Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets actor Sharon Stone and model Chrissy Teigen – two stars who found fame when they were young and lived much of their lives in the limelight, knowing little about their ...

The founder of the Finding Our Roots African American Museum has expressed dissatisfaction with a proposed new location. A letter from the museum's founder demands the parish halt the purchase process ...

The search area for this quest is just outside the down, but the Satintail Root is a singular plant, and quite hard to spot. Go to the northwest of the village, and you will find the search area.

The acclaimed series returns with Professor Gates exploring the mysteries, surprises and revelations hidden in the family trees of popular figures. Kristin Chenoweth and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on ...

In this exclusive clip from Tuesday's episode of Finding Your Roots, Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth discovers some shared qualities with a 19th-century Texas relative. Chenoweth learns that her ...

When honey bees find a good source of food, they return to their hive and perform a waggle dance. It consists of a series of movements that communicate the direction and distance to nectar, pollen or ...

A study reported that the conventional method of searching follicular fluid didn’t find all the eggs. The new technology found extra eggs more than half the time. A viable egg found by the OvaReady ...

WNBA star Brittney Griner learns about the horrors one of her ancestors endured at a mental asylum in an exclusive clip from Tuesday’s episode of PBS’s hit series, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis ...

S ince 2012, Finding Your Roots host Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been captivating viewers by peeling back the layers of American identity through the stories of actors, politicians, athletes, and ...

In this exclusive ‘Finding Your Roots’ clip, actor Lizzy Caplan learns about her mother’s ancestors. Actor Lizzy Caplan always thought it was unusual she didn’t know of any relatives who were victims ...