Finding Your Roots: The Ties that Bind

Tuesday, Feb 18 at 7 p.m.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. sits down with actors and married couple Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard. Together they find that their ancestors had some unbelievable similarities. Spanning continents and centuries, Gates introduces Kristen and Dax to stories about the soldiers, settlers, and criminals who make up their ancestry, which helps his guests understand themselves and their families like never before.

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