"Robert Downey Jr. sent us a message that he didn’t want to be in the series unless we can find his ancestors back to 1500s. We found them back to 1300s! That’s astonishing."

Henry Louis Gates Jr., on Robert Downey Jr.’s segment on Finding Your Roots (to air on April 22).

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