Finding Your Roots (2012)
Overview
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.
StatusReturning Series
TypeDocumentary
Original LanguageEnglish
Network
Seasons
Season 1
2012 | 10 Episodes
Season 1 of Finding Your Roots premiered on March 24, 2012
Season 2
2014 | 10 Episodes
Season 2 of Finding Your Roots premiered on September 23, 2014
Season 3
2016 | 10 Episodes
Season 3 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 5, 2016
Dr. Gates explores the genealogy of celebrities using the records left behind and DNA technology.
Season 4
2017 | 10 Episodes
Season 4 of Finding Your Roots premiered on October 2, 2017
Season 5
2019 | 10 Episodes
Season 5 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 8, 2019
Season 6
2019 | 16 Episodes
Season 6 of Finding Your Roots premiered on October 8, 2019
Season 7
2021 | 10 Episodes
Season 7 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 19, 2021
Season 8
2022 | 10 Episodes
Season 8 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 4, 2022
Season 9
2023 | 10 Episodes
Season 9 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 3, 2023
Season 10
2024 | 10 Episodes
Season 10 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 2, 2024
Season 11
2025 | 10 Episodes
Season 11 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 7, 2025
Season 12
2026 | 10 Episodes
Season 12 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 6, 2026
Casts
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host