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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.
Where to watch
PBS
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Thirteen
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Cast
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
CeCe Moore
Derek Jeter
Anderson Cooper
Tom Colicchio
Angela Bassett
Valerie Jarrett
Alan Dershowitz
Tony Kushner
Sally Field
Tina Fey
Nas
Aarón Sánchez
StingDetails
- First aired
- March 24, 2012
- Seasons
- 13
- Episodes
- 127
- Status
- Returning Series
- Network
- PBS
- Original language
- English
- Studios
- Kunhardt McGee Productions, Ark Media, Inkwell Films
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