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s12e10 · 2026-04-15
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Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
PBS Documentary
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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.
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10 this season · 131 totals09e01 Hidden Kin 2023-01-04 01:00
Hidden Kin
Actors Edward Norton and Julia Roberts discover their hidden connections to history.
s09e02 Salem's Lot 2023-01-11 01:00
Salem's Lot
Exploring primal scenes from America's past with actors Claire Danes and Jeff Daniels.
s09e03 Secret Lives 2023-01-18 01:00
Secret Lives
Comics Carol Burnett and Niecy Nash see family mysteries solved by DNA.
s09e04 Far From Home 2023-01-25 01:00
Far From Home
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the family trees of pop icon Cyndi Lauper and actors Jamie Chung and Danny Trejo, exploring records in Italy, Korea, and Mexico to uncover ancestors whose stories were lost when their families immigrated to America.
s09e05 Rising From the Ashes 2023-02-01 01:00
Rising From the Ashes
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces the roots of actors Brian Cox and Viola Davis, uncovering records from workhouses in Scotland and slave plantations in South Carolina that reveal individuals who battled to build a better life for their families.
s09e06 Family: Lost and Found 2023-02-08 01:00
Family: Lost and Found
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uses DNA detective work to solve family mysteries for actor Joe Manganiello and football star Tony Gonzalez—uncovering close relatives whose names they've never heard and compelling each man to rethink his own identity.
s09e07 Chosen 2023-02-15 01:00
Chosen
Henry Louis Gates helps actors David Duchovny and Richard Kind trace their roots from Jewish communities in Eastern Europe to the United States—telling stories of triumph and tragedy that laid the groundwork for his guest's success.
s09e08 And Still I Rise 2023-02-22 01:00
And Still I Rise
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reveals the unexpected family trees of activist Angela Y. Davis and statesman Jeh Charles Johnson, using DNA and long-lost records to redefine notions of the black experience—and challenge preconceptions of America's past.
s09e09 Anchormen 2023-03-01 01:00
Anchormen
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces trail-blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them, meeting runaway slaves and immigrant settlers who took enormous chances so that their descendants might thrive.
s09e10 Out of the Past 2023-03-08 01:00
Out of the Past
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncovers the lost roots of actors Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry-Housley, traveling back generations to recount significant events in history—from the American Revolution to the journey of the Mayflower—in a deeply personal way.