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Finding Your Roots

2012 – Present12 seasons 126 episodes eps

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#4 Documentary#25

Most popular TV show

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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

Finding Your Roots

Daily update · May 14, 2026

Finding Your Roots ranks #1,189 on TV with a Buzz Score of 0.5. It peaked at #2,217 of all time (Jan 3 – Feb 1, 2023). It ranks #1,140 over the past 365 days.

Rankings

Current position by overall, network, and genre on May 14, 2026

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Performance

Popularity history

Peak Buzz Score

#2,217Peak rank

Jan 3 – Feb 1, 2023

1-Year Buzz Score

#1,1401-year rank

Days at #1

0

Past 365 days

Days in Top 10

0

Past 365 days

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520

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382

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Torrents

#479

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Tue, Jan 3, 2023 · 10 eps

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Tue, Jan 7, 2025 · 10 eps

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Tue, Jan 4, 2022 · 10 eps

Top Cast

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Scarlett Johansson

as Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

as Self (archive footage)

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