Who Do You Think You Are? to Feature Bill Paxton Sunday, April 19 on TLC

This week’s Who Do You Think You Are? features Bill Paxton – maybe best known for his lead role in the movie “Twister.”

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Bill always wondered if he was related to Texan hero, Sam Houston (who he just happens to be playing in a movie out next year). After Bill sees that indeed he and Sam are distant cousins, he sets off on a journey back to his third great grandfather and finds out that after spending years fighting in the Revolutionary War for the Patriot cause, he drops his arms and takes up a cutting edge new religion called, Swedenborgianism. Bill’s ancestor was caught between the worlds of being a slave-owning land owner and a God-fearing man who believed that human kindness would lead him to heaven.

This episode airs Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 10/9c on TLC. Don’t miss it!

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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