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Finding your roots. Season 11, episode 8, The butterfly effect / a production by McGee Media, Inkwell Media & Kunhardt Films ; director, Krista Whetstone.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lynskey, Melanie--Family.
- Lynskey, Melanie.
- Messing, Debra, 1968---Family.
- Messing, Debra.
- Celebrities--United States--Genealogy.
- Celebrities.
- Actors--United States--Genealogy.
- Actors.
- Families--History.
- Families.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Biographical television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (53 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Finding your roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Place of Publication:
- Arlington, VA : Public Broadcasting Service, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey to ancestors who made decisions that forever reshaped their family trees. Moving from shtetls in Eastern Europe to a fruit stand in NY City to the wilds of New Zealand, Gates introduces his guests to relatives who took great risks, overcame enormous hardships and unwittingly transformed the lives of their descendants.
- Participant:
- Host: Henry Louis Gates, Jr ; Featuring Debra Messing, Melanie Lynskey.
- Notes:
- "With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.".
- Title from resource description page (viewed June 03, 2025).
- OCLC:
- 1523327190
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