Finding Your Roots 2012

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.

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    Season 1

    2012

    10 episodes

    Season 1 of Finding Your Roots premiered on March 24, 2012.

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    Season 2

    2014

    10 episodes

    Season 2 of Finding Your Roots premiered on September 23, 2014.

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    Season 3

    2016

    10 episodes

    Season 3 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 5, 2016.

    Dr. Gates explores the genealogy of celebrities using the records left behind and DNA technology.

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    Season 4

    2017

    10 episodes

    Season 4 of Finding Your Roots premiered on October 2, 2017.

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    Season 5

    2019

    10 episodes

    Season 5 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 8, 2019.

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    Season 6

    2019

    16 episodes

    Season 6 of Finding Your Roots premiered on October 8, 2019.

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    Season 7

    2021

    10 episodes

    Season 7 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 19, 2021.

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    Season 8

    2022

    10 episodes

    Season 8 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 4, 2022.

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    Season 9

    2023

    10 episodes

    Season 9 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 3, 2023.

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    Season 10

    2024

    10 episodes

    Season 10 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 2, 2024.

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    Season 11

    2025

    10 episodes

    Season 11 of Finding Your Roots premiered on January 7, 2025.