Finding Your Roots

TV-PG 2012 Documentary · 13 seasons

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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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TV Show Score

62%

Released

March 24, 2012

Cast

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Genre

Documentary

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