Finding Your Roots
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.
Featured Cast
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host
Finding Your Roots (2012)
Overview
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.
Featured Cast
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
10 episodesAired: Mar 24, 2012
Season 2
10 episodesAired: Sep 23, 2014
Season 3
10 episodesDr. Gates explores the genealogy of celebrities using the records left behind and DNA technology.
Aired: Jan 05, 2016
Season 4
10 episodesAired: Oct 02, 2017
Season 5
10 episodesAired: Jan 08, 2019
Season 6
16 episodesAired: Oct 08, 2019
Season 7
10 episodesAired: Jan 19, 2021
Season 8
10 episodesAired: Jan 04, 2022
Season 9
10 episodesAired: Jan 03, 2023
Season 10
10 episodesAired: Jan 02, 2024
Season 11
10 episodesAired: Jan 07, 2025
