All rights reserved. It's beautiful. This is FRESH AIR. And the geneticists have found the identity finally of Jane Gates's paramour, the man GATES: Yes. And so he introduced me to the Yoruba people. GATES: Terry Gross speechless - first time in 35 years. This is called an admixture test. But I also watched TV. That's the way it is. And you don't have a Y DNA, so that's why you're a woman. This came as no surprise to me because the first time I saw the guy giving an interview on television he said the word "Black" five times before . And a doctor from the Philippines taught me to play chess at West Virginia University Medical Center in Morgantown, W.Va. And he'd come around in rounds. Henry Louis Gates. I'm going to be black. And when my grandparents came as immigrants, my family was able to assimilate pretty easily because we're white. What percent would be from Europe? Copyright 2019 NPR. 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. Related Articles Around the Web. And the DNA tests we were doing at that time - when they analyzed my Y DNA, it went to Ireland. And I wanted to be from them. The Finding Your Roots host said discoveries about families like Cox's is a welcome lesson. The fifth season of Gates' TV series "Finding Your Roots" is now running on PBS. He has chaired Harvard University's department of Afro-American Studies for many years. And I have my mother's certificate from this vocational school where she learned to be a seamstress. I think you know where I'm heading here. And it turned out - my father used to say, you know, your mother's family is really distinguished, too? And she was a beautiful woman. 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. "militia" and "Native Guard" which all seem "soldier related" even if inaccurate. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Watch the full episode at PBS.org/FindingYourRoots. Things change. One episode this season explores Gates' own DNA and family history. The controversy centered on an episode about the family history of star Ben Affleck. So what I did - my father and I agreed, for science, that we'd put our genomes in the public domain so that any scholar or student can study our genome. 4 min read. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker, who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. The good news is that several of the genealogists who have worked on Finding Your Roots, as well as other shows like Who Do You Think You Are?, are available for hire. They could probably find it out themselves. And she throws herself on the casket. And GATES: Yeah. Where does your nickname Skip come from? So PBS started an internal investigation to figure out what happened, and then on Wednesday they issued their findings. After living in Lexington, Mass., following the death of his wife, Mr. Gates had resided for the past several years at the. "I've been in school since August 31 1956, when I started first grade, I've never left school," Gates Jr. said. He also wrote many non-fiction books on African American history, and won many awards in the process. CLIP. So to me, it leaves open a question of whether or not letting Affleck lobby Gates was the problem or having him actually pressure them and get them to change the material was the problem. GROSS: But you also wanted to know who were your African ancestors. So we knew he was Irish. "And I go, 'What? And your driver was helping you - well, he was shoving his shoulder against the door trying to open it. This will enable them to allocate more time towards researching that individual. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. You get your Y DNA from your father, and that's what makes me a man. "A white man who slept with a black slave. Wrong username or password. Published February 4, 2023 at 5:25 PM EST. I can do it. He grew up in neighboring Piedmont. References are not super common in this business due to privacy. Thank God. Students pose with Henry Louis Gates Jr. following Tuesday, Nov. 19's forum. She was smart and she went to college, which was unusual for a woman in that era. GATES: But then they did another special test. ", When Brian Cox comes on #FindingYourRoots to find out his real familys #SuccessionJoin us tomorrow night on @PBS at 8/7c for an all new episode of Finding Your Roots with guests Brian Cox and @ViolaDavis! GROSS: Yeah. But just in case youre not, there are other ways to get the Finding Your Roots experience off-screen. Memories, Mean, People. Username and password are case sensitive. And while youre at it, think about moving those pictures to dry, acid-free storage above-groundyour descendants will thank you! GATES: I said, thank God. To be clear, I dont work for Finding Your Roots; Im just a professional genealogist who knows people who have worked on the show and I was present for the filming of an episode. 825 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10019, WNET is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. And he, and you, the officer and Joe Biden sat down, had a beer or two. Birth of Henry Louis Gates, Sr. GROSS: There's some people who are trying to use genealogy to out people who are white supremacists and say, oh, you think you're so pure white, that that's such a big deal? You might have prostate cancer that runs in your family. Popular ancestry show Finding Your Roots is deep into its ninth season but host Henry Louis Gates Jr. admits he's "surprised" the show has worked so well with white people included. Thank you. He went to Trinity College in Dublin to have his DNA analyzed. GATES: For which she paid cash. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "FINDING YOUR ROOTS"). 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. The genealogist should walk you through the research process. Coming up, journalist Brian Palmer talks about how slavery and the Civil War are described at Confederate historic sites in the South. Weaving together stories of soldiers, settlers, immigrants and entrepreneurs, Gates travels from World War I battlefields to Civil War prison camps to America's most infamous . My great-great-grandfather's now been found. Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Watch: Ed Norton reacts to slave-owning ancestors in "Finding Your Roots". Not sure which channel that is? And they got the brothers in uniforms with swords and stuff coming out of the church with this sad, black church music. GROSS: OK. And my brother went off to dental school. But one story not told to most Irish elementary schoolchildren was of Niall's prolificacy. It's a lot of data to process. Henry Louis Gates Jr. addressing a class at Harvard in 1996. . They had two geneticists. kannonspatafora66si29. We'd spit in a test tube. GROSS: OK. We're all admixed. In Georgia and Alabama the number is about 9 percent. In front of all these people and all these viewers. Affleck himself posted an apology on Facebook, saying that he'd talked to Gates about these changes, but the process was, quote, "collaborative." And the last thing I did before I went to bed on July 2, 1960, was to look up the word estimable. Listen 9:01. GATES: Our TV - when we woke up, the TV was on, and nobody ever turned it off until you went to sleep. Be sure to watch Finding Your Roots on PBS on Tuesday nights! GROSS: You had family that passed for white. And you realize it's Peola, grown up, coming back. A report is a little more nitty gritty than a book, sort of like how understanding the mechanics of an engine will help you understand what makes a car run. Thank you so much for accepting this award. When I did Morgan Freeman's family tree, it was obvious through his DNA that he was descended from a white man who was an overseer on a plantation in Mississippi. And I was shocked by that. The supposedly fearless leader battled the English, the Scots, the French and even the Romans, and struck fear into the heart of his enemies. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker . The blog walks you through how to evaluate a genealogists resume, potential red flags, and tips for where to find qualified professionals online. So, your real-life family history book might resemble a novel or coffee-table book, rather than a scrapbook like those on the program. I regret we are out of time. You know, I try to - doing "Finding Your Roots" is a way to paying homage to my mother and father every year. Off. The Bondwomans Narrative by Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates, has just been published (Warner Books). Isn't that a cool thing? And it's just crazy. Genealogy for Henry Louis Gates, Sr. (1913 - 2010) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. . DEGGANS: Well, Professor Gates has a reputation as one of the country's leading historians, so the question of his ethical standards is kind of important. And we filmed the whole thing. GROSS: Yeah. 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. Presented and written by Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., this series journeys deep into the ancestry of a group of remarkable individuals and provides new understanding of personal identity and American history. The Life Summary of Henry Louis. Was this an equal sexual relationship? The show tends to highlight only a couple of ancestors for televisiona smart strategy, because it allows the shows researchers to allocate larger chunks of time towards researching the most interesting people. Age, Biography and Wiki. Henry Louis Gates Jr. reveals that he and John Lithgow are DNA cousins. ", Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. 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. Mama - I'm sorry, Mama. It's the damnedest thing I ever heard. The latest episode of Finding Your Roots airs on Tuesday January 31, and features 76-year-old Scottish actor Brian Cox. Many thanks! Gates Jr. says since Moore joined the show, she has "changed fundamentally what was possible in terms of doing a person's family tree.". Unfortunately Gates failed in delivering on this, and instead left the . I have the Ui Neil Haplotype. GATES: And, you know, what's even more amazing, it's - one, it was my mother's third great grandfather - my fourth great grandfather. "My wife, Marial Iglesias Utset, is a Cuban citizen and a historian of slavery and the slave trade to Cuba," he explained. Who is Henry Louis Gates Jr. married to? CORNISH: So as we said, this show features celebrities learning about their family history, and the controversy actually emerged from the Sony email hack, right? I mean, like, my - I'm second-generation American. If youd like to get an idea about what its like working with a particular genealogist, read their testimonials or reviews. As we honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King today, we're going to listen to an interview Terry recorded with historian Henry Louis Gates. DEGGANS: Well, I'm not really sure. GATES: Well, the average African-American GATES: The average African-American is 24 percent European. And that is a long time. If my areas of expertise do not align with your needs, check out my guide for finding a professional genealogist. And they stayed home, and they read. And she's the cook for Claudette Colbert. I don't think that's true for very many people in this room or any - or many people who are watching this show. And I couldn't imagine what, but two sets of those fourth great-grandparents are from my mother's line. You can say on the one hand that race is a social construction. It may include images of records, text, a family tree chart, maps, and any number of other elements related to your family history (though some family history books contain very few images). Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an author, documentary filmmaker, essayist, and literary critic. 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. You might have breast cancer. S9 E2 - 52m 11s. The new season of Gates' TV series "Finding Your Roots" is now running on PBS. GROSS: Do you know - do you want to know your medical DNA? Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Henry Louis Gates Jr. hosts the program, butas I understand ithe does not do the research into the guests' family histories himself. Now think about that. Jeff Daniels sits with "Finding Your Roots" host Henry Louis Gates Jr. in an episode from Season 9 on PBS. 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. So then I became close to them but in two completely different ways. In a real book from a genealogist, context like that provided by Mr. Gates on the show would be written down, so that you could read the book yourself without needing an interpreter to explain things. DAVIES: Henry Louis Gates speaking with Terry Gross in May of last year. But I think that you should have to get permission before someone is creeping around in your DNA. 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. So everybody knew that this whole thing was building to the climax when Delilah - is her name - the character. In 1970, he received a fellowship from Yale that would allow him to work and travel in Africa. It was better to be free than be a slave, but you were free but not free. By Henry Louis Gates Jr. Dr. Gates is the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard. GROSS: So having done your, like, ancestry and everything, were you close to your parents? And I gave it to her for birthday. Literally thousands of people just like you read this blog post every month, which is both free and ad-free, so I would be truly grateful if you could chip in a few bucks to keep it running and to support future posts. And I think that that's sad. They spoke in front of an audience last May when Gates received WHYY's annual Lifelong Learning Award. GROSS: But you had family that passed for white. He married Pauline Augusta Coleman. And she and Claudette Colbert are both unmarried mothers. They flew him in from San Francisco. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. 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. And she invents this pancake mix, and they become fabulously wealthy. ", Gates Jr. said he'd originally focused on Black guests as African and African American studies were his "brand as it were.". But I think that one of the mottos of finding your roots is that there is no such thing as racial purity, that these people who have fantasies, these white supremacists, of this Aryan brotherhood, you know, this Aryan heritage that is pure and unsullied and untainted, that they're living in a dream world. And that night - and then daddy showed my brother and me, Dr. Paul Gates now, chief of dentistry at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital GATES: Well, it's the spirit of my mother. Professor Henry Louis 'Skip' Gates Jr AP. We have a genius, genetic genealogist, one of the pioneers of the field in CeCe Moore." 1. TERRY GROSS, BYLINE: Because you've talked to everybody about their genealogy, I want to talk with you about yours and what you've learned about yourself and the larger meaning of what you've learned about yourself. Gates wrote a friend of his who was a top executive at Sony to ask for advice after Affleck objected to the inclusion of all this slavery material, so those emails came out in April after hackers took a bunch of information from Sony and WikiLeaks published the material. 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. Old photographs are usually kept in families and passed down through the generations, so family albums and attics are the most logical place to look for them. If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. GROSS: Your father died not too long ago - a few years ago. He is the host of the PBS television series "Finding Your . Gates Jr., a self-confessed fan of Succession, was thrilled when Cox agreed to do the show, and shared a behind-the-scenes video of the segment on Twitter on Monday. Gates first enrolled in college at Potomac State College in 1968, before transferring to Yale University in 1969. GATES: And my father lived to be 97 1/2 without any dementia. HENRY LOUIS GATES: Well, let's see what we found on your mom's side of the family. In a commentary in the New York Times, prominent historian, educator Henry Louis Gates cited the work of historian Carter Woodson, pioneer in 1926 of what has become Black History Month. And then he'd - and I read quite a lot. His expertise and experience eventually led him to TV, where he started working as a contributor, narrator and host of a number of history shows, before he eventually worked on the PBS miniseries African American Lives. GROSS: And I read you talking about this. But this week, Gates's wish came true. You should also have an opportunity to view a proof of the book before printing. "We were able to give him his grandfather's heroism and nobility back, that's just such a great feeling." I hope you never come back, you know? 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. If you enjoy genealogical research or history yourself and you want to take a peek at how the pros do it, you might actually enjoy a research report as much as (or more than!) Maria Hinojosas Great-Great-Grandfather Was a Railway CEO, Maria Hinojosa Discovers Her Ancestor Founded a City, John Lithgows Family Fled The Dominican Republic. Armstrong Williams, a person I really admire and like, I ask him, and he said absolutely not. 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. And another person to interpret my genetic data because it's 6 billion base pairs, right? 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. S7 E7 | 0:01:16. Of course, you can do that through mitochondrial DNA," he told Newsweek. 1913 June 8, 1913. And the title is Race Is A Social Construction, But Mutations Are Real" (ph). Brian Cox's family history in Scotland is investigated by host Henry Louis Gates Jr. on a Season 9 episode of "Finding Your Roots. So everybody who showed up on this continent is from someplace else. And by in traction, I mean on my back with my foot up with weights. I told them that I did not want to know if I had any of the sort of - I don't know - the slam-dunk genes for Alzheimer's disease. And when they analyzed my mitochondrial DNA, it went to England. You have to get permission. After more than 500 years of skewed, racist, Euro-centric interpretations of African history and culture, Wonders of the African World with Henry Loius Gates Jr. was to be a bold step towards reclaiming the oft-overlooked and minimized splendor of African civilization. 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 . He was a free negro, as we would have said then. GATES: You know, I'm totally exposed. Family history books can vary widely from one genealogist to the next, but they may resemble chapter- or coffee-table books with sections devoted to your ancestors. And I watched reruns of early black films like "Amos 'n' Andy" and "Beulah." The minister would call on her. GATES: So obviously somebody gave her that money. GATES: But everyone who's in one of those databases has given some kind of permission. And he fought in - for the Continental Army. 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? That the emotional apex would not be around them discovering where in Africa their mother's mother's line came from. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross. Strangely enough, he and the Cambridge, Mass., police officer who arrested him, Sgt. The research for the stories on Finding Your Roots is completed by a team of people, including several professional genealogists who specialize in different subject areas, such as genetic genealogy. Genealogy is one of those things that you can keep doing forever, so itll be up to you, your genealogist, and your budget to determine a good stopping point for your project. 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. . And my Y DNA, which is - comes in an unbroken chain, descends from this Irishman. And the last thing I did before I went to bed was - we always had a desk in our bedrooms and had a bookcase. His expertise and experience eventually led him to TV, where he started working as a . Abby Wolf (New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2012), a collection of three decades of his work, was published in 2012. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker, who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Some books function more like reference books on your ancestors, while others are formatted like short biographies. GROSS: Was that reflected in the way you wanted to say goodbye to your father at the funeral? And what's the real showstopper for me is the fact that my three sets of my fourth great grandparents lived 18 miles from where I was born. And I showed up from Yale, and he became my mentor. If youve found this blog post helpful, please consider buying me a coffee to say thanks. Henry Louis Gates is an American literary critic, historian, professor, filmmaker, and public intellectual. All that was on still in 1965 in syndication. And I learned a lot about the medium. 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 . He serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. And then it was a property requirement. When youre comparing professional genealogists, it is helpful to read their other writing. Why book banning is back in 2022 - Vox . Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates has apologized after PBS found he violated their editorial standards. 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. So the two men who took part in what is now an infamous confrontation outside the Gates home near Harvard this month are actually related through common Irish lineage -- one of the more extraordinary aspects of the incident that has sparked worldwide headlines. **This blog post was updated on 6 April 2022**So, youve been watching the amazing stories about celebrities family histories on the TV show Finding Your Roots on PBS, and after a few episodes, youve started to wonder, Can Henry Louis Gates research my family tree?. They lived together. And he'd make a couple - a move. After a break, he'll talk about his childhood and about how DNA evidence demonstrates there's no such thing as racial purity. DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. GROSS: Have you been medically DNA tested? He reflects on his own history and some of the more controversial aspects of DNA testing. GROSS: Whoa. 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