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Finding Your Roots

TV2012 – Present12 seasons126 episodes eps
PBS#4Documentary#19
TV Rank
May 20, 2026
#1,072
Most popular TV show
Buzz Score
May 20, 2026
0.6
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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
Seasons
12
Episodes
126
Runtime
60 min
Rating
TV-PG
Streaming
YouTube TVPBSPBS Documentaries Amazon ChannelPBS Living Amazon Channel
Rankings
#1,072All TV#4PBS#19Documentary
Links
r/FindingYourRootsWikipediaOfficial site
Daily update · May 20, 2026

Finding Your Roots ranks #1,072 most popular TV show with a Buzz Score of 0.6. It peaked at #2,221 of all time (Jan 3 – Feb 1, 2023). It ranks #1,135 over the past 365 days.

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Ranks on May 20, 2026

Overall, network, and genre
#1,072
TV
#4
PBS
#19
Documentary

Ranking History

Peak, 1-year, and top-chart days
Peak Buzz Score
1.1
#2,221Overall rank
Jan 3 – Feb 1, 2023
1-Year Buzz Score
0.6
#1,135Overall rank
Last 365 days
Days at #1
0
Past 365 days
Days in Top 10
0
Past 365 days
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497
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Torrents
#468
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1
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Season 9·Tue, Jan 3, 2023·10 eps
1.1Quiet
#100+
2
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Season 7·Tue, Jan 19, 2021·10 eps
0.9Quiet
#100+
3
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Season 11·Tue, Jan 7, 2025·10 eps
0.8Quiet
#100+
4
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Season 10·Tue, Jan 2, 2024·10 eps
0.8Quiet
#100+
5
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Season 12·Tue, Jan 6, 2026·10 eps
0.8Quiet
#100+
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Season 8·Tue, Jan 4, 2022·10 eps
0.7Quiet
#100+
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Top Cast

Most popular Finding Your Roots cast members by current Buzz Score on May 20, 2026
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#1
Sally Field
as Self
14.4
#2
Scarlett Johansson
as Self
14.4
#3
Marco Rubio
as Self
13.7
#4
Barack Obama
as Self (archive footage)
13.6
#5
John F. Kennedy
as Self (archive footage)
12.3
#6
Wanda Sykes
as Self
10.7
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