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Genealogy Roadshow

2013

PBS

3 Seasons

18 Episodes

9.4

(13 votes)

Genealogy Roadshow Season 4 Axed by PBS Channel

Current Show Status

Genealogy Roadshow season 4 — Canceled

Latest Episode Aired Tue 6/28/2016 Los Angeles Season 3: Episode 7

Next Episode Show ended 18 episodes total

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Series format and production info

Genealogy Roadshow is a PBS documentary/reality series on the air since 2013. It is produced by Public Broadcasting Service and Krasnow Productions and executive produced by Stuart Krasnow and hosted by Kenyatta D. Berry, Joshua Taylor and Mary M. Tedesco. The current third season has premiered on May 17, 2016.

The series portrays a diverse cast (selected through a casting process that anyone can enter on PBS website) from a number of different cities across the USA who wish to research their family history. The stories are both very personal and emotional, and important in their portrayal of a piece of American history that becomes revealed as the people discover significant details about themselves and their heritage. Experts featured on the show use historical documents, letters, family heirlooms and other sources and clues to solve the mysteries that they are presented with.

Episodes

Season 3 Season 2 Season 1

#	Name	Air Dates
1	Albuquerque	May 17, 2016
2	Miami	May 24, 2016
3	Houston	May 31, 2016
4	Our Favorite Stories	Jun 7, 2016
5	Boston	Jun 14, 2016
6	Providence	Jun 21, 2016
7	Los Angeles	Jun 28, 2016

#	Name	Air Dates
1	New Orleans -- Cabildo	Jan 13, 2015
2	St. Louis -- Central Library	Jan 20, 2015
3	Philadelphia -- Franklin Institute	Jan 27, 2015
4	New Orleans -- Board of Trade	Feb 3, 2015
5	St. Louis -- Union Station	Feb 10, 2015
6	Philadelphia -- Historical Society of Pennsylvania	Feb 17, 2015
7	Best of Genealogy Roadshow	Feb 24, 2015

#	Name	Air Dates
1	Nashville	Sep 23, 2013
2	Detroit	Sep 30, 2013
3	San Francisco	Oct 7, 2013
4	Austin	Oct 14, 2013

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0 0 Sharon Lemon December 6, 2023

It grieves me to know this show had been cancelled. Because of the information I was given by watching this show help me to work through some issues I was dealing with on my father side of the family. My grandmother Mary Hayes born 1887 in Newellton Louisiana to Rhoda Wright and Jack Hayes. I’ve also seen them listed on the Choctaw Indian census as 100% Native American. The strangest thing my grandfather told me she never took them home to meet their grandparents. Mary married Walter Joseph Lemon and had three kids Evelyn, Nettie, Walter Lemon with Walter and when he die around 1918, she had Odie Mae Weaver for her second husband Oddie Weaver.
My dad mother was listed mulatto, and her mom Ella Sims Smith was white, but I’ve found my great grand grandmother in Red River Texas as 1/4 Chickasaw Indian. LETHA SMITH born 1845. My question why I’m showing 1% through 23andMe, and Ancestry, but when I uploaded my information to Geolink I’m showing 10% Native American.

0 6 Heather February 8, 2023

I am so very disappointed that you cancelled Genealogy Roadshow! This is one of the best shows on TV! Please bring it back!

0 5 Mr. T November 26, 2022

We just discovered the Genealogy RoadShow! What a great show! So sad to see it was cancelled after the 3 rd season. Please PBS consider bringing this great show back that helps so many families discover their history.

0 2 Jess Rogers April 14, 2022

I’m so sad your genealogy Road show was waylaid- we were on in the first season and recorded in Detroit- it was so wonderful to have Kenyatta deliver the missing pieces of my daughter’s father’s family’s journey from slavery to being a part of the great migration North and their connections to Detroit- would so love to see other families have these connective pieces found and shared…

0 0 Nicki Jess Rogers January 15, 2023

Whoa.... Jess Rogers, I pulled up this web page, and read your comment within 30 seconds of watching your daughter come on screen. Wow, talk about coincidence....

0 3 M. J. Barber July 3, 2021

I really hope and pray Genealogy Roadshow will be renewed, if it HAS been cancelled.
As noted by others (above), that was the only genealogy show which featured the family stories of "ordinary" people instead of concentrating on celebrities.
I "inherited" the "mantle" of family historian/genealogist from a great-aunt and am especially anxious to find out, for my 90-year-old father, who are the parents, grandparents, etc., of our "most remote known ancestor" on his side of the family.
That "most remote known ancestor" is one Amos BARBER (b. prob. Hopkinton, Kings [Washington], RI ca. 1762. d. North Stonington, New London, CT after 17 February 1845).

0 1 Yvonne Gutierrez January 24, 2019

I was chosen to be on season 3. The day they called me to film my father passed away, Ithere for I was in a different state and was was unable to film. I was told because of the circumstances they would send me what information they found. I have not heard anything from them. I hope one day they will share what they uncovered in my family with me.

0 1 jerri August 28, 2018

Wonderful show. submitted an application in 2017, never received an acknowledgement or status. Have been unable to trace a followup source.:-(

0 4 C. B. April 24, 2018

Please bring back Genealogy Roadshow

0 1 KWND February 8, 2018

I was looking for the application to be on the show when I saw it hasn't been renewed yet. Genealogy Roadshow features the average person unlike other shows that feature famous people. All our histories are important. Please keep the show on the air.

0 3 Sherri December 6, 2017

We certainly our hoping PBS will bring back this wonderful series! We are watching the series over again on YouTube, from start to finish - again! Enjoying the shows just as much the second time!
Please, please give us a season 4, and beyond.

0 0 Bonny snihur March 7, 2017

I have been looking into my family tree for a few years. Recently, it has become more important to me as both my parents passed within a few months of each other. I have been successful in getting a lot of information back many generations but there is a family story that I can not validate. My grandmother came from North Carolina to Canada with her large family when she was very young in 1917 and I am trying to determine why. I had heard that one of her older brothers may have gotten in some serious trouble. Being Canadian makes finding this information even harder.

0 0 GinaL November 7, 2016

I have been searching for my family in Lithuania. I have hit a wall and have only been able to find the names of my 2x great grandparents. I would love if you come to Colorado Springs, so I can ask an expert for help.

0 0 renoo parmar GinaL November 23, 2016

go to familysearch.org and you can get help/guidance by phone or online

0 1 Deborah Hatch November 2, 2016

My Mother and I love watching the show together. My Mother is 81 years old, she has Macular Degeneration, which means she is slowly loosing her sight but not the fight. She wants to know who her Father's Dad was, her Grandfather. Mom is still as sharp as a tack, she has help me track her Father's Mother through four of five marriages since 1860. The only marriage we are missing is that one marriage, that matters the most, the marriage between her Grandparents. Sometime between 1884 - 1894 her Grandparents were married and had two children together. I hope I will be able to help her find that missing link. Your show gives us research tips and hope we will find her answer "Who You Are".

0 1 Carol R Garcia October 9, 2016

The genealogy roadshow is one of
PBS best shows. So helpful and
Interesting. The opportunity to be
Involved to explore ones ancestry

0 1 DianeR September 18, 2016

I'm hoping this show will be renewed...in fact, I'm hoping it's been renewed and I just don't know about it yet. This is a favorite in our family.

0 0 cora shannon June 29, 2016

I love this show and will continue to watch the show. I am the historian in my family and your source of information have help me a great deal. i got started by accident looking for a hat that belong to my mother.I end up knocking one of her shoe boxes inwhich she kept old obituaries of the family in, i didnot think it would lead me down this road. Old obituaries have a wealth of information about your family. Pls stress the importance of this small of paper. You see my i have the history of my grandfather both side and grandmother both side as well as my mother 15 sister and brother.

Genealogy Roadshow Season 4 Axed by PBS Channel

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