DEARBORN, Mich. – Much like the celebrities in the NBC show, Who Do You Think You Are, Local 4caster Chuck Gaidica recently received the opportunity to see what happens when experts take a look into his family's past.
Chuck met up with Anastasia Harman, a lead family historian at ancestory.com, to learn what they discovered about his family. The two met at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, a perfect setting to take a journey of self discovery.
Harman told Chuck about his great grandmother Rose and his great, great grandmother Mary and how they arrived in the United States.
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He was surprised to find out his family did not arrive in America through Ellis Island like he thought, instead, they came through Baltimore. Chuck's family, according to ancestry.com, is among the fraction of immigrants who took their first steps in this country in Baltimore.
His family migrated from Bohemia and Moravia, which is now part of the Czech Republic, and settled in Chicago, Illinois. They chose that city because they were machinists and it was a natural place to migrate to for families with those skills.
Chuck learned that a total of four generations of his family lived in his childhood home in Chicago.
The NBC show, Who Do You Think You Are, airs Fridays at 8 p.m. on WDIV Local 4. For more information on the show, click here.