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Join Connections with Evan Dawson to discuss the new season of
Guests on
Finding Your Roots, who
will highlight tools and stories for carrying out their ancestry studies with a focus on people of color
. We will also explore the journeys of author Cheryl Wills family genealogy study and the books she has written and WXXI host and producer, Teej Jenkins and her family history study.
Nick Sheedy, Lead genealogist on Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Nick has conducted extensive genealogical and historical research during the past 25 years. Under the mentorship of his dear friend, the late Johni Cerny, he embarked on an eight-year crash course on how to become a world-class professional genealogist. He became the Associate Genealogist of