Kalima Watson is an ancestry detective, and he wants to help you get in touch with your family history because he knows it can change your life.

It shifted his.

“When I delved into my own ancestry, it was life-changing,” he said. “I learned about their stories, the hard things that they did, some of the difficulties that they’ve gone through, challenges that they overcame, and just knowing that helped me to feel like I could draw on their power and then face hard, difficult things as well.”

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kalima Watson works out of his unfinished basement in Eagle Mountain, where he helps people track down their ancestry in videos he posts on Instagram, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025.

It encouraged Watson to push himself, to take some chances. He got a tattoo and we

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