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.
Show Info
Schedule: Tuesdays at 20:00
(60 min)
Status: Running
Show Type:
Documentary
Genres:
History
Episodes ordered: 10 episodes
Official site: www.pbs.org
7.8 (12 votes)
Next Episode
The Road We Took
Episode 12x04; Jan 27, 2026
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actor Lizzie Caplan and comedian Hasan Minhaj to ancestors whose brave decisions forever reshaped their families.
Previous Episodes
| Episode Name | Airdate | Trailer |
|---|---|---|
| 12x03: Caribbean Roots | Jan 20, 2026 | |
| 12x02: Great Migrations | Jan 13, 2026 | |
| 12x01: American Dreams | Jan 6, 2026 |
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Recent discussions
Great episode.
It irritates me a little bit that they call these new episodes when the people are actually recycled from earlier episodes.
If Valerie Jarrett was supposed to be in this episode, she wasn't.
Extra Details
Also known as:
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Finding Your Roots (
United States)