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.


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.

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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Finding Your Roots Season 1 Episode 8 aired on May 6, 2012 at 8 PM ET.
This episode runs for approximately 60 minutes.
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