Finding Your Roots: Science Pioneers Episode – Now Available For Online Viewing at PBS

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In this week's episode of Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the family trees of Francis Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Harold E. Varmus — three pioneering scientists who’ve made dramatic contributions to our understanding of the world, all the while knowing little about their own ancestry. The video recording is now available for online viewing, for a limited time, for FREE!

Posted By: Thomas MacEntee 5 February 2020

Finding Your Roots – Season 6, Episode 7 – Science Pioneers

In this week's episode of Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the family trees of Francis Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Harold E. Varmus — three pioneering scientists who’ve made dramatic contributions to our understanding of the world, all the while knowing little about their own ancestry. The video recording is now available for online viewing, for a limited time, for FREE!

In this week’s episode of Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the family trees of Francis Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Harold E. Varmus — three pioneering scientists who’ve made dramatic contributions to our understanding of the world, all the while knowing little about their own ancestry. The video recording is now available for online viewing, for a limited time, for FREE!

The episode is entitled Science Pioneers and can now be viewed online – use the embedded video above or click HERE to access the video. Access expires on February 26, 2020.

Finding Your Roots Season 6 Schedule

  • Tuesday, February 11th: Episode 8 – Slave Trade with Questlove, S. Epatha Merkerson, and Ava DuVernay
  • Tuesday, February 18th: Episode 9 – Italian Roots with Marisa Tomei, Jimmy Kimmel, and John Turturro
  • Tuesday, February 25th: Episode 10 – Criminal Kind with Laura Linney, Lisa Ling, and Soledad O’Brien

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Genealogy educator and author Thomas MacEntee has been researching his family history for more than 40 years and is the creator of Abundant Genealogy, Genealogy Bargains, DNA Bargains, The Genealogy Do-Over and numerous other web-based genealogy and family history properties.