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...Carolyn Rowe of Fort Washington and Beverly Woods of Accokeek, past presidents of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, dispelled impressions that tracing family histories through slavery was impossible — a notion first challenged by Alex Haley in ''Roots."
Rowe and Woods, who with Jane Taylor Thomas of Fort Washington authored ''Black America Series: Prince George's County, Maryland" in 2003, said they researched their own families as far back as their great-great-grandfathers despite starting from scratch.
Tracing ancestry can be easier than you think
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