Finding Your Roots - Season 4 - Eps 2: Unfamiliar Kin

2017-10-1060 min⭐ 6.2/10

Guests: Carly Simon, Christopher Walken, and more. In this episode, three guests each learn about a grandparent whose real identity and background had been a mystery to them. Along the way, two of them also discover that their close relatives were on the wrong side of history.

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About Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots

Title: Finding Your Roots

First Air Date: 2012-03-24

Last Air Date: 2025-04-08

Status: Returning Series

Rating: 6.2/10 (from 12 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 11

Total Episodes: 116

Network: PBS

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: Kunhardt McGee Productions, Ark Media, Inkwell Films

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Self - Host

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