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Family Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the family facet of life. Family-Blog: Family-History News Rock shocked by unearthed family history: February 17, 2008
NEW YORK, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- News that his great-great-grandfather went from being a slave to a Union soldier during the Civil War has left U.S. comedian Chris Rock in utter shock. After learning his long-ago relative, Julius Caesar Tingman, joined the Union Army after 21 years in forced servitude and later went on to become a politician, Rock said the unearthed news was a lot to comprehend, the New York Post reported Sunday. "I'm going to cry. I can't believe this. I never knew any of this," the comedian said. The news was presented to Rock as part of the PBS series "African American Lives 2," which allows black celebrities to learn unknown facts about their ancestors. Rock said if he had known his family's history in more detail earlier in his life, comedy would likely not have been his chosen field. "I mean it's weird, if I'd have known this, there's a good chance I wouldn't be a comedian," Rock said. Other notable names participating in the series were actors Morgan Freeman and Don Cheadle, along with singer Tina Turner, the Post said. Family Blog Comment:
Are the family tree and the family history really as important as we take them to be in our human actions, human interactions, human associations and human relations? A few days back, I got a photocopy of a circular, researched and tabulated by one of the members of my family tree, that showed my biological connection to the 10th Sikh Guru - Gobind Singh. Now, how does it make a difference to my life? By that token, Isn't it that the entire population on the planet branches from one single large family tree, of which the stem must have been the very first monkey who would have stood on his (why his, why not her?) twos! We are family - one single family on earth! I wonder, if it is so!
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