Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.
From roots in the Deep South to the slums of New Jersey, "Who Do You Think You Are?" follows the journeys of some of the most well-known names in American popular culture. Watch as celebrities discover unknown details about themselves and their families while researching their ancestry with the help of historians and genealogical experts.
Australian celebrities play detective as they go in search of their family history, revealing secrets from the past. Along the way there will be scandal, adultery, pioneers, bushrangers, artists and royalty. Join the trail of discovery to uncover where these celebrities came from as they find out just who they think they are.
Allt för Sverige is a Swedish reality show based on the original Norwegian format Culture Shock:Norway. The first season of Allt för Sverige premiered on Sveriges Television SVT1 on October 30, 2011, and the last episode aired on December 18, 2011. The series is about Swedish Americans who return to their Swedish roots. In the program, they give the participants more about their families but in each episode one in the group must leave the show and therefore know less about their ancestry.
Americans of Norwegian descent, but who have never visited Norway, compete in various tasks while traveling the country, aiming to win $50,000 and meet their Norwegian relatives.
Ce feuilleton met en scène l'histoire, sur plusieurs générations, d'une famille d'esclaves afro-américains. Leur quotidien y est dépeint sans concession : travail forcé, viols, vente et séparation des membres d'une même famille, ségrégation...
A Norwegian genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.
Le nouveau monde de Darwin : De ses débuts comme jeune naturaliste au triomphe de sa théorie sur l'évolution, le formidable parcours de Charles Darwin. Embarqué à bord du navire britannique Beagle en décembre 1831 pour une exploration des côtes d'Amérique du Sud, le jeune Darwin s'y révèle d'emblée un naturaliste passionné. La poursuite de l'expédition vers Tahiti et l'Australie lui donne l'occasion d'élargir son intérêt aux populations indigènes et de réfléchir sur la lutte pour la survie que, comme les autres animaux, doit mener l'espèce humaine.
Popular Irish personalities trace their roots, and this journey through generations of ordinary lives reveals extraordinary stories.
Le détective génétique suit CeCe Moore, généalogiste génétique investigateur, alors qu'elle utilise ses compétences de recherche uniques pour transformer le visage de la résolution du crime. En travaillant avec les services de police et l'ADN de la scène du crime, Moore est en mesure de tracer le chemin de l'arbre généalogique d'un criminel violent pour révéler son identité et aider à les traduire en justice.
Got any secrets in your family tree, skeletons in ye olde ancestral closet? Were your ancestors sinner or saints, royals or rogues? Part personal drama, part CSI-like forensic investigation and part historical revelation, Ancestors in the Attic reveals to Canadians not only their roots, but also the diverse stories that make up the history of our country.
Well known Canadians set out to discover their family roots.