Finding Your Roots
American documentary television series
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| January 7 2025 | Eleventh season of 'Finding Your Roots' premiered on PBS |
| April 9 2024 | Season 10 of Finding Your Roots concluded, completing its run of episodes exploring celebrities' genealogical backgrounds. |
| January 2 2024 | Season 10 of Finding Your Roots began airing on PBS, continuing the series' exploration of celebrity family histories. |
| 2023 | Season 9 of Finding Your Roots television series premiered, continuing the genealogy documentary show that explores the family histories of notable celebrities and public figures. |
| 2022 | Season 8 of 'Finding Your Roots' television series aired, featuring celebrity genealogy and family history explorations hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
| 2021 | Continuation of Finding Your Roots Season 7, exploring the ancestral histories of various public figures. |
| January 2021 | Conclusion of the sixth season, which explored ancestry stories of 22 different personalities including Jon Batiste, Sterling K. Brown, RuPaul, and others |
| 2020 | Finding Your Roots Season 7 aired, featuring genealogical investigations of notable personalities across multiple episodes. |
| October 8 2019 | Premiere of the sixth season of Finding Your Roots, featuring ancestry stories of notable celebrities and public figures |
| July 29 2019 | Announcement of the sixth season of Finding Your Roots, which would premiere later that year |
| January 8 2019 | Finding Your Roots premiered its fifth season on PBS, continuing the genealogy documentary series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
| 2017 | Garrison Keillor was scheduled to appear in the season finale 'Funny Business' of Finding Your Roots, but his segment was edited out after reports of inappropriate workplace behavior became public. |
| 2016 | Cal Thomas of The Baltimore Sun praised the show, describing it as 'The most compelling television you will ever see', indicating significant critical acclaim for the documentary series. |
| January 5 2016 | The television series 'Finding Your Roots' returned after being postponed due to the Ben Affleck controversy, where Affleck had persuaded host Henry Louis Gates Jr. to omit information about his slave-owning ancestors. |
| 2015 | Third season of Finding Your Roots was postponed by WNET after the Ben Affleck controversy regarding suppression of slave-owning ancestor information. |
| 2015 | The television series 'Finding Your Roots' was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding News/Information – Series or Special, highlighting critical recognition of the show's significance in documentary television. |
| 2014 | Season 2 of the PBS genealogy documentary series 'Finding Your Roots' aired, featuring celebrity guests tracing their family histories through genealogical research. |
| 2012 | Finding Your Roots debuts, changing the series format to single-episode plots and expanding the number of episodes per season from four to ten. |
| March 25 2012 | Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. television series premiered on PBS, featuring celebrities exploring their ancestral histories through genealogical research. |
| 2010 | Gates introduces Faces of America, the first series installment that includes Americans from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, continuing the season-long plot approach. |
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