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
Official site: www.pbs.org
7.7 (10 votes)
Previous Episode
Finding My Roots
Episode 11x10; Apr 8, 2025
In a unique and highly emotional episode, actor Laurence Fishburne is joined by scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.—who finds himself a guest on his own show for the first time. Both men have been haunted by profound family mysteries for years. Cutting-ed…
Previous Episodes
| Episode Name | Airdate | Trailer |
|---|---|---|
| 11x10: Finding My Roots | Apr 8, 2025 | |
| 11x09: Moving on Up | Apr 1, 2025 | |
| 11x08: The Butterfly Effect | Feb 25, 2025 |
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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)