Henry Louis Gates Jr. Reflects On 10 Years Of His Show 'Finding Your Roots' | The View 

Dr. Gates never fails to inspire me, impress me with his intellect and I always end-up emotional with each episode. A true gentleman. Respect, Sir 🫡

this segment should have been LONGER. loved it

I became addicted to Dr. Gates’ show “Finding Your Roots” last year. This show is so fascinating, especially if you are a student of history, and he presents it in such a relatable and respectful way. Dr. Gates is a treasure.

Dr. Gates is such a great man, he helps people so much and knows the TRUE history of this country.

My 16 yr old grandson and I watch Finding Your Roots every week. Henry Gates inspires us to discuss our roots and learn about our past.

I love his show Finding your Roots... just awesome TV

Dr. Gates gives me the goosebumps. His tenacity to explore in wonderment about a complete stranger family history is so fascinating. I would truly love to have Dr.Gates explore into my parents, families history.😊

I’ve always admired Dr Gates for years! He tells us so real history, black segregation, slave, and immigrants- and would to meet him and his life! He is a great man in our history and ourselves! Thank you, Dr Henry Louis Gates!

I freaking love him. "By the way, the civil war was fought to end slavery" right out of the gate!

I could hear Dr Gates speak all day. He’s such a great conversationalist.

Dr. Gates .. one of my top 10 favorite human beings on this planet. This 80-year-old wishes you good health and happiness, sir. And many more years of discovering our roots. We are all connected.

Professor Gates always has the receipts for the skeptics.

Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Oh how i admire Dr. Gates. I love his show, it is so interesting.

At 66 I've learned so much history just watching his amazing show,not jus st entertainment! Often brings tears to my eyes like with Sunny today!

When Sunny found out that her ancestor signed up to vote with an X, it brought tears to my eyes.

I love "Finding Your /Roots", it's so interesting to find out what the people who came before us did, who they were

I am putting it out in the universe that "I want to work with Dr. Gates, before he exits earth." Thanks for the work you do, sir. I applaud you.

Love Finding your Roots... It's great to learn about genealogy!!!

*Dr. Gates for those who don’t know is immensely knowledge in history. There’s a documentary called The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song that’s incredibly powerful. Highly recommend checking it out.*

Sunny’s ancestor is inspirational!! 🙌🙌🙌

One great human being!!! Thank you Dr. Gates for 10 incredible years of brilliant television!!!!❤❤❤

I’m a big fan of Dr. Gates and his work! He has a God given ability to pull us into history in a beautiful, interesting, compassionate way! I have been watching this show since it was called: African American Lives #ExcellentShow Dr. Gates #ThankYou for your work and sharing your gifts with humanity! May you have a MILLION more seasons! Much love from Canada! 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦

I love Finding Your Roots. Hopefully, I can be on the show soon.

Whoopi looks amazing ❤ I love her hair pulled back to see pretty face

Dr. Gates is a national treasure, God bless him.

Dr. Gates always touches my heart.

Henry Louis Gates a class act.

😂 Whoopi's face is classic, when she found out Tony Gonzales is her cousin.

Dr Gate's presence greatly improved this show.

4:24 - 4:27 whoopi’s face 😂

I would love to find out more about my family. I never met any of my grandfathers. They both passed at a young age. My grandmother on my father side passed at 40 and my mom parents passed at a very young age, and all six of her siblings were in foster care and separated, so she doesn’t even know them, I would pay $1 million if I had it to know more about my family just to know their names would bring us so much joy

What an inspiration.

Love Finding Your Roots with Dr Louis B. Gates, we watch ALWAYS.

Dr. Gates is so awesome!

Dr. Gates is the ULTIMATE OF INTELLECTUAL SOULS!!! Who wouldn't wanna learn FROM Him?!! Sir, From this Humble Corner, RESPECT and Thanks for All You Are and Do. #ViewNation #IntellectualRoot. #MasterofRoots!!!

Very lovely and inspiring gentleman…

My family received 160 acres each in Oklahoma because they were enslaved by the Muskogee Creek Indians and once the 1866 treaty was signed they became Creek citizens. So the 5 civilized tribes gave enslaved Africans land in Oklahoma, this is why there was so many thriving all black towns in Oklahoma at the turn of the century.

Finding your Roots is one of the only TV shows worth watching. Doing my own geneology research was truly a humbling experience. We owe so much to the people who came before us for their incredibly selfless sacrifices.

Loveeee Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.🤍

I adore his show, Dr Gates is fantastic!

👍= Henry Louis Gates Jr.

I so admire and honor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s work in helping people find their roots, their ancestry. So amazing!

I love his show!

Cool that Dr. Gates will cover two Canadians this year Alanis Morrisette (born in Ottawa) and Brendan Fraser (father is Canadian, Brendan born in the US but has dual citizenship - he got some of his education at UCC in Toronto)

I had never heard of this show. I just set up my recording! Facinating.

A+ show today!

I love it, when you can’t argue facts, yassssssssss 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 when you’re educated on what your talking about is the best…..

My favorite distant cousin match is the Bernie Sanders/Larry David, especially because right before he turned the page for the reveal he was all smiley and saying he hoped it would be an athlete.

Love this show!!!

Love Dr. Gates! He is always worthy to listen to.

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a documentary television series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that premiered on March 25, 2012, on PBS. In each episode, celebrities are presented with a "book of life" that is compiled with information researched by professional genealogists that allows them to view their ancestral histories, learn about familial connections and discover secrets about their lineage. All episodes air on Tuesdays. Season 10 begins airing on January 2, 2024. Source Wikipedia

Thank you Dr Gates...Decade of watching. So interesting and informative!

I cannot wait for season 10

Tell them, Skip! We need to know and tell our history! History matters. Our history is American history.

Love the show Finding Your Roots.

I love this show.. His show pushed me to my 23 & Me kit! Its so amazing to finding out your ancestral background

Love Dr Gates

ABC. Excellent interview

I so enjoy watching him and his excellent show. He’s just great. Hope he stays on television for many years to come.

Awesome Historian 🗽🏙🙏🏽❤

Interesting articles, I have been following Dr Gates series a while now. I am West Indian, stay safe and blessed.

Thank you for your work so incredibly important.

Interesting segment and Interesting show he got

He is smart...Love it

Why does Whoopi look so good ❤❤

I LIKE TO SEE HIM HELP COMMON PEOPLE. BUT ANYWAY ITS A GOOD SHOW HENRY. THANK YOU SIR.

Happy New Year 2024 Everybody

I’m glad he’s doing this for black folks bc our story is unique a lot of us are descendants of slaves. Our ancestors didn’t ask to be here nor were they refugees or migrated here. By design our ancestors was the only group that was forced and tortured to lose all knowledge of their culture.

I love Dr. Gates! He and his studies fascinate me.

Thanks to Dr. Henry Louis Gates, and his program #FindingYourRoots I'm learning more about the importance of family history as well as asking older family members to share their stories. I really need his help in finding info on my maternal great-grandmother background. Thanks to #TheView for this segment. #DNA

I love and his show!

I LOVE WATCHING #FYR & LOVE Dr. #HLGJr ❤❤❤

I love Finding Your Roots. I'd love to do a DNA test but I'm terrified cops will knock on my door asking about one of my mom's cousins 😂😂

“And what happened to that?” Sunny, what happened was… our friend Abe was murdered. And his vision for reconstruction went to the grave with him. Such a shame.

I love the show Finding Your Roots. And Happy New Year ladies on The View. The story about Whoopi's ancestors was very interesting.

I wish this interview were longer. I really love what Joy Behar said, people selectively forget North America was "founded" by immigrants. No one should be telling anyone, "Go Back To Your Country." The only ones who can say the land is theirs are the American Indians.

“You can’t show Roots to a three year old child!” Enter my parents😂😂😂

The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead. In all, more than 160 million acres (650 thousand km2; 250 thousand sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States, was given away free to 1.6 million homesteaders; most of the homesteads were west of the Mississippi River. An extension of the homestead principle in law, the Homestead Acts were an expression of the Free Soil policy of Northerners who wanted individual farmers to own and operate their own farms, as opposed to Southern slave owners who wanted to buy up large tracts of land and use slave labor, thereby shutting out free white farmers. For a number of years individual Congressmen put forward bills providing for homesteading, but it wasn't until 1862 that the first homestead act was passed. The Homestead Act of 1862 opened up millions of acres. Any adult who had never taken up arms against the federal government of the United States could apply. Women and immigrants who had applied for citizenship were eligible. Several additional laws were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 sought to address land ownership inequalities in the south during Reconstruction. It explicitly included Black Americans and encouraged them to participate, and, though rampant discrimination, systemic barriers, and bureaucratic inertia considerably slowed Black gains,[3] the 1866 law was part of the reason that within a generation after its passage, by 1900, one quarter of all Southern Black farmers were farm owners. The Timber Culture Act of 1873 granted land to a claimant who was required to plant trees-the tract could be added to an existing homestead claim and had no residency requirement. The Kinkaid Amendment of 1904 granted a full section-640 acres (260 ha)-to new homesteaders settling in western Nebraska. An amendment to the Homestead Act of 1862, the Enlarged Homestead Act, was passed in 1909 and doubled the allotted acreage from 160 to 320 acres (65 to 129 ha) in marginal areas. Another amended act, the national Stock-Raising Homestead Act, was passed in 1916 and granted 640 acres (260 ha) for ranching purposes. Source Wikipedia

😡Joy, really!!! Couldn’t you let Sunny have a few more seconds!

Amazing that Whoopi descended from folks who got 104 acres, which is what they asked for. She seemed rather pleased and surprised to learn who her DNA cousin was

My family is from coastal Georgia they still have the land from there ancestors

Joy, “That’s nice.”😂😂😂

Black people represent 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

He should do Dolly Parton & Patti Labelle.They played nail songs 2gether.

we can learn so much humanity from our past. well unless we turn our backs on it

The more generations that are born, the more likely they are to be related. Nearly everyone's a distant cousin.

You gotta have alot of money to search your roots. Dr. Gates ain't cheap but he is through‼️ I love looking at PBS Finding Your Roots.

Love this show❤

Whoopi lost a lot of weight

Luv this show and his previous docs so rare he did one about the Egypt pyramids

What shocking results can come from those participating. No doubt some people refused to be filmed because they didn’t like the results😮

Her Cousin Tony will be on the View Monday 01/29/2024, should be fun!

He’s THE BEST

I wish I could have this done for me. I feel like celebrities get everything handed to them. I don’t even know where my mother is Buried or where my ancestors or father came from because my mother died at birth in Florida, and I’ve been looking for answers for years and nobody has helped me, so I gave up! I would literally pay to have this done ✅

I'm just here for the laughs😅😅😅😅😅

Fav show on RU-vid 🎉🎉🎉WOOPIE❤

as a white Democrat I've known for many years who my allies are and I just want to say-- God bless the Black church and countless African Americans. Your strength and resiliency and determination to ensure your vote counts humbles me.

I think it’s telling that they skirted pass Sunny’s follow-up question. The Homestead Act and its various versions were not the “40-acres and a mule” promise. That fact is probably why there was no mention on the demographic group that primarily was able to receive the benefits of the Homestead Act. But regardless, Whoopi’s family did not receive “40 acres and a mule”…they applied to the Homestead Act. And for context, check out what Martin Luther King Jr. had to say about a later iteration of the Homestead act.

I applaud Anna Navarro for going on Finding Your Roots. I think Sonny is going to. Whoopi has appeared as well. Now, get Joy Behar, Sarah Haines and Miss thing Melissa Farrah-Griffin on.