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

Chrissy Teigen learned she is of Roma descent in an upcoming episode of "Finding Your Roots." In TODAY.com's exclusive clip ...

For 10 seasons and 106 episodes, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people explore their family history on "Finding ...

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 ...

But when the movie star appeared on the PBS show “Finding Your Roots” on Tuesday night, she learned some specifics about those branches of her family tree — and broke down in tears upon ...

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates ... As the pages turn in each guest’s book of life, emotional revelations give way to complex questions about identity. Through Gates’ discerning ...

Finding Your Roots is available to stream on pbs.org and ... He was born in 1842, and he spent much of his life as a coal miner in Pennsylvania. But that's not all that he did.

Now, she has some fascinating new material to work with thanks to her “Finding Your Roots” appearance ... of the PBS series to trace her family tree and learn more about her ancestors.