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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 8

Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta

Aired May 6, 2012at 8PM·1h

The three guests in this episode are all children of first- or second-generation immigrants and share the peculiar burdens of that heritage. In an episode that crisscrosses the planet, from India to Korea to Poland, catch a glimpse of three distinct yet oddly overlapping experiences of families leaving their homes and becoming American.

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When did Finding Your Roots Season 1 Episode 8 air?

Finding Your Roots Season 1 Episode 8 aired on May 6, 2012 at 8 PM ET.

How long is Finding Your Roots Season 1 Episode 8?

This episode runs for approximately 60 minutes.

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