When did Finding Your Roots Season 5 Episode 1 air?
Finding Your Roots Season 5 Episode 1 aired on January 8, 2019 at 8 PM ET.


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.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps actor Andy Samberg and author George R. R. Martin answer some family mysteries when DNA detective work uncovers new branches of their family trees. The DNA analysis upends family history and reveals new relatives.
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Finding Your Roots Season 5 Episode 1 aired on January 8, 2019 at 8 PM ET.
This episode runs for approximately 60 minutes.
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