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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 2 · Episode 3

Our American Storytellers

Aired Oct 7, 2014at 8PM·1h

Ken Burns learns that his Southern ancestors include Confederate soldiers and a slave owner; Anderson Cooper learns that an ancestor on his father's side was killed by one of his slaves; and Anna Deavere Smith learns about her great-grandfather, who was a free black man and former conductor on the Underground Railroad.

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When did Finding Your Roots Season 2 Episode 3 air?

Finding Your Roots Season 2 Episode 3 aired on October 7, 2014 at 8 PM ET.

How long is Finding Your Roots Season 2 Episode 3?

This episode runs for approximately 60 minutes.

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