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Finding Your Roots
Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings Trailer
“Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings” is a new web series that follows 13 young people at a new genetics and genealogy camp as they use science to answer the question “Who am I?” Inspired by the popular PBS series "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." and shot on the campus of Penn State University, campers explore their own family history and DNA ancestry with techniques never before use
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