Finding Your Roots - Season 11

First aired: 1/7/2025 10 episodes

Episodes

1. Larger Than Life

Aired: 1/7/2025

Research into the ancestry of singer Lea Salonga and actress Amanda Seyfried reveals relatives who survived heart-wrenching ordeals.

2. La Famiglia

Aired: 1/14/2025

Exploring the Italian roots of television host Joy Behar and actor Michael Imperioli.

3. Stranger Than Fiction

Aired: 1/21/2025

Traveling across China and the American South to reveal the ancestry of novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove.

4. Dreamers One and All

Aired: 1/28/2025

Exploring the ancestry of actress Sharon Stone and model Chrissy Teigen includes travelling across Europe and Thailand.

5. Family Recipes

Aired: 2/4/2025

Exploring the ancestry of chefs José Andrés and Sean Sherman.

6. Latin Roots

Aired: 2/11/2025

Tracing the family trees of musician Rubén Blades and journalist Natalie Morales.

7. The Ties That Bind

Aired: 2/18/2025

Actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard learn about their family histories, which includes stories of soldiers, settlers and criminals.

8. The Butterfly Effect

Aired: 2/25/2025

Actresses Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey explore the stories of their ancestors whose bold decisions reshaped their families.

9. Moving on Up

Aired: 4/1/2025

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets Sheryl Lee Ralph and Lonnie Bunch - two African Americans trace their ancestors, who overcame slavery and traveled from southern plantations to northern cities, forging prosperous families despite adversity.

10. Finding My Roots

Aired: 4/8/2025

Family mysteries: actor Laurence Fishburne and scholar Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. peer into their mysterious family roots using DNA evidence to track down lost family members and their histories.