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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.
About the show
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is an American 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.
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All episodes to date for the show have aired on Tuesdays since it first began in March 2012. The eleventh season began airing on January 7, 2025, and ended on April 8, 2025. The twelfth season premiered on January 6, 2026.
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- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Peter W. Kunhardt, Dyllan McGee
Seasons
Next episode: S13 E1, Tuesday, 12 January 2027
