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  • @rhondaburke5700
    @rhondaburke5700 Рік тому +67

    This is amazing! We need this kind of history show back on the air!

    • @nerdygeekgamer5528
      @nerdygeekgamer5528 11 місяців тому

      I know I agree I really know nothing about my family history except for on my mom's side where European American and on my late father's side were French Canadian American

  • @dannschmit8604
    @dannschmit8604 Рік тому +63

    I could watch this show for hours on end! Love it! Thank you so much for the full episode!

  • @TheGoodLydia
    @TheGoodLydia Рік тому +10

    Several of the family histories made me tear up. I hope all the families find answers and peace.

  • @donrainesoh
    @donrainesoh Рік тому +36

    Oh my that elderly woman with dementia just made me giggle. She loves life and doesn’t care about the dirty laundry and embraced it.

  • @soniatriana9091
    @soniatriana9091 Рік тому +16

    Wow! Each person profiled had an amazing family history/story, which has the same current human behaviors we all see & live with. Great episode!! Thank you!!

  • @shellydehart8217
    @shellydehart8217 Рік тому +7

    I never new that there was a genealogy roadshow n I absolutely loved watching this episode. I’ve always wanted to know my family history but unfortunately I can’t afford to find this out.
    ♥️

    • @MiracleFound
      @MiracleFound Рік тому

      You can, if you go to the library.

  • @donnacoleman4624
    @donnacoleman4624 Рік тому +46

    Great episode. I too loved the grandma who finally found out where she came from.
    Dirty laundry or no, she was just thrilled her mom found love and she was born. Great lady!

  • @celiagorleski2716
    @celiagorleski2716 Рік тому +9

    My 8th great grandfather was Governor John Endicott the first Governor of MASSACHUSETTS bay Colony around 1620. He was also the first person to bring. The pear tree to AmericaThe original tree is still living. The entire story is on UA-cam.

    • @TiredMomma
      @TiredMomma Рік тому +1

      How long can a pear tree live?
      I thought the pear tree we've was old. It's like 40 or so years old, lol.
      It still keeps trying, well it does keep producing, tho very small ones and they drop after just a few weeks.
      2 or 3yrs ago it made good pears after a big bloom and we made tasty pear bread.

  • @meganann3876
    @meganann3876 Рік тому +7

    I’m so upset I missed this in person!

  • @AnnieAtRecess
    @AnnieAtRecess Рік тому +16

    Wow! 17:20 I can trace my French ancestry back to Hubertus de la Feld in 1066,fighting alongside William the Conqueror, but WOW, this gentleman can trace back another 500-600 years earlier! That's incredibly rare because family names weren't widely used in that region before the 11th century, not to mention how often church fires destroyed the key documents.

    • @sheepbeep824
      @sheepbeep824 Рік тому +3

      I traced my dad's family back to the Tancarvilles in 1100s and a Chamberlain of William the Conqueror in 1066 so hey neighbor!

    • @missmelisa1823
      @missmelisa1823 Рік тому +3

      To an actual Saint! Wow

    • @lightyagami3492
      @lightyagami3492 Рік тому +4

      Im cousins with this man LOL. We share our ancestry from the Jacques Remy Born in 1672 all the way back to the saint that was mentioned.

    • @angelairidescenceartglass6289
      @angelairidescenceartglass6289 Рік тому +3

      @@lightyagami3492me too. I stopped with Jacques because I was looking for my family’s immigration stories. But, hmm, an actual Catholic saint. I missed that part of the gene pool.

    • @lightyagami3492
      @lightyagami3492 7 місяців тому

      ​@@angelairidescenceartglass6289I hadnt filled in my tree back that far but i knew the saint was there before watching this video. It just tickled me pink that a distant realtove appeared on this show. Btw hello cousin! How do you descend from Jacques?

  • @cherylstaples1790
    @cherylstaples1790 Рік тому +4

    The orphaned children, my heart 😢. Ms. Roberts sounds as great as Roberta Flack ❤

  • @lutomson3496
    @lutomson3496 7 місяців тому +2

    The old lady was so happy and funny so joyful to see her family history and her laugh Musgrave

  • @latoniaburkes5480
    @latoniaburkes5480 Рік тому +4

    I wish I knew about this show before. I see they came to Saint Louis 😢

  • @faganquin6483
    @faganquin6483 Рік тому +3

    good episode

  • @cynthialindsey6975
    @cynthialindsey6975 Рік тому +1

    Loved this episode! I’m also related to the Donner party vía The Backensto family. Virginia Backensto Murphy Reed.

  • @emilyflotilla931
    @emilyflotilla931 Рік тому +3

    I've found relatives on my father's side from the Netherlands (36% Dutch, 14% Danish and Swedish.) going back to the mid 1500s on Ancestry. My 50% Irish mother is a different story. With no official census until the 1900s, it's hard to go back. There's too many Burkes, Brady, and Murphys! 😂

  • @GamerplayerWT
    @GamerplayerWT Рік тому +2

    The Geneology expert at the beginning looks like Will Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) all grown up.

  • @chriscaughey1103
    @chriscaughey1103 Рік тому

    Wonderful!

  • @shannonobrien9922
    @shannonobrien9922 Рік тому +1

    Hello Missouri! You're a shy 3.5 yrs from me geogrshocking

  • @SuperCassieC
    @SuperCassieC 11 місяців тому

    My family is from termini Imerese!

  • @missmelisa1823
    @missmelisa1823 Рік тому +1

    Is this a new episode or a repeat? Is joining the DAR still a thing??

    • @lindaahlgrim1331
      @lindaahlgrim1331 Рік тому +1

      It was only on for 3 yrs. Yes the DAR is still a service organization.

  • @GrahamCLester
    @GrahamCLester 27 днів тому

    I can't find any indication that Saint Remy had any children, in which case he cannot have had any direct descendants. If someone has a source to suggest that he did have children, please reply.

  • @tst1200
    @tst1200 10 місяців тому

    I wanna know if I'm related to Joshua Taylor!

  • @kevinhoward9593
    @kevinhoward9593 2 місяці тому

    33:44 idk how legit that is. Theresa article that says "Self Taught Pianist, 11, On VIDEO"? How is it "Video" 90yrs before video was invented? magic?

  • @tracyconfair1
    @tracyconfair1 Рік тому

    Do me! Do mine! Please do my name? Confair

  • @maryanneschell2078
    @maryanneschell2078 Рік тому

    Is the emergency eye wash station's water being supplied by the unfiltered water from Otter Creek? Would anyone not want to think twice before they decide to wash their eyes with that water?

    • @carolyn9824
      @carolyn9824 Рік тому

      Perhaps Jeremy may have gotten his eye infection. Through that nasty Odder Creek water!!!!!

  • @tracybice6984
    @tracybice6984 Рік тому

    My father is a Donner

  • @Kirsten_Harwood
    @Kirsten_Harwood Рік тому

    1846 or 1864?? 😂❤🎉

  • @rachelburnley2886
    @rachelburnley2886 6 місяців тому

    Did they find the uncle for the older lady with dementia?

  • @andremarais2706
    @andremarais2706 9 місяців тому

    I left at 44 mins. No future or further offspring, but feels entitled to find her past.

    • @lightyagami3492
      @lightyagami3492 7 місяців тому

      She had a biological daughter though. That suggests to me she is bisexual and potentially her partner to.

  • @cindynielsen6435
    @cindynielsen6435 Рік тому

    My late best friend's maiden name was Remy.

  • @monicacall7532
    @monicacall7532 Рік тому +42

    What a great episode! I wish that this show was still being produced. I love family history. Connecting with one’s ancestors is vital to understanding who you as a person are.

  • @lightyagami3492
    @lightyagami3492 Рік тому +16

    16:10 When they get to Jacques Remy (1672-1738) and further up they literally just showed my entire family tree to my on that side of my family. Im literally stunned that my distant cousin was on this show!

    • @TaWandaJoyner
      @TaWandaJoyner 7 місяців тому +2

      Fantastic!!!🙌🎊✨️🙏💐🦋

  • @lilwil-ns3uo
    @lilwil-ns3uo Рік тому +62

    I wish they'd bring this show back. I've always loved it. My family was able to get back to the 1600's in England to Sir Francis Drake. But we are majority French from my fathers side and my mother is full German as our ancestors came here from Prussia. That tiny bit of British is from my father's mother, as she was mostly French. Genealogy is fascinating.

    • @wandamorris780
      @wandamorris780 Рік тому +7

      We have trace our maternal side of family all the way back to King Richard III.

    • @lightyagami3492
      @lightyagami3492 7 місяців тому

      ​@@wandamorris780You mean through his sister right? King Richard the III did have an illegitimate son but he died at the battle of Bosworth Field to King Henry VII army.

  • @marthareyes4024
    @marthareyes4024 Рік тому +25

    Emma Belle Musgrave was the SWEETEST Story.
    What a beautiful personality she has (as well as her son has).
    Really enjoyed watching them learn of their family.!

    • @BrendaAnderson
      @BrendaAnderson 10 місяців тому +2

      She was so excited! I see on Ancestry that she passed away back in 2015. I'm so glad she found her mother's story. RIP.

    • @lightyagami3492
      @lightyagami3492 7 місяців тому +2

      ​@@BrendaAndersonRIP 🙏🙏. She has been immortalized in this video forever.

  • @laura55987
    @laura55987 Рік тому +5

    As an adoptee thats all I wanted to know was who i was and where did i come from...😊

  • @sharonloomis5264
    @sharonloomis5264 Рік тому +14

    Union Station looks sort of like a castle. Love the history.

    • @unionstationstl
      @unionstationstl Рік тому +2

      We love it too!

    • @deb7518
      @deb7518 Рік тому +1

      It's beautiful...I've been there a few times. If you ever go, set aside some time to read through some of the old letters people contributed when it was first restored. (They used to have them posted on posterboards so that you could flip thru them like pages in a book.) There were a few instances where love bloomed between passengers who met on long train trips. I distinctly remember one where the couple met one one end of the journey, and were married along the way. (I seem to recall that he was a soldier shipping out soon.) Tons of interesting stories in those letters and gorgeous old decor in the station.

  • @denisenilsson1366
    @denisenilsson1366 Рік тому +11

    Racism also factored in the tragedy, in that they rejected any assistance from the local Native American tribe; indeed, they proposed shooting, killing, and eating them. After the tribal members found out about THAT idea, they left the pioneers to their fates.

  • @dawnlemaster4110
    @dawnlemaster4110 Рік тому +15

    I’m so happy to see an new video! I enjoy this series so much!

  • @YoAuntyMihkoh
    @YoAuntyMihkoh Рік тому +4

    The white guy finding out he’s just white 😂. That was the highlight of this show lol

  • @boysrus61
    @boysrus61 Рік тому +4

    I think this would be such a kinder nation we all knew where and who we came from. Even those who think they came from junk, go back far enough and there is treasure in all family trees.

  • @krysdekel
    @krysdekel Рік тому +9

    That mom made my whole day!!!

  • @poolhall9632
    @poolhall9632 Рік тому +7

    Bro was so white his records went back to 500 AD 😅

  • @jeanfrancis8121
    @jeanfrancis8121 Рік тому +4

    I wonder if the first Busalacchi on Sardinia was from Crete. Many Cretan surnames end in lakis.

  • @MrVegasdeuce
    @MrVegasdeuce Рік тому +4

    42:21 Thats alright with me!!😊

  • @Yvonnemar77
    @Yvonnemar77 Рік тому +4

    I believe they left in 1846. Not 1864. I know this because they were coming into California which was still Mexican territory at the time.

    • @donnaemslie5729
      @donnaemslie5729 Рік тому +2

      They left April 14, 1846 from Springfield, Iillinois

  • @maryfields1111
    @maryfields1111 Рік тому +3

    Wonderful episode! The jazz song brought tears to my eyes! Powerful.

  • @mycatsnameiskaren8253
    @mycatsnameiskaren8253 8 місяців тому +2

    My dad and I did our DNA a few years ago and we came back 93% & 83% Eastern European (Polish) and we were able to find the village in Poland my dad's side decended from. We already knew that my mom's side is directly descendants from Poland as well. The geniology lady told my dad she's never seen those numbers before. My dad said there was scandal when his Polish grandmother kept going to Poland and bringing men back to New York. After they died, she'd go get another one. (confirmed with census record). He also said there was an Uncle of his involved with the Nazis but we can't find that evidence. DNA is WILD. We are so advanced but continue to lose the stories of our ancestors. 😢

  • @americanrn125
    @americanrn125 Рік тому +3

    So many stories of all of us, who had family come to America in various ways, some good, some bad, but without their struggles, we would not be here. Life isn’t fair, but all of our ancestors overcame adversity of all types to ensure their descendants right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That makes us all connected in so many ways we can’t even fathom. ❤

  • @donnaemslie5729
    @donnaemslie5729 Рік тому +2

    Donner party left Springfield, Illinois on April 14, 1846

  • @megbond
    @megbond 9 місяців тому +1

    There should be a concerted effort to digitize historical records such as those in Italy. If those buildings burnt down, they'd be lost forever, besides just going "missing".

  • @tonyscupham-bilton7523
    @tonyscupham-bilton7523 7 місяців тому +1

    The "crest" you investigate is not a crest. It's a coat of arms. There is no crest shown in the painting. Makes me wonder how much of the other information is wrong.

  • @LindaGuy-yg6ju
    @LindaGuy-yg6ju 8 місяців тому +1

    The waters name was one of my so many great grandmother's in Virginia. I am also total European.

  • @kph2858
    @kph2858 4 місяці тому +1

    This show is new to me . MORE of this instead of more “ movie stars “

  • @lmc2375
    @lmc2375 Рік тому +1

    Everyone has a story. Happy their found theirs. Being descended from St. Remy was something pretty special in my view anyway. What a birth date 427! Few can reach that far back. How fabulous. 💖💫🙏🦋🌱🌎

  • @cruisepaige
    @cruisepaige Рік тому +1

    The Mom and son are lovey!

  • @windshadow2k1
    @windshadow2k1 Рік тому +2

    Fantastic stories.

  • @gordonstewart8897
    @gordonstewart8897 Рік тому +3

    Loved this show. I prefer it to Finding Your Roots for the following reasons. First, they delve into the ancestry of regular people, not celebrities. Second, they don't go to great lengths to connect their ancestry to slavery. I have a great deal of respect for Henry Louis Gates Jr., but it's like he goes out of his way bring up slavery whenever he can, given that the majority of his guests are African-American. Even when the guests are Caucasian, it seems he intentionally tries to tie their ancestors to being slaveholders. It's a shameful period of our history to be sure, but I really don't see any value in bringing it up and beating society over the head with it every chance he gets.

    • @Venus-dn4fy
      @Venus-dn4fy Рік тому +1

      Huge chip on his shoulder for sure.. making a case for 😂 reparations perhaps? Some peeps can't get over the past. And finds his platform a way to keep that spear in the side bleeding😢

    • @missmelisa1823
      @missmelisa1823 Рік тому +1

      It's not like it's hard to do.

  • @designermelinda1
    @designermelinda1 Рік тому +1

    The only thing you got wrong was the Donner party wasn't in 1864 it was in 1846

  • @lanaharris4181
    @lanaharris4181 10 місяців тому

    How does one get on this program? My Great-great grandmother may had come to America on her deceased little sister's papers.I lack the tools to find the truth.

  • @juliaskinner6911
    @juliaskinner6911 Рік тому +2

    I would have loved to research my husband family. From what I understand they are some how related to Abe Lincoln. His grandma was Lena Lillian Lincoln

  • @mycatsnameiskaren8253
    @mycatsnameiskaren8253 8 місяців тому

    35:12 What an incredible story!!! They should be so proud. This would be a great story to make into a movie.

  • @Katseye102
    @Katseye102 Рік тому

    If anyone is checking comments here, when are you coming to Nevada or close to Nevada?? We are trying to find my husbands parents, he was adopted as a baby and the birth certificate is wrong, no actual birth in that hospital on that day and time for him, his adoptive parents are listed as parents. So we don’t know where to go. Can anyone help??

    • @GigiStar01
      @GigiStar01 Рік тому +1

      This show is no longer produced. These are old episodes.

  • @Lady_Susan_Wright
    @Lady_Susan_Wright Рік тому

    I adore Emma Dasenbrock. What an incredible lady!

  • @sophiee.h
    @sophiee.h Рік тому

    13 April 2009

  • @cherylkurucz8852
    @cherylkurucz8852 Рік тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @elainekoeppel7250
    @elainekoeppel7250 Рік тому +1

    There are not different races of people on this earth. We all came from Adam and Eve from genesis in the Bible. It was during the Tower of Babel that the color of skin was changed. But we are all one people

  • @cindyhoelderle946
    @cindyhoelderle946 Рік тому +1

    Jemery they also need to change the office , with a plexiglass window (for safty) to open that up to see ho in the libary make it safer for the clerk and citizens. Let me know what you tthink.😊❤