Roots Less Traveled

  • Premiered: Apr 2020
  • Episodes: 30
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • NBC
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  • Documentary Family History Reality Travel

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Season 1
1x1
Connecting to John F Kennedy
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 04, 2020
Host Faruq Tauheed takes half-siblings Michelle and Rob to Mexico City, where they discover their relation to a famous Mexican political family and learn that their second cousin Ernesto gave the keys to Mexico City to President John F. Kennedy.
1x2
Connecting to a Purple Heart
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 11, 2020
Grandpa and grandson Evan and Scott travel to Montana to learn that Evan's great-grandfather was an integral part of the 1862 U.S. western states expansion and that two of his uncles were prisoners of war in WWII, both receiving Purple Hearts.
1x3
Connecting to a Landmark Court Case
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 18, 2020
Mom and son duo Sharee and Davone travel to Nashville, Tennessee, where they learn that their fourth great-grandfather Larkin Ford was a part of an 1840s landmark Tennessee case in which he was awarded the farm that he worked on as a slave.
1x4
Connecting to the Brooklyn Bridge
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 25, 2020
Aunt and nephew Tammy and Julian go on an adventure in Brooklyn to learn their relation to undertaker John Baisley, who helped bury the city's dead in the 1856 epidemic, and to James Howell, who was an integral part in building the Brooklyn Bridge.
1x5
Connecting to Millions
Episode overview
Air date
May 02, 2020
Uncle and nephew Al and Jr. travel to Havana, Cuba, to learn Al's grandfather, Joseph Barlow, owned and developed 34 blocks of downtown Havana, including the now-famous suburban neighborhood Buena Vista, but lost his riches in a political coup.
1x6
Connecting to the Civil War
Episode overview
Air date
May 09, 2020
Father and daughter Paul and Kalina visit a Civil War battleground in Virginia to discover Paul's great-grandfather Austin D. Springer was a Union Army drummer boy who was taken prisoner by the Confederate Army but escaped and hid in slave huts.
1x7
Connecting to Whalers
Episode overview
Air date
May 16, 2020
Siblings Ashley and Elliott visit Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and discover one ancestor, Henry Osborn, was taken prisoner on a boat in the Revolutionary War and another, Samuel Osborn, went from debtor's prison to owning a whaling ship fleet.
1x8 Season finale
Connecting to the Past
Episode overview
Air date
May 23, 2020
Host Faruq Tauheed looks back at memorable moments, including a relative who gave John F. Kennedy the keys to Mexico City, a connection to downtown Havana, Cuba, and an African American ancestor who owned land in Tennessee before the Civil War.

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