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Finding Your Roots

6.4
11 seasons
116 episodes
Returning Series
Documentary

Plot Summary

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.

First Aired:March 24, 2012
Last Aired:April 8, 2025
Episode Runtime:1h 0m
Networks:
PBS

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Seasons (11)

Season 1

Season 1

10 episodes

Aired: 2012

Season 2
6.0

Season 2

10 episodes

Aired: 2014

Season 3

Season 3

10 episodes

Aired: 2016

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

Season 4

Season 4

10 episodes

Aired: 2017

Season 5

Season 5

10 episodes

Aired: 2019

Season 6

Season 6

16 episodes

Aired: 2019

Season 7

Season 7

10 episodes

Aired: 2021

Season 8

Season 8

10 episodes

Aired: 2022

Season 9
8.0

Season 9

10 episodes

Aired: 2023

Season 10

Season 10

10 episodes

Aired: 2024

Season 11
1.0

Season 11

10 episodes

Aired: 2025

Production

Kunhardt McGee Productions

Ark Media

Inkwell Films