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Finding Your Roots

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Discover how actress Julianna Margulies, author Azar Nafisi and chef Lidia Bastianich are bound together by their ancestors’ singular and deeply human desire to preserve their most cherished traditions.

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Dr. Gates, brings Felicity Huffman and Michael K. Williams their family histories.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps Andy Samberg and George R. R. Martin answer family mysteries.
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Unfamiliar Kin
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The Pioneers
Discover pioneering families of Neil Patrick Harris, Gloria Steinem and Sandra Cisneros.
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