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Finding Your Roots

2012–TV-PGPBS
  • Documentary
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.Read more
Seasons
13
Episodes
127
Runtime
1h
Rating
Rated 6.2 out of 10

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Status
Returning Series
First aired
Mar 24, 2012
Networks
PBS
Country
United States
Original language
English
Seasons
13
Episodes
127
Community rating
6.2 / 10 from 21 votes

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