To submit your questions and ill try to get to them as many of them as time allows. Medicares is retired physician geneticist. The other madisons is a first book and a follows a newly 30 your quest. Its been called roots for a new generation. Thank you for being with us. Very happy to be part of this program. Most of us grew up thinking of James Madison as the fourth president , one of the founders of our country, wrote the first draft of the u. S. Constitution and bill of rights. What did you think or what we you told about him growing up . I was told mostly what everyone else was. As you said, this important figure of American History. But i was also told that he was my great, great, great great grandfather through his relationship with one of his enslaved cooks. So he was one of my ancestors. And remind us of this. You are a madison. You come from african slaves and a president. What did that mean to you as a child . To me it set some clear expectations of it was intended to be forc