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Finding Your Roots (2012)

Mar 24, 2012 · 13 seasons · 127 episodes

6.2/10 TMDB user score
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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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Series cast

  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Self - Host 127 episodes
  • CeCe Moore CeCe Moore Self - Genetic Genealogy Expert 7 episodes
  • Derek Jeter Derek Jeter Self 2 episodes
  • Anderson Cooper Anderson Cooper Self 2 episodes
  • Tom Colicchio Tom Colicchio Self 2 episodes
  • Angela Bassett Angela Bassett Self 2 episodes
  • Valerie Jarrett Valerie Jarrett Self 2 episodes
  • Alan Dershowitz Alan Dershowitz Self 2 episodes
  • Tony Kushner Tony Kushner Self 2 episodes
  • Sally Field Sally Field Self 2 episodes
  • Tina Fey Tina Fey Self 2 episodes
  • Nas Nas Self 2 episodes
  • Aarón Sánchez Aarón Sánchez Self 2 episodes
  • Sting Sting Self 2 episodes
  • George Stephanopoulos George Stephanopoulos Self 2 episodes
  • Maya Rudolph Maya Rudolph Self 2 episodes

Seasons

Next episode: season 13, episode 1 airs January 12, 2027.

  • Poster for Finding Your Roots, Season 1 Season 1 Mar 2012 · 10 episodes
  • Poster for Finding Your Roots, Season 2 Season 2 Sep 2014 · 10 episodes
  • Poster for Finding Your Roots, Season 3 Season 3 Jan 2016 · 10 episodes
  • Poster for Finding Your Roots, Season 4 Season 4 Oct 2017 · 10 episodes
  • Poster for Finding Your Roots, Season 5 Season 5 Jan 2019 · 10 episodes
  • Poster for Finding Your Roots, Season 6 Season 6 Oct 2019 · 16 episodes
  • Poster for Finding Your Roots, Season 7 Season 7 Jan 2021 · 10 episodes
  • Poster for Finding Your Roots, Season 8 Season 8 Jan 2022 · 10 episodes
  • Poster for Finding Your Roots, Season 9 Season 9 Jan 2023 · 10 episodes
  • Poster for Finding Your Roots, Season 10 Season 10 Jan 2024 · 10 episodes
  • Poster for Finding Your Roots, Season 11 Season 11 Jan 2025 · 10 episodes
  • Season 12 Jan 2026 · 10 episodes
  • Season 13 Jan 2027 · 1 episode

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