Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. S11E8: The Butterfly Effect
- Aired: 2025-02-25
- Time: 20:00:00
- Runtime: 60 minutes
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Overview
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors Debra Messing & Melanie Lynskey to ancestors who made bold decisions that forever reshaped their family trees. Moving from shtetls in Eastern Europe to a fruit stand in NY City to the wilds of New Zealand, Gates introduces his guests to relatives who took great risks, overcame enormous hardships—and unwittingly transformed the lives of their descendants.