It is being reported that DNA testing has revealed that Alex Haley was descended from a Scotsman.
Researchers have found that his nephew, Chris Haley, is distantly related to June Baff-Black. She is from South Wales and has traced her lineage back to seventeenth-century Scotland.
Haley’s best-selling novel, “Roots,” told the story of how his mother was descended from an African man who was kidnapped and forced into into slavery. This new DNA evidence supports anecdotes that another ancestor was a white man who worked on a slave plantation.
Haley’s nephew Chris, provided a cheek swab for DNA testing. The sample revealed he was related to June Baff-Black, who had submitted a DNA sample taken from her father. They met at the “Who Do You Think You Are?” event in London on Saturday.
Read more about Haley and his Scots connection in the March 3, 2009 edition of the Herald de Paris.
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