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Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Series· 2012· History

Since the premiere of his groundbreaking series African American Lives through the first season of 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.

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Season 13, Episode 1, “TBA,” airs Tuesday, January 12, 2027 on PBS.

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88 nights

S13 E1

Episode 1

8:00 PM ET

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    Jan 12, 2027

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  1. 13Season 13Next: Episode 1 · TBA
  2. 12Season 12Original premiere · PBS · 10 episodes
  3. 11Season 11Original premiere · PBS · 10 episodes
  4. 10Season 10Original premiere · PBS · 10 episodes
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  5. 5Season 5Original premiere · PBS · 10 episodes
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Season 13 episodes

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  1. 1

    TBA source at TVmaze

    Airs on PBS

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Cast
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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  • Season premiere · PBSJanuary 12, 2027
    ReportedTVmaze
    “TVmaze: Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. season 13 episode 1 "TBA" airs 2027-01-12 on PBS”
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    TVmaze · CC BY-SA 4.0

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    TVmaze · normalized by Release Night · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Season release history

    TVmaze · 13 season records · CC BY-SA 4.0

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  1. Season premiere date announced: January 12, 2027 on PBS

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