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LeVar Burton learns he has white ancestors in a new episode of PBS' Finding Your Roots... as it's uncovered his great-great grandfather was white


LeVar Burton made the shocking discovering that he has white ancestors in his family tree on the latest episode of PBS' Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates.

LeVar Burton made the shocking discovering that he has white ancestors in his family tree on the latest episode of PBS' Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates. Burton's DNA did have several matches to a man named James Henry Dixon, and as they dug through public records, they learned his mother's heritage was so secretive because his great-grandmother Mary was half-white. Burton's DNA did have several matches to a man named James Henry Dixon, and as they dug through public records, they learned his mother's heritage was so secretive because his great-grandmother Mary was half-white

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