Henry Louis Gates and Oprah Winfrey continue their quest to discover the full history of her ancestors' struggles and accomplishments. The quest showcases Winfrey's family legacy and showed how census and slave holder's property records can help locate ancestors PBS two-part series "African American Lives” (airing 9 to 11 p.m. Feb. 1 and 8) is stored on your TiVo as a permanent reference guide, as host Dr. Henry Louis Gates meticulously explains the process of tracing one's family heritage back to its roots in Africa using as examples eight prominent black Americans, including Oprah Winfrey and Bishop T.D. Jakes. "There’s been a great dispute in Africa over which tribe I belong to," Jakes told a group of journalists at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour held in Pasadena, CA earlier this month. "So this dispels any myths. And it is impacting on a very deep way to fill in those blanks." Jakes - who has done extensive philanthropic work in Africa and confirmed through Gates that his people come from the Ebo tribe - joins Winfrey and fellow subjects Whoopi Goldberg, former NASA astronaut Mae Jemison, composer Quincy Jones, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, author Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and Chris Tucker as the lucky few assisted by Gates in tracing their roots "We know that there were only 500,000 Africans from the United States," Gates told the critics. "We know where they came from and we know the ports that they came from and we know that 50 percent - if you do a DNA test for the black people in this room, half of you are from an ethnic group between Senegal and Sierra Leone. That's called the Windward Coast. Sixteen percent are from the Biafra, the name of the independent republic of Eboland, and 26 percent are from Angola. Two percent are from Mozambique. It's very fascinating." You won't find a more moving moment on television next month than Oprah Winfrey collapsing in tears after being handed a deed between a white Mississippi landowner named Watson, and one of her ancestors, a freed slave named Constantine Winfrey. Gates somehow got hold of the deed, signed by Oprah's second- or third-great-grandfather, in which he is granted so many acres of land in exchange for picking what amounted to 5,000 pounds of cotton in a given period of time. "If I got anonymous people, you all would've watched. My students would have watched, but the core group that would watch Quincy Jones or watch T.D. Jakes or watch Oprah only, they wouldn’t watch," Gates told the critics, explaining his reasons for selecting only well-known blacks for the series. "So I wanted a scientist, Dr. Jameson. Ben Carson was my classmate at Yale. He's the chief of pediatric neurosurgery down at John's Hopkins. He was the first surgeon successfully to separate Siamese twins joined at the brain." Gates said the celebrities were used to seduce young black kids into the pursuit of their own genealogies. "It’s one thing to hear a lecture about the double helix and Watson and Crick. It's another thing learning that if you swab yourself 20 times on each cheek, in three weeks, somebody will send you back a card saying, Your ancestor came from Nigeria, and more specifically from the Ebo people, says Gates of a new program offering buyers of a DNA kit a chance to mail in their swabs and pinpoint their origin. "Who wants dusty old research in dusty old archives? If you could produce your lineage back to slavery, back to the American Revolution, wouldn't that be more compelling? I think that that's what we've been able to achieve.”" Chris Tucker, whose roots were traced back to a tribe of Africans in Angola, was the only one of Gates’ eight to actually travel to the birthplace of his ancestors. "I thought what a hoot to take Chris to Angola, and I'd never been to Angola," Gates said. On the African American side, Tucker’s great-grandfather owned a lot of property in Georgia and a community called Flat Rock. Noting that the blacks in Flat Rock mysteriously stayed put during the great migration north, Gates discovered through property records that Tucker's great-grandfather was selling off acreage in Flat Rock at 80 and 100 acres a pop to area blacks Gates said he found more about Oprah's ancestors in slavery than any of the other seven subjects, and less about her African ancestry because her genetic signature is very common in West Africa, "so we couldn't pinpoint the tribe or ethnic group,”"adds Gates. He does know enough about Oprah's African lineage to declare that the talk show host, despite her previous announcement on one of her shows, is not Zulu. "None of us are Zulu," Gates affirmed. "There are no African Americans who come from the Zulu people.”" He says Winfrey's family was traced back five generations in the South by finding the wills of the white people who owned her family, as well as property tax information and estate division records. “We found Adam," Winfrey's fourth great-grandfather who was ten years old in 1852. Her second or third great grandfather, Constantine Winfrey, was a former slave listed in the 1870 census as "illiterate," but in 1880, he is classified as "literate.”" "So he mastered literacy," notes Gates. "In 1876, Constantine Winfrey goes to this man (Watson) and says, If I pick 80 bales of cotton in a certain period of time for you, you will give me 80 acres of land," and the man does. We give Oprah the deed that Constantine Winfrey gets in 1881 from this man, presenting him with 80 acres of land. I mean it's astonishing.”" Gates also handed Whoopi Goldberg a petition filed by her family in Florida under the Southern Homestead Act, which got them 104 acres of land in Florida. "Never again will '40 acres and a mule, the Southern Homestead Act, the complexity of black people in Alabama and Mississippi - never again will I approach those subjects and not think of these individual cases," says Gates. "You could read black history books from here to Timbuktu and you won't find a story like that."