Shirley Ballas Uncovers African Heritage | Who Do You Think You Are

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  • Strictly Come Dancing's Shirley Ballas, discovers her great grandfather George Rich was born in Cape Town in 1866. She heads to South Africa to see if she really does have black ancestory, but what will she find?
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 923

  • @trishlong8835
    @trishlong8835 6 років тому +1623

    What I couldn't grasp is she kept saying about having black ancestors and wanted to know where they were in her tree even after seeing the photo which you could clearly see the man was black.

    • @Gladiator0719
      @Gladiator0719 6 років тому +98

      He was a mulato... white & black mix...the best of both worlds

    • @missbeauitful4696
      @missbeauitful4696 6 років тому +56

      My husband is mixed race & are younger kids especially the youngest looks whiter then me.

    • @lcb-
      @lcb- 5 років тому +68

      @@Gladiator0719 - he was Malay from the Dutch East Indies, mixed with South African black and European (British, Dutch)

    • @randomvintagefilm273
      @randomvintagefilm273 5 років тому +141

      I'm sure she knew but for the show purposes they like to build suspense and intrigue

    • @vobgreat
      @vobgreat 5 років тому +83

      Unfortunately you can't always go by old photographs. Everyone in my family thought that my 2xs Grandmother was half Native American. When I looked at her photo I thought either she had some Mediterranean or African ancestry. Turns out both parents were from England going back to at least 5 more generations.

  • @marcilenewatkins9274
    @marcilenewatkins9274 4 роки тому +116

    These folks slay me.... the pic shows mixed race.....

    • @janewhite5033
      @janewhite5033 4 роки тому +3

      Oh no not everyone is mixed race when they are light! This happens all of the time it seems easy to see it that way!

    • @amandah.2202
      @amandah.2202 3 роки тому

      George rich was very handsome!!!!! Both were holy cow

  • @DM-dm9pr
    @DM-dm9pr 5 років тому +97

    Idk tho....but I'm looking at the pic, n I'm like hhhmmm.....come on now 😆

  • @katherineburford7864
    @katherineburford7864 4 роки тому +10

    To our surprise and delight my family is 1% Senegalese and as many European-Americans find out to their disappointment, not at all Native American.

  • @aisensantana6765
    @aisensantana6765 5 років тому +736

    You can clearly see the African in both pictures in the facial features

    • @RHWWFT
      @RHWWFT 4 роки тому +44

      Africans are genetically the most diverse.....every hair type, skull shape, nose lips and eye variations....

    • @intheed1551
      @intheed1551 4 роки тому +8

      @@RHWWFT Not, europeans are very most diverse folk, with light skyn or bronzed like in south Europe, all the hair texture, color of hair and eyes, long nose or not. Subsahaarian people look very similar.

    • @ms.goodiebones1969
      @ms.goodiebones1969 4 роки тому +34

      @@intheed1551 You are delusional, the only pink people that look different have mongoloid or African mixtures. Nice try!

    • @Slappys
      @Slappys 4 роки тому +16

      In the Ed 😂😂😂😂 what??

    • @amycakes6809
      @amycakes6809 4 роки тому +35

      @@intheed1551 No, Africans are the most biologically diverse on Earth..look up info before typing...this info is not just based on phenotype but the African Genotype is also the most diverse. Open your eyes, it's much easier to see that way

  • @basilrodericks7791
    @basilrodericks7791 5 років тому +462

    Y'all can't look at the photographs of the two men, look at Auntie and see the African? Okay, opthalmologist appointment made.

  • @44contact
    @44contact 5 років тому +231

    Very very clear from the picture he is of mixed race with African features...come on people

  • @renitalake3580
    @renitalake3580 5 років тому +189

    Looking at the picture of George Rich you have to ask IF there is any African ancestry? 🤨🤔🧐 Is it just me?

    • @oluapampa5075
      @oluapampa5075 Рік тому +1

      In South Africa, there are so-called 'Coloured people' ( mixed-race). Her ancestor clearly was one of them. He does have African features. But the picture is so old it clearly doesn't show it.

    • @Cereal_kwilla
      @Cereal_kwilla Рік тому

      @@oluapampa5075 I thought it was pretty obvious as did @Renita Lake

    • @redwallz4624
      @redwallz4624 Рік тому +1

      Looked Indian

    • @kimberlytate1931
      @kimberlytate1931 8 місяців тому

      Tgat

    • @rcafmaintainer3723
      @rcafmaintainer3723 6 місяців тому

      Some families know, but they have hidden that. Her aunt was shaking her head, before Shirley finished asking the question.

  • @missbeauitful4696
    @missbeauitful4696 6 років тому +665

    wasn't the man in the pictures black

    • @Gulliedoutbigup
      @Gulliedoutbigup 5 років тому +17

      ''I dOnT sEe RaCe''

    • @Gulliedoutbigup
      @Gulliedoutbigup 5 років тому +2

      @@descendanttravels7639 jokes gone way over your head. Congratulations on trying to make me look like an idiot, but the fact you're just taken a joke seriously... One that is most obviously sarcasm... you've only done it to yourself.
      Next attempt.

    • @basilrodericks7791
      @basilrodericks7791 5 років тому +35

      Both men in both pics.

    • @KaneneProductions
      @KaneneProductions 5 років тому +2

      @@basilrodericks7791 exactly.

    • @MsKittenz1
      @MsKittenz1 5 років тому +21

      @@Gulliedoutbigup
      That's very annoying to people of color....""I don't see race/color"" (which is a lie anyway...of course you do!)🤔 😶 if God didn't intend for you to see color/race He would've literally made us all the same. I see color/race EVERYDAY....and so what?

  • @EbonyJoneskuye
    @EbonyJoneskuye 5 років тому +782

    The Dutch and British invaded South Africa, not founded as if it was a friendly invasion.

    • @shirley9008
      @shirley9008 5 років тому +33

      Ebe J. You cannot found something that was never lost or inhabited by others, fgs.

    • @muurisoras5878
      @muurisoras5878 5 років тому +23

      @Tina Butterfly Agree . Invaders lies so much that we have to debunk all that we have been taught in our schools.

    • @weathamorris4251
      @weathamorris4251 4 роки тому +23

      They like to rewrite history!

    • @enigma7276
      @enigma7276 4 роки тому +6

      @Tina Butterfly Every nation regardless of race does it! Read history please.

    • @langdale55
      @langdale55 4 роки тому +1

      Ebe J. To be fair, the Dutch and British had flags. No flag, no claim. No claim, no blame!

  • @lifewithcamille517
    @lifewithcamille517 5 років тому +814

    Correction: Africans are the original land owners since the days of Adam and Eve. The Dutch, British, and Portuguese invaded their territory...

    • @lifewithcamille517
      @lifewithcamille517 5 років тому +44

      @topknotch So, just to be clear... You set up a dummy account just to unsuccessfully troll... Okay, got it.. Night Night 🤣 #Blessyourlittlelonelyheart 😂

    • @Sachi52
      @Sachi52 5 років тому +18

      Funny that you say...from the days of Adam and Eve.

    • @candacebeater8203
      @candacebeater8203 5 років тому +6

      @@lifewithcamille517 👏👏👏

    • @candacebeater8203
      @candacebeater8203 5 років тому +7

      @topknotch you are the one who is 1000% and I mean 1000% incorrect. Troll.

    • @LibraGoals
      @LibraGoals 5 років тому +5

      Facts only

  • @joyouknow5385
    @joyouknow5385 5 років тому +1257

    You lost me at the Dutch founded. More like invaded...

    • @rachybaby72
      @rachybaby72 5 років тому +33

      I think they literally founded the city.

    • @PreferAndroid
      @PreferAndroid 5 років тому +130

      I was thinking the same thing... LMAO.. It never ceases to amaze me how some like to try to clean up history in order to make it more palatable for their descendants.

    • @PhantomLyric
      @PhantomLyric 5 років тому +29

      It's a sticky situation. When the dutch came to SA, it was largely uninhabited. Keep in mind the city of New York was literally dirt, rivers, and trees a few centuries ago. The city was in fact founded by the dutch, but no they did not have a right to be there in my opinion.

    • @yodae6672
      @yodae6672 5 років тому +7

      ジョ or Jo you know
      That’s Exactly What I Said !
      The Actions Of Founded
      Don’t Match The Definition !

    • @ditocerto
      @ditocerto 5 років тому +66

      @@PhantomLyric they invaded. Whites invaded Africa, the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, Asia.... whether they found places fool of trees is irrelevant.

  • @mlcase
    @mlcase 4 роки тому +353

    It was a wrap as soon as they picture of George Rich was shown! I’m just here for the comments! 🍿

  • @pineapplesunkist537
    @pineapplesunkist537 4 роки тому +63

    Aunte Barbara looks mixed...

  • @mfrost71w
    @mfrost71w 6 років тому +564

    I spent most of the 2nd half shouting at the TV to answer all the obvious questions they were totally ignoring. Never mentioned that Caroline Otto was unmarried and that her 5 children had no father. Never explored the fact that her master left her, a slave washerwoman, and her children a small fortune, which obviously implies he was the father. A very frustrating programme

    • @ttp436
      @ttp436 6 років тому +16

      Mark Frost I did thought the same

    • @verneukpan
      @verneukpan 6 років тому +68

      as a researcher as well on this program - it was very frustrating when they are not interested what the actual story is - hear hear !!!

    • @flowerpower6216
      @flowerpower6216 6 років тому +9

      didnt they kind of suggest that she was the wetnurse?

    • @mfrost71w
      @mfrost71w 6 років тому +120

      Flower Power Not really - they said this was one reason why Malays were used by white families but this was random speculation in relation to Caroline Otto. What was visible in the records they showed on screen but never discussed is that Otto was a slave and then an employee of Isaac de Costa for all the years she was having children as unmarried and that de Costa left her AND her 6 children a house and £600, a fortune in the 1860s. And his legitimate daughter Esther was bridesmaid/witness to Otto's daughter Mary's marriage. I've seen such relationships in the West Indies (and indeed on previous WDYTYA episodes) and it inevitably means a sexual relationship between master and slave/servant. I don't understand why that question was totally ignored here to the extent that it became an elephant in the room

    • @LadyBigDraws
      @LadyBigDraws 6 років тому +20

      Mark Frost I totally agree the number one father could have been the master

  • @gailjackson-chapman7085
    @gailjackson-chapman7085 5 років тому +281

    The other lady looks like she really didn’t want to be part of this. I detect a little uncomfortableness in her face.

    • @higherpower918
      @higherpower918 5 років тому +17

      She looks mixed to me

    • @deeelo5501
      @deeelo5501 5 років тому +5

      Hahaha I agree

    • @337Brian
      @337Brian 5 років тому +12

      Yeah she looks Octaroon..

    • @1000shoeswoman
      @1000shoeswoman 5 років тому +13

      she look like she was waiting for the bar to open

    • @kimwilliams1402
      @kimwilliams1402 4 роки тому +7

      She looks so upset, and the other lady has some dark features

  • @maryjanejames8281
    @maryjanejames8281 5 років тому +254

    That great gran peppi looks clearly mixed.

    • @jaybee608
      @jaybee608 5 років тому +8

      What the hell is a grand peppi???

    • @cloudygigi2270
      @cloudygigi2270 4 роки тому +2

      @@jaybee608 that's exactly what I thought!
      I think that's just the way they talk.

  • @meliimelii322
    @meliimelii322 5 років тому +450

    The woman in the library looks uncomfortable 😂😂😂

    • @kimerlyhogan6567
      @kimerlyhogan6567 5 років тому +99

      She probably doesn’t like the mixed race issue. She wasn’t at all helpful. As a genealogist she should know ancestry includes ALL ethnicities.

    • @shalanathomas7751
      @shalanathomas7751 5 років тому +38

      @@kimerlyhogan6567 EXACTLY!!! I was most perturbed by her.

    • @francoiswilliams
      @francoiswilliams 5 років тому +3

      @etos butch The big A is back under the ANC it seems?

    • @ramonmcgee2240
      @ramonmcgee2240 5 років тому +54

      I thought the same thing. She seemed upset at the excitement of the woman tracing her ancestry.

    • @KaneneProductions
      @KaneneProductions 5 років тому +1

      @@francoiswilliams 😂😂😂😂

  • @lifewithcamille517
    @lifewithcamille517 5 років тому +525

    Glad to see the lady was even interested in exploring her African ancestry. Sadly, I see people find out they have African ancestry and try to overlook it just to claim 1% Native American.

    • @DefectiveWanderer
      @DefectiveWanderer 5 років тому +21

      Actually, mine got upgraded to 2% awhile back. Yay me.

    • @aquilaclark814
      @aquilaclark814 5 років тому +37

      Yes you are 100% right..it was refreshing to see the enthusiasm and sincere interest she had in wanting to follow her african lineage...she is not the typical Caucasian. ..most of them ignore..those facts...but just because you ignore something. ..doesnt make it go away...

    • @comfeefort
      @comfeefort 4 роки тому +24

      I found African DNA .04% some of the DNA relatives have more, including My Mother.
      I am thinking it is a 4th Great-Grandmother, named Anne Davis, because, on Find a Grave, She is described as Chorokee. If a 4th Great was Chrokee, We would have Native American, which none of Us Do. I'm think Anne was mixed race and claimed She was Cherokee, just to make it easier.
      I am struggling to get My DNA relatives to accept this.

    • @lifewithcamille517
      @lifewithcamille517 4 роки тому +16

      @@comfeefort Wow, that's intriguing that you found the name of your relative that you believe it came from. It's harder for some older generations to accept African ancestry because of the history. At the end of the day every human being descended from thr continent of Africa.
      Edit
      **the

    • @rodneyrarick9031
      @rodneyrarick9031 4 роки тому

      🥰

  • @Aquaboogie68
    @Aquaboogie68 4 роки тому +43

    Auntie Barbara looks Creole and can make some mean Gumbo!!

  • @panjabipandit
    @panjabipandit 2 роки тому +13

    I mean....anyone with eyes could see that her grandfather clearly looked mixed. I'm not talking skin tone as it's a discolored photo and skin tone varies throughout the world, but the features themselves clearly point to the African subcontinent. Didn't need paperwork to confirm the obvious lol.

  • @Rony2453
    @Rony2453 4 роки тому +214

    The genealogist looks bewildered that the woman was interested in her African heritage.

  • @herbertstokes2046
    @herbertstokes2046 5 років тому +187

    The Liberian was very low keyed...Her racism is loud in her emotions and facial expressions without words

    • @IamCarrieNotBranshaw
      @IamCarrieNotBranshaw 5 років тому +28

      herbert stokes Yet she’s in Africa, I swear some people be doing the most!!

    • @brendabooker1488
      @brendabooker1488 4 роки тому

      @Jim Elliott 😂😂

    • @christreston4510
      @christreston4510 4 роки тому +1

      Think I was the only saw it lol 😆

    • @rebajeanforever3700
      @rebajeanforever3700 3 роки тому +6

      I don't think the librarian is racists, when the lady show the librarian the photo then ask about mix race, she thinking the lady is nuts or blind! Probably thinking .... is she for real! Lol

    • @michellesmith8912
      @michellesmith8912 3 роки тому

      I don't know if it was even that, more like girl what more you want me to tell you- lol.

  • @mbaliacamara2708
    @mbaliacamara2708 5 років тому +286

    The African ancestry is so obvious I cannot believe that even her aunt cannot see it in two of the photographs. You can see the african likeness (nose and lips) in father and George Rich grandfather. The African physiology is designed to cope with the African environment.

    • @dianemoonstone4715
      @dianemoonstone4715 5 років тому +2

      I can understand the need for deep-strength melanin to cope with the strong African sun, but the other physiologies you that you mentioned? For what adaptation are they needed? No disrespect intended at all, just intellectual curiosity in all things. It's provoked me into thinking about other cultures and their evolution. Even science fiction has the no-exercise couch-potatoes eventually evolving into the 'aliens' of Area 51. You know, big head, small, emaciated, muscles-less torso & limbs... But I digress.

    • @tonythibault7426
      @tonythibault7426 5 років тому

      .

    • @adamm.6386
      @adamm.6386 5 років тому +9

      @@dianemoonstone4715 You will find that as people moved out in to Asia and India, especially the mountainous regions, their lungs evolved to support them while living in those regions. The body itself changed also, to support them in those climates and areas. As the people moved north, futher evolutions happen as features grew "lighter". Hair, facial features and bodies. Not to say they are weaker, but climate and regions have dictated the build needed to survive these conditions along with features. Africa and Asia, even what we now call Eastern Europe, people are built differently because of the extreme conditions their ancestors were conditioned to, to survive.
      Of course with humans bridging the divide, much more genetic variation has come about, but the features of our ancestors who settled in their specific regions thousands of years ago, still remain constant.

    • @guillaumerusengo9371
      @guillaumerusengo9371 5 років тому +9

      You can observe it on the flip side! Since humans came from Africa, the European thinner nose, long wavy hair and lighter skin are undoubtedly evolutionary traits to cope with colder climates. I find southern europeans shorter, broader and stockier than Scandinavians for example.

    • @usedbyjesus
      @usedbyjesus 5 років тому +29

      Not all Africans have wide noses or big ears ...I have seen tribal African natives with small narrow noses like usual Caucasian and they are not mixed

  • @saraschneider6781
    @saraschneider6781 Рік тому +6

    I mean just looking at the picture that he was at least part African.

  • @shaquannahyoung8981
    @shaquannahyoung8981 4 роки тому +68

    So she really acting like she don't see the African in her ancestors?!😕😂
    I can't!!!🤦🏾

  • @randomvintagefilm273
    @randomvintagefilm273 5 років тому +410

    The South African genealogist seemed real thrilled didn't she?

    • @lutfurrahman2761
      @lutfurrahman2761 5 років тому +29

      Showed didn't it

    • @shalanathomas7751
      @shalanathomas7751 5 років тому +17

      IKR!!!

    • @vintagegirlyglam7817
      @vintagegirlyglam7817 5 років тому +38

      Yes, for some reason she seemed irritated!!

    • @christienelson1437
      @christienelson1437 5 років тому +19

      ANTIQUEFOTOS Yes, but it is possible that she is extremely uncomfortable being filmed in this circumstance, she may have been forced to appear on the show. They may have had to film this several times to get the episode correct, losing the spontaneity in the scene. It is also possible she has had some horrible backlash from people discovering their own diverse genealogy. Without seeing the whole episode it’s difficult to tell what’s really going here.

    • @ash_17406
      @ash_17406 5 років тому +19

      She was painful.

  • @wadisanaa
    @wadisanaa 4 роки тому +58

    The lady in the Library seems so excited. I mean she cant contain herself. . Bless her heart .

    • @amandah.2202
      @amandah.2202 3 роки тому +3

      She’s a Debbie downer forsure

  • @wendylady2488
    @wendylady2488 5 років тому +121

    People choose to see (or not) for many reasons. What is obvious to the stranger, is a great mystery to the family.

    • @rachybaby72
      @rachybaby72 5 років тому +4

      ??? I'm a stranger and I don't know that that sepia-toned, more than a centuries-old photo is that of a mixed person.

    • @aquilaclark814
      @aquilaclark814 5 років тому +6

      He definitely was mixed race..she probably wanted to see how far back the miix was made..

    • @guerguistoyanov137
      @guerguistoyanov137 5 років тому

      @@aquilaclark814 👏👏👏Finally, a cold minded person with reasonable and straight logic, aka "common sense"!👍🍻😉

  • @lorenzacoleman9210
    @lorenzacoleman9210 4 роки тому +112

    The aunt seems to be in such denial. It's amazing to me how something can be right in ones face yet they still ignore the truth.

  • @leticiajerguson1024
    @leticiajerguson1024 3 роки тому +21

    “What does mixed race mean?” 🙄...does that really need an explanation???

  • @pastelshades2860
    @pastelshades2860 4 роки тому +26

    Are these people legally blind or something?

  • @eileensimon9252
    @eileensimon9252 5 років тому +120

    That woman didn't like shirley one bit at least that how its coming over to me...

    • @francoiswilliams
      @francoiswilliams 5 років тому +1

      Maybe u watch too many lez vids bb

    • @sodoffbaldrick3038
      @sodoffbaldrick3038 4 роки тому +5

      Maybe she couldn't believe how dense this woman is, and it was giving her a headache...it's having that effect on me.

    • @comegowithmimi
      @comegowithmimi 3 роки тому +3

      @@sodoffbaldrick3038 I was thinking the same thing. I would be looking at her sideways too if she kept asking me questions that had obvious answers.

  • @adrianalainez8499
    @adrianalainez8499 4 роки тому +10

    If you look at English documentaries they always say that the colonist came or the explores came here or there when speaking about themselves. But when they speak of the Spanish they'll say the invaders or conquistadores. Pure manipulation of words to make themselves seem different. All Europeans invaded America. Like it or not.

  • @Darksister0922
    @Darksister0922 4 роки тому +43

    Cracking up 😃. Aunt could not see pappy was mixed race.

  • @ucheedochie3475
    @ucheedochie3475 4 роки тому +54

    I am most impressed by the level of documentation that makes these discoveries possible. Great effort. Very impressive

    • @denisewilson4789
      @denisewilson4789 Рік тому +2

      Rite.. wish I could find stuff about my family like what these folks on this show finds

  • @JD-jz8vl
    @JD-jz8vl Рік тому +3

    Any African ancestry? O look at the photo 🧐

  • @skyyboy8765
    @skyyboy8765 5 років тому +38

    In these days some peoples don't want to see the Truth. They prefer to believed a lie than the true.

  • @evaperez4139
    @evaperez4139 4 роки тому +39

    Shirley has smooth dance step. Love it

  • @nrct6970
    @nrct6970 5 років тому +74

    That woman was not very forth coming.

    • @jaybee608
      @jaybee608 5 років тому +14

      She looks very uncomfortable, you know why!

  • @TL-yc1nl
    @TL-yc1nl 5 років тому +69

    I could see it in the lady that answered the door! We know our own

    • @zoniahill2587
      @zoniahill2587 5 років тому +8

      Glad someone else saw it also.

    • @vitalean
      @vitalean 4 роки тому +3

      T L I thought it was just me. I looked at auntie and I said HMMM

    • @debricelewis6786
      @debricelewis6786 4 роки тому +1

      I said the same thing ! She looks just like some people in my family .

    • @noonecares200
      @noonecares200 4 роки тому +1

      No she doesn’t 😑😒

  • @keeya_ks
    @keeya_ks 4 роки тому +14

    Why is the librarian so grumpy ?

  • @freedomspromise8519
    @freedomspromise8519 2 роки тому +17

    I would be absolutely thrilled to discover African Blood!

  • @kimwashingtonofficial6041
    @kimwashingtonofficial6041 4 роки тому +45

    Dutch founded? These folk need to stop 🛑

  • @verlenavelinasutton1568
    @verlenavelinasutton1568 4 роки тому +49

    Found out at age 41 that the debilitating leg and back pain I’d suffered my entire life was because of a bone disease, Ankylosing Spondylitis..... This particular malady in the arthritis family is caused by a gene marker on one of my chromosomes, HLA-B27. When I was growing up in Seattle back in the late 40’s-50’s, I cried telling my mom my ankles hurt. This time of year, she would wrap my legs in warm towels which was the ‘aw’ moment for me. The warmth of those towels really helped with my pain. So on a recent search to learn more about this arthritic condition, I found out the first signs in a child are, you guessed it.......pain in the ankles! Being the Fab chocolate cutie-pie I am, when it was discovered I had this debilitating arthritic disease which is passed on from, wait for it..........ANGLO MALES!!!! Next question posed to me by my rheumatologist and the surgeon was, “where could you have inherited this bone disease.? That sealed the story I’d always heard that I had ancestors from Ireland. So I decided a couple of months ago to do the ancestor spit in the tube kit. Results came back, the African ancestry was a given. But the 12% Irish was a surprise. I’d also heard that my maternal grandmother and her sisters could PASS, so they would go shopping in the finer stores in Dallas and buy items their paternal cousins couldn’t buy for themselves 🐝cuz you can guess why.
    Even though I had severe pains in my ankles and eventually that led to having a total hip replacement surgery (4 to date), the effects of this disease didn’t finally manifest itself in my lower back til I was 21. So even if I’d had X-rays, it probably wouldn’t have been seen. So I’m a believer in the ancestor kits. Like me, it just may clarify something that you really aren’t sure of about your family tree. And don’t let our dark skin color fool you into believing just 🐝cuz we are dark there couldnt 🐝 anything lurking in our ancestry. Another time I’ll tell you about the surprise I got more than 20 years later concerning my eldest grandchild. For now, take care!🌈💕🦋
    Kate, theflutterby from Seattle🦋

    • @Dutchess80
      @Dutchess80 4 роки тому +2

      My father has that disorder and we were always aware of our Irish slave owner\overseer ancestry for 150 years now. I will have to look into if spondylytis is inherited from Irish whites.

    • @jannethwilson9024
      @jannethwilson9024 4 роки тому +5

      Intrigued about the grandson story. Where can we hear it.

    • @MA-yh2ko
      @MA-yh2ko 2 роки тому +3

      Come on Sis, let's here that story too.

    • @mamashiraz
      @mamashiraz Рік тому +1

      I too have AS along with other autoimmune disorders. My 23andMe shows North African and Middle East but also Northern Europe…I had no idea that’s where the AS came from!!

    • @roseleith
      @roseleith Рік тому

      Amazing story. I took an ancestry test and the results showed that I'm 9.9% Irish, so you have more Irish blood than me!

  • @kikikekekyky51
    @kikikekekyky51 4 роки тому +20

    Their pretending not to know and on film blocking it out why is their denial so deep

  • @eddierosa250
    @eddierosa250 2 роки тому +9

    The photo is so self evident 🙄🙄

  • @CryMeARiver13
    @CryMeARiver13 4 роки тому +14

    In denial 🤣🤣🤣🤣 “whatever the mind doesn’t wanna eyes can’t see”🤷🏿‍♀️🤷🏿‍♀️

  • @faafafineartist
    @faafafineartist 5 років тому +78

    I love how comfortable she is in SA.

  • @maijaliepa119
    @maijaliepa119 5 років тому +62

    WOW - What a Handsome Ancestor she has. I see his eyes in her eyes - a sparkle. Have not watched entire show - interesting family. Glad she put her family out into the world. My own family has people from all over the world. A gift of humanity.♥️🌎♥️🙋‍♀️

    • @MrDFJohnson
      @MrDFJohnson 5 років тому +1

      You see his eyes in her eyes? I guess you can see what you want to see. The imagination is a wonderful thing

    • @heathermcdougall2399
      @heathermcdougall2399 4 роки тому

      All over the world? That must be amazing. I'm the opposite. 87% from just 3 small islands in the Scottish Hebrides, the rest from nearby (by sea) Scandinavia (specifically Norway). Must be wonderful for you. I admit to being impressed - a real genetic "world human being". It must be a great thing to actually be connected to so many peoples and cultures.

    • @peggyonean7174
      @peggyonean7174 3 роки тому

      The most high will put all out , they don't belong there ! And soon reality will be seen the creator is waiting on the day when everyone will return unto their own. Its shall surely come, and it will not tarry. That part of the world were never theirs lm sorry for the sins their fathers has brought upon them, but it's something that should never have happen, you all are not responsible for what your fathers did and neither were us , you should understand is that the creator judges the blood line because what is in your father. Is. Also in you , that land were never yours and your fathers stole that land and you all were never given that land by the most high premmison so it is what it is you read job it tell you that you carried away his precious things , without the people premmison and you enlarge yourselves with all the precious things of his people and made yourself. Rich and he will judge all that carried it away as if you owned it , you can not clame what doesn't belongs to you. So there's no way you can not be judged if he doesn't spare the natural branch you should know that the wild branches doesn't stand a chance . You should have understood that! Everyone has to reap what they have sowed, so change your ways and stop taken what were never yours it always catches up with you at a time when you knows not,! Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

  • @medusagorgon8432
    @medusagorgon8432 Рік тому +6

    I'm glad she was able to learn so much, but it was pretty obvious from the start where this was going. George Rich was clearly mixed.

  • @hendo19742
    @hendo19742 4 роки тому +15

    HER ANCESTOR WAS CAPE COLOURED OR BROWN PERSON AS WE SAY IN THE CAPE, BRUIN MENS!🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @rodtherichest
    @rodtherichest 5 років тому +13

    If you all really watched this! You would have heard her say that , George Rich, was mixed. Due to the documentation of his sister being of mixed race!! The had the same mother n father.

  • @shannonm.4087
    @shannonm.4087 4 роки тому +34

    i love the way old handwriting looks-

  • @suzyqsuzyq
    @suzyqsuzyq 2 роки тому +3

    Geeze , they see the man was blk. and the younger man as well. One would have to be blind not to see it. Or don't care to.

  • @jessicastanley8913
    @jessicastanley8913 2 роки тому +4

    These two women live in a bubble. The two gentlemen definitely look mixed.

  • @cordelia81
    @cordelia81 3 роки тому +32

    thats why she felt connected to the people in south africa immediately while they were singing at the bench

  • @YoMamasBaldSpot
    @YoMamasBaldSpot 4 роки тому +13

    “Can you explain mixed race? “.....ma’am....are you reading what WE reading..🤦🏽‍♀️

    • @zahraaesmael342
      @zahraaesmael342 3 роки тому +1

      She wants to know more about WHAT the mix is, you numpty.

  • @Diamondsuite
    @Diamondsuite 5 років тому +76

    That's where the dancing skills come from..

    • @shawngatewood3673
      @shawngatewood3673 5 років тому +6

      You noticed that too,I thought she was going to back it up a couple of times.

    • @l.dmoody8356
      @l.dmoody8356 5 років тому +8

      She should be happy, she won't be so hard looking and wrinkled and oh well, in her case it can only be a plus.

    • @kimwashingtonofficial6041
      @kimwashingtonofficial6041 4 роки тому

      Lolol Right! I said, Really Lady?!?

    • @spirit1366
      @spirit1366 4 роки тому +1

      Funny.but Stop!

  • @sammysoppy3361
    @sammysoppy3361 3 роки тому +6

    bless the old lady she needs her glasses cause you’re holding a photo of a man who is clearly at LEAST mixed ... good lord

    • @rrowell4163
      @rrowell4163 2 роки тому +1

      You did not need to look at a photo ,just by looking at aunty Barbara you knew auunty Barbara has a mixed heritage There odd think is when Shirley said " there where whispers " Why whispers ?

  • @aidasanchez8784
    @aidasanchez8784 Рік тому +2

    I’m shocked she couldn’t tell by just looking at his picture. However, that’s just my opinion Hum..

  • @fireball1566
    @fireball1566 4 роки тому +27

    Just like how the U.S.teaching in school that Africans came here as workers; 😂

  • @gadzookshardy8158
    @gadzookshardy8158 4 роки тому +21

    She's excited and the face on the lady w information is priceless lol

  • @lyleeggmolesse5330
    @lyleeggmolesse5330 3 роки тому +11

    Shirley's Grandfather has the same features as my great grandfather who was English and Irish. I wonder if he may have had African ancestry.

  • @terry7697
    @terry7697 2 роки тому +4

    Omg the pic gave it away. Really yall can't see

  • @rashellemcnerney1567
    @rashellemcnerney1567 5 років тому +31

    Almost everyone is at least SLIGHTLY mixed.

    • @heathermcdougall2399
      @heathermcdougall2399 4 роки тому +4

      I'm not. My brother has just done one of those DNA tests. 87% just from 3 Scottish Hebridean Islands - Lewis, Harris and Skye. The rest Scandinavian. Basically 100% north west European.

    • @sheenaperez1882
      @sheenaperez1882 4 роки тому +4

      Not true... I know and seen shows where ppl are straight European or African.

    • @coronavirus5738
      @coronavirus5738 4 роки тому +5

      @@heathermcdougall2399 well she did say ALMOST everyone🤷

    • @dumfriesspearhead7398
      @dumfriesspearhead7398 3 роки тому

      @@heathermcdougall2399 Everyone is of African descent, ultimately.

  • @ttp436
    @ttp436 6 років тому +111

    Watched this last night. Was very interesting. It's a shame Shirley did not find any living relatives. Such a lovely kind woman that I am totally in love with. You can see from the facial features of Barbara & Shirley that they definitely have Malay/African/Asian features/blood. Shame a DNA wasn't taken. Such a good episode

    • @jaybee608
      @jaybee608 5 років тому +4

      The step to the DNA test is too permanent.

  • @shaunw.1173
    @shaunw.1173 3 роки тому +9

    DISCLAIMER ALERT 📢!!!: *ALL OF HUMANITY COMES FROM AFRICA!!!!*

  • @moiselles3339
    @moiselles3339 5 років тому +25

    Unpopular opinion*** That's why she can dance !!!! lol!!

  • @tonybryant2767
    @tonybryant2767 4 роки тому +11

    Cape Town look like new Orleans

    • @siyashilla6885
      @siyashilla6885 3 роки тому

      I didnt notice I been there I didnt catch that till now

  • @Kemet3.0
    @Kemet3.0 4 роки тому +28

    Yep... Invaded.
    Not founded. (2019)

    • @ladyfalstaff7364
      @ladyfalstaff7364 3 роки тому

      Yes the country was invaded but 'city was founded' means a city was 'built' where there was previously not one

  • @brendapeterkin3142
    @brendapeterkin3142 4 роки тому +5

    Check out the body language nd facial expression of the other woman, the distancing all ready to have her thrown out, "Shes bleak" They should shake her DNA tree as well, see what falls out.

  • @Mo-wh5nu
    @Mo-wh5nu 4 роки тому +6

    I guess the photo wasnt enough to prove the dark skin

  • @lydias2012
    @lydias2012 Рік тому +2

    Great grandpa clearly had African ancestry. Is it just me?

  • @Sachi52
    @Sachi52 5 років тому +26

    I think it is funny that people get frustrated about how somebody else receives their own family story. People are a trip.

    • @1funkyflyguy
      @1funkyflyguy 4 роки тому

      Exactly, some of these comments from others with chips on their shoulders are quick to make snap judgements about the people in this programme, just shows their own arrogance, bitterness and resentment and says a lot more about them than it does anyone else.

  • @barbaralemere5183
    @barbaralemere5183 5 років тому +38

    Wow, How did you feel about finding this out Shirley? Your family certainly has traveled greatly in it's history. What an exciting find. I thought the landscape in Capetown was amazing.

  • @terrykelly5496
    @terrykelly5496 4 роки тому +17

    The genealogist does not look to happy about her project. Or is it just me?

  • @ahmadahmed214
    @ahmadahmed214 4 роки тому +16

    Founded by the Dutch. What ? You mean invaded not founded. Even America was never discovered, it was invaded.

  • @kimjongun9078
    @kimjongun9078 4 роки тому +6

    He's clearly of sub Saharan African descent. African genotype is typically dominant and African features go on for generations, even if it is just one African ancestor.

  • @TheKaren_makeup
    @TheKaren_makeup 4 роки тому +9

    Why didnt they say Caroline was mixed or something? because someone was obviously melaninated? 🤔

    • @nigelholland1714
      @nigelholland1714 4 роки тому +2

      Or Khoisan they are light skinned Africans with small eyes like Asians but were around way before them.

  • @judyrice3125
    @judyrice3125 6 років тому +23

    Why only 10 minutes,? Very disappointed.

    • @WhoDoYouThinkYouAre
      @WhoDoYouThinkYouAre  6 років тому +7

      The full episode is now available on BBC iPlayer - www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bdlqnh/who-do-you-think-you-are-series-15-5-shirley-ballas

    • @sherrygould7791
      @sherrygould7791 6 років тому +3

      Thank you so much! I did the NH research and have been waiting to see the full show.

    • @sherrygould7791
      @sherrygould7791 6 років тому +6

      Oh, can't view it from the US. so sad to not see the full show

    • @WhoDoYouThinkYouAre
      @WhoDoYouThinkYouAre  5 років тому +1

      ​@@sherrygould7791 Try iTunes - geo.itunes.apple.com/gb/tv-season/who-do-you-think-you-are-the-complete-15th-series/id1428896209?mt=4&at=1010lPxx

    • @bernadettepauling9140
      @bernadettepauling9140 4 роки тому

      I tried to use the link, but it only shows the USA version. Would have liked to see the whole program.

  • @beatriceblocks600
    @beatriceblocks600 4 роки тому +44

    Now we know why she is such a good dancer. The rhythm is in her blood.

    • @membop6663
      @membop6663 3 роки тому +2

      well she looks irish too could be that bit

    • @BoringDad1272
      @BoringDad1272 2 роки тому +4

      We all can dance! Some just don't try or are extremely reserved.

    • @denisearmstrong8246
      @denisearmstrong8246 Рік тому +1

      Lol😂😂😂

  • @carolynevers7924
    @carolynevers7924 4 роки тому +13

    I love the cursive writing on those old documents. Kids today are not learning cursive writing and would not be able to read these papers.

  • @lionsskyblue442
    @lionsskyblue442 4 роки тому +4

    she blind?

  • @sylvialopez296
    @sylvialopez296 5 років тому +24

    The lady who is providing the documents, appears to be not happy or shall I say.... Indifferent or disgusted when it said grandfather was mixed! I tell ya, the Dutch as well as the British, have quite a bit of blood as well as guilt carried on their shoulders. They need to be exposed for the animals that they were! IJS

    • @lorettadavis6944
      @lorettadavis6944 5 років тому

      Well, they are in Cape Town sa apartheid was very real there.

  • @maijaliepa119
    @maijaliepa119 5 років тому +20

    Forgot to say: One World One Family. Thank You. ♥️🙋‍♀️♥️🙏🌎🙏🌎🙏🌎🙏♥️🌎♥️🌎🙋‍♀️

  • @mercylago4744
    @mercylago4744 4 роки тому +31

    "Founded" by Dutch traders? Were there already people inhabiting that land?

    • @enigma7276
      @enigma7276 4 роки тому +2

      They founded a city, a country with infrastructure, government, medicine, innovations that was not presents and that was sparsely populated by the Xho San peoples, not the present day Bantu people from West and Central Africa. They have done Sub Saharan African a big favor being there, the Zulus were at war with other tribes and mass murderers.

    • @slarvadain188
      @slarvadain188 3 роки тому +2

      Enigma They invaded someone else’s land. There was already an infrastructure. Just because you look down on it doesn’t mean it wasn’t there.

  • @zebradivine
    @zebradivine Рік тому +1

    First of all, as soon as I saw the younger pic of her grandfather, he was giving mixy quadroon vibes - like, he can pass, but when you tilt your head to the side, you see it - her great grandfather's pics looked like a biracial man to me....

  • @eviehanlon1445
    @eviehanlon1445 5 років тому +9

    Does no one read the subtitles before they're published? It's worth watching just to giggle at all the stuff ups.

  • @celticmulato2609
    @celticmulato2609 11 місяців тому +1

    A person doesnt have to be 100% any race to be of a particular race! Only in America, they had a 1 drop rule 1924 to 1967. Moreover, admixture and Mixed-race are very different; admixture is a small negligible amount that plays no part in phenotype.

  • @13579hee
    @13579hee 5 років тому +12

    Why were they singing Rihanna's "Stay"
    Rihanna's impact vis GLOBAL

  • @tonydigital6017
    @tonydigital6017 2 роки тому +2

    Explain mixed race? You know ow damn well you got African blood

  • @hafeeza9878
    @hafeeza9878 4 роки тому +5

    the thickness of skin is in milli meters, but pride or shame runs generation deep.

  • @blackorchardz
    @blackorchardz 3 роки тому +3

    My great aunt, was married to an Otto. We are South African, Indonesian/Malay.

  • @earljones93
    @earljones93 3 роки тому +6

    Is it me or is George a swarthy gentle man?

  • @debrawilliams2781
    @debrawilliams2781 4 роки тому +8

    THE PICTURE SPEAKS VOLUME

  • @rosauradearmas4778
    @rosauradearmas4778 4 роки тому +15

    I dodd not have to go to South Afric you could see that he was mulato

    • @slarvadain188
      @slarvadain188 3 роки тому

      Right. He looks like many of grand and great grands

  • @deniseg-hill1730
    @deniseg-hill1730 5 років тому +4

    He would have been categorised as a Cape coloured by the looks of the photo.
    What we call mixed race.

  • @zoedark7101
    @zoedark7101 3 роки тому +3

    You'd have to be blind not to see his African.

  • @sheilacave7132
    @sheilacave7132 5 років тому +11

    Why so little showed on You Tube? It is so incomplete.

    • @WhoDoYouThinkYouAre
      @WhoDoYouThinkYouAre  5 років тому +6

      Due to rights restrictions full episodes are available on BBC iPlayer. But keep subscribed for more clips and episodes coming soon.

    • @lifeofsahani
      @lifeofsahani 5 років тому

      @@WhoDoYouThinkYouAre but I can't view the videos on BBCiplayer. Is it only for people in UK?

    • @WilliamGarrow
      @WilliamGarrow 5 років тому +2

      @@lifeofsahani Most likely as you need a British TV licence to watch iPlayer.