Discovering Roots ~ Following a DNA-id Quest...

My own ancestry is pretty clear since we migrated from the Netherlands when I was a boy. On both Mom and Dad's sides, we can trace several generations back and I have the pride of knowing my roots and an understanding of my background. Shamefully, that's just not so for the many millions of African-Americans whose great-great-{...}-grandparents were forceably enslaved and shipped over. So it's a heartwarming modern scientific miracle that people can DNA-id their ancestral links, just like actor Isaiah Washington recently did when he found his roots with the Mende people of Sierra Leone...