Roots and Branches Podcast Season 1

🌳 Roots & Branches: Season 1 – The Search for Origin

Season 1 of Roots & Branches begins at the very heart of discovery — tracing the Hinton family lineage through the soil of Johnston County, North Carolina. This season is both a genealogical journey and a personal awakening. Each episode unfolds like a conversation between past and present, revealing the untold stories of ancestors whose lives were shaped by enslavement, migration, and resilience.

From Thomas Hinton’s 16th-century English roots to the life of Grivel Hinton — a freedman whose name carries the weight of survival and legacy — the season explores what it means to inherit both pain and possibility. Through oral history, family interviews, and historical records, Season 1 reimagines genealogy as a living story — not just a record of names and dates, but a meditation on faith, identity, and belonging.

This first season sets the foundation for what Roots & Branches is all about: uncovering truth, honoring family, and bridging the distance between who we were and who we’ve become.