When did Finding Your Roots Season 5 Episode 8 air?
Finding Your Roots Season 5 Episode 8 aired on February 26, 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. explores the family stories of filmmaker Michael Moore and actors Laura Linney and Chloë Sevigny—three people whose distant ancestors overcame great hardships in ways that resonate with their lives today.
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Finding Your Roots Season 5 Episode 8 aired on February 26, 2019 at 8 PM ET.
This episode runs for approximately 60 minutes.
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