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Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. unearths the family histories of influential people helping shape our national identity. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
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PBS first aired this series in 2003. Each episode begins with a person who has brought a case to the attention of the detectives. Each case is typically based on a specific object that is supposedly related in some way to an historical event. These objects are often family heirlooms or owned by private archives and museums.
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"Who Do You Think You Are?" follows the journeys of some of the most well-known names in American popular culture. Watch as celebrities discover unknown details about themselves and their families while researching their ancestry with the help of historians and genealogical experts.
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