finding your roots

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Not Easily Broken

Amy Reid

I have been researching my family's genealogy for over four years and have come to a bump that I have not been able to get past. Continue reading ...

January 8, 2013 | Leave a comment

A place called Tensas Parish

Andre Walker

Through out my family research, I discovered the Tensas Parish is signifacant. I have traced my 4th great grandfather in the Tensas Parish. He goes by the name Mike Emerson, born in 1809 in Kentucky. Continue reading ...

November 6, 2012 | 1 Comment

my discovery of my family tree

Bruce Jenkins

I grew up in the DHS system of Pennsylvania after my mother's death in 1977. My fateher had passed when I was four years old in 1969. Continue reading ...

November 6, 2012 | Leave a comment

My family

Heather Weiberg

Ever since I was about 12 years old, I have always been interested in my family tree. I have come across some names and have been stuck on some ancestors. Continue reading ...

November 6, 2012 | Leave a comment

Joe Coffey

Robbin

I was fortunate to have had several conversations with my great great grandmother. Though I was very young I remember one particular "story" she told me often and told me to never forget. Continue reading ...

November 6, 2012 | 1 Comment

Grandfather

Kelsey Brodowich

My grandfathers family came over from Wales, and settled in North America. When my grandfather was about three years old his mother left their family and took his baby sister. Continue reading ...

November 6, 2012 | 1 Comment

Finding long lost second cousins

Christine Penberthy

My family is quite small; my parents both immigrants from Sweden. Had just one uncle and four cousins in the US. Continue reading ...

November 6, 2012 | Leave a comment

AWOL AdopteesWithOutLiberty.com

Peter Franklin

I am an adoptee and US Army reservist. Before I deployed to Iraq I started AWOL, AdopteesWithOutLibery.com to help my fellow soldiers connect to family and fight secret adoption. Continue reading ...

November 6, 2012 | Leave a comment

From West Africa to the West Indies

Starmel Allah

Peace. My name is Starmel Allah and my family is a part of the original (first) people to inhabit the Earth. Among African-American, Latino and West Indian Blacks, "race" and "ethnicity" is a complex issue due to mis-education. Continue reading ...

November 6, 2012 | Leave a comment

My Great Grandfather from Westphalia

Jane Powless

Most of my ancestors have been in America for 300 years or more. The only one I can't find is my Great Grandfather Joseph Schroeder who came from Westphalia Germany in 1888. Continue reading ...

November 6, 2012 | 1 Comment

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About the Series

The basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from is at the core of the new 10-part PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the 12th series from Professor Gates, the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Filmed on location across the United States, the series premieres nationally Sundays, March 25 – May 20 at 8 pm ET on PBS (check local listings).

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