When will Finding Your Roots Season 12 Episode 8 air?
Finding Your Roots Season 12 Episode 8 will air on February 24, 2026 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. maps the roots of director Spike Lee and actor Kristin Chenoweth, meeting ancestors whose creativity built their families.
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Finding Your Roots Season 12 Episode 8 will air on February 24, 2026 at 8 PM ET.
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