Finding Your Roots (2012-2025)

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PBS 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, 120 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.

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Season 12
Season 12
Jan 6, 2026
Season 11
Season 11
Jan 7, 2025
10
Season 10
Season 10
Jan 2, 2024
Season 9
Season 9
Jan 3, 2023
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TV Show Details

Air Date:March 24th, 2012

Last Air Date:April 8th, 2025

Network:PBS
Status:Returning Series

Genres:Documentary

Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Peter W. Kunhardt, Dyllan McGee, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Production Companies:Kunhardt McGee Productions, Ark Media, Inkwell Films
Finding Your Roots on the Web:Official Website
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