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Ancestry. . Henry Louis Gates, Jr. from PBS' Finding Your Roots takes us through how genealogists and family historians dig deeper to uncover hard-to-find records of enslaved ancestors. Candyman Producer Jordan Peele reacts to records of his own ancestors in this emotional clip from Finding Your Roots.
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