Finding Your Roots
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Oct 13, 2026
MaryHOST
And then at ten is The Traitors.
MaryHOST
On PBS tonight at eight is Finding Your Roots.
MaryHOST
At nine o'clock is American Experience.
MaryHOST
And at ten o'clock is Frontline.
Rich RollHOST
And then there's your ... paternal side, how did you come into this awareness that you weren't actually a Manganiello?
Joe ManganielloGUEST
[laughs] So in trying to, in trying to get accepted onto Finding Your Roots, once they had the, you know, the access to these various, uh, genetic pools, um, and databases, they, they accepted me.
Joe ManganielloGUEST
It was about, like, 10 years of trying-
Rich RollHOST
Mm-hmm
12 MINS LATER
Joe ManganielloGUEST
I'm a, I'm a board member at the Children of Armenia Fund, and I got involved.
Joe ManganielloGUEST
They, they asked me to...
Joe ManganielloGUEST
They, they, they offered to give me a humanitarian award at their 20th ann- anniversary gala because of speaking up about the genocide on Finding Your Roots.
Joe ManganielloGUEST
That became this, like, really important TV episode for-
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Moore was Parabon's chief genetic genealogist, a pioneer in a discipline that barely existed a few years earlier.
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She had made a name for herself on PBS' Finding Your Roots and through her work identifying unknown suspects in cold cases across the country.
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Her method was elegant in concept and painstaking in execution.
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She would upload crime scene DNA data to GEDmatch, a free, publicly accessible genetic genealogy database where millions of people had voluntarily shared their DNA profiles for ancestry research.
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She was their chief genetic genealogist.
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Self-taught with no formal scientific degree, she had built her reputation reuniting adoptees with their birth families and had appeared as the genealogist on the PBS series Finding Your Roots.
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She later said she felt drawn to Christy's case, that Christy seemed like someone she would have liked.
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Moore uploaded the DNA profile and quickly found several matches to distant relatives.
ShaunaHOST
She found out the man that raised her wasn't her biological father.
Brandon SicardHOST
Yeah, so Kerry went on Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates.
Brandon SicardHOST
It's an amazing show on PBS.
Brandon SicardHOST
If-
LL Cool JGUEST
I've been a f- a- actually, here's the crazy thing.
LL Cool JGUEST
I didn't even know that I had all of these boxers in my family till I did my DNA research with Henry Louis Gate on Finding Your Roots.
LL Cool JGUEST
And they did this whole thing, and came to find out all of these people are in my lineage, for real.
LL Cool JGUEST
Like, this is my... 'Cause my mother was adopted.
Hasan MinhajGUEST
Yeah.
Hasan MinhajGUEST
And funny enough, I recently did Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates and Dr.
Hasan MinhajGUEST
Gates brought me my dad's PhD dissertation paper, which was like so crazy to see.
Hasan MinhajGUEST
You know, it was like, that's what I mean, like seeing the tactile nature of it, of the cover letter and seeing how many pages it was.
Wilson MunstermanGUEST
They're not going there, yeah.
Wilson MunstermanGUEST
I mean, it's like, here's what it is, right? Have you ever seen the show Finding Your Roots with, uh-
Louise BrowneHOST
Yeah, of course.
Sarah ReinhardtHOST
Of course.
Sarah ReinhardtHOST
[laughs]
Wilson MunstermanGUEST
Yeah, love that show.
Wilson MunstermanGUEST
My mom forces me to watch it every single night.
Wilson MunstermanGUEST
If I [laughs] I've always told myself-
MikeHOST
She also sent a letter to the Irish government urging the country to honour its commitment to banning fur farms.
ElsieHOST
On an episode of Finding Your Roots, Angelica discovered she's a distant relative of Bernie Sanders and Larry David.
MikeHOST
Wow.
MikeHOST
Turned down the role of Madison in Splash 1984.
AnitaHOST
On NBC this evening, we begin at eight with The Voice running until ten, and that is the Blind Auditions Part Six, and then from ten until eleven is The Traitors.
AnitaHOST
On PBS, we begin from eight to nine with Finding Your Roots.
AnitaHOST
From nine to ten, uh, excuse me, from nine to ten thirty is American Masters, and again from ten thirty to eleven is Roots.
AnitaHOST
On Fox this evening, we begin with Best Medicine from eight to nine.
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