>> IMAGINE IF YOU CAN LOOK BACK
HUNDREDS OF YEARS AND LEARN
ABOUT ANCESTORS YOU NEVER KNEW
EXISTED.
>> Anchor: WITH THE HELP OF
GENOLOGIST EXPERTS WE EMBARKED
ON A JOURNEY TO FIND OUT MORE
ABOUT LOCAL 10 FACES.
SO TONIGHT, WE ARE DOING TO
BEGIN WITH OUR BETTY DAVIS.
>> PLANNING ON A BEAUTIFUL DAY.
>> YOU KNOW HER AT LOCAL 10
METEOROLOGIST.
>> WE WILL TRACK THAT FRONT
THROUGH THE WEEKEND.
>> BUT LIKE EVERYONE, WHAT IS
VISIBLE TO THE PUBLIC EYE,
HARDLY SCRATCHES THE SURFACE OF
WHO WE ARE.
>> I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE PART
ABOUT WHAT IS IN ME?
WHO AM I?
AM I PART THIS, PART THIS.
WHO WAS WHAT.
I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO KNOW
THAT.
>> HARLIS HUMPHREY PRESIDENT OF
THE STATE GENE LOGICAL SOCIETY
AND DIANNE SOUTHER A DNA
CONSULTANT TEAMED UP TO HELP HER
PEEL AWAY.
>> ARE THERE ANY STORIES THAT
YOU REMEMBER?
>> I DON'T HAVE A LOT OF ORAL
HISTORY ABOUT MY MOTHER'S SIDE,
BUT MY FATHER'S SAID.
>> YOU DO.
>> MUCH OF THAT HISTORY COMES
FROM HER FATHER'S SISTER, HER
RESTAURANT MARRING RATE DAVIS.
>> SHE WAS PRETTY CERTAIN THAT
HER MOTHER WAS NATIVE AMERICAN.
>> BETTY HAD ALSO BEEN TOLD THAT
PAST RELATIVES LIKELY CAME
THROUGH THE SLAVE TRADE.
FROM AFRICA.
IN BETTY'S CASE WE FOUND OUT
THAT HER MATERNAL LINE IS FROMAR
CA, DIRECTLY FROM AFRICA.
>> HER D INCOMESA TEST CAME BACK
76% AFRICA, 23% EUROPEAN, AND 1%
ASIA.
BUT THE PART THAT SURPRISED HER
THE MOST OF THAT EUROPEAN
BACKGROUNDED, SHE IS 8% IRISH
[LAUGHTE
>> Anchor: THAT EFFORT PA IS
FUNNY.
>> IRISH.
WOW.
OKAY.
THAT'S INTERESTING.
>> SHE WAS ALSO SURPRISED TO
LEARN THERE WERE NO NATIVE
AMERICAN MARKERS IN HER DNA.
DIE AN EXPLAINS HOW THAT CAN
HAPPEN.
>> THERE ARE A LOT OF REASONS
WHY YOU DON'T HAVE THE GENETICS
OF A PARTICULAR ANCESTO
BECAUSE YOU GOT 50% OF YOU DNA
FROM AND 50% FROM YOUR MOM.
BUT THE OTHER 50% THAT IS THEIRS
IS LOST IS GONE.
TEN WHAT IF T CHEROKEE DNA
MARKER THAT BETTY'S FAMILY HAD
WAS IN THAT PART SHE DIDN'T GE
>> ON HER MOTHER'S SIDE OF THE
FAMILY COMES THE PART BETTY
SUSPECTED.
HER THIRD GREAT GRAND POWER,
REMEMBERRY, WAS A SLAVE DATING
BACK TO THE 80 TEEN 60'S IN
WEBSTER COUNTY GEORGIA.
>> THERE WAS A SLAVE OWNER,
JAMES YOUER WHOSE HAS 41 SLAVES
THAT ARE LIVING IN EIGHT SLAVE
HOUSES.
AND HENRY WOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT
15.
AT THAT TIME HER RELATIVE IS
LISTED AS PROPERTY IN THE SLAVE
HOLDER'S WILL WITH A VALUE OF
$600.
>> $600.
FOR A HUMAN.
THAT IS JUST REALLY WILD.
YOUR GRANDPARENT NO LESS.
WOW.
>> WELL, THAT'S A SAD PART OF
HISTORY.
>> BUT BETTY IS HAPPY TO LEARN
THERE ARE RELATIVES ON HER
FATHER'S SIDE OF HER FAMILY
DIDN'T KNOW EXISTED.
>> GENETICALLY IT IS A SOLID
CONNECTION.
>> I AM GOING TO LOOK INTO THIS
AND SEE WHO THE COUSINS WERE
THAT I WAS MATCHED WITH AND I
THINK I MAY TRY TO REACH OUT AND
SEE WHO THEY ARE.
I AM JUST CURIOUS NOW.
>> AS THE ONE SHARING HER STORY,
I WAS ALSO STUNNED TO LEARN
GOING WAC THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
>> NICE CALM WEEKEND, BETTY.
>> BETTY AND I ARE CONNECTED.
>> WE DO HAVE A COMMON ORIGIN,
IF WE WERE ABLE TO GO BACK THOSE
THOUSANDS OF YEARS WE COULD FIND
THE ANCESTOR THAT YOU BOTH
SHARE.
>> THIS IS GOOD STUFF.
THANK YOU, I AM GLAD I DID THIS.
>> I AM GLAD I DID THIS.
>> SO THEY CAN PROVE THAT YOU
GUYS HAVE AN AN RECESS TOR WAY
BACK WHEN.
>> YEAH.
>> LIKE THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
>> AND MORE THAN JUST CALVIN,
EVEN A CONNECTION ON MY FATHER'S
PATERNAL SIDE TO RAMSEY THE
THIRD.
>> WOW.
>> LIKE THE FARROW?
>> YEAH.
>> WOW.
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING.
>> I KNOW, I AM A QUEEN.
>> AND YOU AND I ARE IRISH
SISTERS NOW.
>> I KNOW.
SO THERE'S -- JUST SO MUCH
INFORMING, AND A LOT OF THINGS
ANSWERED BUT ALSO OPENS UP A LOT
OF QUESTIONS.
>> I KNOW WE BOTH DID IT SO WE
WILL DELVE INTO MY PAST ON
SUNDAY NIGHT.
AND THAT'S GOING TO BE
INTERESTING TOO, WE KEEP READING
MORE AND MORE, AND I DON'T THINK
THEY GAVE IT ALL TO US.
>> I KNOW.
I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO TALKING
A BIT MORE ABOUT BOTH OF YOU, SO
FROM LORI, NOW WE GO TO BETTY O
DAVIS.