Finding Your Roots

Frontline

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.

Documentary

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change.

Date	Finding Your Roots	Frontline
Apr 19, 2026Apr 19, 2026	0.547	0.22
Apr 18, 2026Apr 18, 2026	0.47	0.207
Apr 17, 2026Apr 17, 2026	0.518	0.199
Apr 16, 2026Apr 16, 2026	0.652	0.253
Apr 15, 2026Apr 15, 2026	0.755	0.251
Apr 14, 2026Apr 14, 2026	0.579	0.24
Apr 13, 2026Apr 13, 2026	0.549	0.182

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