Finding Your Roots (2012)

• Documentary

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.

First aired

Mar 24, 2012

Last aired

Apr 14, 2026

Network

PBS

Studio

Kunhardt McGee Productions, Ark Media, Inkwell Films

Language

English

Country

United States