Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012) - TV Show
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.
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Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Airs: Tuesday
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Status: Airing
FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. - General Information
Series Premiere: March 25, 2012 Classification: Documentary Genre: Action | Biography | Documentary | History | Mystery Network: PBS Airs: Tuesday at 08:00 pm Runtime: 60 Minutes
FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. - Season 1 -- 10 Episodes
1x1 -- Mar 25, 2012 -- Harry Connick Jr. - Branford Marsalis 1x2 -- Mar 25, 2012 -- Cory Booker and John Lewis 1x3 -- Apr 01, 2012 -- Barbara Walters - Geoffrey Canada 1x4 -- Apr 08, 2012 -- Kevin Bacon - Kyra Sedgwick 1x5 -- Apr 15, 2012 -- Angela Buchdahl - Rick Warren - Yasir Qadhi 1x6 -- Apr 22, 2012 -- Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal 1x7 -- Apr 29, 2012 -- Samuel L. Jackson - Condoleezza Rice - Ruth Simmons 1x8 -- May 06, 2012 -- Sanjay Gupta - Margaret Cho - Martha Stewart 1x9 -- May 13, 2012 -- John Legend - Wanda Sykes - Margarett Cooper 1x10 -- May 20, 2012 -- Michelle Rodriguez - Adrian Grenier - Linda Chavez
FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. - Season 2 -- 10 Episodes
2x1 -- Sep 23, 2014 -- In Search of Our Fathers 2x2 -- Sep 30, 2014 -- Born Champions 2x3 -- Oct 07, 2014 -- Our American Storytellers 2x4 -- Oct 14, 2014 -- Roots of Freedom 2x5 -- Oct 21, 2014 -- The Melting Pot 2x6 -- Oct 28, 2014 -- We Come From People 2x7 -- Nov 04, 2014 -- Our People, Our Traditions 2x8 -- Nov 11, 2014 -- The British Invasion 2x9 -- Nov 18, 2014 -- Ancient Roots 2x10 -- Nov 25, 2014 -- Decoding Our Past
FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. - Season 3 -- 10 Episodes
3x1 -- Jan 05, 2016 -- The Stories We Tell 3x2 -- Jan 12, 2016 -- The Irish Factor 3x3 -- Jan 19, 2016 -- In Search of Freedom 3x4 -- Jan 26, 2016 -- Tragedy + Time = Comedy 3x5 -- Feb 02, 2016 -- Visionaries 3x6 -- Feb 09, 2016 -- War Stories 3x7 -- Feb 16, 2016 -- Family Reunions 3x8 -- Feb 23, 2016 -- The Pioneers 3x9 -- Mar 01, 2016 -- The Long Way Home 3x10 -- Mar 08, 2016 -- Maps of Stars
FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. - Season 4 -- 10 Episodes
4x1 -- Oct 03, 2017 -- The Impression 4x2 -- Oct 10, 2017 -- Unfamiliar Kin 4x3 -- Oct 17, 2017 -- Puritans and Pioneers 4x4 -- Oct 24, 2017 -- The Vanguard 4x5 -- Oct 31, 2017 -- Immigrant Nation 4x6 -- Nov 07, 2017 -- Black Like Me 4x7 -- Nov 14, 2017 -- Children of the Revolution 4x8 -- Nov 21, 2017 -- Relatives We Never Knew We Had 4x9 -- Dec 12, 2017 -- Southern Roots 4x10 -- Dec 19, 2017 -- Funny Business
FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. - Season 5 -- 10 Episodes
5x1 -- Jan 08, 2019 -- Grandparents and Other Strangers 5x2 -- Jan 15, 2019 -- Mystery Men 5x3 -- Jan 22, 2019 -- Reporting on the Reporters 5x4 -- Jan 29, 2019 -- Dreaming of a New Land 5x5 -- Feb 05, 2019 -- Freedom Tales 5x6 -- Feb 12, 2019 -- Roots in Politics 5x7 -- Feb 19, 2019 -- No Laughing Matter 5x8 -- Feb 26, 2019 -- Hard Times 5x9 -- Apr 02, 2019 -- The Eye of the Beholder 5x10 -- Apr 09, 2019 -- All in the Family
FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. - Season 6 -- 21 Episodes
6x1 -- Oct 08, 2019 -- Hollywood Royalty 6x2 -- Oct 15, 2019 -- Off the Farm 6x3 -- Jan 07, 2020 -- Homecomings 6x4 -- Jan 14, 2020 -- This Land Is My Land 6x5 -- Jan 21, 2020 -- Beyond the Pale 6x6 -- Jan 28, 2020 -- Secrets and Lies 6x7 -- Feb 04, 2020 -- Science Pioneers 6x8 -- Feb 11, 2020 -- Slave Trade 6x9 -- Feb 18, 2020 -- Italian Roots 6x10 -- Feb 25, 2020 -- Criminal Kind 6x11 -- Oct 13, 2020 -- Fashion's Roots 6x12 -- Oct 20, 2020 -- DNA Mysteries 6x13 -- Nov 10, 2020 -- War Stories 6x14 -- Nov 17, 2020 -- Flight 6x15 -- Jan 05, 2021 -- Breaking Silences 6x16 -- Jan 12, 2021 -- Coming to America 6x17 -- Jan 19, 2021 -- To The Manor Born 6x18 -- Jan 26, 2021 -- The Mole Agent 6x19 -- Feb 02, 2021 -- No Irish Need Apply 6x20 -- Feb 09, 2021 -- The Shirts On Their Backs 6x21 -- Feb 16, 2021 -- Write My Name In The Book Of Life
FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. - Season 7 -- 10 Episodes
7x1 -- Jan 19, 2021 -- To the Manor Born 7x2 -- Jan 26, 2021 -- Against All Odds 7x3 -- Feb 02, 2021 -- No Irish Need Apply 7x4 -- Feb 09, 2021 -- The Shirts on Their Backs 7x5 -- Feb 16, 2021 -- Write My Name in the Book of Life 7x6 -- Feb 23, 2021 -- Country Roots 7x7 -- Apr 13, 2021 -- The New World 7x8 -- Apr 20, 2021 -- Anchored to the Past 7x9 -- Apr 27, 2021 -- On Broadway 7x10 -- May 04, 2021 -- Laughing on the Inside
FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. - Season 8 -- 10 Episodes
8x1 -- Jan 04, 2022 -- Hidden in the Genes 8x2 -- Jan 04, 2022 -- Children of Exile 8x3 -- Jan 11, 2022 -- Activist Roots 8x4 -- Jan 25, 2022 -- Things We Don't Discuss 8x5 -- Feb 01, 2022 -- Mexican Roots 8x6 -- Feb 08, 2022 -- Fighters 8x7 -- Feb 15, 2022 -- Forgotten Journeys 8x8 -- Feb 22, 2022 -- Songs of the Past 8x9 -- Apr 12, 2022 -- Watchmen 8x10 -- Apr 19, 2022 -- Where Did We Come From?
FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. - Season 9 -- 10 Episodes
9x1 -- Jan 03, 2023 -- Hidden Kin 9x2 -- Jan 10, 2023 -- Salem's Lot 9x3 -- Jan 17, 2023 -- Secret Lives 9x4 -- Jan 24, 2023 -- Far From Home 9x5 -- Jan 31, 2023 -- Rising From the Ashes 9x6 -- Feb 07, 2023 -- Family: Lost and Found 9x7 -- Feb 14, 2023 -- Chosen 9x8 -- Feb 21, 2023 -- And Still I Rise 9x9 -- Feb 28, 2023 -- Anchormen 9x10 -- Mar 07, 2023 -- Out of the Past
FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. - Season 10 -- 10 Episodes
10x1 -- Jan 02, 2024 -- Born To Sing 10x2 -- Jan 09, 2024 -- Forever Young 10x3 -- Jan 16, 2024 -- Fathers and Sons 10x4 -- Jan 23, 2024 -- Buried Secrets 10x5 -- Jan 30, 2024 -- Hold the Laughter 10x6 -- Feb 06, 2024 -- Far and Away 10x7 -- Feb 13, 2024 -- The Brick Wall Falls 10x8 -- Feb 20, 2024 -- Mean Streets 10x9 -- Apr 02, 2024 -- In the Blood 10x10 -- Apr 09, 2024 -- Viewers Like You
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