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Many American descend from a dense soups of European ethnicities; we could call them mutts, with ancestral roots across every country in Europe. Actors Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal are textbook examples of Americans with a rich tapestry of European immigrant stories making up their family trees. We delve in to their deep American roots in early colonial communities, and we meet their Eastern European Jewish ancestors, who share almost identical migration stories From the Mayflower to Ellis Island, we journey through centuries of immigration that shaped and built our melting pot nation.
Episodes
1Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr. 2John Lewis and Cory Booker 3Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada 4Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon 5Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi 6Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal 7Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons 8Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta 9John Legend and Wanda Sykes 10Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez