Finding Your Roots
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. connects Lea Salonga & Amanda Seyfried to their dramatic ancestors.
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Finding Your Roots
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. connects Lea Salonga & Amanda Seyfried to their dramatic ancestors.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors Lea Salonga and Amanda Seyfried to ancestors who are every bit as dramatic as the characters they’ve played on stage and screen. Moving from a naval base in the Philippines to a small town bakery in Pennsylvania to steamships on the Atlantic Ocean, Lea and Amanda hear stories of relatives who survived wars, murders, and heart-wrenching ordeals.
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Finding Your Roots
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors Lea Salonga and Amanda Seyfried to ancestors who are every bit as dramatic as the characters they’ve played on stage and screen. Moving from a naval base in the Philippines to a small town bakery in Pennsylvania to steamships on the Atlantic Ocean, Lea and Amanda hear stories of relatives who survived wars, murders, and heart-wrenching ordeals.
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A new season of Finding Your Roots is premiering January 7th! Stream now past episodes and tune in to PBS on Tuesdays at 8/7 for all-new episodes as renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. guides influential guests into their roots, uncovering deep secrets, hidden identities and lost ancestors.Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(upbeat music) - [Henry] In this episode, actors Lea Salonga and Amanda Seyfried uncovered their roots.
- Oh, there's a story.
- Wow.
- You didn't know this?
- No, I love it.
Oh my goodness.
- Please read the transcribes.
- Oh my God.
What?
- What's it like to see this?
- Soap opera, missing in action?
- Whoa, that's a mystery.
- Meet your DNA cousin, turn the page.
- We're DNA cousins?
Amanda Seyfried Discovers Ancestor Was an Army Musician
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Amanda Seyfried's third great grandfather played the fife and fought for the Union to end slavery (4m 13s)
Lea Salonga Uncovers Her German Ancestry
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Lea Salonga discovers the roots of her maternal great great grandfather, Pedro Malhabor. (3m 47s)
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Corporate support for Season 11 of FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. is provided by Gilead Sciences, Inc., Ancestry® and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by...