"Finding Your Roots" reveals surprising and sometimes troubling ancestral histories! Join us as we look at ten celebrities ...

I sometimes watch the PBS show Finding Your Roots, where Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents guests information about their ancestry. With researchers combing through dusty records and ...

As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.

As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., best known for helping people and celebrities uncover ancestral connections on his long-running PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” has made headlines again with a viral family ...

Finding the Pope’s Roots Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveholders: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals. By Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The newly appointed Pope Leo XIV has several star studded branches on his family tree. The New York Times took deep dive into ...

Certainly, the fans of “Finding Your Roots,” the PBS show I have hosted for 13 years, wanted to know. My inbox was flooded with emails asking us to trace the new pope’s ancestry.