Description:A poet learns she is distantly related to a king of England. A famous actress finds that one of her ancestors participated in the founding of the United States. Using the most up-to-date technology and tools of genealogy and genetics, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. unravels that tapestry of America to trace the threads of history of several well-known Americans. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is stunned to hear details of an ancestor's birth in 1435. Actress Eva Longoria is entranced by the notation of ... Read more her ancestor's appointment to a post in Mexico in 1603, years before the sailing of the Mayflower. Gates also examines the ancestry of Kristi Yamaguchi, Meryl Streep, Mario Batali and Stephen Colbert, among others. Close
Exploring distant relatives and the shared ancestral connections of Elizabeth Alexander, Meryl Streep, Mike Nicholas, Yo-Yo Ma and Eva Longoria... Full summary