The episode will air on the follow dates:
Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 8:00pm on VPT
Monday, April 23, 2012 at 12:30am on VPT
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 3:00am on VPT
Many American descend from a dense soups of European ethnicities; we could call them mutts, with ancestral roots across every country in Europe. Actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey, Jr. are textbook examples of Americans with a rich tapestry of European immigrant stories making up their family trees. We delve in to their deep American roots in early colonial communities, and we meet their Eastern European Jewish ancestors, who share almost identical migration stories From the Mayflower to Ellis Island, we journey through centuries of immigration that shaped and built our melting pot nation.
