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The Best Seasons of Finding Your Roots

Every season of Finding Your Roots ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons of Finding Your Roots!

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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

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#1

Season 4

10 Episodes

First Aired: Oct 2017

7.9/ 10

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Best episodeE8 · Relatives We Never Knew We Had 8.1

#2

Season 7

10 Episodes

First Aired: Jan 2021

7.9/ 10

Average Rating

Best episodeE1 · To the Manor Born 8.0

#3

Season 9

10 Episodes

First Aired: Jan 2023

7.9/ 10

Average Rating

Best episodeE7 · Chosen 8.1

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#4

Season 10

10 Episodes

First Aired: Jan 2024

7.8/ 10

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Best episodeE8 · Mean Streets 8.0

#5

Season 3

10 Episodes

First Aired: Jan 2016

7.8/ 10

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Best episodeE4 · Tragedy + Time = Comedy 8.0

#6

Season 1

10 Episodes

First Aired: Mar 2012

7.8/ 10

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Best episodeE1 · Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr. 8.0

#7

Season 5

10 Episodes

First Aired: Jan 2019

7.8/ 10

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Best episodeE1 · Grandparents and Other Strangers 8.0

#8

Season 6

16 Episodes

First Aired: Oct 2019

7.7/ 10

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Best episodeE3 · Homecomings 7.9

#9

Season 8

10 Episodes

First Aired: Jan 2022

7.7/ 10

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Best episodeE2 · Children of Exile 8.0

#10

Season 2

10 Episodes

First Aired: Sep 2014

7.6/ 10

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Best episodeE6 · We Come From People 7.9

#11

Season 11

10 Episodes

First Aired: Jan 2025

7.5/ 10

Average Rating

Best episodeE10 · Finding My Roots 7.9

#12

Season 12

10 Episodes

First Aired: Jan 2026

6.0/ 10

Average Rating

Best episodeE10 · Rags to Riches 6.4