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