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The Generations Project

What secrets run in your blood? This reality series uncovers the hidden identities in family pasts, proving that the best way to know who you are is to know who you came from.

Natalie

25m 5s

Natalie recently experienced a tremendous tragedy that not only shocked her family, but drained her to the point where she was just trying to survive each day. Now she is in search of ancestors she can connect with so she can find the strength to push forward through life challenges.

Episodes

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    James

    E2 - 57m 22s

    To find the truth behind the family legend that he has an East Indian princess in his pedigree, bridal gown
    designer James Walker travels to southern Utah to learn how this alleged princess would have fared in a
    rural community.

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    Lakia

    E1 - 56m 48s

    Is pessimism hereditary? Lakia Holmes journeys through her great-grandmother’s life to find out. Her question takes her from the Big Apple to rural Alabama to the small schoolhouse of her great-grandmother’s youth, a harrowing reenactment of life as a slave and a surprise encounter with the grandfather she has never met.

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