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Published
04/19/09
Chris Haley has always been interested in genealogy. But at least when it came to his father's side of the family, he figured things were pretty much covered thanks to his uncle, "Roots" author Alex Haley. 
By Arianne Teeple — For The Capital
s Chris Haley discusses genealogy, a picture of a newly discovered distant cousin, June Baff Black, and her family is shown on his computer. Chris Haley, nephew of Roots author Alex Haley. Haley recently traced the family DNA to Scotland.
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"It had been done," Chris, 46, said last week. "What would I prove that hadn't been proved before?" How wrong he was. Haley, who is the director of The Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland at the state archives in Annapolis, recently learned he has Scottish relatives. He took a DNA test about 18 months ago at an Indiana genealogy conference, and in February learned from...
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