In this clip, Shirley Ann Jackson is left speechless after seeing her ancestors’ associated with a monetary value in an 1839 estate record.

#FindingYourRoots airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on PBS. In the February 4 episode, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the family trees of Francis Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Harold E. Varmus — three pioneering scientists who’ve made dramatic contributions to our understanding of the world, all the while knowing little about their own ancestry.

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