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Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the series that explores race, culture and identity through genealogy ...

NEW YORK, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What does it mean to be Hispanic? This Sunday, May 20 at 8 p.m. ET, the season finale of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the PBS television series that explores issues of race and identity through the genealogy of some of America's best-known personalities, seeks to answer that question. Through the family histories of actors ...

Family Mysteries

Like many Americans, genealogy has been a keen interest of mine. I've had a good sense of where my family came from — Spain on my father's side and the British Isles on my mother's. But what I knew was only part of the story. And this Sunday, May 20th, what I subsequently learned will be aired on the PBS series "Finding Your Roots."

Genealogy is about the memories we give, as well

Posted April 22, 2012, at 4:54 p.m. We are our stories, which is why the NBC’s program “Who Do You Think You Are?” is a title with many meanings.

Local collector finds historic treasure

An attorney who lives in Geneva, Joseph M. Midiri has been a collector for years of everything from early 19th-century law books to personal genealogy. “Ever since I was a child, I have always had a profound interest in history and I’ve been a collector,” said Midiri, the son the late Joseph A. Midiri, a longtime Spanish teacher at Canandaigua Academy.

Valley Views - Splitting genes

Who knew genealogy would be so suddenly popular.