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Genealogy Roadshow
Philadelphia - Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Season 2
Episode 5
One woman’s ancestor may have sparked historic labor laws; a pastor may have an outlaw in her family tree; a woman learns about slave genealogy and – with the help of DNA testing – gets the answer she has waited for; and another woman learns her ancestor may have helped others escape the Holocaust.
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