Title Finding Oprah's roots : finding your own / PBS ; producer/director, Jesse Sweet.

Publication Info.	[Arlington, VA] : PBS Home Video ; Hollywood, Calif. : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, 2007.
	©2006

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Description	1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details	DVD, widescreen presentation.
Performer	Oprah Winfrey, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Credits	Editors, Jane Rizzo ... [et al.] ; original score, Michael Bacon ; additional music, Thomas Rutishauser.
Note	Originally broadcast on PBS television in 2006.
Audience	Not rated.
Summary	Learn about the past of the African American people and how more and more can be linked to their ancestors in Africa, thanks to genealogical research and DNA-analysis developments.
Contents	The search for roots -- The first branches -- Listening to the past -- A lynchable offense -- Ordinary records, extraordinary accomplishments -- Records back to 1870 -- Land and education -- Free people of color -- Finding the slave owner -- I know I come from this -- The legend of Jane Gates -- Three little letters -- Percentages -- Surprising ancestry -- Back to Africa.
Access	For private home use only.
Language	Closed-captioned; 2.0 Stereo.
Note	GMD: videorecording.
Subject	Genealogy.
	African American families.
	Population genetics -- United States.
	Population genetics -- Africa.
	United States -- History.
	DNA fingerprinting -- United States.
	DNA fingerprinting -- Africa.
Genre/Form	Television programs.
	Documentary television programs.
	Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
	Videodiscs.
	DVD-Video discs.
Added Author	Winfrey, Oprah.
	Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
	Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
	PBS Home Video.
	Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
ISBN	1415729255
	9781415729250
Standard No.	841887052238
Music No.	705223 Paramount Home Entertainment

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