Finding Your Roots

Season 112012

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.

Storyline

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
March 24, 2012
Last Aired
April 9, 2024
Runtime
1h 0min
Seasons
11
Episodes
107
Status
Returning Series
Language
English
Network
PBS
Production
Kunhardt McGee Productions, Ark Media, Inkwell Films
Cast