Finding Your Roots
Season 13
S13 · E1
Episode 1 Episode 1
Jan 12, 20271 episode in Season 13
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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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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host
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CeCe Moore
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Hazel Gurland-Pooler Director · Phil Bertelsen Director Josh Gleason Director
Total runtime 127h 0m · Episode length 60 min · Type Documentary
Show info
Premiered
March 24, 2012
Latest episode
April 14, 2026
Next episode
January 12, 2027
Status
Returning series
Network
PBS
Country
United States
Type
Documentary
Episode length
60 min
Total runtime
127h 0m
Original language
English
Production
Kunhardt McGee Productions
Production
Ark Media
Production
Inkwell Films
Production
Kunhardt Films
Production
WETA
Production
United States
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Languages
Spoken on screen
English
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