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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
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
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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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