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12 seasonsTV-PG

Finding Your Roots2012–Present

On July 2, 2026▼21 from yesterday

#1,385most popular TV show online

#30 in DocumentaryTop 50%

Peak popularity#2,262 (Jan 3 – Feb 1, 2023) (Jan 2023)1.1Top 80%

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Finding Your Roots

About

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.

Status

Active

First aired

2012

Runtime

60 min

Rating

TV-PG

Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots

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Popularity Rankings & History

Daily update · July 2, 2026

Finding Your Roots ranks #1,385 most popular TV show with a Buzz Score of 0.3, down 21 spots from yesterday. It peaked at #2,262 of all time (Jan 3 – Feb 1, 2023). It ranks #1,144 over the past 365 days.

Peak Buzz Score

#2,262 all-time · Jan 3 – Feb 1, 2023

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#1,144 · Last 365 days

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311

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Season 7·Tue, Jan 19, 2021·10 eps

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Season 8·Tue, Jan 4, 2022·10 eps

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Season 9·Tue, Jan 3, 2023·10 eps

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Season 10·Tue, Jan 2, 2024·10 eps

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Season 11·Tue, Jan 7, 2025·10 eps

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Season 12·Tue, Jan 6, 2026·10 eps

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John F. Kennedy

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