Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Since the premiere of his groundbreaking series African American Lives through the first season of 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.

Series details

• Title: Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: History
• Premiere date: 2012-03-25
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: PBS
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.7/10
• TVMaze ID: 3211

Cast and credited roles

• Henry Louis Gates Jr. — Host

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2012-03-25; final listed air date 2012-05-20; episode order: 10.
• Season 2: premiered 2014-09-23; final listed air date 2014-11-25; episode order: 10.
• Season 3: premiered 2016-01-05; final listed air date 2016-03-08; episode order: 10.
• Season 4: premiered 2017-10-03; final listed air date 2017-12-19; episode order: 10.
• Season 5: premiered 2019-01-08; final listed air date 2019-04-09; episode order: 10.
• Season 6: premiered 2019-10-08; final listed air date 2021-01-12; episode order: 16.
• Season 7: premiered 2021-01-19; final listed air date 2021-05-04; episode order: 10.
• Season 8: premiered 2022-01-04; final listed air date 2022-04-19; episode order: 10.
• Season 9: premiered 2023-01-03; final listed air date 2023-03-07; episode order: 10.
• Season 10: premiered 2024-01-02; final listed air date 2024-04-09; episode order: 10.
• Season 11: premiered 2025-01-07; final listed air date 2025-04-08; episode order: 10.
• Season 12: premiered 2026-01-06; final listed air date 2026-04-14; episode order: 10.
• Season 13: premiered 2027-01-12; final listed air date 2027-01-12.

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