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
Westward Bound
Episode 12x06; Feb 10, 2026
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of talk show host Sara Haines and playwright Tracy Letts from the American west to surprising places back east.
Previous Episodes
| Episode Name | Airdate | Trailer |
|---|---|---|
| 12x05: Love & Basketball | Feb 3, 2026 | |
| 12x04: The Road We Took | Jan 27, 2026 | |
| 12x03: Caribbean Roots | Jan 20, 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)