Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots

2012 12 Seasons 126 Episodes 6.2/10
Documentary

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.

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Status: Returning Series

📚 Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

10 Episodes

2012-03-24

Season 2

Season 2

10 Episodes

2014-09-23

Season 3

Season 3

10 Episodes

2016-01-05

Season 4

Season 4

10 Episodes

2017-10-02

Season 5

Season 5

10 Episodes

2019-01-08

Season 6

Season 6

16 Episodes

2019-10-08

Season 7

Season 7

10 Episodes

2021-01-19

Season 8

Season 8

10 Episodes

2022-01-04

Season 9

Season 9

10 Episodes

2023-01-03

Season 10

Season 10

10 Episodes

2024-01-02

Season 11

Season 11

10 Episodes

2025-01-07

N/A

Season 12

10 Episodes

2026-01-06

📺 Latest season episodes (Season 12)

  • 1
    American Dreams 2026-01-06
  • 2
    Great Migrations 2026-01-13
  • 3
    Caribbean Roots 2026-01-20
  • 4
    The Road We Took 2026-01-27
  • 5
    Love & Basketball 2026-02-03
  • 6
    Westward Bound 2026-02-10
  • 7
    Family Harmonies 2026-02-17
  • 8
    Artistic Roots 2026-02-24
  • 9
    Song of the South 2026-04-07
  • 10
    Rags to Riches 2026-04-14

🎭 Cast

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host

🎬 Trailer

Details

Release Date
2012-03-24
Original Language
English
Total episodes
126
Origin Country

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