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Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots

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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StatusReturning Series
Original NameFinding Your Roots
First Air DateMarch 24, 2012
Last Air DateApril 7, 2026
Seasons12
Episodes126
Episode Runtime1h 0min
LanguageEnglish
Original LanguageEnglish
Production CountriesUnited States of America
Production CompaniesKunhardt McGee ProductionsArk MediaInkwell Films
NetworksPBS
S12E10

Rags to Riches

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of actor Kate Burton and media mogul Barry Diller, meeting ancestors who made huge sacrifices to escape poverty.

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