Finding Your Roots (2012-2026)

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TV ShowPBS Documentary
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Finding Your Roots
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StarringHenry Louis Gates, Jr.
DirectorsJesse SweetHazel Gurland-Pooler
WritersHenry Louis Gates, Jr.
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TV-PG March 24th, 2012Documentary12 Seasons, 126 Episodes
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Plot
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.

All Seasons

Season 12
Season 12
Jan 6, 2026
50
Season 11
Season 11
Jan 7, 2025
10
Season 10
Season 10
Jan 2, 2024
Season 9
Season 9
Jan 3, 2023
80

TV Show Details

Air Date:March 24th, 2012

Last Air Date:April 14th, 2026

Network:PBS
Status:Returning Series

Genres:Documentary

Original Language:English
Production Companies:Kunhardt McGee Productions, Ark Media, Inkwell Films
Finding Your Roots on the Web:WikiData, Official Website
TV Show Tags:
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