Where To Watch Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. comes from PBS.
- Running
- Since 2012
- 13 Seasons
- 127 Episodes
- 60 Min
- History
The Verdict On Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- When It Gets Good
- Right away. Season 1 averages 8.3, against 8.3 for the whole show.
- Best Season
- Season 9, averaging 8.5.
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Safe To Skip
The lowest rated, well under the show's 8.3 average.
About Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Since the premiere of his groundbreaking series African American Lives through the first season of 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.
Next up, Season 13 Episode 1, TBA, airs January 12, 2027.
Highest rated episode, Season 9 Episode 1, Hidden Kin, at 9.5.
Every Episode Of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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