Finding Your Roots - Season 9 - Eps 7: Chosen
Henry Louis Gates helps actors David Duchovny and Richard Kind trace their roots from Jewish communities in Eastern Europe to the United States—telling stories of triumph and tragedy that laid the groundwork for his guest’s success.
About Finding Your Roots
Title: Finding Your Roots
First Air Date: 2012-03-24
Last Air Date: 2025-04-01
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 6.2/10 (from 12 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 11
Total Episodes: 116
Network: PBS
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Kunhardt McGee Productions, Ark Media, Inkwell Films
Synopsis
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.
Self - Host
