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Alex Haley was the author of, among other things, the incredible phenominon that swept the country in the seventies… the television miniseries, ROOTS. The original series was followed soon after with a second series, which brought the entire story to the attention of the country, and lit a fire under a lot of people who had previously had no interest in their ancestry. Roots was a book first, of course. I should probably warn my readers that, because I just watched both miniseries with my children, there is an extreme possibility that there will be a lot more on here about the people it involved… which is considerable. There were people in that book who did almost everything… Coast Guard, blacksmithing, laundry, maybe even one who handled auto insurance quotes online. Alex Haley is buried in the cemetery in his hometown of Henning, Tennessee.

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