Finding Your Roots - Season 2 - Eps 3: Our American Storytellers
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.
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
