Finding Your Roots
First aired
March 24, 2012
Returning Series
Avg. episode: 60m
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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Cast
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host
Media
Seasons 12
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Dr. Gates explores the genealogy of celebrities using the records left behind and DNA technology.
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Season 12
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