Finding Your Roots: Season 11
Season 11 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Finding Your Roots Season 10.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 11 Progress Shield
Larger Than Life
Jan 7, 2025
Research into the ancestry of singer Lea Salonga and actress Amanda Seyfried reveals relatives who survived heart-wrenching ordeals.
La Famiglia
Jan 14, 2025
Exploring the Italian roots of television host Joy Behar and actor Michael Imperioli.
Stranger Than Fiction
Jan 21, 2025
Traveling across China and the American South to reveal the ancestry of novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove.
Dreamers One and All
Jan 28, 2025
Exploring the ancestry of actress Sharon Stone and model Chrissy Teigen includes travelling across Europe and Thailand.
Family Recipes
Feb 4, 2025
Exploring the ancestry of chefs José Andrés and Sean Sherman.
Latin Roots
Feb 11, 2025
Tracing the family trees of musician Rubén Blades and journalist Natalie Morales.
The Ties That Bind
Feb 18, 2025
Actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard learn about their family histories, which includes stories of soldiers, settlers and criminals.
The Butterfly Effect
Feb 25, 2025
Actresses Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey explore the stories of their ancestors whose bold decisions reshaped their families.
Moving on Up
Apr 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 norther
Finding My Roots
Apr 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