a Finding Your Roots-style experience yourself is to hire a professional genealogist. OK. Kids don't even know what they are anymore, but everybody here does. Except in the next scene, I showed him their headstones. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. As host of the PBS series Finding Your Roots, Gates tells celebrities about their family history. The story of Niall of the Nine Hostages is already the stuff of legend, which has been passed on to countless Irish schoolchildren over the years. He was there in exile because he had been in prison and to be offering civil war for 27 months and was given a fellowship at the University of Cambridge. She paid cash for that house in what was largely a white neighborhood. James Crowley, both trace their ancestry back to the legendary Niall of the Nine Hostages. GROSS: So given this kind of really rich mix that you've just described and all the surprises that you've just described, what does race mean to you? Gates has said back then that he and the producers decided not to include the information about Affleck's slave-owning history because they focused on other stuff they found more interesting about his family history. And the obituary said, died this day in Cumberland, Md., January 6, 1888; Aunt Jane Gates, an estimable colored woman. Henry Louis Gates Jr. Family. July 28, 2009 -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., the black professor at the center of the racial story involving his arrest outside his Harvard University-owned house, has spoken proudly of his Irish roots . You have to get permission. And before I started school - I started school when I was, well, 5, turning 6 - I would get dressed up, and I would go to church with my mom. 825 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10019, WNET is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The differences perhaps point to different social and cultural histories within the south.". Meryl Schumacker is Board-certified genealogist no. Thank you for being you. Long before he became the comforting presence on TV, Gates Jr. had a successful tenured career as an academic across several prestigious universities. And by in traction, I mean on my back with my foot up with weights. I have a couple black friends - I went to Yale with Ben Carson and with Ben's wife. 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