Where to watch Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. premiered in 2012 on PBS (TV network) and is still running. Next episode: Tue, Jan 12, 2027, 8:00 PM ET.
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Tue, Jan 12, 2027, 8:00 PM ET
Tue, Apr 14, 2026, 8:00 PM ET
About Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Since the premiere of his groundbreaking series African American Lives through the first season of 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.
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Questions & answers
Where can I watch Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.?
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. originally premiered on PBS, a TV network. That is where new episodes are released first. Older seasons may also be licensed to other services; check your service for current availability.
Is Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. still running?
Yes. TVmaze lists Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as running, with the next episode on Tue, Jan 12, 2027, 8:00 PM ET.
When is the next episode of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.?
S13 E1 "TBA" is scheduled for Tue, Jan 12, 2027, 8:00 PM ET on PBS.
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