Finding Your Roots - Season 8 - Eps 5: Mexican Roots
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the deep Mexican roots of talk show host Mario Lopez and comedian Melissa Villaseñor, uncovering ancestors stretching back to the 1500s. Weaving together stories of migratory farmers, Spanish Conquistadors and Native Americans, Gates conjures up personal histories of diverse, sometimes conflicting, elements.
About Finding Your Roots
Title: Finding Your Roots
First Air Date: 2012-03-24
Last Air Date: 2025-04-08
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 6.4/10 (from 15 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 12
Total Episodes: 120
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.
Self - Host
