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Ever since Alex Haley’s "Roots" launched a genealogical renaissance, black Americans are exploiting the latest genetic research to make once-impossible connections to their ancestral homelands. Blacks who used to search musty file rooms in government buildings, churches and cemeteries for family records have often been frustrated to discover their ancestral trails ended on this side of the Atlantic. Slave owners often changed the names of their captives, and poor record-keeping has prevented most from tracing their bloodlines to Africa. African Ancestry Inc., with its growing databank of African DNA samples, claims it can restore some of those lost connections, however faintly. African Ancestry offers two types of DNA tests and says it can usually trace at least one family bloodline to specific geographic areas on the African continent. It has compiled a DNA database of 10,000 people representing 85 ethnic groups from Africa.
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