Daniel Danny Trejo Family Tree, Ancestry, DNA, Ethnicity, by Mary Cummins Genealogist

Daniel Danny Trejo family tree, ancestry, DNA, ethnicity, heritage by Mary Cummins genealogist. I did this tree 20 years ago in 2003 and left it on Ancestry.com. That means anyone had access to all the data. I translated the old Spanish documents myself word by word. There was no tree for him on Geni, Ancestry, Geneastar, online...before I made it. I'm sure others probably made one in a private website or their computer but there was no tree on the internet when I made this tree. I did add the photos more recently but it's the same tree.

I love Henry Louis Gates Jr. and PBS' "Finding Your Roots." Great show. That said all of the family trees that he has shown on his show were done by other people many years earlier. He doesn't do them from scratch. I'm sure he probably worked to verify that the data was accurate but he saved years of work by using the existing data. He basically verifies trees, data then weaves it into a nice and compelling presentation. It's a TV show, entertainment.

Danny Trejo acted on the show like this is the first time this information was known. I realize he's an actor trying to put on a good show to promote himself. Still, this data has been publicly available to anyone on the internet since at least 2003. His mother's family was never unknown. Neither was his father's family. Since I made my tree for him I see many other people have linked to it and used the data for their trees. 

I've done over 1,500 trees for famous people and celebrities. Many of them are on Geneastar.org which was bought by Ancestry.com last year. I started making them public for all without a pay wall few years back. I was a little upset that Ancestry sells all my work, my data, my documents to other people for $35/month. Even if your tree is private everyone can see, use all of the data and your photos. They just can't see your name or living people in your tree. If you want your tree, family photos to be private, never put it on Ancestry, Geni, My Heritage, My Family or any other place even if they say it's private. You are giving them the right to sell your photos and data. This is why I don't put any of my photos on Ancestry. Once a relative of mine put one of my photos in his Ancestry account and Ancestry advertised it as one of their photos. It was my photo. I had to send a cease and desist to get them to remove it. They tried so hard to shake me so they could keep it and sell it but they finally removed it. Now I don't even let my relatives have family photos for this reason.

My specialty is Mexican, Spanish, Jewish and African American genealogy research. I like to do the not so famous people, Mexicans, Jewish and African Americans because no one was doing their trees and we need this information out there. I've been working on this project for many years. The main theme is that we are all related. In fact I've also been connecting all of the famous people to my tree. I connected all of the US Presidents, US VPs, English/Spanish/French... royalty, 500 most famous people ever... in my tree. Everyone in the US with one European ancestor is at least a 15th cousin to everyone else with a European ancestor. You just need to know the path.

I generally write a full article on each person in the tree with their biography, history, obituary but you can just read the articles online about the PBS show. It's not as detailed as my articles but I don't feel like doing all that work as other people just take my articles, data and sell it with ads or as a subscription service like Ancestry. I have no ads on this blog. 

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What is the ancestry of Henry Louis Gates and wife Sharon Lynn Adams? Family tree, DNA, ethnicity - by Mary Cummins

 

*If you're going to use any information from this site, link back with my name and this blog address. I'm talking to you, TMZ, Heavy, ethnicelebs. 

Everyone knows Dr. Henry Louis Gates a University Professor and star of "Finding Your Roots." His family tree is all over the Internet. Most people don't know his wife Sharon Adams. Dr. Henry Louis Gates' wife Sharon Lynn Adams was born in 1950 in West Virginia. Sharon went to Yale and was a Professor of Fine Arts at Duke University. She is an artist, a potter and my 11th cousin. She divorced Gates in 1999. 

Sharon Lynn Adams' father Edward Elwyn "Jack" Adams was a coal miner. Her mother was Doris Evelyn Lee. Sharon has two brothers, Robert and Edward, and a sister, Sandy. Below is the obituary of the mother.

"Evelyn Lee-Adams, 90, of Oak Hill, formerly of Pineville passed away on Tuesday May 22, 2018 in Bowers Hospice House. Evelyn was a member of the Pineville First United Methodist Church, she was a member of the Bridge Club, Garden club, Woman’s Club Circle.

Born May 15, 1928 in Holden, she was the daughter of the late Clyde Lee (Deceased) and Mae Butcher-Lee (Deceased). In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Edward Elwyn "Jack" Adams (1921-Deceased) whom she married on October 2, 1948 in Holden, Logan County, WV (per WV Marriage License Register, Logan County, WV, 1948, Page 495, Application Date: September 27, 1948); great-granddaughter, Rebecca Hope (Deceased); sister, Betty Lee-Mallory (Deceased); and brother, David Lee (Deceased).

Those left to cherish her memory include her four children, Ed Adams & wife Jo Adams of Beckley, Bob Adams & wife Teresa Adams of Pineville, Sharon Adams of Watertown MA, and Sandy Adams-Shaw of Beaver; nine grandchildren; and five great grandchildren."

I've taken Sharon Adams' tree back farther than this. My relationship is below.

Family tree of Henry Louis Gates

Family tree of Henry Louis Gates by Mary Cummins, ancestry,ethnicity,dna,mary cummins,sharon lynn adams,family tree,genealogy,henry louis gates, dna, genealogy, ancetry, heritage, ethnicity