FINDING YOUR ROOTS with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is coming back!

In the premiere episode of "Finding Your Roots" Season 12, America Ferrera learns that her grandmother had written a love ...

Megan Robertson is a pediatric speech-language pathologist from Mechanicsburg, Pennslyvania. She's also a mom to her eight-year-old daughter. But for years she and her family have tried to solve the ...

Finding Your Roots returns, telling stories that illuminate America’s fundamental diversity. Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns for Season 12 on PBS, exploring the family trees of ...

Season 12, Premiering January 6, 2026 on PBS Includes Twenty Celebrity Guests Ranging from Actors and Musicians to Filmmakers and Businessmen Season Twelve’s celebrity lineup includes: Kate Burton, ...

“I am thrilled to share the deeply moving and surprising stories of the wide range of guests in Season 8 of FINDING YOUR ROOTS. I am humbled by the passion and the support our series has inspired from ...

Popular ancestry show Finding Your Roots is deep into its ninth season but host Henry Louis Gates Jr. admits he's "surprised" the show has worked so well with white people included. Historian and ...

The third season of the ancestry-research program Finding Your Roots, hosted by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., has been postponed by PBS after a determination that an episode of the program ...

In the new season of the Emmy® nominated series FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., nineteen celebrity guests will sit down with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to dive into their ancestral ...

Ahead of the annual Root 100 awards, we’re taking a look at the life of The Root’s founder, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Gates was born Sept. 16, 1950 in Keyser, W.Va. He grew up in the small neighboring ...

Fresh off its first-ever Emmy nomination for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special, Finding Your Roots is gearing ...

Megan Robertson is a pediatric speech-language pathologist from Mechanicsburg, Pennslyvania. She's also a mom to her eight-year-old daughter. But for years she and her family have tried to solve the ...