Finding Your Roots (2012)

03/24/2012 (US) • 1h

Documentary

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.

Top Billed Cast

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Self - Host

116 Episodes


Last Season

Season 11

2025 | 10 Episodes

Season 11 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 7, 2025.

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Status

Returning Series

Network

network

Type

Documentary

Original Language

English

Keywords

dna

celebrity

ancestry

genealogy

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