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Finding Your Roots Season 9 Episodes
Season 9 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2023 - 2023
Episode 1
Hidden Kin
Tue, Jan 3, 2023
Julia Roberts and Edward Norton trace their families back deep into American history and beyond. And they each have an additional surprise in store.
Episode 2
Salem's Lot
Tue, Jan 10, 202352 mins
Henry Lewis Gates Jr. takes Claire Danes and Jeff Daniels on a journey into their roots.
Episode 3
Secret Lives
Tue, Jan 17, 2023
Carol Burnett and Niecy Nash uncover some family secrets about the untold lives of their grandparents. One revelation so shocking that the guest learned it during filming to prepare her family for the result.
Episode 4
Far From Home
Tue, Jan 24, 202352 mins
Cyndi Lauper, Jamie Chung and Danny Trejo uncover the stories of their immigrant ancestors.
Episode 5
Rising from the Ashes
Tue, Jan 31, 2023
Viola Davis and Brian Cox learn about relatives they never knew about whose fights against the odds inspire their descendants. Also, both learn of long-lost relatives who have been on the show.
Episode 6
Family: Lost and Found
Tue, Feb 7, 2023
Joe Manganiello and Tony Gonzalez discover close relatives whose names they've never heard and whose stories they could not have imagined.
Episode 7
Chosen
Tue, Feb 14, 2023
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. helps actors David Duchovny and Richard Kind trace their roots from Jewish communities in Eastern Europe to the United State--telling stories of triumph and tragedy that laid the groundwork for his guest's success.
Episode 8
And Still I Rise
Tue, Feb 21, 2023
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reveals the unexpected family trees of activist Angela Y. Davis and statesman Jeh Johnson, using DNA and long-lost records to redefine notions of the black experience-and challenge preconceptions of America's past.
Episode 9
Anchormen
Tue, Mar 28, 2023
Henry L. Gates, Jr. introduces trail-blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them, meeting runaway slaves and immigrant settlers who took enormous chances so that their descendants might thrive.
Episode 10
Out of the Past
Tue, Apr 4, 2023
Henry Lewis Gates uncovers the lost roots of actors Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry-Housley.
