The longtime PBS series host reveals some of the surprises in store in the coming episodes, including one of his own.

Novelist Amy Tan has always turned to her own family for writing inspiration. "The Joy Luck Club," one of her most famous ...

Season 11 of “Finding Your Roots,” which premiered Jan. 7, features guests like Melanie Lynskey, Lea Salonga, Sharon Stone, ...

On Tuesday’s edition of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr., the theme was Italian heritage week as both The View ...

Dustin Hoffman didn’t know the names of his paternal grandparents when he appeared Tuesday on the PBS show “Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates.” After learning of the tragedies in his ...

In PEOPLE's exclusive first look at the Jan. 14 episode of 'Finding My Roots', Joy Behar discovered just how close her family ...

La Famiglia - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. visits tiny towns in Calabria, Italy to trace the roots of talk show host Joy Behar and actor Michael Imperioli, revealing the challenges that their ancestors ...

In this exclusive clip from the Season 11 premiere of Finding Your Roots, Lea Salonga learns about her family’s surprising history of privilege and prosperity and reflects on how this legacy was lost ...

The “Mean Girls” actress, 39, was astounded to learn that her third great-grandfather was murdered during a clip from the season 11 premiere of Ancestry’s “Finding Your Roots” obtained ...

The Season 11 premiere of Finding Your Roots was especially revelatory for theater ... According to the episode’s narration by host Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Salonga had a complicated relationship with ...

Michael Imperioli learns about his family history on an episode of Finding Your Roots out on January 14. He learns they were bootleggers during Prohibition and broke the law.

Finding Your Roots is back and delivering just as many jaw-dropping revelations as ever. The Season 11 premiere, “Larger than Life,” began with a genealogical study of actress Amanda Seyfried, which ...