Faces of America With Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Air time:on PBS
Premiere date:February 10, 2010
Starring:Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Description:A poet learns she is distantly related to a king of England. A famous actress finds that one of her ancestors participated in the founding of the United States. Using the most up-to-date technology and tools of genealogy and genetics, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. unravels that tapestry of America to trace the threads of history of several well-known Americans. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is stunned to hear details of an ancestor's birth in 1435. Actress Eva Longoria is entranced by the notation of ... Read more
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Exploring distant relatives and the shared ancestral connections of Elizabeth Alexander, Meryl Streep, Mike Nicholas, Yo-Yo Ma and Eva Longoria... Full summary
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