Finding Your Roots

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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Status

Returning Series

Original Name

Finding Your Roots

First Air Date

March 24, 2012

Last Air Date

February 25, 2025

Seasons

11

Episodes

114

Language

English

Networks

PBS

S11E08

The Butterfly Effect

Actresses Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey explore the stories of their ancestors whose bold decisions reshaped their families.

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