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Finding Your Roots

HBO's Family Tree First of Four Genealogy Series to Air in U.S.

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 05.02.2013 | TV
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Megan Smolenyak

Though there's been a bit of a vacuum in genealogical programming in the U.S. over the last year or so, that's happily about to change. First up is Christopher Guest and Jim Piddock's mockumentary series, Family Tree.

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Family Scrapbooks: A Journey of Memories and Mourning

Helen Davey | Posted 08.11.2012 | Healthy Living
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Helen Davey

There's a reason they call it honoring your "roots," because compiling such records provides feelings of grounding, stability, and continuity.

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Skip Gates Helps Samuel L. Jackson Find His Roots

Posted 04.29.2012 | Black Voices
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Every week, The Huffington Post Black Voices tells you what Henry Louis Gates has planned on his show "Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates Jr." ...

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Henry Louis Gates Helps Robert Downey Jr. Find His Roots

Posted 04.22.2012 | Black Voices
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. has helped celebrities uncover fascinating aspects of their ancestry, oftentimes discovering things they never knew before. This...

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Henry Louis Gates Helps 3 Religious Leaders Find Their Roots

Posted 04.15.2012 | Black Voices
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This season on his PBS series, "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.," Henry Louis Gates has already helped media legend, Barbara Walters, di...

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COUSINS!

Posted 04.05.2012 | Celebrity
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Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are cousins! Well, not really: Hollywood's poster children for marriage success -- we're counting 23 years -- discovered...

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WATCH: Henry Louis Gates Helps Barbara Walters Find Her Roots

Posted 04.02.2012 | Black Voices
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Renowned Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has helped a number of celebrities discover integral aspects of their family origins, now he's taking...

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Gates' 'Finding Your Roots' Debuts New Season

The Washington Post | Posted 03.25.2012 | Black Voices
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It wasn't a question of whether his ancestors had been slaves. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a son of the Old South and one of the country's leading civil ...

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Public Academic: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Follows Alex Haley's Roots

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.20.2012 | Home
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Regina Weinreich

Admiring the television series Roots as a boy, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores a passion for genetics and genealogies in a new PBS series, Finding Your Roots, to start this Sunday.

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Four Months of Celebrity Roots on Air in 2012

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 03.10.2012 | TV
Read More: Pbs, Dna, Finding Your Roots, Who Do You Think You Are?, Six Degrees, Genealogy, Lisa Kudrow, Henry Louis Gates, Family History, Nbc, Celebrities, TV News
Megan Smolenyak

For genealogy buffs and those who just can't get enough of celebrities, there's plenty of cause to celebrate in 2012 as there will be four solid months of famous roots on air.

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Digging For Your Roots, Anyone?

Patricia Rust | Posted 02.28.2012 | Travel
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Patricia Rust

I was already on a cruise through the Mediterranean, so I thought that after the pleasure of cruising, I could enjoy the thrill of research in some libraries in a country where I knew no one. Little did I know that this former country of strangers would soon become a country of friends!

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Wonderful British Shows Are Returning To PBS

Posted 11.17.2011 | Home
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By DAVID BAUDER, The Associated Press NEW YORK -- There's good news for fans of Sherlock Holmes and "Downton Abbey": They're both coming back to PB...

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