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Finding Your Roots

Jim Gaffigan’s Coal Region connections featured on “Finding Your Roots” on PBS

Posted on February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 by Jake Wynn

Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and comedian Jim Gaffigan explored Gaffigan's family connection to the Coal Region on "Finding Your Roots"

Posted in Reflection, Schuylkill CountyTagged 19th Century, Big Lick, Civil War, Coal Mining, Coal Region, Finding Your Roots, Immigrant, Immigrants, Immigration, Irish, Irish-American, Molly Maguires, PBS, Pennsylvania, Reflection, Schuylkill County, St. Clair, Television, Williamstown, Williamstown Historical Society2 Comments

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