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Finding Your Roots

2012–present

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.

First aired
24 Mar 2012
Episode length
60 min
Also known as
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Country
United States
Language
English
Writer
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Editor
Ben Howard
Executive producers
Dyllan McGee, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Peter W. Kunhardt
Producers
CeCe Moore, Kevin Burke
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Seasons · 127 episodes

  • Season 1

    2012

  • Season 2

    2014

  • Season 3

    2016

    Dr. Gates explores the genealogy of celebrities using the records left behind and DNA technology.

  • Season 4

    2017

  • Season 5

    2019

  • Season 6

    2019

  • Season 7

    2021

  • Season 8

    2022

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