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Finding Your Roots

TV2012 – Present12 seasons126 episodes eps
PBS#4Documentary#20
TV Rank
Jun 4, 2026
#1,156
Most popular TV show
Buzz Score
Jun 4, 2026
0.5
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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
#1,156All TV#4PBS#20Documentary
Links
r/FindingYourRootsWikipediaOfficial site
Daily update · June 4, 2026

Finding Your Roots ranks #1,156 most popular TV show with a Buzz Score of 0.5. It peaked at #2,232 of all time (Jan 3 – Feb 1, 2023). It ranks #1,136 over the past 365 days.

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Current and historical popularity rankings

Ranks on June 4, 2026

Overall, network, and genre
#1,156
TV
#4
PBS
#20
Documentary

Ranking History

Peak, 1-year, and top-chart days
Peak Buzz Score
1.1
#2,232Overall rank
Jan 3 – Feb 1, 2023
1-Year Buzz Score
0.6
#1,136Overall rank
Last 365 days
Days at #1
0
Past 365 days
Days in Top 10
0
Past 365 days
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522
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350
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#440
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Season
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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+
6
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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 June 4, 2026
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#1
Keenen Ivory Wayans
as Self
13.6
#2
Barack Obama
as Self (archive footage)
12.5
#3
Marco Rubio
as Self
11.9
#4
John F. Kennedy
as Self (archive footage)
11.5
#5
Scarlett Johansson
as Self
10.1
#6
Tina Fey
as Self
9.7
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