television series called finding your roots on pbs, and i said, sure, absolutely. you see, i was born in michigan, but my parents were born and they grew up in india. like a lot of immigrants, they thought they would never be able to learn their whole family history. that was lost, they thought, in the old country. i always wondered and so i gave professor gates the names of my immediate relatives along with a cheek swab of my dna. here s some of what he found. reporter: to dig even deeper, we sent sanjay s cousin to hardwar, located on the ganges river. it s a place of tremendous geonoloical importance to hindus. they come to consult with family prooisz who have recorded their male lynnage on their family trees. we arranged for him to meet with two priests who have devoted their lives to writing down family histories. we re hoping that we ll discover other details about sanjay s extended family hidden in these cryptically encoded scrolls. it s all written down then?
absolutely. i was born in michigan, but my parents were born and grew up in india. and like a lot of immigrants, they thought they would never be able to learn their whole family history. that was lost, they thought, in the old country. but i always wondered, and so i gave professor gates the names of my immediate relatives along with a cheek swab of my dna. here s some of what he found. to dig even deeper, we sent sanjay s cousin to hardwar, located on the ganjy river. it s a place of tremendous jean logical importance to hindus. they come here to consult with priests. the male lineages on their family trees. we arranged for him to meet with two priests who have devoted their lives to writing down family history. we re hoping that we ll discover other details about sanjay s extended family hidden in the cryptically encoded scrolls. it s all written down? that s your family history, my brother. amazing thing. i have to go. oh, you have to go. have to go see this.