The "reconnection" narrative may be fairly common by now among baby boomers looking for their roots.

He approached them as a neurologist, looking for their roots in nervous conditions.

It's a very American thing to look for your roots.

Often when Islanders look for their roots, they are looking for relatively contemporary ones.

You're looking for your roots - I quite understand.

A journey to Vilna amounted to looking for her roots and seeking a new purpose in life.

"I will probably always be fractured in my identity, but an artist looks for his roots."

The ones who went to Ireland to look for their roots dodged the tough stuff.

Later, looking for his family's roots, he tried to find his grandfather's village, on the border of Chernobyl.

Ball tries to reveal the bases of such fears by looking for their roots in some very old stories.