If there's a bigger cheerleader for genealogy research than Henry Louis Gates Jr. it's unlikely they're nearly as well-connected. A hundred years later, many aunts, uncles and cousins on the maternal side of his family died in Nazi Germany's Holocaust. Researchers traveled to Cuba to search out Catholic church records unavailable online and found "an amazing family tree," Gates said, one different than expected. — Questlove, the musician, producer and writer born Ahmir Khalib Thompson, found his family has an extraordinary place in U.S. history. It was the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States, Gates said.

Source: ABC News October 02, 2017 20:44 UTC