About this season
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.
Episodes (10)
1. Born To Sing
Aired 2 January 2024
Singers Ciara and Alanis Morissette examine their family histories.
2. Forever Young
Aired 9 January 2024
Actors Valerie Bertinelli and Brendan Fraser explore their family histories
3. Fathers and Sons
Aired 16 January 2024
Actors LeVar Burton and Wes Studi, two men who grew up without their fathers, explore their family histories.
4. Buried Secrets
Aired 23 January 2024
Singer Sammy Hagar and actor Ed O'Neill uncover their roots and discover deep family secrets.
5. Hold the Laughter
Aired 30 January 2024
Actor Bob Odenkirk and comic Iliza Shlesinger explore their family histories and learn about relatives who took great risks to overcome hardships.
6. Far and Away
Aired 6 February 2024
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the extraordinarily diverse roots of journalist Sunny Hostin and actor Jesse Williams—telling long-lost stories of African and European ancestry that compel his guests to rethink their own identities.
7. The Brick Wall Falls
Aired 13 February 2024
HenryLouis Gates, Jr. helps musician Dionne Warwick and actor Danielle Brooks break down barriers imposed by the slave system to learn the names of their ancestors who endured unimaginable ordeals but emerged to forge families that thrived.
8. Mean Streets
Aired 20 February 2024
Comic Tracy Morgan and actor Anthony Ramos, both native New Yorkers, map their family trees.
9. In the Blood
Aired 2 April 2024
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of actor Michael Douglas & writer-director Lena Dunham. Both are the children of famous artists, but their family trees contain a cast of fascinating characters whose lives were forgotten—until now.
10. "Viewers Like You"
Aired 9 April 2024
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. solves mysteries for 3 everyday Americans chosen to be guests.