When did Finding Your Roots Season 1 Episode 6 air?
Finding Your Roots Season 1 Episode 6 aired on April 28, 2012 at 8 PM ET.
Finding Your Roots
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.
Season 1 · Episode 6
Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal
Aired Apr 28, 2012at 8PM·1h
Many American descend from a dense soups of European ethnicities; we could call them mutts, with ancestral roots across every country in Europe. Actors Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal are textbook examples of Americans with a rich tapestry of European immigrant stories making up their family trees. We delve in to their deep American roots in early colonial communities, and we meet their Eastern European Jewish ancestors, who share almost identical migration stories From the Mayflower to Ellis Island, we journey through centuries of immigration that shaped and built our melting pot nation.
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How long is Finding Your Roots Season 1 Episode 6?
This episode runs for approximately 60 minutes.
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