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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. searches the genealogy of twelve famous people and all are surprised by the ancestors they knew nothing about. Many of them had common ancestors.I found the revelations fascinating.I have a family tree of the Prescotts, my mother's relatives who came to Massachusetts from England (and I even met some of them), but I know little about my mother's father's family, who I think also came from England.I know little about my father's parents except that my grandmother came to Missouri from Germany (I thought from Danzig, which is now Gedansk Poland), but I contacted my sister who found some relatives who will have better information. I believed that my grandfather came from Dodge City, Kansas, presumably from a Welsh family (Jones is a Welsh name). When I was a child I spent many summers with my father's parents, but I learned little about their ancestors.I would like to trace my relatives, but I am not famous so it is unlikely that I will appear on Faces of America 2. I will have to do the work myself (maybe I'll find some American Indian or African relatives).I have 7 DVDs and 1 blu-ray by Dr. Gates, and I have learned a lot from all of them. I have another on the way: Wonders of the African World from 2003, which runs 330 minutes. Since few Americans have studied African history in school, I know little about the subject. I did read all the books I could find in the library about the heroes of the slave revolt in Haiti when I was in middle school.