The Surprising Love Story in Sheryl Lee Ralph's Ancestry
Season 11
Episode 9
About the Episode
Sheryl's discovers her third great grandparents, a mixed race couple, got married in 1837.
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Adrian Grenier learns about his maternal eleventh great-grandfather.5:54
