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DNA helps African-Americans trace ancestry
By BARBARA KARKABI
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
It took six weeks for James Jacobs to find out about his long, lost ancestors — a life-changing event capping years of research.
He had traced his paternal family back to his great-great-grandfather Francois Jacob, born into slavery in 1820. Like other African-Americans documenting family history, Jacobs then hit a wall.
Then he read about a company that could take his DNA from a cheek swab and trace his lineage to an ethnic group within an African country."
God Code: The Secret of Our Past, the Promise of Our Future
By BARBARA KARKABI
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
It took six weeks for James Jacobs to find out about his long, lost ancestors — a life-changing event capping years of research.
He had traced his paternal family back to his great-great-grandfather Francois Jacob, born into slavery in 1820. Like other African-Americans documenting family history, Jacobs then hit a wall.
Then he read about a company that could take his DNA from a cheek swab and trace his lineage to an ethnic group within an African country."
God Code: The Secret of Our Past, the Promise of Our Future
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