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Finding Your Roots(TV show/series, 2012-)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h per episode | Genre: Documentary

Documentation in 10 seasons with 103 episodes

Finding Your RootsRating: 3.0/5 (with 6 votes) 999
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a documentary television series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that premiered on March 25, 2012, on PBS. In each episode, celebrities are presented with a "book of life" that is compiled with information researched by professional genealogists that allows them to view their ancestral histories, learn about familial connections and discover secrets about their lineage. All episodes air on Tuesdays. Season 10 began airing on January 2, 2024. ()
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About 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.

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FINDING YOUR ROOTS | Season 4 Official Teaser Trailer | PBS(Trailer, 0:31)

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Finding Your Roots Seasons and Episodes

01/02/2024Season 10 - 7 episodes
#1 | 01/02/2024Born To Sing
Singers Ciara and Alanis Morissette examine their family histories.
#2 | 01/09/2024Forever Young
Actors Valerie Bertinelli and Brendan Fraser explore their family histories
#3 | 01/16/2024Fathers and Sons
Actors LeVar Burton and Wes Studi, two men who grew up without their fathers, explore their family histories.
#4 | 01/23/2024Buried Secrets
Singer Sammy Hagar and actor Ed O'Neill uncover their roots and discover deep family secrets.
#5 | 01/30/2024Hold the Laughter
Actor Bob Odenkirk and comic Iliza Shlesinger explore their family histories and learn about relatives who took great risks to overcome hardships.
#6 | 02/06/2024Far and Away
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the extraordinarily diverse roots of journalist Sunny Hostin and actor Jesse Williams—telling long-lost stories of African and European ancestry that compel his guests to rethink their own identities.
#7 | 02/13/2024The Brick Wall Falls
01/03/2023Season 9 - 10 episodes
01/04/2022Season 8 - 10 episodes
01/19/2021Season 7 - 10 episodes
10/08/2019Season 6 - 16 episodes
01/08/2019Season 5 - 10 episodes
10/02/2017Season 4 - 10 episodes
01/05/2016Season 3 - 10 episodes
09/23/2014Season 2 - 10 episodes
03/24/2012Season 1 - 10 episodes

Additional Information

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Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 3 languages: English (EN), Japanese (JA), Dutch (NL)
Status: Returning series
First episode released on: 03/24/2012
Latest episode released on: 01/30/2024
Presenter/Host: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Composer: Michael Bacon
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr."

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WatchPlayStream ID: SHOWS:3478, Added: 05/12/2018, Last updated: 03/16/2024