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Finding Your Roots
2012·13 Seasons·127 Episodes·★ 6.5
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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Best suited to viewers who want a longer-form story built around real people, events, or ideas.
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Long-form commitment · 13 seasons
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Seasons
Season 1
10 episodes
2012
Season 2
10 episodes
2014
Season 3
10 episodes
2016
Season 4
10 episodes
2017
Season 5
10 episodes
2019
Season 6
16 episodes
2019
Season 7
10 episodes
2021
Season 8
10 episodes
2022
Season 9
10 episodes
2023
Season 10
10 episodes
2024
Season 11
10 episodes
2025
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Season 12
10 episodes
2026
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Season 13
1 episode
2027
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