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. Larger Than Life
1.0Aired 7 January 2025
Research into the ancestry of singer Lea Salonga and actress Amanda Seyfried reveals relatives who survived heart-wrenching ordeals.
2. La Famiglia
1.0Aired 14 January 2025
Exploring the Italian roots of television host Joy Behar and actor Michael Imperioli.
3. Stranger Than Fiction
1.0Aired 21 January 2025
Traveling across China and the American South to reveal the ancestry of novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove.
4. Dreamers One and All
1.0Aired 28 January 2025
Exploring the ancestry of actress Sharon Stone and model Chrissy Teigen includes travelling across Europe and Thailand.
5. Family Recipes
Aired 4 February 2025
Exploring the ancestry of chefs José Andrés and Sean Sherman.
6. Latin Roots
Aired 11 February 2025
Tracing the family trees of musician Rubén Blades and journalist Natalie Morales.
7. The Ties That Bind
Aired 18 February 2025
Actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard learn about their family histories, which includes stories of soldiers, settlers and criminals.
8. The Butterfly Effect
Aired 25 February 2025
Actresses Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey explore the stories of their ancestors whose bold decisions reshaped their families.
9. Moving on Up
Aired 1 April 2025
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets Sheryl Lee Ralph and Lonnie Bunch - two African Americans trace their ancestors, who overcame slavery and traveled from southern plantations to northern cities, forging prosperous families despite adversity.
10. Finding My Roots
Aired 8 April 2025
Family mysteries: actor Laurence Fishburne and scholar Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. peer into their mysterious family roots using DNA evidence to track down lost family members and their histories.