Henry Louis Gates Jr. hosts Finding Your Roots on PBS.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Answers Genealogy Questions
ICTMN Staff
February 05, 2013
To kick off Black History Month, Henry Louis Gates, host of the PBS series Finding Your Roots, will be answering genealogy questions on a blog called The Root.
He explains how he became enamored with genealogy when he began delving into his own family’s past.
The first question he answers is about researching a family member the reader believes was a Creek Indian from Tennessee who was brought to Ohio.
To answer, Gates enlists help from the New England Historic Genealogical Society and suggests looking for formal county court records in which the family member’s name is mentioned. He then points the reader to the U.S. Census records in Ohio.
To read Gates’ full answer, visit TheRoot.com.
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dear mr. gates my g.g
dear mr. gates my g.g.grandmother was full cherokee b. 1832 in coats veiw, pa ancestry.tells me. i do not know that happened to her i find her in the chruch records as a infant in st. lukes church pastor rodney in 1833 she was taken by a mrs. wooler. and than i lose her and again pick her up in 1850 census living with a family .i can not understand if she was a slave. i pretty sure she was. but she did not say she was indian for her lifetime. she say she was white. she married my g. g.grandfather in england and had chidlren my g.uncles. i am indian and not afaird to say so. cherokee. so im wondering about her life and her parents lifes. as indians. why did the white man take avanage of these people they stole the land all of the u.s. they killed the indians. cheifs im so fed up that i what to let her heritage be known that she was full cherokee and now i can tell her story. as a slave gril.