Finding Your Roots - Season 2 - Eps 9: Ancient Roots
Tina Fey, George Stephanopoulos and David Sedaris, three quintessential voices in American life, descend from ancestors that were part of the wave of Greek immigrants that flooded America’s shores in the early decades of the 20th century.
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
