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Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots

2012Returning SeriesNext: Feb 24 8pm ET12 Seasons120 Episodes6.2TMDB
PBS

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 7

Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons

Aired Apr 29, 2012at 8PM·1h

Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Brown University President Ruth Simmons have each climbed to the pinnacle of their profession, yet each started life as a second class citizen in the Jim Crow south. In this episode we will use DNA to investigate family mysteries: where do they come from in Africa, and who are the white men in their family trees?

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When did Finding Your Roots Season 1 Episode 7 air?

Finding Your Roots Season 1 Episode 7 aired on April 29, 2012 at 8 PM ET.

How long is Finding Your Roots Season 1 Episode 7?

This episode runs for approximately 60 minutes.

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