Terrie Morrow Finds Her Roots

Birmingham's Terrie Morrow discovers the answer to an age-old family mystery Tuesday night with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

TUESDAY, JUNE 25 at 7:00PM

For the past ten years, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and his team have been using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis to trace the family trees of well-known personalities on the popular PBS series FINDING YOUR ROOTS. This year, for the very first time, Gates explored the pasts of three NON-celebrity guests including Terrie Morrow of Birmingham in the season finale, “Viewers Like You.” If you missed the premiere back in April, you should definitely catch this week's rebroadcast.

After a nation-wide casting call last year resulted in more than 9,000 submissions, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. chose three everyday Americans to uncover secrets that have haunted their families for generations. In "Viewers Like You," Gates sits down with each of them, and with each turn of the page in their ‘book of life,” he reveals long-buried secrets and hidden identities, allowing each of his guests to understand themselves—and their families—as never before.

Travel agent and school bus driver Terrie Morrow from Birmingham wanted to learn more about her maternal great-great-grandmother who left her son with a local family when he was just five years old—never to return.

Morrow says she has been exploring her family’s genealogy since her early twenties, when her grandmother asked her to help find some of her distant relatives. The search inspired a lifelong interest in history and her family roots. She was overjoyed to learn that she’d have the opportunity to be on FINDING YOUR ROOTS – which she has watched since it very first began – but said it almost didn’t happen.

“I didn’t hear about the call for story submissions until just before the deadline,” Morrow said. “And then I missed the first email from the producers asking if I was still interested in being on the show. If they hadn’t sent a follow-up email I would have missed it entirely.”

See what the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and his team discovered for Morrow and the two other “Viewers Like You” on FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, Jr.

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