This Sunday will be the season finale of the current season of TLC’s Who Do You Think You Are?, and they will be airing two new episodes back-to-back: Chris Noth at 8:00 p.m. and Lea Michele at 9:00 p.m.
Mr. Noth follows a relative’s trail to Portugal and Ireland, and finds a man who endured harsh oppression, but rose up to fight in one of the fiercest battles of all time and became a war hero.
A 1900 US Federal Census reveals that actor Chris Noth’s great-grandfather was born in Ottawa in 1855 — and I suspect that may be the only mention of the True North Strong and Free.
Actress Lea Michele unravels secrets of her Jewish roots, discovering a great-grandmother lost without a country; relatives fighting to be together; ancestors suffering devastating loss; and long lost family reuniting after decades of separation. She remained in New York for her research.