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Status
Returning Series
Release
2012 - Present
Seasons / Eps
12 / 126
Streaming availability by country
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.
205 Cast Members
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host
126 Episodes
CeCe Moore
Self - Genetic Genealogy Expert
7 Episodes
Derek Jeter
Self
2 Episodes
Anderson Cooper
Self
2 Episodes
Tom Colicchio
Self
2 Episodes
Angela Bassett
Self
2 Episodes
Valerie Jarrett
Self
2 Episodes
Alan Dershowitz
Self
2 Episodes
Tony Kushner
Self
2 Episodes
Sally Field
Self
2 Episodes
Tina Fey
Self
2 Episodes
Nas
Self
2 Episodes
Aarón Sánchez
Self
2 Episodes
Sting
Self
2 Episodes
George Stephanopoulos
Self
2 Episodes
Maya Rudolph
Self
2 Episodes
Ty Burrell
Self
2 Episodes
Mia Farrow
Self
2 Episodes
Soledad O'Brien
Self
2 Episodes
Jimmy Kimmel
Self
2 Episodes
