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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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.
Series Snapshot
- Status
- In production
- Total Seasons
- 12
- Total Episodes
- 126
- First Air Date
- Mar 24, 2012
- Most Recent Air Date
- Apr 14, 2026
- Network / Platform
- PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel
- Original Language
- en-US
Themes
Tone & Style
- Serialized structure rewards long-form viewing over stand-alone episodes.
- Ongoing release cycle can continue expanding key plot threads.
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- Rating
- 14.8
- Seasons
- 12
- Episodes
- 126
