Scott D. Pierce: Genealogy is a religious experience for PBS host

Henry Louis Gates Jr. was born in West Virginia, went to Yale and is a professor at Harvard. But when you get the host of PBS’ “Finding Your Roots” talking about genealogy, he sounds like he might be from Utah. He approaches it with a religious zeal.“I believe our ancestors are in a kind of purgatory waiting to be discovered,” Gates said.He first became interested in genealogy when he was 9 years old and his father showed him a photo and the obituary of his great-gr