Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100302:01:43:00
For this clipping, and the clipping was the obituary of the oldest gates, jane gates, my great-great-grandmother who was a slave. it was dated january 6, 1888. and it said died this day, jane gates, a colored woman. my father showed me a picture of her, and that picture now hangs on the wall of the kitchen in my house back in cambridge. the next day i got a conversation book and interviewed my mother and father about their family trees. i've been interested in genealogy ever since. >> what stands out for you in various experiences? i know it was different for everybody. especially when you wor...