Finding Your Roots
2012
PBS
11 Seasons
116 Episodes
Henry Louis Gates takes stunned celebrity guests on a journey into their past and introduces them to surprising facts, mysteries and ancestors they didn’t know they had
PBS Announced Season 11 Release Date for Finding Your Roots – January 7, 2025
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Viewers Like You
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Larger Than Life
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| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Larger Than Life | Jan 7, 2025 |
| 2 | La Famiglia | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 3 | Stranger Than Fiction | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 4 | Dreamers One and All | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 5 | Family Recipes | Feb 4, 2025 |
| 6 | Latin Roots | Feb 11, 2025 |
| 7 | The Ties That Bind | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 8 | The Butterfly Effect | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 9 | Moving on Up | Apr 1, 2025 |
| 10 | Finding My Roots | Apr 8, 2025 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Born To Sing | Jan 2, 2024 |
| 2 | Forever Young | Jan 9, 2024 |
| 3 | Fathers and Sons | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 4 | Buried Secrets | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 5 | Hold the Laughter | Jan 30, 2024 |
| 6 | Far and Away | Feb 6, 2024 |
| 7 | The Brick Wall Falls | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 8 | Mean Streets | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 9 | In the Blood | Apr 2, 2024 |
| 10 | Viewers Like You | Apr 9, 2024 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hidden Kin | Jan 3, 2023 |
| 2 | Salem's Lot | Jan 10, 2023 |
| 3 | Secret Lives | Jan 17, 2023 |
| 4 | Far From Home | Jan 24, 2023 |
| 5 | Rising From the Ashes | Jan 31, 2023 |
| 6 | Family: Lost and Found | Feb 7, 2023 |
| 7 | Chosen | Feb 14, 2023 |
| 8 | And Still I Rise | Feb 21, 2023 |
| 9 | Anchormen | Feb 28, 2023 |
| 10 | Out of the Past | Mar 7, 2023 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hidden in the Genes | Jan 4, 2022 |
| 2 | Children of Exile | Jan 4, 2022 |
| 3 | Activist Roots | Jan 11, 2022 |
| 4 | Things We Don't Discuss | Jan 25, 2022 |
| 5 | Mexican Roots | Feb 1, 2022 |
| 6 | Fighters | Feb 8, 2022 |
| 7 | Forgotten Journeys | Feb 15, 2022 |
| 8 | Songs of the Past | Feb 22, 2022 |
| 9 | Watchmen | Apr 12, 2022 |
| 10 | Where Did We Come From? | Apr 19, 2022 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | To the Manor Born | Jan 19, 2021 |
| 2 | Against All Odds | Jan 26, 2021 |
| 3 | No Irish Need Apply | Feb 2, 2021 |
| 4 | The Shirts on Their Backs | Feb 9, 2021 |
| 5 | Write My Name in the Book of Life | Feb 16, 2021 |
| 6 | Country Roots | Feb 23, 2021 |
| 7 | The New World | Apr 13, 2021 |
| 8 | Anchored to the Past | Apr 20, 2021 |
| 9 | On Broadway | Apr 27, 2021 |
| 10 | Laughing on the Inside | May 4, 2021 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hollywood Royalty | Oct 8, 2019 |
| 2 | Off the Farm | Oct 15, 2019 |
| 3 | Homecomings | Jan 7, 2020 |
| 4 | This Land Is My Land | Jan 14, 2020 |
| 5 | Beyond the Pale | Jan 21, 2020 |
| 6 | Secrets and Lies | Jan 28, 2020 |
| 7 | Science Pioneers | Feb 4, 2020 |
| 8 | Slave Trade | Feb 11, 2020 |
| 9 | Italian Roots | Feb 18, 2020 |
| 10 | Criminal Kind | Feb 25, 2020 |
| 11 | Fashion's Roots | Oct 13, 2020 |
| 12 | DNA Mysteries | Oct 20, 2020 |
| 13 | War Stories | Nov 10, 2020 |
| 14 | Flight | Nov 17, 2020 |
| 15 | Breaking Silences | Jan 5, 2021 |
| 16 | Coming to America | Jan 12, 2021 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grandparents and Other Strangers | Jan 8, 2019 |
| 2 | Mystery Men | Jan 15, 2019 |
| 3 | Reporting on the Reporters | Jan 22, 2019 |
| 4 | Dreaming of a New Land | Jan 29, 2019 |
| 5 | Freedom Tales | Feb 5, 2019 |
| 6 | Roots in Politics | Feb 12, 2019 |
| 7 | No Laughing Matter | Feb 19, 2019 |
| 8 | Hard Times | Feb 26, 2019 |
| 9 | The Eye of the Beholder | Apr 2, 2019 |
| 10 | All in the Family | Apr 9, 2019 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Impression | Oct 3, 2017 |
| 2 | Unfamiliar Kin | Oct 10, 2017 |
| 3 | Puritans and Pioneers | Oct 17, 2017 |
| 4 | The Vanguard | Oct 24, 2017 |
| 5 | Immigrant Nation | Oct 31, 2017 |
| 6 | Black Like Me | Nov 7, 2017 |
| 7 | Children of the Revolution | Nov 14, 2017 |
| 8 | Relatives We Never Knew We Had | Nov 21, 2017 |
| 9 | Southern Roots | Dec 12, 2017 |
| 10 | Funny Business | Dec 19, 2017 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Stories We Tell | Jan 5, 2016 |
| 2 | The Irish Factor | Jan 12, 2016 |
| 3 | In Search of Freedom | Jan 19, 2016 |
| 4 | Tragedy + Time = Comedy | Jan 26, 2016 |
| 5 | Visionaries | Feb 2, 2016 |
| 6 | War Stories | Feb 9, 2016 |
| 7 | Family Reunions | Feb 16, 2016 |
| 8 | The Pioneers | Feb 23, 2016 |
| 9 | The Long Way Home | Mar 1, 2016 |
| 10 | Maps of Stars | Mar 8, 2016 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | In Search of Our Fathers | Sep 23, 2014 |
| 2 | Born Champions | Sep 30, 2014 |
| 3 | Our American Storytellers | Oct 7, 2014 |
| 4 | Roots of Freedom | Oct 14, 2014 |
| 5 | The Melting Pot | Oct 21, 2014 |
| 6 | We Come From People | Oct 28, 2014 |
| 7 | Our People, Our Traditions | Nov 4, 2014 |
| 8 | The British Invasion | Nov 11, 2014 |
| 9 | Ancient Roots | Nov 18, 2014 |
| 10 | Decoding Our Past | Nov 25, 2014 |
| # | Name | Air Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry Connick Jr. - Branford Marsalis | Mar 25, 2012 |
| 2 | Cory Booker and John Lewis | Mar 25, 2012 |
| 3 | Barbara Walters - Geoffrey Canada | Apr 1, 2012 |
| 4 | Kevin Bacon - Kyra Sedgwick | Apr 8, 2012 |
| 5 | Angela Buchdahl - Rick Warren - Yasir Qadhi | Apr 15, 2012 |
| 6 | Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal | Apr 22, 2012 |
| 7 | Samuel L. Jackson - Condoleezza Rice - Ruth Simmons | Apr 29, 2012 |
| 8 | Sanjay Gupta - Margaret Cho - Martha Stewart | May 6, 2012 |
| 9 | John Legend - Wanda Sykes - Margarett Cooper | May 13, 2012 |
| 10 | Michelle Rodriguez - Adrian Grenier - Linda Chavez | May 20, 2012 |
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the perfect host with his knowledge, compassion and his
presentation. please keep it on the air. i did a couple dna
tests and found out of the genealogists on the show is
my cousin.
RetaAnn
Mr. Gates makes history personal & interesting through genealogy. His kindness and intellect is obvious and an asset for this show.
Please keep this show on-the-air.
Thank you,
Linda Gaunt