Finding Your Roots
6.2
2012-03-24
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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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.
First Aired
2012-03-24
Last Aired
2025-04-08
Seasons
11
Episodes
116
Director
Status
Returning Series
Genres
Documentary
Language
English
Network
PBS
Production
Kunhardt McGee Productions
Ark Media
Inkwell Films
