10-part PBS series. Each hour-long episode, Dr. Gates takes viewers along for the journey with one celebrity pair bound together by an intimate, sometimes hidden link, treks through layers of ancestral history and uncovers secrets and surprises of their family trees.
Combines history and science to uncover stories of diverse Americans in and around St. Louis, Philadelphia and New Orleans. Each individual’s story links to a larger community (and in some cases, national) history.