One year between 1950 and 1985, rebuilt, so you finally understand who your parent was before you.
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Family Legend Has It
Every family has one story everybody repeats and nobody has checked: the name changed at Ellis Island, the bootlegger grandpa, the famous ancestor. Each week an investigator and a true believer take one family legend, test it against passenger lists, census pages, old newspapers and what DNA can and cannot say, and tell you what really happened. The answer is usually stranger than the legend. Researched from real reporting, sources in every episode's notes.
Hosted by Ruth and Danny. Researched from real reporting; sources are in every episode's notes.
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Episodes
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The Clerk Who Wasn't There
Everybody's family says the name got changed at Ellis Island, so we pulled the manifests, a 1913 court case and the archives to find out who actually held the pen.
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