Natl Archives -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ("Finding Your Roots"):
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Description of Pictures: Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the heart of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Finding Your Roots.Join us this evening as Gates discusses practical information for amateur genealogists just beginning archival research on their own roots, and then details the tools of cutting-edge genomics and deep genealogical research that now allows us to learn more about our roots, looking further back in time than ever before. A book signing follows the program.
The event was introduced by Jim Gardner of the National Archives.
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GATES1_141016_020.JPG: Jim Gardner
GATES1_141016_095.JPG: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
GATES1_141016_737.JPG: Free Colored Population
* 488,080 Total
* 132,760 in the Confederacy
* 118,027 in the Border States of Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, and Missouri
* Free Negroes in Free States: 225,224
* Free Negroes in Southern States: 261,918
GATES1_141016_738.JPG: The Three Myths of African American Genealogy
1. Igbo Princess
2. We were never slaves
3. High cheek bones and straight black hair; have I told you about my Cherokee grandmother
GATES1_141016_739.JPG: IV. Genetics and Ancestry
Three Tests
1. Y -- DNA
2. Mitochondrial -- DNA
3. Admixture
GATES1_141016_740.JPG: 4th Great Grandparents x 64
3rd Great Grandparents x 32
2nd Great Grandparents x 16
Great Grandparents x 8
Grandparents x 4
Parents x 2
How Genetic Single Markets Are Passed Down the Generations
GATES1_141016_743.JPG: 4th Great Grandparents x 64
3rd Great Grandparents x 32
2nd Great Grandparents x 16
Great Grandparents x 8
Grandparents x 4
Parents x 2
How Genetic Single Markets Are Passed Down the Generations
y-DNA is passed down from a father to his sons
mt-DNA is passed down from a mother to her children
GATES1_141016_747.JPG: Admixture
GATES1_141016_755.JPG: Average Admixture for African-Americans
* African 73.4%
* European 24.1%
* Native American 0.7%
GATES1_141016_852.JPG: Hidden African Ancestry
* 4% of self-identified "white" Africans have 1% African DNA
* 1% African ancestry indicates an African ancestor within the last six generations, or 200 years
* In South Carolina, 13% of self-identified white Americans have 1% or more of African ancestry
* In Louisiana, 12% of self-identified white Americans have 1% or more of African ancestry
* In Georgia and Alabama, about 9% of self-identified African Americans is about 73%
* The average amount of African ancestry in self-identified African Americans is about 73%
* African Americans living in South Carolina have the highest proportion of African ancestry, about 84%
* +5% of African Americans have at least 2% of Native American ancestry
* Latinos have about 70% European ancestry, 14% Native American ancestry, and 6% African ancestry
GATES2_141016_18.JPG: Doug Swanson, ???, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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2014 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
three Civil War Trust conferences (Winchester, VA, Nashville, TN, and Atlanta, GA),
Michigan to visit mom in the hospice before she died and then a return trip after she died, and
my 9th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City, Sacramento, Oakland, and Los Angeles).
Ego strokes: Paul Dickson used one of my photos as the author photo in his book "Aphorisms: Words Wrought by Writers".
Number of photos taken this year: just over 470,000.
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