Finding Your Roots

Overview

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.

Seasons

Season 1

10 Episodes•2012

Season 2

10 Episodes•2014•

6.0

Season 3

10 Episodes•2016

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

Season 4

10 Episodes•2017

Season 5

10 Episodes•2019

Season 6

16 Episodes•2019

Season 7

10 Episodes•2021

Season 8

10 Episodes•2022

Season 9

10 Episodes•2023•

8.0

Season 10

10 Episodes•2024

Season 11

10 Episodes•2025•

1.0

Season 12

4 Episodes•2026•

10.0

Videos

FINDING YOUR ROOTS | Season 4 Official Teaser Trailer | PBS

Trailer