Finding Your Roots
On PBS
A warm, intellectually engaging documentary series that uses genealogy and DNA to reconnect people with their ancestral past, balancing scholarly rigor with emotional discovery.
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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