Finding Your RootsSeason 12

TV-PG

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.

Where to Watch Finding Your Roots • Season 12

10 Episodes

American Dreams
E1
American DreamsAmerica Ferrera and Darren Criss uncover their immigrant roots.
Great Migrations
E2
Great MigrationsHenry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces rapper Wiz Khalifa and actor Sanaa Lathan to ancestors who left the American South, boldly breaking racial barriers.
Caribbean Roots
E3
Caribbean RootsHenry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the Caribbean roots of actors Liza Colón-Zayas and Delroy Lindo—meeting ancestors who took enormous risks.
The Road We Took
E4
The Road We TookHenry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actor Lizzie Caplan and comedian Hasan Minhaj to ancestors whose brave decisions forever reshaped their families.
Love & Basketball
E5
Love & BasketballBasketball superstars Brittney Griner and Chris Paul reveal that they are not the first extraordinary people in their family trees. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncovers relatives who showed courage, talent and grit.
Westward Bound
E6
Westward BoundHenry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the family trees of talk show host Sara Haines and playwright Tracy Letts, learning of scoundrels, soldiers, and U.S. Presidents, and surprising connections to Native Americans communities.
Family Harmonies
E7
Family HarmoniesHenry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of two celebrated musicians: Lizzo and Flea, tracing lineages that run from plantations in the American South to battlefields in France to a hardscrabble gold mining town on the shores of Australia.
Artistic Roots
E8
Artistic RootsHenry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of director Spike Lee and actor Kristin Chenoweth, meeting ancestors whose creativity built their families.
Song of the South
E9
Song of the SouthHenry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the family secrets of Danielle Deadwyler and Rhiannon Giddens, uncovering stories their ancestors once hid.
Rags to Riches
E10
Rags to RichesHenry Louis Gates Jr. maps the roots of actor Kate Burton (Richard Burton's daughter) and media mogul Barry Diller. Kate learns about her coal mining ancestors from Wales, and Barry learns about his Jewish grandfather and a family mystery.