When did Finding Your Roots Season 8 Episode 1 air?
Finding Your Roots Season 8 Episode 1 aired on January 4, 2022 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 Rebecca Hall and Lee Daniels solve family mysteries through DNA detective work, illuminating both history and their own identities.
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Finding Your Roots Season 8 Episode 1 aired on January 4, 2022 at 8 PM ET.
This episode runs for approximately 60 minutes.
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