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Finding Your Roots

You are watching the TV show 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.

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Genre: Documentary

TV Status: Returning

Release: 2012

IMDb: 6.6

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1 - Season 1

Episode 1 — Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr. 2012-03-24
Episode 2 — John Lewis and Cory Booker 2012-03-24
Episode 3 — Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada 2012-04-01
Episode 4 — Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon 2012-04-07
Episode 5 — Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi 2012-04-14
Episode 6 — Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal 2012-04-28
Episode 7 — Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons 2012-04-29
Episode 8 — Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta 2012-05-06
Episode 9 — John Legend and Wanda Sykes 2012-05-13
Episode 10 — Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez 2012-05-20

Season 2 - Season 2

Episode 1 — In Search of our Fathers 2014-09-23
Episode 2 — Born Champions 2014-09-30
Episode 3 — Our American Storytellers 2014-10-07
Episode 4 — Roots of Freedom 2014-10-14
Episode 5 — The Melting Pot 2014-10-21
Episode 6 — We Come From People 2014-10-28
Episode 7 — Our People, Our Traditions 2014-11-04
Episode 8 — The British Invasion 2014-11-11
Episode 9 — Ancient Roots 2014-11-18
Episode 10 — Decoding Our Past Through DNA 2014-11-25

Season 3 - Season 3

Episode 1 — The Stories We Tell 2016-01-05
Episode 2 — The Irish Factor 2016-01-12
Episode 3 — In Search Of Freedom 2016-01-19
Episode 4 — Tragedy + Time = Comedy 2016-01-26
Episode 5 — Visionaries 2016-02-02
Episode 6 — War Stories 2016-02-09
Episode 7 — Family Reunions 2016-02-16
Episode 8 — The Pioneers 2016-02-23
Episode 9 — The Long Way Home 2016-03-01
Episode 10 — Maps of Stars 2016-03-08

Season 4 - Season 4

Episode 1 — The Impression 2017-10-02
Episode 2 — Unfamiliar Kin 2017-10-10
Episode 3 — Puritans and Pioneers 2017-10-17
Episode 4 — The Vanguard 2017-10-24
Episode 5 — Immigrant Nation 2017-10-31
Episode 6 — Black Like Me 2017-11-07
Episode 7 — Children of the Revolution 2017-11-14
Episode 8 — Relatives We Never Knew We Had 2017-11-21
Episode 9 — Southern Roots 2017-12-12
Episode 10 — Funny Business 2017-12-19

Season 5 - Season 5

Episode 1 — Grandparents and Other Strangers 2019-01-08
Episode 2 — Mystery Men 2019-01-15
Episode 3 — Reporting on the Reporters 2019-01-22
Episode 4 — Dreaming of a New Land 2019-01-29
Episode 5 — Freedom Tales 2019-02-05
Episode 6 — Roots in Politics 2019-02-12
Episode 7 — No Laughing Matter 2019-02-19
Episode 8 — Hard Times 2019-02-26
Episode 9 — The Eye of the Beholder 2019-04-02
Episode 10 — All in the Family 2019-04-09

Season 6 - Season 6

Episode 1 — Hollywood Royalty 2019-10-08
Episode 2 — Off the Farm 2019-10-15
Episode 3 — Homecomings 2020-01-07
Episode 4 — This Land is My Land 2020-01-14
Episode 5 — Beyond the Pale 2020-01-21
Episode 6 — Secrets & Lies 2020-01-28
Episode 7 — Science Pioneers 2020-02-04
Episode 8 — Slave Trade 2020-02-11
Episode 9 — Italian Roots 2020-02-18
Episode 10 — Criminal Kind 2020-02-25
Episode 11 — Fashion's Roots 2020-10-13
Episode 12 — DNA Mysteries 2020-10-20
Episode 13 — War Stories 2020-11-10
Episode 14 — Flight 2020-11-17
Episode 15 — Breaking Silences 2021-01-05
Episode 16 — Coming to America 2021-01-12

Season 7 - Season 7

Episode 1 — To the Manor Born 2021-01-19
Episode 2 — The Mole Agent 2021-01-26
Episode 3 — No Irish Need Apply 2021-02-02
Episode 4 — The Shirts on Their Backs 2021-02-09
Episode 5 — Write My Name in the Book of Life 2021-02-16
Episode 6 — Country Roots 2021-02-23
Episode 7 — The New World 2021-04-13
Episode 8 — Anchored to the Past 2021-04-20
Episode 9 — On Broadway 2021-04-27
Episode 10 — Laughing on the Inside 2021-05-04

Season 8 - Season 8

Episode 1 — Hidden in the Genes 2022-01-04
Episode 2 — Children of Exile 2022-01-04
Episode 3 — Activists Roots 2022-01-11
Episode 4 — Things we Dont Discuss 2022-01-25
Episode 5 — Mexican Roots 2022-02-01
Episode 6 — Fighters 2022-02-08
Episode 7 — Incredible Journeys 2022-02-15
Episode 8 — Songs of the Past 2022-02-22
Episode 9 — Watchmen 2022-04-12
Episode 10 — Where Did We Come From? 2022-04-19

Season 9 - Season 9

Episode 1 — Hidden Kin 2023-01-03
Episode 2 — Salem's Lot 2023-01-10
Episode 3 — Secret Lives 2023-01-17
Episode 4 — Far From Home 2023-01-24
Episode 5 — Rising From the Ashes 2023-01-31
Episode 6 — Family: Lost and Found 2023-02-07
Episode 7 — Chosen 2023-02-14
Episode 8 — And Still I Rise 2023-02-21
Episode 9 — Anchormen 2023-03-28
Episode 10 — Out of the Past 2023-04-04

Season 10 - Season 10

Episode 1 — Born To Sing 2024-01-02
Episode 2 — Forever Young 2024-01-09
Episode 3 — Fathers and Sons 2024-01-16
Episode 4 — Buried Secrets 2024-01-23
Episode 5 — Hold the Laughter 2024-01-30
Episode 6 — Far and Away 2024-02-06
Episode 7 — The Brick Wall Falls 2024-02-13
Episode 8 — Mean Streets 2024-02-20
Episode 9 — In the Blood 2024-04-02
Episode 10 — "Viewers Like You" 2024-04-09

Season 11 - Season 11

Episode 1 — Larger Than Life 2025-01-07
Episode 2 — La Famiglia 2025-01-14
Episode 3 — Stranger Than Fiction 2025-01-21
Episode 4 — Dreamers One and All 2025-01-28
Episode 5 — Family Recipes 2025-02-04
Episode 6 — Latin Roots 2025-02-11
Episode 7 — The Ties That Bind 2025-02-18
Episode 8 — The Butterfly Effect 2025-02-25
Episode 9 — Moving on Up 2025-04-01
Episode 10 — Finding My Roots 2025-04-08

Season 12 - Season 12

Episode 1 — American Dreams 2026-01-06
Episode 2 — Great Migrations 2026-01-13
Episode 3 — Caribbean Roots 2026-01-20
Episode 4 — The Road We Took 2026-01-27
Episode 5 — Love & Basketball 2026-02-03
Episode 6 — Westward Bound 2026-02-10
Episode 7 — Family Harmonies 2026-02-17
Episode 8 — Artistic Roots 2026-02-24
Episode 9 — Song of the South 2026-04-07
Episode 10 — Rags to Riches 2026-04-14