Finding Your RootsStaffel 11

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.

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Larger Than Life
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Larger Than LifeResearch into the ancestry of singer Lea Salonga and actress Amanda Seyfried reveals relatives who survived heart-wrenching ordeals.
La Famiglia
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La FamigliaExploring the Italian roots of television host Joy Behar and actor Michael Imperioli.
Stranger Than Fiction
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Stranger Than FictionTraveling across China and the American South to reveal the ancestry of novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove.
Dreamers One and All
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Dreamers One and AllExploring the ancestry of actress Sharon Stone and model Chrissy Teigen includes travelling across Europe and Thailand.
Family Recipes
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Family RecipesExploring the ancestry of chefs José Andrés and Sean Sherman.
Latin Roots
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Latin RootsTracing the family trees of musician Rubén Blades and journalist Natalie Morales.
The Ties That Bind
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The Ties That BindActors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard learn about their family histories, which includes stories of soldiers, settlers and criminals.
The Butterfly Effect
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The Butterfly EffectActresses Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey explore the stories of their ancestors whose bold decisions reshaped their families.
Moving on Up
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Moving on UpHenry Louis Gates, Jr. meets Sheryl Lee Ralph and Lonnie Bunch - two African Americans trace their ancestors, who overcame slavery and traveled from southern plantations to northern cities, forging prosperous families despite adversity.
Finding My Roots
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Finding My RootsFamily mysteries: actor Laurence Fishburne and scholar Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. peer into their mysterious family roots using DNA evidence to track down lost family members and their histories.