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Who Do You Think You Are?: Aug 12

Australian of the Year Adam Goodes is this week's subject in the SBS genealogy series.

2014-08-09_1746Australian of the Year Adam Goodes is this week’s subject in Who Do You Think You Are?

Goodes was not brought up in Aboriginal culture and has always wanted to connect with his heritage., now given the chance through the SBS series.

In the new Australian series of Who Do you Think You Are? Adam is on a quest to learn about his ancestors’ culture. He journeys deep into the remote Flinders Ranges and finds evidence of their lives from thousands of years ago. His investigations also uncover a royal bloodline and a 19th century mining magnate in his family tree.

Adam Goodes’ hunger to uncover his Aboriginal heritage is fuelled by a tragic family event. His mother, Lisa Sansbury was placed in state care as a young child and was never returned to her parents. She grew up with no ties to her Aboriginal ancestry. Adam wants to fill that void and finally find a way of connecting to the traditional culture of his ancestors.

Adam’s first stop is the South Australian Museum in Adelaide where he and his mum unearth records about the family line of Adam’s grandfather, Hurtle Sansbury. The line goes as far back as Adam’s four times great-grandparents, a ‘Captain Hughes’ and an unnamed Aboriginal woman from Moonta in South Australia. As descendants of this full-blooded Aboriginal woman, Adam and Lisa learn they are from the Narungga people of the Yorke Peninsula.

7:30pm Tuesday SBS ONE

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