Host Henry Louis Gates Jr. has vowed that the series will continue on PBS despite the recent clawback of federal funding for public broadcasting.

The PBS series hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. will return for season 12 on Jan. 6, 2026, and PEOPLE can exclusively reveal ...

Finding Your Roots Season 12 premieres Jan. 6 on PBS. As a panelist on The View , Sara Haines considers current events. But ...

The celebrity guest roster for Season 12 includes actors Lizzy Caplan, Kristin Chenoweth, Liza Colón-Zayas, Darren Criss, Danielle Deadwyler, America Ferrera, Sanaa Lathan, Tracy Letts, and Delroy ...

Chrissy Teigen is going to get one heck of a wake-up call on Tuesday’s (January 28) new episode of Finding Your Roots. In fact, the revelation host Henry Louis Gates Jr.

On the Season 11 episode of "Finding Your Roots" that aired on Jan. 28, actor and former fashion model Sharon Stone discovered just that.

Ralph’s paternal side came from North Carolina. When the “Finding Your Roots” team found evidence of her descendants, many were listed as being enslaved.

Debra Messing is feeling the Bern. The “Will & Grace” alum learned in a February episode of PBS’ “Finding Your Roots” that she is related to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a fact which ...

NEW YORK — For 11 seasons, Henry Louis Gates Jr. has sat across from his guests on the popular PBS series “Finding Your Roots” and led them through secrets in their family tree.

The Finding Your Roots team told Family Tree in 2020 that their research has uncovered family secrets they deemed too sensitive for broadcast. In one case, for example, they learned a guest’s ...

"The Joy Luck Club," one of her most famous books, has autobiographical elements. Now, she has some fascinating new material to work with thanks to her “Finding Your Roots” appearance.

For the past 13 years, I’ve hosted a PBS show called “Finding Your Roots,” where, with the help of a team of genealogists, we trace the family history of prominent figures, often turning up ...