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.
On screen
Top Cast
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host
CeCe Moore
Self - Genetic Genealogy Expert
Derek Jeter
Self
Anderson Cooper
Self
Tom Colicchio
Self
Angela Bassett
Self
Valerie Jarrett
Self
Alan Dershowitz
Self
Tony Kushner
Self
Sally Field
Self
Tina Fey
Self
Nas
Self
Episodes guide
Seasons
Season 1
10 episodes · 2012
Season 2
10 episodes · 2014
Season 3
10 episodes · 2016
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
Season 10
10 episodes · 2024
Season 11
10 episodes · 2025
Season 12
10 episodes · 2026
Season 13
1 episodes · 2027
Preview
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