'Roots' author Alex Haley has been shown to have had Scottish ancestors, thanks to a DNA test performed through Ancestry.co.uk. At the Who Do You Think You Are? Live show at London Olympia on Saturday, his nephew Chris Haley was reunited with a distant Scottish cousin, June Jaff-Black.
The full story is available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7917605.stm.
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