Roots Less Traveled

Pairs of family members, often from different generations, set out on adventures to solve mysteries from their family trees and grow closer as they gain wisdom not only about themselves, but also about how their past has helped shape their present.
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Connecting to Purple Heart
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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.

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Connecting to Whalers
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Siblings Ashley and Elliott visit Martha's Vineyard, Mass., 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.