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Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.

PBS · 2012– · Airing now · History · ★ 7.7/10

Since the premiere of his groundbreaking series African American Lives through the first season of 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.

Next episode: S13 E1 “TBA” — January 12, 2027 on PBS

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Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. episode guide

Season 1 · 10 episodes · Mar 25, 2012 – May 20, 2012
  1. Harry Connick Jr. - Branford Marsalis
  2. Cory Booker and John Lewis
  3. Barbara Walters - Geoffrey Canada
  4. Kevin Bacon - Kyra Sedgwick
  5. Angela Buchdahl - Rick Warren - Yasir Qadhi
  6. Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal
  7. Samuel L. Jackson - Condoleezza Rice - Ruth Simmons
  8. Sanjay Gupta - Margaret Cho - Martha Stewart
  9. John Legend - Wanda Sykes - Margarett Cooper
  10. Michelle Rodriguez - Adrian Grenier - Linda Chavez
Season 2 · 10 episodes · Sep 23, 2014 – Nov 25, 2014
  1. In Search of Our Fathers
  2. Born Champions
  3. Our American Storytellers
  4. Roots of Freedom
  5. The Melting Pot
  6. We Come From People
  7. Our People, Our Traditions
  8. The British Invasion
  9. Ancient Roots
  10. Decoding Our Past
Season 3 · 10 episodes · Jan 5, 2016 – Mar 8, 2016
  1. The Stories We Tell
  2. The Irish Factor
  3. In Search of Freedom
  4. Tragedy + Time = Comedy
  5. Visionaries
  6. War Stories
  7. Family Reunions
  8. The Pioneers
  9. The Long Way Home
  10. Maps of Stars
Season 4 · 10 episodes · Oct 3, 2017 – Dec 19, 2017
  1. The Impression
  2. Unfamiliar Kin
  3. Puritans and Pioneers
  4. The Vanguard
  5. Immigrant Nation
  6. Black Like Me
  7. Children of the Revolution
  8. Relatives We Never Knew We Had
  9. Southern Roots
  10. Funny Business
Season 5 · 10 episodes · Jan 8, 2019 – Apr 9, 2019
  1. Grandparents and Other Strangers
  2. Mystery Men
  3. Reporting on the Reporters
  4. Dreaming of a New Land
  5. Freedom Tales
  6. Roots in Politics
  7. No Laughing Matter
  8. Hard Times
  9. The Eye of the Beholder
  10. All in the Family
Season 6 · 16 episodes · Oct 8, 2019 – Jan 12, 2021
  1. Hollywood Royalty
  2. Off the Farm
  3. Homecomings
  4. This Land Is My Land
  5. Beyond the Pale
  6. Secrets and Lies
  7. Science Pioneers
  8. Slave Trade
  9. Italian Roots
  10. Criminal Kind
  11. Fashion's Roots
  12. DNA Mysteries
  13. War Stories
  14. Flight
  15. Breaking Silences
  16. Coming to America
Season 7 · 10 episodes · Jan 19, 2021 – May 4, 2021
  1. To the Manor Born
  2. Against All Odds
  3. No Irish Need Apply
  4. The Shirts on Their Backs
  5. Write My Name in the Book of Life
  6. Country Roots
  7. The New World
  8. Anchored to the Past
  9. On Broadway
  10. Laughing on the Inside
Season 8 · 10 episodes · Jan 4, 2022 – Apr 19, 2022
  1. Hidden in the Genes
  2. Children of Exile
  3. Activist Roots
  4. Things We Don't Discuss
  5. Mexican Roots
  6. Fighters
  7. Forgotten Journeys
  8. Songs of the Past
  9. Watchmen
  10. Where Did We Come From?
Season 9 · 10 episodes · Jan 3, 2023 – Mar 7, 2023
  1. Hidden Kin
  2. Salem's Lot
  3. Secret Lives
  4. Far From Home
  5. Rising From the Ashes
  6. Family: Lost and Found
  7. Chosen
  8. And Still I Rise
  9. Anchormen
  10. Out of the Past
Season 10 · 10 episodes · Jan 2, 2024 – Apr 9, 2024
  1. Born To Sing
  2. Forever Young
  3. Fathers and Sons
  4. Buried Secrets
  5. Hold the Laughter
  6. Far and Away
  7. The Brick Wall Falls
  8. Mean Streets
  9. In the Blood
  10. Viewers Like You
Season 11 · 10 episodes · Jan 7, 2025 – Apr 8, 2025
  1. Larger Than Life
  2. La Famiglia
  3. Stranger Than Fiction
  4. Dreamers One and All
  5. Family Recipes
  6. Latin Roots
  7. The Ties That Bind
  8. The Butterfly Effect
  9. Moving on Up
  10. Finding My Roots
Season 12 · 10 episodes · Jan 6, 2026 – Apr 14, 2026
  1. American Dreams
  2. Great Migrations
  3. Caribbean Roots
  4. The Road We Took
  5. Love & Basketball
  6. Westward Bound
  7. Family Harmonies
  8. Artistic Roots
  9. Song of the South
  10. Rags to Riches
Season 13 · 1 episode · Jan 12, 2027
  1. TBA

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