Uhhhhhhhh, actually seeing the person speaking on video whose voice you recognize from way back at 3am, of world's top lists of: scary places/pop culture phenomenon/events? It's like a rare sighting of a once thought to be extinct but actually thriving species! 🎉 And then watching the episode is just so moving beyond quips.
I recently went on my own ancestry journey to find my people. My maternal grandmothers side of the family is extremely vague and hard to find. I didn't know much about her mom or dad other than the death of her mom when she was 9 years old. My grandmother's name is Essie and I always wondered what made my great grandmother think of such a weird and beautiful name like that. I found out last year that my great grandmother was a house servant for a white family. The family had three kids, one of which, was named Essie. It blew my mind to think my great grandmother loved that little girl she took care of so much that she decided to name her own daughter, my grandmother, after this little girl. I was even later able to find my slave ancestors on my father's side of the family which is rare. Not many African Americans can trace their ancestry back that far for obvious reasons. This has been such an awarding and addictive experience for sure! 😊
My friend in the U.K. did a bit of digging after I'd talked about my great-grandmother, who was born in Sussex and married a man from Southampton after doing some traveling. They settled here in Western Missouri. Two hours later, he called back and called me cousin. His mother is my sixth cousin, and I hear from him more than all my first and second cousins put together! As a result, I'm related to Marie Antoinette, Copernicus, the late Prince Philip, and Basil Rathbone. Cool.
Not hilarious, but definitely shocking. My paternal grandmother was a college professor, heavily involved in educating her grandkids about other cultures, History, and the arts. When my grandfather died, and she sold the house to move in with my aunt, we found a metaphorical skeleton in the closet. We found a white hood and photos of my grandmother and her siblings riding in a KKK wagon, in the attic. Apparently her German-born father, my great grandfather, was a Grand Dragon of the KKK, in the early 1900's. Almost all of my cousins and I married people of different "races". She had never spoken about it- no one knew, but her. It is amazing to see a cycle broken by a single person, and a family take a totally new path, because of it.
I appreciate the private conversations Mr Gates has when info is sensitive. Distinguishing himself from other shows that look to expose pain on camera.
I love Viola Davis. She is so talented and astute in so many areas. So kind of her to be so transparent on such a personal issue. I am certain it will help others process difficult family secrets.
I'm just blown away and Mandy Patinkin's hurt so much, just to hear that of what happened to his family no chance. Or even just to hear to be on the line of the last slave ship, chapters of stories that were saddening heartbreaking and impressive amazing wonderous and jaw droppingly whoa on either side of the spectrum. I'm happy these people were chosen to make it this far and be known for amazing works that help with the imaginations of the mind of creativity of song of word movie and theater to bring the world closer to each other. Thank you for this amazing video, Be Awesome (which you all are!!) Stay Excellent Much Love 🤍✨🦄🧡
I wish these programs would do this for everyday people instead of those who could afford to pay someone to find this information for them!! My grandmother grew up in an orphanage in Italy, I want to know why but I have no idea where to begin!! I did a ancestory DNA test but it's given me hardly no Italian relatives!!
grandmother? italy? Second World War? Probably a displaced children without family, maybe lost during the war. A lot of children were left in "safe places" to protect them, and after the war nobody came back for them.
I’m adopted and here’s what I know, biology means nothing, it takes 10 minutes in the back of a pickup to have a child, but it takes a lifetime to be a parent. Just because I’m adopted, doesn’t make me any less of a child of my parents than my sisters who just happened to be biologically from my parents. Funny, we used to kid when we were young. They’d make a comment about me being adopted. I’d remind them that it took my parents two years to adopt me, along with a couple of thousands in lawyer fees etc. my parents had to have them, but they wanted me. That would shut them up pretty quick. There is no double that I’m just as much their child as my sisters are. Absolutely no doubt whatsoever, no doubt at all. I’ve met my biological parent, and she’s not my parent. She knows nothing of my life. She wasn’t there to see me learn to ride a bike, she wasn’t there to hold me tight at night when i cried because I had an ear ache. No, she missed all good times, all the bad times and every moment in between.
People tend to forget that the people of the world have been moving and shaking for millennia. It’s nearly impossible to find anyone (who is not living indigenously) who would not have some mixture from other parts of the world.
Agree with this. I come from William Brewster and am proud to be related to Angela Davis. I'm very much a white lady but I am a liberal kind living respectful person whom fights for the rights of all people to be able to live whom they want and live the life they choose to live
I knew that the Fred Armisen one would be here, and it should have been listed in the top ones, not just as a filler. His story is for me the craziest one from the show. Not only for the Japanese spy ancestor during the Nazi era, but when they started going all the way back to find out that he's even descendant from Korean royalty lost in time. Holocaust and slavery times stories are there in the show all the time, those are no surprise, and they make most of the show's contents for practically every guest. But Fred's story was something that Hollywood itself couldn't have come up with.
Miya Rudolfs mom, was Mimnie Riperton. She sang a song called "Loving You" and was the first to have a top ten song using whistle notes. I'm pretty sure it's where Mariah Carry learned it from. Only, IMHO Minnie was so much better, at it. Her singing voice sounded effortless. I'm pretty sure it took a lot of work but you wouldn't be able to tell that from her performance. She was an original.
Now I know I'm related to LL Cool J. His mother 's adopted parents, mainly her adopted mother was a Hightower and her biological mother was a Jolly. Well the Hightowers and Jollys are related. We have a family reunion every other year in Alabama sometimes in other cities but they are in your family. The Jollys, Hightowers, and the Whortons or Hortons. DNA is something else!!!
What blows me away about this show is the incredible access to records and research that they so that allows these stories to be unearthed. Particularly the record keeping by those doing evil things. The Nazi and slave owners were meticulous record keepers. As Elisa says "monsters that thought to write it all down". I love this show so much.
My family is Jewish and I know of ancestors murdered by Nazis, which isn't that surprising. However we did discover that we had one Irish ancestor. Despite early American Jews sticking to their own communities, the discovery of an ancestor from Ireland was crazy surprising. Wonder what kind of rifts that caused!
I have been fortunate enough to be able to trace my mother’s family back to 1066. My father’s side is much different. The journey to find your ancestry is full of some awful and wonderful and shameful and proud moments. But history makes people real. It tells us where we came from and can move us where we need to go.
It's wild when you can go that far back. Reliably, I was able to trace mine back to around that same era. I found a drawn portrait of one of my ancestors who died in 1040 and screamed when I realized we have the same nose and a weirdly similar face lmao. The man was absolutely terrifying, but he built some cool stuff that I could go tour if I wanted to
I'm ready. I'm older now. I have to deal with the....inconsistencies I've found in our family oral tradition. I'm not shocked or horrified, once these shows started coming out, it's hardly uncommon to find....previously unknown information? It would be delightful to meet unknown relatives; or rekindle long forgotten ones.
Like Mandy Patinkin, my family on my mother's side, is frim Bransk. My second cousin Label Trus, survived by jumping off the train to Treblinka when a door opened. His father, my mother's first cousin Alter Trus,, survived as a result of being sent to Siberia when the Soviets occupied Bransk under the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. His brother Solomin Trus went to the Soviet Union when the Soviet Army withdrew from Bransk after the Poles won the Polish Soviet War.
If you want to know, there are plenty of people who would be willing to help. Facebook has all kinds of groups for people like you. Look for a group from the testing company you used.
I ready LL Cool J's autobiography and his grandfather has always been a real one. LL's father was abvsive and one day brought a gvn to take out LL's mother. He ended up accidently shooting the grandfather if memory serves me right. And while waiting for medical care straighten him out by telling him what he was doing was absolutely wrong and to do better.
@marengoczar5035 yeah, I'm related to something like 1/3 of the US presidents and also a whole lot of the individuals from the Salem witch trials. I'm also related to all British monarchy as well with King Henry IV being my "15th if I remember correctly" great grandfather.
I can't imagine how my Grandparents felt seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time as immigrants with a baby boy in their arms. After building a successful career in the dairy industry of California and raising 11 children. In 1956 they bought a big new American car, filled if full of things the family in Holland desperatly needed., due to shortages caused by the Nazi occupation. They put that car on a ship, delivered the gifts and probably showing off just a little bit, by visiting with the family there, who told them they wouldn't 'make it' in the USA. To know how proud they were of being Americans, is our greatest gift. I'm sure they shed tearsto see Lady Liberty again, knowing how the journey unfolded since the first time they saw her holding that torch to light the way. They drove from sea to sea twice that year. Amazing people, my ancestors.
I love this show. They typically do one of 2 things with their guests, either they solve a family mystery or they pick out a person or event that personalizes some aspect of world history or the human condition. They are not about who gets matched to some famous royal (although several guests have been) but what story will be the most compelling for both the guest and viewers. I have done a lot of research into my family over the last 50 years and find I am the same way. Yes, I have famous people in my past but it is the stories and how my DNA, through my ancestors, was involved in so many historical happenings, Looking at a replica of a coffin ship that brought famine refugees from Ireland and knowing my 2x gr-grandmother crossed the ocean in one. Seeing the oldest home still standing in Greenwich CT and knowing my 11x gr-grandmother built the house with her husband. Driving in local farmland ans knowing my ancestors were the first to farm it. Hearing stories about the "Indian Wars" in Massachusetts in the 16-1700's and knowing my ancestors lost family members in raids. history seems a little more real when I can put a part of myself there.
I found a few famous people, but it was the less famous ones that spoke to me the most. One of my favorite ones I've found so far was a simple Puritan minister- he wasn't anyone notable unless you're into very localized Massachusetts history. I had the chance to read some of his writings and it was genuinely fascinating to see how his diction and reactions to things were similar to mine.
@@candicehoneycutt4318 Yeah, it is fun to brag about the known people at a party (or if someone else is bragging) but there are others who actually speak to us.
Scandals and oral history both get changed over time. It’s very hard for regular people to find this stuff out without a genealogist. I’ve got super unique last names which helps a little. One of those last names is the one mentioned on rupauls story.
Least surprising thing about my ancestry was my Iberian peninsular part. Most surprising is how many different indigenous tribes in my ancestry. And most tragic (but not surprising) part is the over one third of my West and Central African ancestors that came over during the slave trade. I wish I had timelines and names, but just knowing how widespread my ancestry is, is truly precious to me because it tells so many stories.
The hardships of slavery were horrible But not worse than being forced on a reservation where they’ve taken your weapons told you not to hunt and they fail to provide food and shelter 22:16
I hurt for all of them. But especially Manddy. Being that my great granny and my amazing grandfather lost family in Poland. My great grandma lost cousins and aunties and uncles and even maybe my great great grandparents to the Hittler's hate. My great granny was 14 when she came alone to the US. The priest in her village got her and 8 other teenage girls. The Bolshivic army came to her village often to rape and kidnap people. She lost all 4 of her brothers to being kidnapped. She lost her sister to rape and murder when she was 10 and her siblings were in their teens. I am also a descendant of William Brewster too and proud to say that I'm happy to be related to Angela Davis. She has bern a hero if mine since I was in my early 20s
I took a 23& me which shows me as Turkish! I'm not sure how that can be; my dad was full English and my mom was half German and half Lithuanian. So I bought an Ancestry DNA that I'll do and compare
Unfortunately after the episode of Finding Your Roots with Brendan Fraser, my best friend questioned the legitacy of Roots' findings and facts. This is due to my best friend being Regan Fraser, 1 of 3 older brothers of Brendan. After the episode aired Reg stated to me that he saw the episode and already knew a majority of his families past history. The show seemed to get some of what he knew wrong...
Well I babysat Brendon Fraser and I can assure you he had only a sister. His mother was a Canadian who grew up in the city I grew up in. I have no idea where you got your info from.
I wish badly I knew mine because I lost both of my parents (my dad in March and my mom in May last year) and my dad never knew his real dad and his mom took that to her grave. All she admitted was the guy on his birth certificate was not his real dad.
I do t know much about my own grandparents. Neither do their children. On my dad's side, they were 15 children in total. Their mother died relatively young. My grandfather was apparently thrown away in a black bag next to the river and picked up by his mother's sister and raised as her own. On my mother's side they were 3 sisters and one half brother, who would later end up r**ing my mother. That resulted in a child. Their mother had lots of siblings too. All of them, including my gran, dying before their father did. Don't know anything about their mom, who also passed away young. Other than that, I know nothing about their origin. Sad that one can have such a big family but nobody knows anything about their past.
I feel this so deep and I was born in South America that was an Ornament done with Cotton and I couldn’t get it because of the suffering of those People in those days.
Actress Jane Seymore's dad's sister and her husband a doctor had lived in the Warsaw getto before it was the getto. That the doctor you see in Schindlers list that you see in the Getto sections if the movie was most likely Jane's uncle. He was killed there. But her aunt lived through it and git to safety.
I discovered that my fathers family doctor (brought all 8 of his moms children into the world) had a son….who is related to me via my Nanas side😳 The son in question (also a doctor) insisted he was not adopted and had to be his moms child cause they shared so many “traits”🙄. Had zero other explanation as to how dna shows he too is one of my uncles. Its left my dad and I with lots of questions and some horrible possible reasons for this connection.
I just need timecodes. Most of people I did not recognise at all. Or maybe need to group ancestors: jews, people suffered from slavery, cheeting, unexpected cases
We are not our genes. Our genes are simply the story of our physiology. The larger story is the story of who loved us and went before us. We are not able to change what happened to our ancestors nor are we personally responsible for their actions. The relevant question for us is who do we choose to be and what do we choose to pass on.
Don't get me wrong. I love the series and the work Henry Louis Gates Jr sponsors. My only complaint is that he almost always brings the conversation around to slavery. I mean, he could have two of the whitest people on the planet on is show and he will find something to link their ancestors to slavery. When he has black celebrities on his show, it's even more evident. I always wonder why his black guests all seem to be shocked that their ancestors came from slavery. You are a black person born in the United States. With few exceptions, it should be obvious to that your ancestors were slaves. How is this a surprise to you?
It’s just because of that that he has to bring it up. It does no good to skirt around the issue and hide. I understand this as a Black person. It’s not his job to hide this in silence because it’s uncomfortable to you. Our ancestors voices need to be heard. This includes the ones held in slavery. You don’t get to silence the reality of enslavement.
@@GratiaCountryman there has been a paradigm shift in this country. A lot of people are embracing awareness of our history and how whites have had an easier time of it than blacks. The thing is there is a point of diminishing returns when the subject is pounded and pounded upon. After a while people find it annoying and eventually tune it out. Slavery...we've heard of it...moving on.
@@gordonstewart8897 There’s has not been a paradigm shift on what has actually happened. What has changed is that right wing Whites don’t want to hear about it anymore because it undermines the fact that their advantage has been built on the backs of the enslaved. They are trying to erase that truth so they can feel better about themselves. It’s not Gate’s job to help them.
Thought I was 2nd generation Italian and found 0% Italian in my gene pool. My father and aunt just said their mother wouldn’t let her husband be Italian. It’s like trump science! 😂
Who is this MsMojo? SHOCKING Reveals? As I listened to her commentary, seems like it is geared towards non-black and -non-brown viewers as she couches her words carefully and trying hard not to get blowback from her core viewship.
The show is a fascinating look at times gone by, but people taking personal pride in things their gr-gr-grandparents did or didn't do is silly when you think about it, as you had nothing to do with their actions. Likewise wallowing in shame is a hollow exercise. Acknowledge what was, learn from it, and move on with a life that your descendants can review in a few centuries..
Seems like a lot of these people live in a rose colored bubble. They watch movies and act and create movies but don't really acknowledge the reality of the stories.
I am extremely proud of my heritage. My maternal grandfather side goes back to the Revolutionary War. Maternal grandmother was Polish but was born in London. Her father came to America ahead to find a job. I think you had to have a viable occupation to immigrate. As a little girl her mother and little sisters traveled 3rd class to America. She remembered getting food from the upper class passengers. Before arriving at Ellis Island her mom needed to leave the cabin a minute. The little ones were to watch the baby. The baby fell off the bed and was injured. She remembered German officers then came to cabin and took injured baby. They never saw the baby again. Guessing the infant was thrown overboard. SAD
This gabbled summary of profound and shocking revelations in people's family histories is really trivializing and disrespectful. The "cheap thrill" approach is accentuated by the inane music and "countdown* approach. Extremely distasteful.
@@JoaninFlorida It's more frustration than out right anger. But I think you're reflecting your own prejudging & bias feelings towards Sunny Hostin than an accurate analysis of Ms. Hostins attitude and behavior.
@JoaninFlorida I never heard those words "I hate Caucasians/ White People" leave her mouth. If you don't like people, namely African Americans or Latinos who are frustrated & voice their displeasure with the very authentic, real, and institutionalized nature of the history of racism in the United States 🇺🇸. That's a YOU problem, not a Sunny Hostin problem. From historical records: John C. Calhoun, Senator from South Carolina, former vice president and future spokesperson for southern secession, in which, in his own words in a speech to Congress on January 4, 1848, he explained that: [We] have never dreamt of incorporating into our Union any but the Caucasian race the free white race. To incorporate Mexico, would be the very first instance of the kind of incorporating an Indian race; for more than half of the Mexicans are Indians, and the other is composed chiefly of mixed tribes. I protest against such a union as that! Ours, sir, is the Government of a white race.
I took an Ancestry DNA test a few years back and discovered my father was not my biological dad, and my two sisters were half sisters. I also discovered I am not 100% European. I am 95% European and 5% African!! I learned my biological father had slaves and slave owners in his family tree. My skin is SO white I could blind you if I wear shorts. But, according to the "one drop" rule I am African American!!
I wonder why they never show White slavery. Do you think finding your roots would show Black people owning white slaves? I don’t understand why you never hear about white slavery on these shows. There’s so much of it in my family history. And many many European families were slaves to black Africans. Why don’t they ever show that history I wonder… doesn’t fit a certain narrative..! To REAL FOR THE RACE GRIFTERS.. TO HONEST
@joshuab79 IF that did happen it would've happened in the Ottoman Empire. US laws in American South would not have permitted ANY African descendants to own Caucasians.
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Saw the "host" & immediately, I don't need this video. You're just filler nobody wants, a leech, like, trying to live off another. Hate that sh*t.
The episode with John Leguizamo.....I like his quote, "We conquered ourselves"
Michelle Rodriguez’s reaction to hearing her grandparents non traditional life and her family tree of few branches -😂
Uhhhhhhhh, actually seeing the person speaking on video whose voice you recognize from way back at 3am, of world's top lists of: scary places/pop culture phenomenon/events? It's like a rare sighting of a once thought to be extinct but actually thriving species! 🎉 And then watching the episode is just so moving beyond quips.
I recently went on my own ancestry journey to find my people. My maternal grandmothers side of the family is extremely vague and hard to find. I didn't know much about her mom or dad other than the death of her mom when she was 9 years old. My grandmother's name is Essie and I always wondered what made my great grandmother think of such a weird and beautiful name like that. I found out last year that my great grandmother was a house servant for a white family. The family had three kids, one of which, was named Essie. It blew my mind to think my great grandmother loved that little girl she took care of so much that she decided to name her own daughter, my grandmother, after this little girl. I was even later able to find my slave ancestors on my father's side of the family which is rare. Not many African Americans can trace their ancestry back that far for obvious reasons. This has been such an awarding and addictive experience for sure! 😊
I have an aunt Essie! Her name is Essie Fleischer. I never knew anyone else named Essie either.
That's a beautiful story ❤
My grandmother was Essie Mae.
@@jillwklausen oh wow really? You are the first person I heard of who knows another person with the name Essie. It's not a common name at all ❤️
I had two Essie's in my Jewish family. The first was short for Esther but the second was just Essie. Its a pretty name.
My friend in the U.K. did a bit of digging after I'd talked about my great-grandmother, who was born in Sussex and married a man from Southampton after doing some traveling. They settled here in Western Missouri. Two hours later, he called back and called me cousin. His mother is my sixth cousin, and I hear from him more than all my first and second cousins put together! As a result, I'm related to Marie Antoinette, Copernicus, the late Prince Philip, and Basil Rathbone.
Cool.
Very cool😊
Not hilarious, but definitely shocking. My paternal grandmother was a college professor, heavily involved in educating her grandkids about other cultures, History, and the arts. When my grandfather died, and she sold the house to move in with my aunt, we found a metaphorical skeleton in the closet. We found a white hood and photos of my grandmother and her siblings riding in a KKK wagon, in the attic. Apparently her German-born father, my great grandfather, was a Grand Dragon of the KKK, in the early 1900's. Almost all of my cousins and I married people of different "races". She had never spoken about it- no one knew, but her. It is amazing to see a cycle broken by a single person, and a family take a totally new path, because of it.
Whoaaa! Thanks for sharing Shelby!
Wow that would be shocking. How wonderful that most of your family married people with different backgrounds.
We might be related!
I appreciate the private conversations Mr Gates has when info is sensitive. Distinguishing himself from other shows that look to expose pain on camera.
I love Viola Davis. She is so talented and astute in so many areas. So kind of her to be so transparent on such a personal issue. I am certain it will help others process difficult family secrets.
This is one of my absolute favorite shows! Thank you.
Mine too! Love it
I'm just blown away and Mandy Patinkin's hurt so much, just to hear that of what happened to his family no chance. Or even just to hear to be on the line of the last slave ship, chapters of stories that were saddening heartbreaking and impressive amazing wonderous and jaw droppingly whoa on either side of the spectrum. I'm happy these people were chosen to make it this far and be known for amazing works that help with the imaginations of the mind of creativity of song of word movie and theater to bring the world closer to each other. Thank you for this amazing video, Be Awesome (which you all are!!) Stay Excellent Much Love 🤍✨🦄🧡
Lavar still sticks with me. Thank you Lavar 💙
I wish these programs would do this for everyday people instead of those who could afford to pay someone to find this information for them!! My grandmother grew up in an orphanage in Italy, I want to know why but I have no idea where to begin!! I did a ancestory DNA test but it's given me hardly no Italian relatives!!
grandmother? italy? Second World War? Probably a displaced children without family, maybe lost during the war. A lot of children were left in "safe places" to protect them, and after the war nobody came back for them.
Each of us can do it ourselves.
They did this last season
Go to your local library. They can sometimes help you for free
There are shows that do average people. I'm sure this show thinks that doing celebrities will draw in more viewers
I’m adopted and here’s what I know, biology means nothing, it takes 10 minutes in the back of a pickup to have a child, but it takes a lifetime to be a parent.
Just because I’m adopted, doesn’t make me any less of a child of my parents than my sisters who just happened to be biologically from my parents.
Funny, we used to kid when we were young. They’d make a comment about me being adopted. I’d remind them that it took my parents two years to adopt me, along with a couple of thousands in lawyer fees etc. my parents had to have them, but they wanted me. That would shut them up pretty quick.
There is no double that I’m just as much their child as my sisters are. Absolutely no doubt whatsoever, no doubt at all. I’ve met my biological parent, and she’s not my parent. She knows nothing of my life.
She wasn’t there to see me learn to ride a bike, she wasn’t there to hold me tight at night when i cried because I had an ear ache. No, she missed all good times, all the bad times and every moment in between.
TRUTH!
No way- Edward Norton’s family ancestry to Pocahontas is absolutely wild.
Loved every one of these episodes.
My husband did his search and was shocked to find he has Scandinavian DNA! As Black people, we rarely think of Scandinavian ancestry.
People tend to forget that the people of the world have been moving and shaking for millennia. It’s nearly impossible to find anyone (who is not living indigenously) who would not have some mixture from other parts of the world.
I have just come to accept they we all are just one big family and should treat each other as such.😁 ⛄Merry Holidays to all! 2024
beautiful sentiment. thank you for spreading the love.
Agree with this. I come from William Brewster and am proud to be related to Angela Davis. I'm very much a white lady but I am a liberal kind living respectful person whom fights for the rights of all people to be able to live whom they want and live the life they choose to live
@theresaschuebel5151 Write on sis.😁✌
Amen.
@ohiovalski Amen and wombmen make huemens😜
Sorry been watching too many Etymology videos. Haha🙄
I knew that the Fred Armisen one would be here, and it should have been listed in the top ones, not just as a filler. His story is for me the craziest one from the show. Not only for the Japanese spy ancestor during the Nazi era, but when they started going all the way back to find out that he's even descendant from Korean royalty lost in time. Holocaust and slavery times stories are there in the show all the time, those are no surprise, and they make most of the show's contents for practically every guest. But Fred's story was something that Hollywood itself couldn't have come up with.
Miya Rudolfs mom, was Mimnie Riperton.
She sang a song called "Loving You" and was the first to have a top ten song using whistle notes. I'm pretty sure it's where Mariah Carry learned it from. Only, IMHO Minnie was so much better, at it. Her singing voice sounded effortless. I'm pretty sure it took a lot of work but you wouldn't be able to tell that from her performance.
She was an original.
Riperton was her mom?! How cool!
Now I know I'm related to LL Cool J. His mother 's adopted parents, mainly her adopted mother was a Hightower and her biological mother was a Jolly. Well the Hightowers and Jollys are related. We have a family reunion every other year in Alabama sometimes in other cities but they are in your family. The Jollys, Hightowers, and the Whortons or Hortons. DNA is something else!!!
I wonder if a friend of mine, also Hightower, is related.
Hmm.. that might be the case...
Part of me wonders how many of these “affairs” were actually unwanted encounters that led to pregnancy.
Sadly, too many to count.
Mandy’s was so, so powerful.
I love Viola Davis
If you do too, you might enjoy her book❤
She is so beautiful and elegant
What blows me away about this show is the incredible access to records and research that they so that allows these stories to be unearthed. Particularly the record keeping by those doing evil things. The Nazi and slave owners were meticulous record keepers. As Elisa says "monsters that thought to write it all down". I love this show so much.
My family is Jewish and I know of ancestors murdered by Nazis, which isn't that surprising. However we did discover that we had one Irish ancestor. Despite early American Jews sticking to their own communities, the discovery of an ancestor from Ireland was crazy surprising. Wonder what kind of rifts that caused!
I have been fortunate enough to be able to trace my mother’s family back to 1066. My father’s side is much different. The journey to find your ancestry is full of some awful and wonderful and shameful and proud moments. But history makes people real. It tells us where we came from and can move us where we need to go.
It's wild when you can go that far back. Reliably, I was able to trace mine back to around that same era. I found a drawn portrait of one of my ancestors who died in 1040 and screamed when I realized we have the same nose and a weirdly similar face lmao. The man was absolutely terrifying, but he built some cool stuff that I could go tour if I wanted to
I'm ready. I'm older now. I have to deal with the....inconsistencies I've found in our family oral tradition. I'm not shocked or horrified, once these shows started coming out, it's hardly uncommon to find....previously unknown information? It would be delightful to meet unknown relatives; or rekindle long forgotten ones.
Like Mandy Patinkin, my family on my mother's side, is frim Bransk. My second cousin Label Trus, survived by jumping off the train to Treblinka when a door opened. His father, my mother's first cousin Alter Trus,, survived as a result of being sent to Siberia when the Soviets occupied Bransk under the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact. His brother Solomin Trus went to the Soviet Union when the Soviet Army withdrew from Bransk after the Poles won the Polish Soviet War.
Questlove was my favorite episode.
My grandfather was adopted as an infant. Despite my father doing a DNA test, we still don't know who his birth family is.
If you want to know, there are plenty of people who would be willing to help. Facebook has all kinds of groups for people like you. Look for a group from the testing company you used.
Depending on what company you went through, you can download the raw DNA file and upload it to other DNA companies to help find more matches.
I ready LL Cool J's autobiography and his grandfather has always been a real one. LL's father was abvsive and one day brought a gvn to take out LL's mother. He ended up accidently shooting the grandfather if memory serves me right. And while waiting for medical care straighten him out by telling him what he was doing was absolutely wrong and to do better.
46:13 so I guess that would make me Edward Nortons cousin as I have come to find out that Pocahontas is my 13th great grandmother.
If your family has been here so long, you are related to a lot of people.
@marengoczar5035 yeah, I'm related to something like 1/3 of the US presidents and also a whole lot of the individuals from the Salem witch trials.
I'm also related to all British monarchy as well with King Henry IV being my "15th if I remember correctly" great grandfather.
Chef Ming Tsai related to one of the 5 original emperors of China was amazing!
26:14 My great-grandmother immigrated from England to New Zealand at the turn of the 20th century, only to marry her mother's cousin!
Questlove's story is most shocking to me bc only by a little bit did his whole life change, but Pharrell's just straight up makes me want to cry.
And how much he resembled his great great grandfather
I can't imagine how my Grandparents felt seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time as immigrants with a baby boy in their arms. After building a successful career in the dairy industry of California and raising 11 children. In 1956 they bought a big new American car, filled if full of things the family in Holland desperatly needed., due to shortages caused by the Nazi occupation. They put that car on a ship, delivered the gifts and probably showing off just a little bit, by visiting with the family there, who told them they wouldn't 'make it' in the USA. To know how proud they were of being Americans, is our greatest gift. I'm sure they shed tearsto see Lady Liberty again, knowing how the journey unfolded since the first time they saw her holding that torch to light the way. They drove from sea to sea twice that year. Amazing people, my ancestors.
Wonderful information
I love this show. They typically do one of 2 things with their guests, either they solve a family mystery or they pick out a person or event that personalizes some aspect of world history or the human condition. They are not about who gets matched to some famous royal (although several guests have been) but what story will be the most compelling for both the guest and viewers.
I have done a lot of research into my family over the last 50 years and find I am the same way. Yes, I have famous people in my past but it is the stories and how my DNA, through my ancestors, was involved in so many historical happenings, Looking at a replica of a coffin ship that brought famine refugees from Ireland and knowing my 2x gr-grandmother crossed the ocean in one. Seeing the oldest home still standing in Greenwich CT and knowing my 11x gr-grandmother built the house with her husband. Driving in local farmland ans knowing my ancestors were the first to farm it. Hearing stories about the "Indian Wars" in Massachusetts in the 16-1700's and knowing my ancestors lost family members in raids. history seems a little more real when I can put a part of myself there.
I found a few famous people, but it was the less famous ones that spoke to me the most.
One of my favorite ones I've found so far was a simple Puritan minister- he wasn't anyone notable unless you're into very localized Massachusetts history. I had the chance to read some of his writings and it was genuinely fascinating to see how his diction and reactions to things were similar to mine.
@@candicehoneycutt4318 Yeah, it is fun to brag about the known people at a party (or if someone else is bragging) but there are others who actually speak to us.
Scandals and oral history both get changed over time. It’s very hard for regular people to find this stuff out without a genealogist. I’ve got super unique last names which helps a little. One of those last names is the one mentioned on rupauls story.
I am so sorry Mandy Patinkin. May they rest in peace. I hope your mind is at peace. What a sad and sorry truth to reveal.
Pamela Adlon was Pamela Segall? Wow! She was a teen actress in sitcoms and movies in the 1980s.
Least surprising thing about my ancestry was my Iberian peninsular part. Most surprising is how many different indigenous tribes in my ancestry. And most tragic (but not surprising) part is the over one third of my West and Central African ancestors that came over during the slave trade. I wish I had timelines and names, but just knowing how widespread my ancestry is, is truly precious to me because it tells so many stories.
How much money I gotta have to do this deep dive on my life 😤😤😤
Noiice !! Family to be a part of !!! I’d even be happy for just one of them ancestors
The hardships of slavery were horrible But not worse than being forced on a reservation where they’ve taken your weapons told you not to hunt and they fail to provide food and shelter 22:16
I hurt for all of them. But especially Manddy. Being that my great granny and my amazing grandfather lost family in Poland. My great grandma lost cousins and aunties and uncles and even maybe my great great grandparents to the Hittler's hate. My great granny was 14 when she came alone to the US. The priest in her village got her and 8 other teenage girls. The Bolshivic army came to her village often to rape and kidnap people. She lost all 4 of her brothers to being kidnapped. She lost her sister to rape and murder when she was 10 and her siblings were in their teens. I am also a descendant of William Brewster too and proud to say that I'm happy to be related to Angela Davis. She has bern a hero if mine since I was in my early 20s
Wish the Lupita Nyong'o episode was on the list.
I took a 23& me which shows me as Turkish! I'm not sure how that can be; my dad was full English and my mom was half German and half Lithuanian. So I bought an Ancestry DNA that I'll do and compare
How can you be embarrassed by ancestors? It certainly is not a reflection on you in the present.
The same way you can feel sadness about something your ancestors went through. It's human nature.
Unfortunately after the episode of Finding Your Roots with Brendan Fraser, my best friend questioned the legitacy of Roots' findings and facts. This is due to my best friend being Regan Fraser, 1 of 3 older brothers of Brendan. After the episode aired Reg stated to me that he saw the episode and already knew a majority of his families past history. The show seemed to get some of what he knew wrong...
Well I babysat Brendon Fraser and I can assure you he had only a sister. His mother was a Canadian who grew up in the city I grew up in. I have no idea where you got your info from.
I wish badly I knew mine because I lost both of my parents (my dad in March and my mom in May last year) and my dad never knew his real dad and his mom took that to her grave. All she admitted was the guy on his birth certificate was not his real dad.
DNA test?
I do t know much about my own grandparents. Neither do their children. On my dad's side, they were 15 children in total. Their mother died relatively young. My grandfather was apparently thrown away in a black bag next to the river and picked up by his mother's sister and raised as her own. On my mother's side they were 3 sisters and one half brother, who would later end up r**ing my mother. That resulted in a child. Their mother had lots of siblings too. All of them, including my gran, dying before their father did. Don't know anything about their mom, who also passed away young. Other than that, I know nothing about their origin. Sad that one can have such a big family but nobody knows anything about their past.
Happy monday morning, Rebecca, take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well
I would love to be on that show.❤😂😊
I feel this so deep and I was born in South America that was an Ornament done with Cotton and I couldn’t get it because of the suffering of those People in those days.
What about Asian and Muslim families?
thank you
Actress Jane Seymore's dad's sister and her husband a doctor had lived in the Warsaw getto before it was the getto. That the doctor you see in Schindlers list that you see in the Getto sections if the movie was most likely Jane's uncle. He was killed there. But her aunt lived through it and git to safety.
Sunny not understanding where Puerto Ricans come from is of absolutely no surprise. 🤦🏻♀️
Mandy. He is a national treasure.
I discovered that my fathers family doctor (brought all 8 of his moms children into the world) had a son….who is related to me via my Nanas side😳
The son in question (also a doctor) insisted he was not adopted and had to be his moms child cause they shared so many “traits”🙄. Had zero other explanation as to how dna shows he too is one of my uncles.
Its left my dad and I with lots of questions and some horrible possible reasons for this connection.
I can't wait till my ancestry comes back. Watching is getting so interested in what I will find.
I like them all.
Number #1 What ashocker!!!
There’s only black surprises!
Waldo? I'm related to Waldo.😊
I just need timecodes.
Most of people I did not recognise at all.
Or maybe need to group ancestors: jews, people suffered from slavery, cheeting, unexpected cases
Background music is louder than the voices
We are not our genes. Our genes are simply the story of our physiology. The larger story is the story of who loved us and went before us.
We are not able to change what happened to our ancestors nor are we personally responsible for their actions.
The relevant question for us is who do we choose to be and what do we choose to pass on.
Don't get me wrong. I love the series and the work Henry Louis Gates Jr sponsors. My only complaint is that he almost always brings the conversation around to slavery. I mean, he could have two of the whitest people on the planet on is show and he will find something to link their ancestors to slavery. When he has black celebrities on his show, it's even more evident. I always wonder why his black guests all seem to be shocked that their ancestors came from slavery. You are a black person born in the United States. With few exceptions, it should be obvious to that your ancestors were slaves. How is this a surprise to you?
It’s just because of that that he has to bring it up. It does no good to skirt around the issue and hide. I understand this as a Black person. It’s not his job to hide this in silence because it’s uncomfortable to you. Our ancestors voices need to be heard. This includes the ones held in slavery. You don’t get to silence the reality of enslavement.
@@GratiaCountryman making a legitimate observation of the show's content is not trying to silence anyone.
@ You are complaining about the fact that he brings it up in all of his interviews. That indicates that you would rather not hear it.
@@GratiaCountryman there has been a paradigm shift in this country. A lot of people are embracing awareness of our history and how whites have had an easier time of it than blacks. The thing is there is a point of diminishing returns when the subject is pounded and pounded upon. After a while people find it annoying and eventually tune it out. Slavery...we've heard of it...moving on.
@@gordonstewart8897 There’s has not been a paradigm shift on what has actually happened. What has changed is that right wing Whites don’t want to hear about it anymore because it undermines the fact that their advantage has been built on the backs of the enslaved. They are trying to erase that truth so they can feel better about themselves. It’s not Gate’s job to help them.
Daang make an effort Watch Mojo. So much content around the exact same "shocking" facts of the same darn people.
Well, I did find out I'm distantly related to Vald the Impaler, aka, Dracula. I just found this out so, I'm...not sure if that's good or bad lol.
Badass!
Thought I was 2nd generation Italian and found 0% Italian in my gene pool.
My father and aunt just said their mother wouldn’t let her husband be Italian. It’s like trump science! 😂
I would love it if Mr. Gates would help me unravel my lineage on my father’s side. It is full of secrets.
What is shocking about any of these??
I'm considering sending in a DNA sample to learn more about my family's past.
You should prepare yourself for unexpected relatives. Like another sibling.
Or someone commited a crime and now your dna links them. Sorry but I've seen it happen. I threaten my family with 23 n me all the time!
@reginablevins8550 I already know my siblings, so that won't be surprising. It's the unexpected cousins I'd have to do a double-take on.
I which this show would do Kamala Harris.
Too many repeats; needs better editing.
I'm waiting for the episode with Prince Harry.
They will never do it because King Charles is not his father.
They will never do it because King Charles is not his father.
teri's movie sb named cruising through history XD.
That’s American history for you! Separating families
Who is this MsMojo? SHOCKING Reveals?
As I listened to her commentary, seems like it is geared towards non-black and -non-brown viewers as she couches her words carefully and trying hard not to get blowback from her core viewship.
The show is a fascinating look at times gone by, but people taking personal pride in things their gr-gr-grandparents did or didn't do is silly when you think about it, as you had nothing to do with their actions. Likewise wallowing in shame is a hollow exercise. Acknowledge what was, learn from it, and move on with a life that your descendants can review in a few centuries..
I’m from a wound and all my life I paid.
Reupload.
History will always repeate, need to say possible situation of current l election…Pray no to do so with next generation
Seems like a lot of these people live in a rose colored bubble. They watch movies and act and create movies but don't really acknowledge the reality of the stories.
I am extremely proud of my heritage. My maternal grandfather side goes back to the Revolutionary War. Maternal grandmother was Polish but was born in London. Her father came to America ahead to find a job. I think you had to have a viable occupation to immigrate. As a little girl her mother and little sisters traveled 3rd class to America. She remembered getting food from the upper class passengers. Before arriving at Ellis Island her mom needed to leave the cabin a minute. The little ones were to watch the baby. The baby fell off the bed and was injured. She remembered German officers then came to cabin and took injured baby. They never saw the baby again. Guessing the infant was thrown overboard. SAD
This gabbled summary of profound and shocking revelations in people's family histories is really trivializing and disrespectful. The "cheap thrill" approach is accentuated by the inane music and "countdown* approach. Extremely distasteful.
They left out the best one, Sunny Hostin! The look on her face when she found out her ancestors owned slaves!
I notice that you conveniently leave out the fact that the very racist. Mr. Burton.
Also had family that was white.
Sunny Hostin is one of the most conflicted people I have ever observed. Hope she can come to peace in her own skin.
She needs deep therapy. She's such an angry racist stereotype. She really needs to stop blaming white people for all her personal issues.
@@JoaninFlorida It's more frustration than out right anger. But I think you're reflecting your own prejudging & bias feelings towards Sunny Hostin than an accurate analysis of Ms. Hostins attitude and behavior.
@nicholaslong2251 Why are you defending her obvious hatred of white people? How obnoxiously condescending of you to excuse it as "frustration."
@JoaninFlorida I never heard those words "I hate Caucasians/ White People" leave her mouth. If you don't like people, namely African Americans or Latinos who are frustrated & voice their displeasure with the very authentic, real, and institutionalized nature of the history of racism in the United States 🇺🇸. That's a YOU problem, not a Sunny Hostin problem. From historical records: John C. Calhoun, Senator from South Carolina, former vice president and future spokesperson for southern secession, in which, in his own words in a speech to Congress on January 4, 1848, he explained that: [We] have never dreamt of incorporating into our Union any but the Caucasian race the free white race. To incorporate Mexico, would be the very first instance of the kind of incorporating an Indian race; for more than half of the Mexicans are Indians, and the other is composed chiefly of mixed tribes. I protest against such a union as that! Ours, sir, is the Government of a white race.
Doubtful
I took an Ancestry DNA test a few years back and discovered my father was not my biological dad, and my two sisters were half sisters. I also discovered I am not 100% European. I am 95% European and 5% African!! I learned my biological father had slaves and slave owners in his family tree.
My skin is SO white I could blind you if I wear shorts. But, according to the "one drop" rule I am African American!!
Nobody really cares.
Yo Mama cares
Hey Rebecca-this particular hairstyle has got to go. You look like you were caught in the rain. You can, and have, done much better.
I wonder why they never show White slavery. Do you think finding your roots would show Black people owning white slaves? I don’t understand why you never hear about white slavery on these shows. There’s so much of it in my family history. And many many European families were slaves to black Africans. Why don’t they ever show that history I wonder… doesn’t fit a certain narrative..! To REAL FOR THE RACE GRIFTERS.. TO HONEST
@joshuab79 IF that did happen it would've happened in the Ottoman Empire. US laws in American South would not have permitted ANY African descendants to own Caucasians.
@ you my friend sound like a complete racist…. Denying history because you hate white people. You are the epitome of the problem.
All lies