Smeagol
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I'm fascinated with my famly's oral history and if I can ever justify it financially plan to do a DNA database profile. There are a couple of shows I always record: Who Do You thing You Are formerly on NBC, now on TLC I think and Finding Your Roots with Professor Henry Gates on PBS. They both do extensive genealogies on celebrities.
Singer/Actress Vanessa Williams is of 23% Ghanian descent, more than any other group. Not sure if she plans to take it that far but the nation of Ghana gives African Americans fast track citizenship due to an historical claim of their ancestors being taken from Ghana and its vicinity by force. I'm sure there are some economic reasons too. There's a movement in America the lobby the US government to give blacks permission to become dual citizens of both Ghana and the US similar to Israeli-US dual citizenship. Former American Poet Laureate Maya Angelou lives in Ghana have of the year.
Actress Vanessa Williams Explains How DNA Powers Her Family Tree | Ancestry.com
Here's the Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho, and Sanjay Gupta episode.
http://video.pbs.org/video/2230372774
Singer/Actress Vanessa Williams is of 23% Ghanian descent, more than any other group. Not sure if she plans to take it that far but the nation of Ghana gives African Americans fast track citizenship due to an historical claim of their ancestors being taken from Ghana and its vicinity by force. I'm sure there are some economic reasons too. There's a movement in America the lobby the US government to give blacks permission to become dual citizens of both Ghana and the US similar to Israeli-US dual citizenship. Former American Poet Laureate Maya Angelou lives in Ghana have of the year.
Actress Vanessa Williams Explains How DNA Powers Her Family Tree | Ancestry.com
Here's the Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho, and Sanjay Gupta episode.
http://video.pbs.org/video/2230372774
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