GATES: I'M HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.

WELCOME TO "FINDING YOUR ROOTS".

IN THIS EPISODE WE'LL EXPLORE THE FAMILY TREES OF ACTORS ANJELICA HUSTON, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI, AND MIA FARROW... THREE CHILDREN OF HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY, WHO GREW UP WONDERING WHERE THEIR MORE DISTANT ROOTS MIGHT LIE.

FARROW: WHERE WAS HE IN MY FATHER'S LIFE?

WHY WAS HE NEVER TALKED ABOUT AND WHO WERE HIS PEOPLE?

THAT WAS ALL BLANK TO ME.

GATES: HOW DOES IT FEEL TO READ THOSE WORDS?

ROSSELLINI: WE DIDN'T KNOW ANY OF THIS.

GATES: NO.

ROSSELLINI: ISN'T IT INCREDIBLE... GATES: IT'S INCREDIBLE.

ROSSELLINI: THAT THERE IS NO HISTORY IN THE FAMILY ABOUT IT?

GATES: IT TURNS YOUR FAMILY NARRATIVE UPSIDE DOWN.

HUSTON: UPSIDE DOWN.

THAT'S ACTUALLY VERY MOVING.

GATES: TO UNCOVER THEIR ROOTS, WE'VE USED EVERY TOOL AVAILABLE.

GENEALOGISTS COMBED THROUGH THE PAPER TRAIL THEIR ANCESTORS LEFT BEHIND, WHILE DNA EXPERTS UTILIZED THE LATEST ADVANCES IN GENETIC ANALYSIS TO REVEAL SECRETS HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD, AND WE'VE COMPILED EVERYTHING INTO A BOOK OF LIFE... A RECORD OF ALL OF OUR DISCOVERIES... ROSSELLINI: A BOOK OF LIFE!

FARROW: IT'S SO HARD NOT TO TURN THE PAGES BEFORE YOU TELL ME.

OH MY!

HUSTON: THAT'S HYSTERICAL!

FARROW: THIS IS VERY MOVING, REACHING BACK LIKE THIS.

ROSSELLINI: THIS IS AMAZING!

GATES: ISABELLA, MIA AND ANJELICA WERE BORN TO FILMMAKING ICONS, AND THEY FOLLOWED IN THEIR PARENTS' FOOTSTEPS.

TOGETHER, THEY'VE BEEN ENTERTAINING THE WORLD FOR DECADES.

IN THIS EPISODE, WE'RE GOING TO MEET A CAST OF CHARACTERS EVERY BIT AS DRAMATIC AS THE PEOPLE THEY PLAYED ON CAMERA, ALL HIDDEN IN THE BRANCHES OF THEIR FAMILY TREES.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYS) ♪ ♪ GATES: FOR OVER A CENTURY, MOVIES HAVE SHAPED THE WAY WE SEE OURSELVES, AND THE WAY WE SEE OUR WORLD... AT THEIR FINEST, MOVIES FAR MORE THAN ENTERTAINMENT, THEY'RE PART OF OUR SHARED CULTURE, AN ART THAT TRANSCENDS TIME AND PLACE.

BUT FOR A SELECT FEW, THE MOVIES ARE SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY.

IF YOU'RE BORN WITHIN THE FILM BUSINESS, THEY'RE A PART OF YOUR FAMILY TREE, WOVEN INTO THE VERY FABRIC OF YOUR BEING.

FOR ANJELICA HUSTON, WHOSE FATHER WAS THE LEGENDARY DIRECTOR JOHN HUSTON, WHAT WE CALL CLASSIC CINEMA WAS SIMPLY THE BACKDROP TO HER CHILDHOOD.

HUSTON: I THINK BY THE AGE OF TEN I'D SEEN "AFRICAN QUEEN" AT LEAST 150 TIMES.

UH, AND IT WAS ALWAYS KIND OF A, A WONDERFUL ADVENTURE.

OUT WOULD COME THE PROJECTOR, AND THEN WE'D SPOOL IT AND PUT IT TOGETHER, AND INVARIABLY, THE FILM WOULD BREAK AND WE'D HAVE TO, TO RE-ATTACH IT WITH SCOTCH TAPE AND STUFF.

BUT, BUT, UH, THAT WAS REALLY THE OPUS THAT MY BROTHER AND I WERE RAISED ON.

WE, WE DIDN'T SEE OTHER PEOPLE'S FILMS.

I THINK THE FIRST TIME I SAW "TAMMY TELL ME TRUE" OR "GIDGET", I THOUGHT I'D DIED AND GONE TO HEAVEN.

GATES: PERHAPS NOT SURPRISINGLY, DESPITE HER RESTRICTED FILM DIET, ANJELICA DREAMED OF ACTING FROM A YOUNG AGE, AND, IN 1968, WHEN SHE WAS STILL A TEENAGER, HER FATHER GAVE HER A CHANCE, CASTING HER AS ONE OF THE LEADS IN HIS MEDIEVAL EPIC "A WALK WITH LOVE AND DEATH".

UNFORTUNATELY, THE FILM DIDN'T DO VERY WELL AT THE BOX OFFICE... AND WORSE STILL, IT DROVE A WEDGE BETWEEN ANJELICA AND HER FATHER... HUSTON: IT WAS A HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE.

I THINK I WAS JUST, MAYBE JUST 17.

UM, I DIDN'T MUCH CARE FOR THE SCRIPT.

I THOUGHT IT WAS CORNY.

AND MY DAD WAS TOUGH ON ME.

GATES: RIGHT.

HUSTON: NOW OF COURSE I CAN SEE WHY HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BIT IRRITATED BY THE FACT THAT HIS DAUGHTER HADN'T LEARNED HER LINES.

UM, IT WAS COSTING A WHOLE CREW, UM, YOU KNOW.

BUT I FELT LIKE HE WAS DIFFERENT WITH ME THAN HE WAS WITH ANY OTHER ACTRESS, WHICH I'M SURE HE WAS.

GATES: OH, ABSOLUTELY.

HAD TO BE.

HUSTON: YEAH.

I THINK HE HAD TO BE, AND, AND I THINK THAT IT WAS DIFFICULT, AND HE DID DEFINITELY PUT PRESSURE ON ME.

THE THING WAS THOUGH THAT I ALWAYS FELT LIKE IT WAS MY DESTINY, AND THAT WAS WHAT I WANTED TO DO AND THAT WAS WHAT I WANTED TO BE, AND, BUT IT HAD TO BE MY WAY, AND HE AND I BUTTED HEADS.

GATES: ANJELICA AND HER FATHER WOULD NEED TIME TO RECONCILE, BUT IN THE END, THEIR BOND PROVED TO BE UNBREAKABLE.

IN 1985, JOHN OFFERED ANJELICA THE ROLE OF MAEROSE IN "PRIZZI'S HONOR", A DARK COMEDY ABOUT A COMPLICATED MAFIA FAMILY...

THE ROLE WAS TOO GOOD FOR HER TO PASS UP, AND THE RESULTS WERE SPECTACULAR.

WOMAN: MAEROSE.

HUSTON: C'MON AUNT AMAYA, I GOT A REPUTATION TO LIVE UP TO.

THE FAMILY SCANDAL.

GATES: HER PERFORMANCE GARNERED ANJELICA AN ACADEMY AWARD, AND LAUNCHED HER CAREER.

HUSTON: IT PUT ME ON THE MAP.

UM, IT CHANGED A LOT OF THE DYNAMIC BETWEEN MY DAD AND I AND, UM, I THINK PROBABLY THE PART THAT I'M PROUDEST OF IS THAT I DIDN'T FOLD.

AND THAT I'VE LEARNED NOT TO FOLD, AND IT, I CAN'T REALLY DESCRIBE WHAT IT IS BECAUSE IT'S NOT THAT I'VE EVER HAD SUPREME CONFIDENCE IN MY LOOKS OR, YOU KNOW, SCHOLASTIC BACKGROUND.

IT'S JUST A KIND OF INNER KNOWLEDGE.

GATES: YEAH.

IN MOMENTS OF DOUBT, LOWEST, YOU COULD SAY, "I'M JOHN HUSTON'S DAUGHTER.

I CAN DO THIS."

HUSTON: RIGHT.

YEAH.

YEAH.

GATES: MY SECOND GUEST IS MIA FARROW, A HOLLYWOOD MAINSTAY SINCE 1968, WHEN SHE STARRED IN THE CLASSIC HORROR FILM "ROSEMARY'S BABY".

LIKE ANJELICA, MIA IS A CHILD OF CINEMA'S GOLDEN AGE, HER PARENTS WERE DIRECTOR JOHN FARROW AND ACTRESS MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN.

AND MIA'S EARLIEST PERFORMANCES WERE BOUND UP IN THEIR FAME... SHE PUT ON SHOWS FOR TOURISTS WHO STOPPED TO SEE THE FAMILY'S BEVERLY HILLS HOME, CASTING HER SIBLINGS AS HER CO-STARS.

FARROW: WELL, I WAS THE RINGLEADER WHEN IT CAME TO DRAMA.

AND SO I KEPT OUTSIDE A BOTTLE OF KETCHUP AND A RUBBER KNIFE.

AND SO WHEN WE SAW THE BUS WOULD BE COMING I WOULD PUT EVERYBODY IN POSITION AND THEN I WOULD COME AND STAB THEM ALL WITH MY RUBBER KNIFE.

AND AT THE SAME TIME, THEY WOULD SQUIRT THE KETCHUP.

AND THE BUS DRIVER LEARNED TO SAY THESE ARE MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN'S KIDS, YOU KNOW, AND A PRETTY WILD BUNCH THEY MUST BE.

GATES: MUCH LIKE ANJELICA, MIA'S PROFESSIONAL START WAS ALSO A FAMILY AFFAIR.

WHEN SHE WAS 14 YEARS OLD, SHE MADE HER FEATURE FILM DEBUT WITH A SMALL ROLE IN "JOHN PAUL JONES", A REVOLUTIONARY WAR DRAMA WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY HER FATHER, THOUGH THE EXPERIENCE DIDN'T QUITE MATCH HER EXPECTATIONS.

FARROW: IT WAS A TINY, TINY PART AND IT HAD ONE LINE.

AND THE LINE WAS "FROM OUR PETTICOATS, SIR!"

THE CUE LINE WAS: "WHO MADE THIS FLAG?"

"WHERE DID YOU GET THE MATERIAL?"

AND I WAS SUPPOSED TO SAY: "FROM OUR PETTICOATS, SIR!"

AND THE DAY CAME, AND THE MOMENT CAME, AND THE GUY GOES, "HOW DID YOU GET THE MATERIAL?"

AND I STEPPED A LITTLE BIT FORWARD, MY, MY, I'D BEEN REHEARSING MY LINE FOR ALMOST A YEAR!

AND, AND A LADY NEXT TO ME SAID, "FROM OUR PETTICOATS, SIR!"

GATES: OH, WHAT WAS THAT?

FARROW: AND I'M LIKE WHAT?

AND SHE WAS UH ROBERT STACK, THE STAR OF THE MOVIE'S WIFE.

GATES: OH.

FARROW: MY FATHER, UM, HAD FORGOTTEN OR SOMETHING THAT HE GAVE THE LINE TO ME.

GATES: HUH.

FARROW: HE HAD NO IDEA HOW INVESTED I WAS IN THAT LINE.

GATES: OH, THAT'S TERRIBLE.

FARROW: AND I WON'T SAY I WASN'T BITTER ABOUT IT.

GATES: MIA SOON GOT OVER HER DISAPPOINTMENT, BUT THE NEXT ROLE SHE WAS OFFERED ALMOST STOPPED HER CAREER IN ITS TRACKS, AS HER FATHER SWITCHED FROM BEING A SUPPORTER TO AN OPPONENT.

FARROW: I GOT OFFERED A SCREEN TEST TO, TO PLAY "LOLITA".

I WAS JUST WALKING DOWN THE STREET IN BEVERLY HILLS.

GATES: WOW.

UM-HUM.

FARROW: YOU KNOW I WAS 13-14, AND, UM, I, I HAD THE CARD OF THE AGENT AND I GAVE IT TO MY DAD AND I SAID YOU KNOW THEY WANT ME TO, AND I HADN'T READ "LOLITA", AND I SAID THEY WANT ME TO SCREEN TEST FOR THIS MOVIE CALLED "LOLITA".

THEY SAID I'M THE RIGHT AGE AND I'D, I LOOKED RIGHT FOR THE PART.

HE TORE IT TO SHREDS IN FRONT OF ME.

GATES: I WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME THING.

WHAT?

FARROW: HE THREW IT IN THE BASKET.

AND HE SAID, NO, YOU HAVE OTHER GIFTS.

I DO NOT WANT, HE SAID I'VE NEVER SEEN A HAPPY ACTRESS.

GATES: HUH.

FARROW: I'M LIKE... GATES: OH.

FARROW: WHAT ABOUT MOM?

I DIDN'T SAY THAT.

BUT HE WORKED WITH ACTORS ALL THE TIME AND THAT WAS HIS YOU KNOW REDUCTION OF THE THING.

HE, HE HAD NEVER SEEN A HAPPY ACTRESS AND I LIKED TO SAY I WISH HE COULD SEE ME BECAUSE YOU KNOW HE DIED WHEN I WAS 17.

BUT, UM, I LIKE TO THINK AH THAT HE WOULD BE SOMEWHERE SAYING, "NOW I'VE SEEN A HAPPY ACTRESS."

GATES: MY THIRD GUEST IS ISABELLA ROSSELLINI, THE CHILD OF ONE THE MOST FAMOUS COUPLES IN FILM HISTORY.

HER MOTHER, ACTRESS INGRID BERGMAN AND HER FATHER, DIRECTOR ROBERTO ROSSELLINI, MADE HEADLINES BY FALLING IN LOVE WHILE WORKING TOGETHER IN 1949, WHEN BOTH WERE MARRIED TO OTHER PEOPLE.

THE AFFAIR INSPIRED AN ENORMOUS INTERNATIONAL SCANDAL, CASTING A SHADOW OVER THEIR CAREERS, AND FORCING ISABELLA TO GROW UP WITH WORRIES ABOUT HER PARENTS THAT MOST CHILDREN NEVER HAVE TO FACE.

ROSSELLINI: I, I FELT PROTECTIVE OF MY PARENTS.

I THINK EVERYONE, EVERY TIME WE WENT OUT WITH THEM, THEY WERE FOLLOWED BY PAPARAZZI, AND MY MOTHER HAD TO BE CAREFUL, JUST ALWAYS STRATEGIC.

YOU KNOW WE'LL COME TO DINNER AND SAY DO YOU HAVE ANOTHER EXIT, BECAUSE YOU ENTER THERE AND EXIT THERE.

GATES: RIGHT.

ROSSELLINI: TO NOT TO HAVE THIS PERSECUTION OF PAPARAZZI, AND I FELT VERY, VERY PROTECTIVE OF HER, I REMEMBER.

MY FATHER HAD LESS PAPARAZZI.

BUT HIS WORK WAS LOVED BY OTHER ARTISTS BUT NOT AT THE BOX OFFICE.

GATES: UH-HUH.

ROSSELLINI: AND I REMEMBER THAT HE SUFFERED FROM THAT, SUFFERED IT.

UM, HE DIDN'T, OFTEN, WE HAD FINANCIAL TROUBLES, UH.

GATES: UH-HUH, AND ALSO HIS EGO, HIS SENSE OF HIMSELF AS AN ARTIST.

ROSSELLINI: AND HIS EGO, YES.

GATES: YOU KNOW IT'S HORRIBLE.

ROSSELLINI: AND YET, HE COULDN'T REALLY MAKE A COMMERCIAL FILM EITHER BECAUSE HE WAS TOO, HE COULDN'T DO IT, YOU KNOW?

GATES: UH-HUH, NOT TO SAVE HIS SOUL, HE COULDN'T DO THAT.

ROSSELLINI: YEAH.

YES.

GATES: THE BOND BETWEEN ROSSELLINI AND BERGMAN WAS TESTED FROM THE START, AND WOULD QUICKLY BREAK.

THEY DIVORCED WHEN ISABELLA WAS STILL A CHILD.

BUT DESPITE THE TUMULT OF THEIR MARRIAGE, ISABELLA SAYS THAT THEY REMAINED ATTENTIVE, LOVING PARENTS, WHO CREATED A NOVEL LIVING SITUATION FOR HER AND HER SIBLINGS, SETTING THEM UP IN A HOME WHERE THE CHILDREN LIVED TOGETHER, AND THE ADULTS VISITED.

ROSSELLINI: IT WAS A FUNNY SOLUTION, BUT IT WAS AN ORIGINAL SOLUTION, AND FOR ME, PERSONALLY, IT WORKED BECAUSE I WAS A TOMBOY.

WE LIVED IN AN APARTMENT, AND OUR PARENTS CAME AND STAYED WITH US ONE WEEK, ONE WEEK, ONE MONTH, THEN THEY WERE GONE FOR A, AND WE FIRST HAD OUR GRANDMOTHER AND THEN A HOUSEKEEPER, A BABYSITTER, AND I LOVED IT BECAUSE THERE WAS NEVER ANY ADULT, AND I COULD MAKE, I GOT ALL THE STRAY DOGS FROM THE STREETS, THE CATS.

THE HOUSE WAS A PLAYHOUSE.

MAMA ENCOURAGED US.

I MEAN, IN A WAY, SHE, SHE MADE THE LIVING ROOM, SHE PUT UP A PUNCHING THING FOR MY BROTHER AND A THING FOR ME TO DANCE, BECAUSE I WAS DANCING.

AND EVERYTHING WAS A PLAYGROUND.

GATES: YOUR PARENTS ARE VERY SPECIAL.

ROSSELLINI: YEAH, THEY WERE AMAZINGLY SPECIAL, YES.

GATES: ISABELLA'S UNUSUAL CHILDHOOD WOULD PROVE TO BE THE SPRINGBOARD TO A FASCINATING CAREER.

FROM STARRING IN THE SEMINAL FILM "BLUE VELVET" ♪ ROSSELLINI: BLUE VELVET.

♪ GATES: TO MODELING AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS FOR DECADES, TO DIRECTING HER OWN FILMS, ISABELLA HAS CREATED A BODY OF WORK THAT WOULD DO HER PARENTS PROUD.

ROSSELLINI: HOLD OUT YOUR HAND.

GATES: EVEN AS SHE HAS DIFFERENTIATED HERSELF FROM THEIR SUCCESS.

ROSSELLINI: WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I ALWAYS WONDERED HOW MUCH MY, THE DOOR WERE OPEN TO ME BECAUSE I WAS THE DAUGHTER OF TWO PEOPLE THAT ARE FAMOUS.

NOW, AS AN ADULT, I KNOW THAT IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ENOUGH, THAT YOU DON'T, THE DOOR MIGHT OPEN, A CASTING AGENT MIGHT COME TO SEE YOU, BUT YOU CAN'T REALLY BUILD A CAREER, AND I HAVE A CAREER.

GATES: UH-HUH.

UH-HUH.

ROSSELLINI: THEY DID HELP.

THEY DID HELP OPENING DOORS, BUT MOST OF ALL, THEY TAUGHT ME HOW TO BE AN ARTIST.

WHAT IS THE DEMAND, AND THE DEMAND IS NOT THE ATTENTION AND SUCCESS.

IT'S THE ARTISANAL WORK SLOWLY, SLOWLY, PERSISTENT, TRY TO FOLLOW A LEAD THAT IS INTERESTING, AND YOU HOPE THAT WHAT YOU ARE CURIOUS, SOMEBODY ELSE IS CURIOUS.

GATES: UH-HUH.

ROSSELLINI: IF YOU TRY TO CATCH SUCCESS, IT ELUDES YOU.

GATES: THAT'S A GREAT GIFT FROM YOUR PARENTS.

ROSSELLINI: YES.

I WAS LUCKY.

GATES: MY THREE GUESTS WERE EACH WERE RAISED IN THE GLARE OF PUBLIC ATTENTION, THE CHILDREN OF PARENTS WHOSE FACES WERE INSTANTLY RECOGNIZABLE, BUT THE IDENTITY OF THEIR MORE DISTANT ANCESTORS IS QUITE ANOTHER STORY.

EACH HAD FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS ABOUT ENTIRE BRANCHES OF THEIR FAMILY TREES.

IT WAS TIME TO PROVIDE SOME ANSWERS.

HUSTON: WELL, I REALLY, REALLY WANTED TO KNOW.

GATES: I STARTED WITH ANJELICA HUSTON, ANJELICA TOLD ME SHE WAS ESPECIALLY INTERESTED TO LEARN ABOUT HER MATERNAL ROOTS.

HER MOTHER, THE DANCER ENRIKA SOMA, DIED IN A CAR ACCIDENT WHEN ANJELICA WAS JUST 17, A LOSS THAT SHE STILL MOURNS TODAY.

HUSTON: MY MOTHER EXPOSED ME TO FANTASTIC THINGS.

SHE TURNED ME ON TO SHAKESPEARE AND THE HARLEM GLOBE TROTTERS, YOU KNOW?

SHE TOOK ME TO CLUBS.

SHE, WE HUNG OUT LIKE SISTERS.

AND, UM, IT WAS FANTASTIC.

YOU KNOW, THERE WERE, THERE WERE THINGS THAT, UM, I THINK WENT UNSAID BETWEEN US.

UM, I WAS PRECOCIOUS, BUT SHE WAS, SHE UNDERSTOOD THAT, AND I THINK SHE, UM, KIND OF ENDORSED IT.

GATES: IN HER MOTHER'S ABSENCE, ANJELICA FOUND SOLACE WITH HER GRANDFATHER, TONY SOMA, A NEW YORK RESTAURANTEUR, YOGA ENTHUSIAST, AND WOULD-BE OPERA SINGER, WHO SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN A DELIGHTFUL CHARACTER, A BIT LARGER THAN LIFE.

HUSTON: I LOVED HIM!

I REMEMBER AFTER MY MOTHER DIED AND I WAS LIVING IN NEW YORK I WOULD GO OVER TO THE RESTAURANT TO VISIT WITH HIM, WHICH MADE HIM VERY HAPPY.

HE'D IMPART SNIPPETS OF HIS PHILOSOPHIES.

HE TOLD ME I WASN'T BEAUTIFUL.

I'D NEVER BE BEAUTIFUL LIKE MY MOTHER.

BUT THAT I WAS INTERESTING.

GATES: HUH!

HUSTON: AND I ALWAYS APPRECIATED THAT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT SEEMED TO ME THAT HE WAS BEING VERY STRAIGHT WITH ME.

GATES: BUT IT WASN'T BEING CRUEL.

HUSTON: NO.

AND, AND, UM, I THINK HE WAS RIGHT, YOU KNOW?

I WASN'T, I, I, I WASN'T A BEAUTY IN THE WAY THAT MY MOTHER WAS A BEAUTY.

LIKE A BEAUTY FROM ALL ANGLES.

BUT HE LIKED ME, AND, UM, HE THOUGHT THAT, HE THOUGHT THERE WAS SOMETHING TO ME, AND I APPRECIATED THAT.

GATES: TONY MAY HAVE BEEN ESPECIALLY SYMPATHETIC TO ANJELICA BECAUSE HE HAD ENDURED PROFOUND LOSS HIMSELF.

HIS FIRST WIFE, ANJELICA'S GRANDMOTHER AND NAMESAKE, HAD DIED OF PNEUMONIA WHEN SHE WAS JUST 43 YEARS OLD, LEAVING HIM BEREFT.

TO EXPLORE THEIR STORY, WE STARTED WITH A PASSENGER LIST FOR A SHIP THAT ARRIVED IN NEW YORK CITY ON SEPTEMBER 13TH, 1913.

HUSTON: "ANTONIO SOMA, AGE: 23, OCCUPATION: WAITER, NATIONALITY: ITALIAN.

LAST PERMANENT RESIDENCE: ISPRA, ITALY.

ANJELICA SOMA, AGE: 24, NATIONALITY: ITALIAN.

LAST PERMANENT RESIDENCE: ISPRA, ITALY."

GATES: THAT IS THE MOMENT THAT YOUR GRANDPARENTS ARRIVED IN THE UNITED STATES IN NEW YORK, TOGETHER, IN 1913 AFTER GETTING MARRIED.

HUSTON: WOW.

WHAT A PASSAGE.

GATES: DID HE EVER TELL ANY STORIES ABOUT THAT JOURNEY?

HUSTON: NO.

HE, HE DIDN'T SPEAK A LOT ABOUT MAMA ANJELICA.

UM, AND WHEN HE DID, HE WAS VERY MUCH OVERCOME.

GATES: TONY AND ANJELICA WERE BOTH FROM ISPRA, A SMALL TOWN IN NORTHERN ITALY, AND WHILE THIS PASSENGER LIST MARKS THEIR DECISION TO IMMIGRATE AS A MARRIED COUPLE, WE FOUND OTHER RECORDS SHOWING THAT TONY HAD BEEN TO AMERICA BEFORE... FIRST ARRIVING WHEN HE WAS JUST 18 YEARS OLD.

DID YOU KNOW THAT HE HAD COME TWICE?

HUSTON: I DID KNOW THAT HE'D COME TWICE.

THE STORY, SOMEWHAT SKETCHY, UM, IS THAT HE CAME INITIALLY, UH, IN ORDER TO MAKE HIS FORTUNE, WORKED AS A WAITER, WAS ABLE TO MAKE ENOUGH MONEY, SO THAT ULTIMATELY HE WAS ABLE TO COME BACK, WAS ABLE TO GO BACK TO ISPRA, MARRY ANJELICA, WHO I DON'T KNOW IF HE KNEW AT THIS TIME, BUT THAT WAS HIS INTENTION, TO MARRY THIS WOMAN WHO HE FELT WAS CONSIDERABLY ABOVE HIM IN, IN SOCIAL RANK.

GATES: SO HE HAD TO GO AND PROVE HIMSELF.

HUSTON: HAD TO GO.

YES.

GATES: TONY'S MOVEMENTS WERE NOT AS UNUSUAL AS ONE MIGHT THINK.

IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, MORE THAN A THIRD OF ALL THE ITALIANS WHO CAME TO AMERICA MADE MULTIPLE TRIPS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, EARNING MONEY IN THE UNITED STATES TO BRING IT BACK HOME.

SOME MADE SUCH CROSSINGS EVERY SEASON FOR MULTIPLE YEARS.

IN FACT, AS WE DUG MORE DEEPLY, WE DISCOVERED THAT TONY WASN'T EVEN THE ONLY ONE IN HIS FAMILY TO DO THIS, HIS WIFE ANJELICA DID IT, TOO, TRAVELING TO MASSACHUSETTS AS A YOUNG GIRL, THEN ENDING UP WORKING IN A COTTON MILL WHEN SHE WAS JUST 13 YEARS OLD, A FACT THAT UPENDED ALL THAT THE FAMILY THOUGHT THEY KNEW ABOUT HER... HUSTON: I HAD NO IDEA.

I, I HAD THE IMPRESSION THAT MY, MY GRANDMOTHER WAS A SINGER AND THAT MY GRANDFATHER WENT BACK TO ISPRA AND SORT OF TRAPPED HER LIKE A BUTTERFLY AND BROUGHT HER BACK TO AMERICA, BUT NO IDEA THAT SHE WAS LIVING THIS KIND OF LIFE, WHICH WAS OBVIOUSLY INCREDIBLY HARD.

GATES: SO, IT TURNS YOUR FAMILY NARRATIVE UPSIDE DOWN.

HUSTON: UPSIDE DOWN.

GATES: YEAH.

HUSTON: THAT'S AMAZING.

GATES: WE NOW KNEW THAT BOTH OF ANJELICA'S GRANDPARENTS HAD COME TO THE UNITED STATES AS YOUNG PEOPLE, WORKED EXTREMELY HARD, THEN RETURNED TO ITALY.

THIS BEGGED THE QUESTION: WHY THEN, DID THEY COME BACK TO AMERICA?

WHY RETURN TO A PLACE WHERE YOU'D BEEN A CHILD LABORER IN A COTTON FACTORY?

THE ANSWER, IT SEEMS, WAS THAT CONDITIONS IN ISPRA WERE EVEN WORSE...

THE TOWN WAS EXTREMELY POOR, AS ITS CLIMATE, SOIL, AND TERRAIN MADE FARMING VERY DIFFICULT, YET FARMING WAS ALMOST ALL THE POPULATION DID.

MALNUTRITION, EVEN STARVATION, WERE COMMONPLACE.

ANJELICA VISITED AS A YOUNG WOMAN AND GAINED A SENSE OF WHAT HER ANCESTORS HAD ENDURED.

SO YOU HAD AN IDEA THAT YOUR ANCESTORS LIVED THROUGH POVERTY?

HUSTON: YEAH.

I KNEW THEY LIVED THROUGH POVERTY WHEN I SAW IT.

UM, AND ESPECIALLY THE WAY MY, MY GREAT AUNT LOOKED.

SHE WAS AN INDICATION OF WHAT HAD GONE ON THROUGH THE YEARS.

GATES: HOW'D SHE LOOK?

HUSTON: TINY, OLD, LINED FACE, VERY, UM, TOUGH, BUT, BUT TINY.

UM, AND, UM, AND ALL THE YOUNG ONES, TOO.

NOBODY WAS WEARING ANYTHING NEW AND THEY LOOKED LIKE PEOPLE WHO WORKED THE EARTH AND WHO WORKED HARD.

GATES: WHAT STRIKES ME IS HOW INFORMED YOUR FAMILY WAS, I MEAN, AND HOW INDUSTRIOUS.

THEY FIGURED OUT HOW TO GET OUT OF THIS VILLAGE, HOW TO GET TO THE UNITED STATES, THEN GO BACK AND THEN COME BACK AGAIN.

YOU KNOW, THEY WERE VERY COMPLICATED, YOU KNOW.

HUSTON: YEAH.

THEY WERE COMPLICATED AND THEY WERE DETERMINED AND I THINK IT VERY MUCH FOLLOWS MY GRANDFATHER'S PATH.

AND HE WAS VERY MUCH THIS KIND OF PERSON.

HE WOULD MAKE UP HIS MIND AND HE WOULD FOLLOW IT THROUGH.

AND, I THINK IT WAS THAT KIND OF DETERMINATION, POWER, SELF-APPRECIATION SHOULD WE SAY THAT GOT HIM AS FAR AS IT DID.

I THINK HE WAS ABSOLUTELY INDOMITABLE AND WONDERFUL.

GATES: LIKE ANJELICA, MIA FARROW'S UNDERSTANDING OF HER ROOTS IS CLOUDED BY THE LOSS OF A PARENT.

HER FATHER, JOHN FARROW, DIED OF A HEART ATTACK WHEN SHE WAS JUST 17, LEAVING HER WITH LITTLE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS FAMILY.

INDEED, TO MIA, HIS ENTIRE UPBRINGING IS ESSENTIALLY A MYSTERY.

FARROW: MY FATHER NEVER TALKED ABOUT HIS CHILDHOOD.

THERE ARE NO PHOTOGRAPHS OF HIM AS A CHILD.

GATES: REALLY.

FARROW: HE DID SAY HIS MOTHER DIED IN CHILDBIRTH.

BUT HE NEVER MENTIONED HIS FATHER, PERIOD.

GATES: TO RECOVER HIS ROOTS, WE TURNED TO ARCHIVES IN AUSTRALIA, WHERE JOHN WAS BORN IN 1904.

WE FOUND HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE, LISTING HIS PARENTS, JOSEPH AND LUCY, BUT THEN WE MADE A DISTURBING DISCOVERY.

IN 1905, WHEN MIA'S FATHER WAS BARELY A YEAR OLD, WE FOUND LUCY LISTED AS A PATIENT IN THE RECORDS OF A MENTAL INSTITUTION KNOWN AS "CALLAN PARK".

AND WE SOON LEARNED WHO HAD PLACED HER THERE... FARROW: "NAME OF PERSON SIGNING THE REQUEST: JOSEPH FARROW, HUSBAND."

GATES: UM-HUM.

FARROW: WOW.

GATES: SHE WAS 24, MIA, AT THE TIME.

FARROW: OH.

GATES: YOUR FATHER WAS 14 MONTHS OLD.

(SIGHS).

GATES: WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE TO BE COMMITTED SEPARATED FROM A BABY?

FARROW: I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE.

GATES: HMM.

FARROW: AND THAT HE COULD DO THAT.

WOW.

WELL, HE'S PRETTY MUCH THE VILLAIN, ISN'T HE IN THIS STORY?

GATES: ACCORDING TO HER CASE FILE, MIA'S GRANDMOTHER WAS SUFFERING FROM WHAT HER DOCTORS CALLED "LACTATION."

IT SOUNDS ABSURD, BUT THIS WAS AN ALL TOO COMMON DIAGNOSIS FOR YOUNG MOTHERS AT THE TIME, WHEN SYMPTOMS NOW ASSOCIATED WITH POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION WERE THOUGHT TO BE A FORM OF INSANITY.

WE CAN'T KNOW FOR CERTAIN WHAT LUCY ACTUALLY EXPERIENCED, BUT THE RECORDS OFFERED TROUBLING DETAILS ABOUT HER CONFINEMENT.

FARROW: "MARCH 31, 1905, MENTALLY SHE IS ANXIOUS AND DELUSIONAL.

APRIL 3, 1905, VERY VARIABLE.

SEEMS TO HAVE HALLUCINATIONS, WHICH MAKES HER VERY NOISY AND EXCITED AT TIMES.

IS QUITE UNCONTROLLABLE AT THESE TIMES BUT FOR THE MOST PART SHE LIES QUIETLY IN BED."

GOSH.

GATES: YOUR, YOUR GRANDMOTHER... FARROW: IT'S HEARTBREAKING REALLY.

GATES: IT IS HEARTBREAKING.

FARROW: THAT SOMEONE COULD JUST DO THAT TO YOU.

GATES: UM-HUM.

FARROW: AND PRESUMABLY THE PERSON OF POWER IN, IN HER LIFE, THE PERSON THAT SHE LOVED, HER HUSBAND.

GATES: AND SHE HAD NO CONTROL.

FARROW: THAT'S, THIS IS MUCH WORSE THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE.

GATES: REALLY?

FARROW: YES.

GATES: MIA'S GRANDMOTHER NEVER LEFT THE ASYLUM.

AFTER SPENDING MORE THAN TWO YEARS WITHIN ITS WALLS, LUCY DIED OF PNEUMONIA IN JULY OF 1907, WHEN SHE WAS BARELY PAST HER 27TH BIRTHDAY.

FARROW: YOU KNOW I HAD THOUGHT, UM, ALL MY LIFE THAT SHE DIED IN CHILDBIRTH, WHICH WAS TRAGIC ENOUGH.

UM, THAT'S WHAT MY FATHER TOLD ME AND WHO KNOWS MAYBE HE WAS TOLD THAT.

WE DON'T KNOW.

GATES: UM-HUM.

FARROW: BUT UM, THAT SHE WENT THROUGH ALL THIS AND WAS TAKEN AND PUT IN AN ASYLUM BY MY GRANDFATHER.

GATES: UM-HUM.

FARROW: THE, THE UTTER HELPLESSNESS AND THE BABY TAKEN AWAY, HONESTLY, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S BEYOND HORRIBLE AND I, I'M, I'M SO ANGRY ON HER BEHALF.

UM AND I SEE WHY MY FATHER NEVER MENTIONED HIS FATHER NOW.

GATES: HER FATHER'S SILENCE WAS UNDERSTANDABLE, BUT ITS EFFECT HAD PROFOUND CONSEQUENCES: MIA DIDN'T KNOW THE MOST BASIC DETAILS OF HIS ANCESTRY.

SHE HAD NO IDEA, FOR INSTANCE, HOW HIS FAMILY HAD ARRIVED IN AUSTRALIA, OR WHERE THEY ORIGINALLY CAME FROM.

WE WERE ABLE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS, TRACING HIS MOTHER LUCY BACK TWO GENERATIONS TO MIA'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS, GEORGE AND SUSANNAH SAVAGE, WHO ARRIVED IN AUSTRALIA AS FARM LABORERS IN 1848.

RECORDS SHOW THAT THEY WERE IMMIGRANTS FROM SOUTHERN ENGLAND, WHERE MIA'S ROOTS STRETCH BACK FOR CENTURIES.

PROVIDING HER, AT LAST, WITH A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF HER FATHER'S FAMILY TREE, AND INTRODUCING HER TO ONE ANCESTOR WHOSE NAME WOULD PROVE PARTICULARLY RESONANT...

YOUR GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, SUSANNAH, WAS BORN IN 1810 IN WHADDON, ENGLAND AND HER MAIDEN NAME... READY FOR THIS?

FARROW: UM-HUM.

GATES: MAKEPEACE.

FARROW: OH.

OH, MAKEPEACE IS A REALLY GOOD NAME.

GATES: ISN'T THAT AN AMAZING NAME?

FARROW: I LOVE IT.

GATES: SO, YOU'RE A MAKEPEACE, TOO, IN YOUR BLOODLINE.

FARROW: GOSH.

SORRY.

I DON'T KNOW.

THIS IS VERY MOVING.

GATES: HMM.

FARROW: REACHING BACK LIKE THIS.

GATES: IT IS, ISN'T IT?

THESE ARE YOUR PEOPLE.

FARROW: THEY'RE MY PEOPLE.

GATES: YEAH.

FARROW: I'M TRYING TO IMAGINE YOU KNOW PEOPLE SO FAR AWAY AND MAKING THESE EXTRAORDINARY DECISIONS TO GET ON A SHIP AND GO GOD KNOWS WHERE AT THE TIME.

GATES: TO THE END OF THE EARTH.

FARROW: TO THE END OF THE EARTH.

GATES: AUSTRALIA'S STILL THE END OF THE EARTH.

FARROW: I GUESS BEING A FARMER HE WANTED MORE LAND.

GATES: UM-HUM.

YEAH.

THE POSSIBILITIES OF OWNING LAND FOR A NORMAL PERSON IN ENGLAND WERE ZIP.

FARROW: I WISH I HAD KNOWN THIS YEARS AGO.

I WOULD'VE INCORPORATED MAKEPEACE INTO OUR FAMILY NAMES.

GATES: YEAH.

FARROW: LET'S JUST MAKE PEACE, YOU KNOW?

GATES: MY THIRD GUEST IS ISABELLA ROSSELLINI.

LIKE MIA AND ANJELICA, ISABELLA CAME TO ME WITH BASIC QUESTIONS ABOUT AN ENTIRE BRANCH OF HER FAMILY TREE.

HER MOTHER, INGRID BERGMAN, WAS BORN IN SWEDEN, BUT BOTH OF HER PARENTS DIED WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD AND, AS A YOUNG WOMAN, SHE LEFT HER HOMELAND TO PURSUE HER CAREER... AS A RESULT, ISABELLA HAS LITTLE KNOWLEDGE OF INGRID'S FAMILY, ONLY THE DEEPEST RESPECT FOR ALL THAT HER MOTHER OVERCAME.

YOU RECOGNIZE THE PEOPLE IN THAT PHOTO?

ROSSELLINI: I RECOGNIZE THE PEOPLE.

THIS IS MY GRANDPARENTS, FRIEDEL AND JUSTUS, WHO I'VE NEVER MET.

GATES: UH-HUH.

ROSSELLINI: UM, THIS IS MY MOM IN THE MIDDLE.

SO SAD.

MAKES ME CRY.

GATES: MM-HMM.

HOW DO YOU THINK THEIR DEATHS AFFECTED YOUR MOTHER?

ROSSELLINI: OH, IT AFFECTED MY MOM IMMENSELY, BUT IT ALSO GAVE HER THIS GREAT SENSE OF INDEPENDENCE.

MY MOTHER WAS UNUSUALLY INDEPENDENT FOR A WOMAN BEING BORN IN 1915, WHERE YOU WERE EXPECTED THAT SHE WOULD BE SUBSERVIENT TO THE HUSBAND AND YOU KNOW WAITING FOR THE HUSBAND TO TELL HER WHAT TO DO.

BECAUSE SHE HAD TO MAKE IT ON HER OWN.

GATES: UH-HUH.

ROSSELLINI: AND SHE DID MAKE IT ON HER OWN, SHE WAS INDEPENDENT, SHE WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL FROM THE BEGINNING, AND THAT GAVE MY MOM, TO ME, A MODERNITY.

SHE LOOKED ALMOST LIKE A FEMINIST.

SHE WASN'T A FEMINIST.

SHE WAS A SURVIVOR.

BUT THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT COINCIDED WITH THIS INDEPENDENCE AND STRENGTH MY MOM HAD.

GATES: THOUGH INGRID WAS FORCED TO SUCCEED ON HER OWN, HER INSPIRATION, ACCORDING TO ISABELLA, STEMMED FROM HER FATHER JUSTUS, AN ARTIST AND AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER, WHO LEFT AN INDELIBLE MARK ON HIS DAUGHTER BEFORE HIS UNTIMELY DEATH.

ROSSELLINI: MY MOM ADORED THE FATHER.

HE FOSTERED HER, SHE DIDN'T KNOW ACTING EXISTED, BUT I REMEMBER SHE TOLD ME THAT WHEN SHE WAS A LITTLE GIRL, SHE WANTED TO WEAR A LEASH AND BE A DOG, AND, AND THE FATHER ALLOWED HER AND WALKED WITH HER ON A LEASH, AND MAMA WOULD STOP AND LIFT HER LEG, AS IF A DOG, TO PEE, AND THE FATHER, THE FATHER LET HER DO IT.

SO, HE'D ENCOURAGE HER TO HAVE A FANTASY ABOUT WHO, WHO ELSE TO BE, AND I THINK THAT WAS PART OF WHAT GAVE HER THE COURAGE TO SAY I'M GOING TO BE AN ACTRESS.

GATES: SHE WAS ACTING ALREADY.

ROSSELLINI: SHE WAS ACTING ALREADY, AND THE FATHER SUPPORTED IT.

GATES: WHILE JUSTUS MAY HAVE HELPED LAUNCH ONE OF CINEMA'S MOST ILLUSTRIOUS CAREERS, HE HIMSELF CAME FROM A VERY HUMBLE BACKGROUND, AND THE ICONIC FAMILY NAME OF "BERGMAN" APPARENTLY HAD A RATHER MUNDANE ORIGIN.

THE STORY BEGINS WITH A HOUSEHOLD CENSUS FROM THE TOWN OF KRONOBERG, SWEDEN.

WOULD YOU PLEASE READ THE TRANSLATED LINES?

ROSSELLINI: SO, "JOHAN PETER BERGMAN, HIS WIFE BRITTA SOPHIA SAMUELSDOTTER."

GATES: MM-HMM.

THESE ARE THE NAMES OF YOUR GREAT-GRANDPARENTS.

ROSSELLINI: JOHAN PETER AND WIFE BRITTA BERGMAN.

GATES: BRITTA BERGMAN, YEAH.

ROSSELLINI: RIGHT.

GATES: HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THOSE NAMES?

ROSSELLINI: UH, MAYBE JOHAN.

I KNEW THAT ONE OF THEM, MAYBE, UH, JOHAN, CHASE, CHOSE THE NAME BERGMAN.

GATES: UH-HUH.

ROSSELLINI: HE WAS A CHOIR TEACHER, AND HE TAUGHT THE CHOIR, AND HE WANTED A NAME THAT WOULD SCARE THE CHILDREN.

AND HE THOUGHT BERGMAN WAS A GERMAN NAME AND IT WOULD, UH, KEEP THE CHILDREN AFRAID OF PROFESSOR BERGMAN.

GATES: THAT'S, NOW, THAT'S FUNNY.

ROSSELLINI: THAT'S THE, THE STORY.

GATES: THAT'S THE FAMILY STORY.

ROSSELLINI: THAT'S THE FAMILY STORY.

GATES: THIS STORY WOULD PROVE TO BE QUITE BELIEVABLE.

WE CAN'T SAY FOR CERTAIN WHY JOHAN CHOSE HIS SURNAME, BUT HE IS THE FIRST KNOWN MEMBER OF HER FAMILY TO GO BY "BERGMAN."

AND WE KNOW THAT HE WAS A CHURCH ORGANIST, WHICH MEANS HE LIKELY LED THE CHOIR.

WE WERE ALSO ABLE TO PROVIDE ISABELLA WITH SEVERAL NEW DETAILS ABOUT HIS LIFE.

ROSSELLINI: "ON FRIDAY, FORMER TEACHER P.J.

BERGMAN PASSED AWAY IN SÄFSJÖ, SÄFSJÖ AT THE AGE OF 82.

HE IS MOST CLOSELY MOURNED BY HIS ELDERLY WIFE, WITH WHOM HE HAD BEEN MARRIED FOR 58 LONG YEARS OF MARRIAGE."

GATES: UH-HUH.

ROSSELLINI: "ALONG WITH 11 ADULT CHILDREN."

GATES: 11 ADULT CHILDREN.

ROSSELLINI: 11 ADULT, INTERESTING, ISN'T IT?

LOOK AT THE WAY HE LOOKED.

LOOK AT THIS INCREDIBLE, UH.

GATES: YEAH, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT?

ROSSELLINI: HE DID WANT TO BE MEAN.

GATES: YEAH.

ROSSELLINI: I MEAN NOT ONLY HE CHOSE THE NAME BERGMAN TO INTIMIDATE HIS CHILDREN, BUT HE ALSO HAD THIS STRANGE BEARD THAT HE'S EVEN MORE FRIGHTENING.

GATES: JOHAN MARKED THE LIMITS OF ISABELLA'S KNOWLEDGE OF HER MOTHER'S ROOTS.

BUT WE HAD MUCH FURTHER STILL TO GO, TURNING TO THE ANCESTRY OF HIS WIFE BRITA, WE FOUND OURSELVES IN THE ARCHIVES JÖNKÖPING, A COUNTY IN SOUTHERN SWEDEN.

ROSSELLINI: "SAMUEL LORENTZ, THE SON OF AN INNKEEPER, BENGT SAMUELSSON AND HIS WIFE BRITA SOPHIA RUNQUIST, WERE BORN IN JUNE 20 AND BAPTIZED ON THE 24."

GATES: THAT IS YOUR GREAT-GREAT- GRANDFATHER SAMUEL AND HIS PARENTS, YOUR GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDPARENTS BENGT AND BRITA SOPHIA, AND THIS RECORD TELLS US THAT YOUR GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER BENGT KEPT AN INN.

HE WAS AN INNKEEPER.

ROSSELLINI: HE WAS AN INNKEEPER?

GATES: YEAH.

ROSSELLINI: HUH.

GATES: UH-HUH.

ROSSELLINI: AND, AND THERE'S A MAP.

GATES: UH-HUH.

ROSSELLINI: AND THE MAP INDICATES WHAT?

GATES: THAT'S THEIR HOMETOWN, CALLED JÖNKÖPING.

ROSSELLINI: I HAVE TO GO TO JÖNKÖPING.

I MEAN I HAVE TO TAKE A, AN ANCESTRY TRIP.

GATES: YOU DO.

ROSSELLINI: UH, AND, AND THIS.

GATES: UH, YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF THIS PLACE?

ROSSELLINI: NO, NEVER HEARD OF IT.

GATES: JÖNKÖPING WOULD PROVE TO BE A GOLD MINE FOR OUR RESEARCH.

HERE WE FOUND VITAL RECORDS TAKING US ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE 1600S, ALLOWING US TO MAP OUT GENERATIONS OF ISABELLA'S ROOTS IN THIS ONE COUNTY.

FIND YOURSELF AT THE BOTTOM.

ROSSELLINI: SO, I'M HERE AT THE BOTTOM?

IT'S ME.

GATES: YEAH.

ROSSELLINI: AND THE NEXT IS MY MOM.

GATES: YEAH, KEEP GOING.

ROSSELLINI: AND THEN IT GOES UP TO ELISABETH HIELMBERG, BORN APRIL 1735.

GATES: UH-HUH.

ROSSELLINI: AND LIKELY IN JÖNKÖPING, SWEDEN.

GATES: UH-HUH.

ROSSELLINI: AND DIED IN 1785, IN THE SAME PLACE, AND BEFORE HER, AND IT GOES TO ANOTHER ONE, ABRAHAM HIELMBERG, BORN 1696.

AMAZING, AND THEN IT GOES FURTHER UP.

AMAZING.

GATES: THAT GOES UP TO YOUR SIXTH GREAT-GRANDFATHER.

ROSSELLINI: HOW DO YOU FIND THESE RECORD, ALL THROUGH THIS REGISTRY, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T EXIST THEN, OR?

GATES: WE, ALL THESE DOCUMENTS EXIST IN DIFFERENT FRAGMENTS, DIFFERENT FORMS, AND WE PIECE THEM TOGETHER, AND THAT IS JUST ONE BRANCH OF YOUR FAMILY TREE BACK TO YOUR SIXTH GREAT GRANDFATHER.

GUSTAF, UM, HJELMBERG IS HOW YOU PRONOUNCE IT, AND HE WAS A PRIEST.

ROSSELLINI: HE WAS A PRIEST?

GATES: YEAH, HE WAS A PRIEST.

HE WAS BORN AROUND THE YEAR 1658, ALSO IN JÖNKÖPING.

ROSSELLINI: JÖNKÖPING WHERE THEY HAD, UH, THE INN?

GATES: YES.

ROSSELLINI: I HAVE TO GO THERE.

GATES: JÖNKÖPING.

ISN'T THAT AMAZING?

ROSSELLINI: AND IT'S TOUCHING TO SEE THE NAMES.

GATES: UH-HUH.

ROSSELLINI: ABRAHAM, OF COURSE, THAT WAS, ABRAHAM AND SAMUEL, THEY'RE, YES, THEY ARE BI, BIBLICAL NAME, SA, AND THEN JUSTUS, ALSO SAMUEL, LIKE IT COMES BACK.

IT'S VERY TOUCHING.

IT IS VERY TOUCHING.

GATES: DOES LEARNING ABOUT THIS MUCH ABOUT YOUR MOTHER'S ROOTS MAKE YOU THINK OF HER ANY DIFFERENTLY?

ROSSELLINI: YES, SHE DEFINITELY, SHE ALWAYS SAID THAT SHE, IF SHE WILL BE AN ANIMAL, SHE WOULD BE A MIGRATORY BIRD.

GATES: AH.

ROSSELLINI: THAT SHE WOULD, UH, SHE DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE ROOTS, SO IT WAS CONTRADICTING.

GATES: YEAH.

ROSSELLINI: THE REST, AND UH THAT SHE JUST WANTED TO LIVE IN DIFFERENT PLACES, AND SHE DID.

SHE LIVED IN SWEDEN, IN ITALY, IN PARIS, IN LONDON, IN HOLLYWOOD, IN NEW YORK.

IT'S ACTUALLY FASCINATING TO SEE THAT, THAT I SEE MY FAMILY AS SO NOMADIC, AND THAT THEY DIDN'T MOVE.

GATES: YEAH.

ROSSELLINI: BECAUSE PROBABLY THERE WERE NO MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION.

I'M ALWAYS ON A PLANE.

EVERY WEEK, I'M ON A PLANE.

I'M GOING TO EUROPE.

I'M GOING TO LOS ANGELES.

I'M GOING TO LONDON.

I'M GOING TO ROME.

UM, AND TO SEE THAT GENERATION AFTER GENERATION, THEY STAYED THERE, THEY MARRIED, UH, THREE MILES AWAY.

GATES: RIGHT.

ROSSELLINI: UH, THAT IS INCREDIBLE TO ME.

GATES: WE HAD TRACED ANJELICA HUSTON'S MATERNAL ROOTS BACK TO RURAL ITALY, SHOWING HOW GENERATIONS OF HER MOTHER'S ANCESTORS LIVED IN DIRE POVERTY.

TURNING TO HER FATHER'S FAMILY TREE, WE FOUND A VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF STORY TO TELL, THE STORY OF A MAN OF PRIVILEGE.

IT CONCERNS ANJELICA'S 5TH GREAT-GRANDFATHER, ANDREW SMITH, WHO DIED IN MARYLAND IN 1811, LEAVING BEHIND SOME SURPRISING INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING HIS WIFE ELIZABETH AND THEIR SLAVES.

HUSTON: "MY WILL AND DESIRE IS THAT THE LAND AND PERSONAL PROPERTY BE SOLD, AND THE AMOUNT THEREOF TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED AMONGST MY TEN CHILDREN AT HER DEATH.

AND MY FURTHER WILL AND DESIRE IS THAT MY FOUR NEGRO CHILDREN SHALL BE FREE", YEAH!, "AT THE AGE OF 30 YEARS.

TO WIT: NICHOLAS, JOHN, MARIAH, AND URIAS."

GATES: AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?

IT MEANS THAT THOSE FOUR PEOPLE NAMED THERE, NICHOLAS, JOHN, MARIAH, AND URIAS, THE ENSLAVED CHILDREN OF YOUR FIFTH GREAT-GRANDFATHER, ARE YOUR HALF FOURTH GREAT-GRAND-UNCLES AND AUNT.

HUSTON: WOW, I HAD NO IDEA.

GATES: MANY WHITE MEN, OF COURSE, FATHERED CHILDREN WITH THEIR SLAVES.

BUT VERY FEW ACKNOWLEDGED IT, AND FEWER STILL MADE ANY EFFORT TO FREE THEIR ENSLAVED CHILDREN.

WE DON'T KNOW WHY ANJELICA'S ANCESTOR DID WHAT HE DID, AND WE CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW HIS WIFE ELIZABETH FELT ABOUT IT.

HE WAS SAYING, "WELL, IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A SIN BUT I'M GOING TO ATONE.

I'M GOING TO ADMIT IT.

I DID IT.

AND SHE MIGHT NOT LIKE IT, BUT I'M DOING THIS."

HUSTON: YEAH.

GATES: AND WE DON'T KNOW IF WHAT HE DID WAS POPULAR IN THIS HOUSEHOLD OR NOT.

HUSTON: RIGHT.

GATES: BUT HE DID IT.

HUSTON: YEAH.

I MEAN, I'M, I WANT TO BE ON HIS SIDE, UM, BECAUSE I THINK IT, IT MEANT THAT HE WAS AWARE OF THEM AS HUMAN BEINGS, WHICH.

GATES: ABSOLUTELY.

HUSTON: AT A TIME WHERE, UM, THAT WAS UNUSUAL.

GATES: BUT IT'S TRUE.

NO, AND FOR A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE, ACTS OF LUST, RAPE, WHICH THEN THEY WERE.

WENT INTO DENIAL ABOUT.

HUSTON: TOTAL DENIAL.

GATES: THEY DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW THEIR NAMES, THEY DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE... NO MATTER IF THEY LOOKED LIKE THEM.

YOU KNOW?

AND THEN WOULD SELL THEM DOWN THE RIVER.

HUSTON: YEAH.

GATES: WITHIN THE HORRIBLE REGIME OF SLAVERY, ANDREW'S DECISION MAY HAVE APPEARED ADMIRABLE, BUT IT CAME WITH A CATCH.

HIS FOUR MIXED-RACE CHILDREN WERE NOT TO BE GRANTED THEIR FREEDOM UNTIL THEY REACHED THE AGE OF 30, WHICH MEANT THAT THEY WOULD SPEND THEIR MOST PRODUCTIVE YEARS WORKING IN BONDAGE...

THIS WAS A FAIRLY COMMON PRACTICE AT THE TIME.

AND ANDREW'S ESTATE RECORDS SHOWED WHAT IT MEANT IN THE COLDEST TERMS IMAGINABLE.

THIS IS AN INVENTORY OF YOUR FIFTH GREAT-GRANDFATHER ANDREW SMITH'S PERSONAL ESTATE.

IT IS DATED AUGUST 30, 1811, ABOUT TWO MONTHS AFTER HIS DEATH.

WOULD YOU PLEASE READ THE HIGHLIGHTED PORTION?

HUSTON: "ONE BLACK MAN: $100.

ONE BLACK WOMAN: $50.

ONE BLACK BOY NICK, 6 YEARS OLD: $50.

ONE BLACK BOY JON, 5 YEARS OLD: $40."

UGH.

THIS IS HORRIBLE TO READ.

"ONE BLACK GIRL MARIAH 3 YEARS OLD: $30.

ONE BLACK BOY EUREAS, 1 YEAR OLD: $20."

GATES: SO YOU RECOGNIZE THOSE NAMES.

HUSTON: YEAH.

GATES: THE FOUR CHILDREN LISTED HERE ARE THE SAME CHILDREN LISTED IN YOUR FIFTH GREAT-GRANDFATHER'S WILL ONLY THIS TIME, YOU CAN SEE WHAT THEY WERE VALUED AT, AT AS YOUNG AS 14 MONTHS OLD.

HUSTON: IT'S DEVASTATING, AND I SEE FURTHER ON THE PAGE "ONE OLD PLOW, ONE OLD FEATHER BED, ONE OLD CHEST, ONE OLD TABLE, ONE OLD DESK."

THAT THEY'RE BASICALLY LISTED AS ASSETS.

GATES: RIGHT.

THEY WERE ALL PROPERTY.

HUSTON: YEAH.

GATES: YEP.

THAT'S WHAT SLAVERY WAS.

HUSTON: YEAH.

PRETTY HORRIFYING.

GATES: THERE REMAINED ONE QUESTION FOR US TO CONFRONT: DID ANDREW'S HEIRS HONOR HIS WILL?

THE HISTORICAL RECORD IS FILLED WITH EXAMPLES OF SLAVES WHO WERE FREED BY A DYING MASTER, ONLY TO FIND THAT THE MASTER'S FAMILY HAD OTHER INTENTIONS.

SOME SLAVES WERE SOLD DESPITE STIPULATIONS FORBIDDING IT.

SOME WEREN'T FREED DESPITE WILLS THAT SAID THEY SHOULD BE FREED.

SO WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENED TO YOUR RELATIVES?

DO YOU THINK ANDREW'S WILL WAS HONORED OR NOT?

HUSTON: I HOPE IT WAS.

GATES: WELL, WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT.

COULD YOU PLEASE TURN THE PAGE?

HUSTON: "ON THE 22 DAY OF SEPTEMBER 1841 CAME JOHN S. ENSOR AND WITH HIM ALSO PERSONALLY APPEARED A CERTAIN NEGRO MAN NAMED JOHN, AND THE SAID JOHN S. ENSOR MADE OATH THAT THE SAID NEGRO MAN JOHN IS THE SAME BOY WHO WAS MANUMITTED AND SET FREE BY THE WILL OF ANDREW SMITH DECEASED AND THAT NEGRO IS NOW ABOUT 34 YEARS OF AGE AND WAS RAISED IN BALTIMORE COUNTY."

AMEN.

FANTASTIC.

GATES: SO THIS RECORD CONFIRMS THAT WHEN YOUR GREAT-GRANDUNCLE JOHN, THE BLACK MAN, HALF-BLACK MAN, TURNED 30 ON SEPTEMBER 19, 1837, HE BECAME LEGALLY FREE.

HUSTON: BRAVO.

GATES: ISN'T IT AMAZING?

HUSTON: THAT'S FANTASTIC.

I'M VERY HAPPY.

GOD, IT COULD HAVE SO EASILY HAVE GONE THE OTHER WAY.

GATES: YEAH.

HUSTON: THAT'S AMAZING.

GATES: WHAT'S IT LIKE TO SEE A DOCUMENT PROVING MANUMISSION OF SOMEONE WITH WHOM YOU SHARE DNA, YOU SHARE ANCESTRY?

HUSTON: POWERFUL.

POWERFUL AND VERY MOVING.

THIS IS A GREAT DOCUMENT.

GATES: WE HAD ALREADY REVEALED THE PAINFUL STORY OF MIA FARROW'S PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER, LUCY SAVAGE, WHO DIED IN AN ASYLUM AT THE AGE OF 27.

NOW WE TURNED TO THE MAN WHO COMMITTED HER TO THAT ASYLUM, MIA'S GRANDFATHER, JOSEPH FARROW.

AND BROUGHT MIA FACE TO FACE WITH HIM FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.

GUESS WHO THAT IS?

FARROW: WHO'S THAT?

GATES: THAT'S YOUR GRANDFATHER.

THAT IS JOSEPH FARROW.

FARROW: OH.

GATES: THAT IS YOUR FATHER'S FATHER.

FARROW: HE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A BAD GUY.

HE LOOKS A LITTLE LIKE ME EVEN.

GATES: UM-HUM.

WE THOUGHT SO.

FARROW: WOW.

WELL, UM, OKAY, THAT HUMANIZES HIM DOESN'T, DOESN'T IT?

THERE'S A PICTURE OF HIM.

GATES: UM-HUM.

FARROW: WELL, HE DID SOME BAD THINGS ANYWAY.

THAT'S REALLY SOMETHING.

GATES: WE DON'T KNOW WHY JOSEPH COMMITTED HIS WIFE TO AN INSTITUTION, BUT WE DO KNOW THAT HIS LIFE AFTER LUCY'S DEATH WASN'T EASY...

HE WORKED AS A CARPENTER, RAISING HIS SON AS A SINGLE PARENT UNTIL 1915, WHEN HE PUT MIA'S FATHER IN THE CARE OF HIS AUNT, THEN VOLUNTEERED TO SERVE IN WORLD WAR I. JOSEPH WAS 36 AT THE TIME, OLD TO BE A SOLDIER.

BUT HE WAS SOON THRUST INTO ONE OF THE BLOODIEST BATTLES OF THE WAR.

HIS REGIMENT WAS SENT TO THE GALLIPOLI PENINSULA, WHERE ALLIED TROOPS FAMOUSLY, AND TRAGICALLY, CHARGED OVER OPEN GROUND AGAINST FORTIFIED TURKISH LINES, RESULTING IN A SLAUGHTER THAT HORRIFIED THE WORLD.

WE SHOWED MIA A JOURNALIST'S ACCOUNT OF WHAT HER GRANDFATHER MAY HAVE WITNESSED.

FARROW: "40,000 MEN HAVE NOW BEEN REDUCED TO LESS THAN 5,000.

THEY WERE DASHED AGAINST THE TURKISH LINES AND BROKEN.

THE SLAUGHTER OF FINE YOUTHS WAS APPALLING, TO FLING THEM, WITHOUT EVEN THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE, AGAINST SUCH TRENCHES AS THE TURKS MAKE, WAS MURDER."

GATES: MURDER.

(SIGHS).

GATES: AND YOUR GRANDFATHER'S IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT.

FARROW: GEE, I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE THE MINDSET TO WALK INTO GUNFIRE.

GATES: YEAH.

FARROW: JUST WALK IN... GATES: AND NOT RUN AWAY.

FARROW: AND NOT RUN AWAY.

GATES: GALLIPOLI WAS ONE OF THE WORST ALLIED DEFEATS OF THE ENTIRE WAR, MIA'S GRANDFATHER WAS LUCKY TO EVEN TO SURVIVE THE BATTLE.

BUT HIS LUCK DIDN'T HOLD.

NINE MONTHS LATER, HE CONTRACTED MALARIA, AND AFTER MONTHS IN A HOSPITAL, THE ARMY DETERMINED HE WAS PERMANENTLY UNFIT FOR MILITARY SERVICE.

HE WOULD DIE OF A HEART CONDITION WHEN HE WAS JUST 45 YEARS OLD, LIKELY CAUSED, AT LEAST IN PART, BY HIS ILLNESS.

FARROW: GOODNESS.

I'VE GONE FROM JUST LOATHING THIS MAN TO UNDERSTANDING THAT IT'S NOT SO SIMPLE AND WE SHOULDN'T BE SO QUICK TO JUDGE ANYWAY.

UM.

GATES: WELL, YOU CAN BE MAD AT HIM FOR ONE THING HE DID AND, AND RESPECTFUL FOR SOMETHING ELSE.

FARROW: YES, BUT MAYBE IT WASN'T AS CLEAR AS I INITIALLY THOUGHT OR BY THE STANDARDS WE WOULD JUDGE HIM NOW YOU KNOW.

GATES: UM-HUM.

FARROW: AND MAYBE HE THOUGHT HE WAS DOING ALL HE COULD.

GATES: SURE.

FARROW: IT CERTAINLY MAKES HIM A, A TRAGIC FIGURE REALLY.

GATES: YEAH.

HE WAS A TRAGIC FIGURE.

WE NOW SET OUT TO TRACE JOSEPH'S ROOTS.

WE FOUND THAT HE WAS BORN IN AUSTRALIA IN 1879, AND JUST AS WE'D SEEN WITH HIS WIFE LUCY, HIS ANCESTORS WERE ENGLISH.

DRAWING UPON A SERIES OF VITAL RECORDS, WE WERE ABLE TO TRAVEL THREE GENERATIONS PAST HIM, BACK TO MIA'S 5TH GREAT-GRANDFATHER, A MAN NAMED THOMAS FARROW, WHO WAS BORN AROUND 1690 IN NORFOLK, ENGLAND.

FARROW: THAT WAS REALLY... YOU KNOW THAT'S SATISFYING.

GATES: IS IT, WHY?

FARROW: I'M, I...BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH A BLANK SLATE YOU KNOW.

GATES: UM-HUM.

FARROW: WHAT HAPPENED TO LUCY?

WAS THERE A FATHER, WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?

GATES: UM-HUM.

FARROW: YOU KNOW IS HE TO BE REVILED?

WHERE WAS HE IN MY FATHER'S LIFE?

WHY WAS HE NEVER TALKED ABOUT AND WHO ARE HIS PEOPLE?

THEREFORE, WHO ARE MY PEOPLE.

GATES: RIGHT.

FARROW: THAT WAS ALL BLANK TO ME.

GATES: HMM.

FARROW: IT'S GOING TO DROP ROOTS.

IT'S GOING TO DO A LOT OF THINGS I'M SURE TO ME AS TIME GOES ON.

IT'S LIKE I'M FEELING CONNECTED.

GATES: UM-HUM.

FARROW: THAT I DIDN'T EXPECT TO FEEL.

LIKE THESE ARE MY PEOPLE.

GATES: THESE ARE YOUR PEOPLE.

THE PAPER TRAIL HAD NOW RUN OUT FOR EACH OF MY GUESTS...

IT WAS TIME TO SEE WHAT DNA COULD TELL US ABOUT THEIR DEEPER ROOTS.

WE BEGAN WITH AN ADMIXTURE TEST, WHICH REVEALS A PERSON'S ANCESTRY OVER APPROXIMATELY THE LAST 500 YEARS, BROKEN DOWN INTO PERCENTAGES BASED ON THE BROAD REGIONS WHERE THEIR ANCESTORS LIVED.

FOR ISABELLA AND MIA, THE RESULTS MIRRORED WHAT WE'D SEEN IN THE PAPER TRAIL... ROSSELLINI: 0.1, VERY LITTLE.

GATES: BOTH WERE OVERWHELMINGLY EUROPEAN.

FARROW: 99.8% EUROPEAN.

GATES: BUT ANJELICA'S ADMIXTURE REVEALED SOMETHING WE HADN'T EXPECTED.

HUSTON: 2.7% ASHKENAZI JEWISH.

GATES: THAT'S A SURPRISE, HUH?

HUSTON: VERY MUCH SO.

GATES: THAT'S ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT TO ONE THIRD-GREAT-GRANDPARENT OF FULL ASHKENAZI JEWISH ANCESTRY.

SO HAS YOUR FAMILY EVER MENTIONED YOU MIGHT HAVE ANY JEWISH ANCESTRY?

HUSTON: NO.

NO.

UM, NO, BUT I'M VERY HAPPY TO SEE IT THERE.

GATES: THIS DNA SURPRISE WAS ABOUT TO YIELD ANOTHER.

WHEN WE COMPARED OUR GUESTS' GENETIC PROFILES TO THOSE OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN IN THE SERIES, WE FOUND TWO SIGNIFICANT MATCHES FOR ANJELICA, EVIDENCE WITHIN HER OWN CHROMOSOMES OF RELATIVES SHE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW SHE HAD... HUSTON: OH, MY GOODNESS, LARRY DAVID AND BERNIE SANDERS.

THAT'S HYSTERICAL.

GATES: YOUR DNA COUSINS ARE BERNIE AND LARRY.

HUSTON: THAT'S SO GOOD.

GATES: ALL THREE OF YOU SHARE AN IDENTICAL STRETCH OF DNA ON CHROMOSOME SEVEN.

THIS MEANS THAT YOU'RE RELATED TO THEM THROUGH YOUR UNKNOWN JEWISH ANCESTOR.

ISN'T THAT AMAZING?

HUSTON: FANTASTIC.

THAT'S SO GREAT.

GATES: AS IT TURNS OUT, ANJELICA WASN'T MY ONLY GUEST WITH A DNA COUSIN, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI HAD ONE, TOO.

BRINGING ANOTHER HOLLYWOOD ICON INTO HER FAMILY TREE.

DO YOU WANT TO MEET THIS PERSON?

ROSSELLINI: YES.

GATES: PLEASE TURN THE PAGE.

ROSSELLINI: NO.

REALLY?

WELL, OF COURSE, A SWEDISH NAME.

GATES: THERE YOU GO.

ROSSELLINI: SCARLETT JOHANSSON.

GATES: SCARLETT JOHANSSON.

ROSSELLINI: SHE'S SWEDISH, OF COURSE.

GATES: YOU SHARE AN IDENTICAL STRETCH OF DNA ON YOUR SIXTH CHROMOSOME WITH SCARLETT.

WHICH MEANS THAT YOU HAVE A DISTANT COMMON ANCESTOR SOMEWHERE IN YOUR FAMILY TREES.

UNDOUBTEDLY A SWEDISH ONE.

ROSSELLINI: A SWEDISH ONE, OF COURSE.

AMAZING.

GATES: SHE'S YOUR COUSIN.

ROSSELLINI: HOW FUNNY IS THAT?

WELL, A VERY... AND A WONDERFUL ACTRESS, TOO.

GATES: THAT'S THE END OF OUR JOURNEY WITH ANGELICA HUSTON, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI, AND MIA FARROW... JOIN ME NEXT TIME WHEN WE UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF THE PAST FOR NEW GUESTS ON ANOTHER EPISODE OF "FINDING YOUR ROOTS".

MCCARTHY: I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

NARRATOR: NEXT TIME ON FINDING YOUR ROOTS: ERIC STONESTREET.

STONESTREET: ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT IS MY GRANDMA.

THAT SHE KNEW HIM.

GATES: YEAH.

STONESTREET: AND I KNEW HER.

NARRATOR: AND MELISSA MCCARTHY... MCCARTHY: I GUESS I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT PEOPLE JUST KIND OF MOVED AND SCATTERED.

NARRATOR: TWO COMEDIANS... STONESTREET: SHE WAS THE CHIEF TAILOR FOR FIZBO THE CLOWN.

NARRATOR: WHO PULLED UP STAKES... GATES: COULD YOU LIVE LIKE THAT?

MCCARTHY: THAT IS CRAZY.

NARRATOR: LIKE TH EIR ANCESTORS.

STONESTREET: I HAVE CHILLS.

MCCARTHY: HOLY SMOKES.

NARRATOR: ON THE NEXT FINDING YOUR ROOTS.