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Seasons & Episodes

EP1 Born To Sing Jan 02, 2024

Singers Ciara and Alanis Morissette examine their family histories.

EP2 Forever Young Jan 09, 2024

Actors Valerie Bertinelli and Brendan Fraser explore their family histories

EP3 Fathers and Sons Jan 16, 2024

Actors LeVar Burton and Wes Studi, two men who grew up without their fathers, explore their family histories.

EP4 Buried Secrets Jan 23, 2024

Singer Sammy Hagar and actor Ed O'Neill uncover their roots and discover deep family secrets.

EP5 Hold the Laughter Jan 30, 2024

Actor Bob Odenkirk and comic Iliza Shlesinger explore their family histories and learn about relatives who took great risks to overcome hardships.

EP6 Far and Away Feb 06, 2024

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the extraordinarily diverse roots of journalist Sunny Hostin and actor Jesse Williams—telling long-lost stories of African and European ancestry that compel his guests to rethink their own identities.

EP7 The Brick Wall Falls Feb 13, 2024

HenryLouis Gates, Jr. helps musician Dionne Warwick and actor Danielle Brooks break down barriers imposed by the slave system to learn the names of their ancestors who endured unimaginable ordeals but emerged to forge families that thrived.

EP8 Mean Streets Feb 20, 2024

Comic Tracy Morgan and actor Anthony Ramos, both native New Yorkers, map their family trees.

EP9 In the Blood Apr 02, 2024

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of actor Michael Douglas & writer-director Lena Dunham. Both are the children of famous artists, but their family trees contain a cast of fascinating characters whose lives were forgotten—until now.

EP10 "Viewers Like You" Apr 09, 2024

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. solves mysteries for 3 everyday Americans chosen to be guests.

8.7| 0h30m| TV-PG| en| More Info

Released: 24 March 2012 Returning Series

Producted By: Kunhardt McGee Productions

Country: United States of America

Budget: 0

Revenue: 0

Official Website: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/

Synopsis

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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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Kunhardt McGee Productions