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

April 1, 2025

Seasons

11

Episodes

116

Language

English

Networks

PBS

S11E09

Moving on Up

Laurence Fishburne and Sheryl Lee Ralph learn about their family histories.

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