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.

Skip Gates, Jr., Sammy Hagar, Danielle Brooks, Bob Odenkirk, LeVar Burton, Ciara, Sunny Hostin, Valerie Bertinelli, Iliza Shlesinger, Alanis Morissette, Jesse Williams, Wes Studi, Dionne Warwick, Brendan Fraser, Ed O'Neill