Gates joins “The View” to discuss what he discovered about Joy Behar’s family history, exploring his own roots and why he ...

Novelist Amy Tan found out about her family history on Finding Your Roots. See an exclusive clip of the moment.

Gates, who has been the host of the PBS series “Finding Your Roots” since it premiered in 2012, has helped many celebrities uncover what’s hiding in their family tree. Sometimes, stars aren ...

Chrissy Teigen is going to get one heck of a wake-up call on Tuesday’s (January 28) new episode of Finding Your Roots. In fact, the revelation host Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents her in this ...

Gates reveals they aren’t the first people in their families who dared to dream big, tracing lineages from Eastern Europe to Medieval France to rural Thailand. Finding Your Roots is available to ...

In PEOPLE's exclusive first look at the Jan. 14 episode of 'Finding My Roots', Joy Behar discovered just how close her family members were in their ancestral home of Italy ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reveals inspiring ancestors of novelist Amy Tan & poet Rita Dove. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of two award-winning writers: novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove ...

Now, she has some fascinating new material to work with thanks to her “Finding Your Roots” appearance. The 72-year-old sat down with the show's host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., for the Jan. 21 ...

Chrissy Teigen learned she is of Roma descent in an upcoming episode of "Finding Your Roots." Here's how she reacted.

In PEOPLE's exclusive first look at the Jan. 14 episode of Finding My Roots ... tree, Gates points out a glaring detail to Behar. "Do you see where the family was living when your grandfather ...