How Jesse Williams’ Ancestors Overcame History | Finding Your Roots

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Jesse Williams finds documents revealing the lost name of his ancestors in this instalment of PBS’s Finding Your Roots.

I feel lucky to be able to put a point on it and be able to name it and have a place on the map to point to, something to explore further and share with my children. It’s so much different to be able to have any level of precision, any level of actual naming, so I can sit with it and think about it and say his name and take them with me now. It’s a big deal.

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