Popular ancestry show Finding Your Roots is deep into its ninth season but host Henry Louis Gates Jr. admits he's "surprised" the show has worked so well with white people included.

Next, to celebrate the show’s 10th season on the air, “Finding Your Roots” producers are looking for regular people — yes, all you non-celebrities out there — to feature on the show.

For 10 seasons and 106 episodes, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people explore their family history on “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,” the PBS series that has ...

Do celeb guests give DNA samples to the show’s researchers? Potential Finding Your Roots guests complete questionnaires about their family information and take multiple DNA tests, Emmys.com reports.

Finding Your Roots generates much buzz among PBS viewers, so we corralled the show’s research team for an eye-opening conversation about what it takes to bring family histories of celebrities to ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the host of “Finding Your Roots,” had just asked Queen Latifah to turn to the next page on the book of her ancestors he presented her on the PBS show.

Angela Davis shows us why “Finding Your Roots” complicates and strengthens the American story If you only watch the viral clip revealing Davis' link to the Mayflower, you're missing the full story ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr., the host of "Finding Your Roots," had just asked Queen Latifah to turn to the next page on the book of her ancestors he presented her on the PBS show.

Finding Your Roots Finding Your Own Roots: 8 Tips for Creating Your Family Tree Special | 5m 27s | CC Each of us has a story. And that story is connected to other stories, all of which lead to our ...

"Under the skin, no matter our apparent differences, we are 99.9 percent the same. … If we needed that message when we began this show, we need it urgently today." he said.

Ben Affleck Addresses 'Finding Your Roots' Controversy in Facebook Post "I didn't want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves," he wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday ...

One surprising revelation of “Finding Your Roots” was that his dad actually was born Roy Wood Jr., making him Roy Wood III. He puzzled over that on the show and joked about changing his name ...