Seasons
12
Episodes
126
Networks
PBS
Countries
US
First aired
2012-03-24
Last aired
2026-04-14
Language
en
Rating
6.4 / 10
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Synopsis and details
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.
Seasons and episodes
Season 1
10 episodes · 2012-03-24
Season 2
10 episodes · 2014-09-23
Season 3
10 episodes · 2016-01-05
Dr. Gates explores the genealogy of celebrities using the records left behind and DNA technology.
Season 4
10 episodes · 2017-10-02
Season 5
10 episodes · 2019-01-08
Season 6
16 episodes · 2019-10-08
Season 7
10 episodes · 2021-01-19
Season 8
10 episodes · 2022-01-04
Season 9
10 episodes · 2023-01-03
Season 10
10 episodes · 2024-01-02
Season 11
10 episodes · 2025-01-07
Season 12
10 episodes · 2026-01-06
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