Finding Your Roots(2012)
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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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Season 1
10 episodes · 2012
Season 2
10 episodes · 2014
Season 3
10 episodes · 2016
Dr. Gates explores the genealogy of celebrities using the records left behind and DNA technology.
Season 4
10 episodes · 2017
Season 5
10 episodes · 2019
Season 6
16 episodes · 2019
Season 7
10 episodes · 2021
Season 8
10 episodes · 2022
Season 9
10 episodes · 2023
Season 10
10 episodes · 2024
Season 11
10 episodes · 2025
Season 12
10 episodes · 2026
Season 13
1 episodes · 2027
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Finding Your Roots is available to stream on PBS, PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel, PBS Living Amazon Channel, Thirteen, WETA+, Hoopla, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Plex, Plex Channel, Xumo Play, KQED, Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies and Fandango At Home. Availability varies by country and changes over time.
When did Finding Your Roots come out?+
Finding Your Roots was first aired in 2012.
How many seasons of Finding Your Roots are there?+
Finding Your Roots has 13 seasons and 127 episodes in total.
Who stars in Finding Your Roots?+
Finding Your Roots stars Henry Louis Gates, Jr..
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