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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.

2012 6.5/10 community score 13 seasons · 127 episodes Returning Series
  • Documentary

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15 platforms currently listed across all viewing options

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Series schedule

Seasons and episode dates

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First aired
Seasons
13
Episodes
127
Status
Returning Series

Latest aired episode

S12 E10

Rags to Riches

Aired 53 min

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of actor Kate Burton and media mogul Barry Diller, meeting ancestors who made huge sacrifices to escape poverty.

Next listed episode

S13 E1 Season premiere

Episode 1

Scheduled air date 53 min

Season guide

Most recent seasons first

13 season entries
  • Season 13

    1 episode

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  • Season 12

    10 episodes

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  • Season 11

    10 episodes

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  • Season 10

    10 episodes

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  • Season 9

    10 episodes

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  • Season 8

    10 episodes

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  • Season 7

    10 episodes

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  • Season 6

    16 episodes

    First episode aired

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  • Season 5

    10 episodes

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  • Season 4

    10 episodes

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  • Season 3

    10 episodes

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  • Season 2

    10 episodes

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  • Season 1

    10 episodes

    First episode aired

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