FINDING YOUR ROOTS | Season 4 Official Teaser Trailer | PBS
Finding Your Roots(2012)
2012 · TV SERIES
Finding Your Roots
Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. guides celebrities on emotional journeys through their family histories, uncovering hidden ancestors, long-lost connections, and surprising secrets buried in their bloodlines.
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2012
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12 seasons
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a noted scholar at Harvard, has been assisting people in uncovering long-lost relatives buried within the branches of their family trees. Gates works with a team of genealogists to reconstruct the historical records left by ancestors, as well as with leading geneticists to analyze DNA and trace origins thousands of years into the past.
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Finding Your Roots(2012)
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