Roots Less Traveled - Season 1

Roots Less Traveled - Season 1

Season 1

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Datesavr. 4, 2020 - mai 23, 2020
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Episodes

Connecting to John F. Kennedy
Season 1Episode 120 min

Connecting to John F. Kennedy

Host Faruq Tauheed takes half-siblings Michelle and Rob to Mexico City, where they discover their relation to a famous Mexican political family and learn that their second cousin Ernesto gave the keys to Mexico City to President John F. Kennedy.

avr. 4, 2020
Connecting to a Purple Heart
Season 1Episode 220 min

Connecting to a Purple Heart

Grandpa and grandson Evan and Scott travel to Montana to learn that Evan's great-grandfather was an integral part of the 1862 U.S. western states expansion and that two of his uncles were prisoners of war in WWII, both receiving Purple Hearts.

avr. 11, 2020
Connecting to a Landmark Court Case
Season 1Episode 320 min

Connecting to a Landmark Court Case

Mom and son duo Sharee and Davone travel to Nashville, Tennessee, where they learn that their fourth great-grandfather Larkin Ford was a part of an 1840s landmark Tennessee case in which he was awarded the farm that he worked on as a slave.

avr. 18, 2020
Connecting to the Brooklyn Bridge
Season 1Episode 420 min

Connecting to the Brooklyn Bridge

Aunt and nephew Tammy and Julian go on an adventure in Brooklyn to learn their relation to undertaker John Baisley, who helped bury the city's dead in the 1856 epidemic, and to James Howell, who was an integral part in building the Brooklyn Bridge.

avr. 25, 2020
Connecting to Millions
Season 1Episode 530 min

Connecting to Millions

Host Faruq Tauheed takes uncle and nephew Al and Jr. on an ancestral trip to Havana, Cuba, where Al learns that his grandfather Joseph Barlow owned and developed 34 blocks of downtown Havana, including the now-famous suburban neighborhood Buena Vista. But due to an unfortunate turn of fate, Joseph Barlow lost his riches in a political coup. As the two men connect over their own entrepreneurship, they learn where their family's resilience came from.

mai 2, 2020
Connecting to the Civil War
Season 1Episode 630 min

Connecting to the Civil War

Host Faruq Tauheed takes father and daughter Paul and Kalina to the Civil War battleground in Port Republic, Virginia, where they discover that Paul's great-grandfather Austin D. Springer was a drummer boy for the Union Army. At the battlefield, Paul and Kalina learn that Austin was taken prisoner by the Confederate Army but escaped and hid in slave huts until he made his way back to the Union Army. Paul, a Vietnam veteran, connects his own experience and believes that being a combat vet is in his genes.

mai 9, 2020
Connecting to Whalers
Season 1Episode 730 min

Connecting to Whalers

Host Faruq Tauheed takes brother and sister Ashley and Elliott back to their grandparents' hometown of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. During their trip, they get a sailing lesson and learn that their fifth great-grandfather Henry Osborn was taken prisoner on a boat in the Revolutionary War. While feasting on lobster, they discover that their third great-grandfather Samuel Osborn went from debtor's prison to owning a fleet of whaling ships. A surprise visit from their parents allows them to share their found history.

mai 16, 2020
Connecting to the Past
Season 1Episode 830 min

Connecting to the Past

Host Faruq Tauheed looks back at memorable moments, including a relative who gave John F. Kennedy the keys to Mexico City, a connection to downtown Havana, Cuba, and an African American ancestor who owned land in Tennessee before the Civil War.

mai 23, 2020

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