Overview

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.

Cast

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., CeCe Moore, Derek Jeter, Anderson Cooper, Tom Colicchio, Angela Bassett, Valerie Jarrett, Alan Dershowitz

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What is "Finding Your Roots" about?

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.

When was "Finding Your Roots" released?

Finding Your Roots was released in 2012.

Who stars in "Finding Your Roots"?

The cast includes Henry Louis Gates, Jr., CeCe Moore, Derek Jeter, Anderson Cooper.

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