Finding Your Roots
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First Air DateMar 24, 2012
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ProductionKunhardt McGee Productions, Ark Media, Inkwell Films
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Rotten tomato62%
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Original titleFinding Your Roots
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ReleaseMar 24, 2012
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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.
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Casts

Season 1 ( 2012-03-24)

Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.

John Lewis and Cory Booker

Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi

Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal

Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons

Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta

John Legend and Wanda Sykes

Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez

Season 2 ( 2014-09-23)

In Search of our Fathers

Born Champions

Our American Storytellers

Roots of Freedom

The Melting Pot

We Come From People

Our People, Our Traditions

The British Invasion

Ancient Roots

Decoding Our Past Through DNA

Season 3 ( 2016-01-05)

The Stories We Tell

The Irish Factor

In Search Of Freedom
Tragedy + Time = Comedy
Visionaries
War Stories

Family Reunions

The Pioneers

The Long Way Home

Maps of Stars

Season 4 ( 2017-10-02)

The Impression

Unfamiliar Kin

Puritans and Pioneers

The Vanguard

Immigrant Nation

Black Like Me

Children of the Revolution

Relatives We Never Knew We Had

Southern Roots

Funny Business

Season 5 ( 2019-01-08)

Grandparents and Other Strangers

Mystery Men

Reporting on the Reporters

Dreaming of a New Land

Freedom Tales

Roots in Politics

No Laughing Matter

Hard Times

The Eye of the Beholder

All in the Family

Season 6 ( 2019-10-08)

Hollywood Royalty

Off the Farm

Homecomings

This Land is My Land

Beyond the Pale

Secrets & Lies

Science Pioneers

Slave Trade

Italian Roots

Criminal Kind

Fashion's Roots

DNA Mysteries

War Stories

Flight

Breaking Silences

Coming to America

Season 7 ( 2021-01-19)

To the Manor Born
The Mole Agent

No Irish Need Apply

The Shirts on Their Backs

Write My Name in the Book of Life

Country Roots

The New World

Anchored to the Past

On Broadway

Laughing on the Inside

Season 8 ( 2022-01-04)

Hidden in the Genes

Children of Exile

Activists Roots

Things we Dont Discuss

Mexican Roots

Fighters
Incredible Journeys

Songs of the Past

Watchmen

Where Did We Come From?

Season 9 ( 2023-01-03)

Hidden Kin

Salem's Lot

Secret Lives

Far From Home

Rising From the Ashes

Family: Lost and Found

Chosen

And Still I Rise

Anchormen

Out of the Past

Season 10 ( 2024-01-02)
Born To Sing
Forever Young
Fathers and Sons
Buried Secrets
Hold the Laughter
Far and Away
The Brick Wall Falls
Mean Streets
In the Blood
"Viewers Like You"
Season 11 ( 2025-01-07)
Larger Than Life
La Famiglia
Stranger Than Fiction
Dreamers One and All
Family Recipes
Latin Roots
The Ties That Bind
The Butterfly Effect


















