Finding Your Roots
Daily TV popularity · Oct 30, 2026
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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First airedMar 24, 2012
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Michael Douglas
53.1
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Glenn Close
Self
32.6
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Téa Leoni
Self
26.0
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Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)
19.7
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Sarah Silverman
Self
14.1
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Scarlett Johansson
Self
10.2
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