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Finding Your Roots

2012★ 6.513 seasons

Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Self - Host

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1Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.Their European immigrant ancestors blazed unconventional trails in America, from capturing British ships for the American Revolution to crossing raci…60 min2John Lewis and Cory BookerIn this episode, we feature two African American politicians from different generations and opposite backgrounds. John Lewis grew up in a sharecroppi…60 min3Barbara Walters and Geoffrey CanadaWhat's in a name? Well, a lot, at least when it comes to piecing together your family history. For former slaves, choosing a last name was one of the…60 min4Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin BaconWhat do Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have in common? They are both famous actors and both descend from prominent American families that have been in…60 min5Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir QadhiPastor Rick Warren, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl and Sheik Yasir Qadhi are of three different faiths, all with complex family histories that profoundly shap…60 min6Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie GyllenhaalMany American descend from a dense soups of European ethnicities; we could call them mutts, with ancestral roots across every country in Europe. Acto…60 min7Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth SimmonsSamuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Brown University President Ruth Simmons have each climbed to the pinnacle of their profession, yet each start…60 min8Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay GuptaThe three guests in this episode are all children of first- or second-generation immigrants and share the peculiar burdens of that heritage. In an ep…60 min9John Legend and Wanda SykesMost African Americans struggle to trace their ancestors beyond Emancipation; slavery erased names and family ties with brutal efficiency. But what a…60 min10Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda ChavezMichelle Rodriguez, Adrian Grenier and Linda Chavez all share Spanish colonial roots, yet each views their own identity very differently. In this epi…60 min

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