Actor LeVar Burton was stunned to discover he had a secret White ancestor who served in the Confederate army when appearing ...

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

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

(JTA) — Jewish actress and writer Lena Dunham is the latest Hollywood star to discover that her family has ties to the Holocaust on the PBS celebrity genealogy series “Finding Your Roots.” ...

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 ...

Lea Salonga, a renowned singer and actor from the Philippines, heard surprising news about her heritage in an episode of ...

Finding Your Roots is back and delivering just as many jaw-dropping revelations as ever. The Season 11 premiere, “Larger than ...

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

Amanda Seyfried and eighteen other celebrity guests sit down with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in the new season of FINDING YOUR ROOTS to dive into their ancestral history and solve mysteries that have ...