Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho, and Sanjay Gupta
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reveals the ancestral pasts of author and TV personality Martha Stewart, comedian Margaret Cho, and CNN correspondent Sanjay Gupta. Watch the full Finding Your Roots episode. Episode credits.
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May 7, 2012 at 9:53 pm
I didn’t realize that Finding Your Roots was back on air. I love this and all genealogy programs. Thank you for all that you put into genealogy and broadcasting it for all to enjoy.
May 7, 2012 at 11:08 pm
I am fasinated by geneaology. For the past two years i have been attempting to trace my roots. My maiden name being Walker ( one of the most common names in America) has me more confused than before i started. Every Walker family that i have come across has handed down the same names in every generation. For instance ,my dad was James Lee Walker B: 1882.He supposedly had 3 families before he married my mom in 1933 and had 12 children.He was 52 and she was 14.I would love to find all the families of my siblings from his other marriages,but it just seems impossible.
May 8, 2012 at 7:11 am
Good job, y’all. I knew you would hit the mother lode with Margaret Cho. I had a Korean friend when I was first starting out in the Army, Specialist Choi (pronounced Chay). This was in the early 90s. Choi was born in Korea, and came to the States with his family when he was a child. I was telling him how African Americans could only go back to their great grandparents, and I was amazed when he told me that he could go all the way back to the 1st Choi, and that there was even a picture of him.
May 8, 2012 at 7:41 am
It’s a shame what happened to Martha’s family in Poland. The footage was really sad to see. But, it was a joy to see that she had ancestors with similar interest. I’ve long felt that we get more than physical traits from our ancestors.
It was also a joy watching Sanjay Gupta’s cousin getting information by just going to the old neighborhood, and asking the neighborhood elders. Nice.
Next season, let’s keep the CNN thing going with Suzanne Malveaux. I’m really interested to learn how she and Julianne are related.
Well, gotta run. Peace, John
May 8, 2012 at 9:42 pm
I did not know this was on untl I saw it on Facebook and saw in the tv guide it was on Sunday may 6, so glad to see this was online. I have previous seasons on dvd. This the first episode I have seen from this season. I like all geneaolgy programs. I liked that the guests that had their dna tested in one of the prevouis epsodes were able to see that they had some genes in common and wonder if you will be goiing do that in a future eplsode from this season.
May 9, 2012 at 1:19 pm
My computer’s TV tuner card (the only way I have to receive TV) is out of action, so I have had to turn to the internet (mobile broadband at that!) to have any chance to watch this very interesting series. I have now attempted more than half a dozen times, at different times of the day, to watch this latest episode, only to be told each time that the episode is unavailable due to “technical difficulties.” WHAT’S GOING ON WITH YOU PEOPLE?
May 10, 2012 at 9:39 am
Your eyes share with your ancestors this place in time now. You wonder who you are and what stuff (DNA) makes you what your are by the opportunities in its links and chains. We always wonder, is there something else to this life ? Is there a common thread that links us all ? Is sad to find out that some links end because of childless marriages or no offspring. No birth control sometimes winds up with mothers giving away that extra child to friends, neighbors or orphanages. I think I’m related to two of the most famous people on Earth, Adam and Eve, other than that is a long journey, because names change or Churches that kept records are gone. Some relative came through NYC others through Kitchener, Ontario (CANADA). God Bless them all for bringing this being (ME) into existence.
May 10, 2012 at 9:45 am
I think I’m related to Adam and Eve, now that’s famous, isn’t it? We all wonder who we are? How we got here? who came before us, good or bad? This PBS series gives us some idea of where it all began and the thread (DNA) that in one way or another unites us all.
May 11, 2012 at 12:06 am
This is an excellent program. It is interesting and full of wonderful information. I’ve really enjoyed the journeys into people’s lives. Thank you for giving me insight into searching my own genealogy. A lot of great ideas! The only thing I wish your program would do it take one week and let an average person find their roots. That would be just as interesting as a celebrity.
Thank you again and please don’t cancel this show!
May 16, 2012 at 10:18 am
I truly love this show. Dr. Gates is doing such an wonderful job at changing and bringing together the lives of people. Surely he should win at least 3 Nobel prizes. I am certainly going to vote for this show to receive it. I am always overwhelmed when I watch this series. Proud is the word that comes to mind.
May 20, 2012 at 2:11 pm
i love all the highly informative genealogical programming. Dr. Gates as ignited something in me. I want to know, where my family comes from. i must know . Please continue with this type of programming.
May 21, 2012 at 2:56 pm
i love this series because it is very informative. looking foward to more episodes,thank you.
June 8, 2012 at 9:39 pm
Thank you, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., for this wonderful program. I hope you continue helping people search their geneological roots for many years to come. How truly amazed we all would be if we knew our own family history and even more amazed to know how we are related to everyone else on earth. Just considering the numbers involved — going back ten generations prior to ourselves gives us 1,024 direct ancestors. Then consider our collateral relations in this family line and all the married-in relationships! We really are one big family if we go back far enough.
June 15, 2012 at 9:32 pm
I love this show as well as another show Dr Gates did about a yr. ago called Faces of America.
I started tracing my family in 1994 and am amazed at how much information I’ve uncovered. This show excites and encourages me not to give up discovering more more about my heritage. Thank You Dr Gates !
July 15, 2012 at 2:50 pm
When I first saw Margaret Cho featured in this program, I couldn’t believe my eyes because Korean-Americans are probably the people in U.S. with the “least” needs for Gate’s assistance in finding their roots, because we all (concidentally my family name is also Cho with the same Chinese character with hers) know about our ancestry extremely easily, thanks to the well documented and managed “Jokbo.” It’s weird her parents didn’t tell her about the existence of Jokbo.
September 9, 2012 at 4:34 pm
Why is this not available..
December 9, 2012 at 8:53 pm
This is the only episode that I have not seen. Why is it not available?
Been checking this site for several months…
Thank you!