Finding Your Roots - Season 2 - Eps 2: Born Champions
Billie Jean King, Derek Jeter and Rebecca Lobo learn about their family histories. King discovers that her grandmother was an orphan; Derek Jeter investigates his ancestors' lives as slaves; and Lobo finds out that an ancestor was forced to flee Spain because of his democratic ideals.
About Finding Your Roots
Title: Finding Your Roots
First Air Date: 2012-03-24
Last Air Date: 2025-04-01
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 6.2/10 (from 12 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 11
Total Episodes: 116
Network: PBS
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Kunhardt McGee Productions, Ark Media, Inkwell Films
Synopsis
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.
Cast
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host
