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...Alex Haley's 1977 mini-series Roots, eventually watched by hundreds of millions worldwide. Today a quarter of the 300,000 amateur genealogists who visit the Denver Public Library each year are Hispanic. Ukrainian Americans register inquiries at www.carpatho-rusyn.org and Cajuns can search for their ancestors on a CD-ROM of half a million names, compiled by Acadian genealogist Yvon Cyr. In San Francisco, educator Albert Cheng, who has traced 2,800 years of his family history, leads a program for the Chinese Culture Foundation, which takes groups of Chinese-American youths back to their ancestral villages each summer after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genealogy: Roots Mania | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

Immediately afterwards, however, Gates called Appiah to report the good news. "'I've got a question,' I said. 'What's a CD-ROM...

Author: By Kyle D. Hawkins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gates Discusses New Encarta Africana Project | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

Though Gates' relationship with Random House fell through, House fell through, he said that he kept the idea of a CD-ROM format while offering the idea to other publishers...

Author: By Kyle D. Hawkins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gates Discusses New Encarta Africana Project | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

Gates said he then turned to Microsoft, the producer of the CD-ROM Encarta...

Author: By Kyle D. Hawkins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gates Discusses New Encarta Africana Project | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...ROM also, includes "the flora and fauna of Africa," Gates said...

Author: By Kyle D. Hawkins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gates Discusses New Encarta Africana Project | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

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