On this occasion I was motivated by the many people who were researching Bill Gates, also known as William H. Gates III. Preliminary investigations led me to the conclusion that no one had gone further back than 1806 but this wasn’t really the case. In reality, the family history was everywhere, but it was fractured and disconnected. It soon became apparent that many researchers had missed some big connections and that others seemed to be purposely leading people in the wrong direction. But the story of Bill Gates genetic journey is full of both necessary misdirection and peculiar happenstance. It is a tale of kings and knights, treason and slaughter, exodus and colonialism, slavery and war, and one massive family.

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