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Finding Your Roots, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., returns to the
Public Broadcasting System (PBS) for Season 6,
starting on Tuesday, October 8th, 2019.

The sixth season of Finding Your Roots on PBS features 27 fascinating new guests who are game-changers in their fields, with family...

75 years ago today, on June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, in the largest sea-to-shore invasion in history. It was the greatest amphibious assault invasion in human history and the start of the campaign to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe.  

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Lineage Societies are member-based organizations that honor a specific heritage or event. Membership is limited to those who can prove they are a direct descendant from an ancestor who meets specific criteria. Depending on the society, that benchmark might be crossing on the 1620 voyage of the...