
Episode 1376 - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
Find Your Roots - Are You the First Guest?
"I was born in Piedmont, West Virginia, which is a paper mill town. Population 2,500 in the year in which I was born 1950," he says. "It's an Italian... I reached Italian paper mill town." His family has lived within 30 miles of this little town for 200 years. He didn't know that until we started filming Find Your Roots and our genealogical team traced his ancestors.
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