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Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series
Finding Your Roots The Official Companion to the PBS Series
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
ISBN-13: 9781469618005
ISBN-10: 1469618001
Publication Date: 9/15/2014
Pages: 352
Edition: 1
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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Honeygirl62 avatar reviewed Finding Your Roots: The Official Companion to the PBS Series on + 165 more book reviews
Though I never saw this series, as a genealogist I admire the author so when I came across the book, I very much wanted to read it. The book did a good job of describing the search process for each famous guest of the show, relying on family stories, actual records, history, and DNA to piece together the family history of each person. I especially enjoyed the parts where they explained the DNA results; it makes me want to learn a lot more about DNA.