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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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10 episodes
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First episode: E110 episodes
First episode: E110 episodes
First episode: E110 episodes
First episode: E110 episodes
First episode: E110 episodes
First episode: E110 episodes
First episode: E1Show FAQ
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When did Finding Your Roots first air?
Finding Your Roots first aired on March 24, 2012.
How many seasons and episodes does Finding Your Roots have?
Finding Your Roots currently has 12 seasons and 120 episodes.
When is the next episode of Finding Your Roots?
Finding Your Roots is scheduled to air next on February 24, 2026 at 8 PM ET on PBS. The next listed episode is Season 12 Episode 8.
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