Finding Your Roots

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.

Principal Cast

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Self - Host

Seasons

Season 1

10 episodes

Season 2

10 episodes

Season 3

10 episodes

Season 4

10 episodes

Season 5

10 episodes

Season 6

16 episodes

Season 7

10 episodes

Season 8

10 episodes

Season 9

10 episodes

Season 10

10 episodes

Season 11

10 episodes

Season 12

10 episodes