Finding Your Roots
Documentary
March 24, 2012 – April 14, 2026
(began 14 years ago)
1h / episode
6.2/10
Returning Series
12 Seasons
126 Episodes
YouTube / GoogleNoted 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.
Season 1
10 episodes
March 24, 2012
Season 2
10 episodes
September 23, 2014
Season 3
10 episodes
January 5, 2016
Dr. Gates explores the genealogy of celebrities using the records left behind and DNA technology.
Season 4
10 episodes
October 2, 2017
Season 5
10 episodes
January 8, 2019
Season 6
16 episodes
October 8, 2019
Season 7
10 episodes
January 19, 2021
Season 8
10 episodes
January 4, 2022
Season 9
10 episodes
January 3, 2023
Season 10
10 episodes
January 2, 2024
Season 11
10 episodes
January 7, 2025
S1
Season 12
10 episodes
January 6, 2026
Cast (205)
Directors
Producers
Editors
Original Language
en
Spoken Languages
English
Production Countries
US
Production Companies
Kunhardt McGee Productions, Ark Media, Inkwell Films