Finding Your Roots

· 2012–present · 13 seasons · TV-PG

· 2012–present · 13 seasons

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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.

0.7Attention Score 

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Finding Your Roots seasons

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Finding Your Roots year by year

Where it ranked among all TV shows each year

YearRankDays in the top 10Top 10Days at #1At #1
2026 so far#1,274 of 3,06100
2025#1,193 of 2,93700
2024#1,205 of 2,74600
2023#1,394 of 2,51700
2022#1,320 of 2,20800
2021#1,147 of 1,92200
2020#1,136 of 1,59800
2019#960 of 1,39700
2018#894 of 1,19900
2017#761 of 95900
2016#680 of 83300
2015#626 of 71400
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