When did Finding Your Roots Season 9 Episode 1 air?
Finding Your Roots Season 9 Episode 1 aired on January 3, 2023 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 explores the remarkable roots of actors Edward Norton and Julia Roberts—using DNA analysis and genealogical detective work to travel generations into the past, tracing lineages that run from Northern Europe to the American South. Along the way, Norton and Roberts reimagine their family stories and discover their hidden connections to our nation’s history—and each other.
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Finding Your Roots Season 9 Episode 1 aired on January 3, 2023 at 8 PM ET.
This episode runs for approximately 53 minutes.
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