Her project was for TLC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” in which celebrities search through their family history. Now Ringwald’s episode will air at 8 p.m. Sunday.
For the show, the star of “Sixteen Candles,” “Pretty in Pink” and “The Breakfast Club” went to the Washington County Courthouse in Blair, Nebraska, to learn more about her great-great-grandmother, who left Sweden with her coal miner husband and came to The Good Life. Ringwald also went to Arlington, Nebraska, to see a family landmark.