Discover the family trees of Tea Leoni and Joe Madison with Finding Your Roots
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Aimee Bealer
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Uses DNA detective work to solve mysteries in the family trees of actor Tea Leoni and radio host Joe Madison, introducing each of them to parents and grandparents whose names they’ve never heard before.
The sixth season of Finding Your Roots features twenty-seven fascinating new guests who are game-changers in their fields—with family histories that illustrate the power and diversity of the human experience.
In sharing their stories, Finding Your Roots uses every tool available, from cutting-edge DNA research to old-school genealogical sleuthing, to reveal long-buried secrets. Spanning the globe, the series compiles family trees that trace throughout the United States and Canada; Latin America and the Caribbean; and Germany, Poland, Ireland, Russia and more. Episode to episode, audiences will meet guests’ ancestors who were businesspeople and bootleggers, war heroes and criminals, farmers and immigrants, the persecuted and the persevering under the most extraordinary circumstances. Together, the arc of each guest’s family personalizes history while emphasizing the human connections that unite us.
Watch Finding Your Roots August 22 at 8pm on WITF TV or with WITF Passport and the PBS or WITF app!
A collection of interviews, photos, and music videos, featuring local musicians who have stopped by the WITF performance studio to share a little discussion and sound. Produced by WITF’s Joe Ulrich.
