THE FUGATES Were So Inbred They Turned Blue: Their Inbred Family Tree Explained- Mortal Faces

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  • The Fugates of Kentucky's Inbred Family Tree Explained. I go through their ancestry to see how tangled their family tree was. Also known as the Blue People of Kentucky, the Fugates had a recessive gene that caused their skin to turn blue. They settled in Troublesome Creek, Kentucky in the 1800's and due to the lack of roads, weren't able to meet many new people. As a result they married into only a few families, and even themselves. This resulted in their recessive methemoglobin gene to be passed down and reappear in multiple generations of Fugates, turning their skin blue.
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  • @MortalFaces
    @MortalFaces  ปีที่แล้ว +26

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    • @tracycombs1484
      @tracycombs1484 ปีที่แล้ว

      Especially the Hapsburg line ....look at some of the poor souls in that line like Charles II ...so deformed. Then u look at Queen Victoria who passed on Hemophilia to her children and their children. As well as Porphyria being passed generation to generation...like in the case of Mad King George III.

  • @gavanwhatever8196
    @gavanwhatever8196 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    The thing that leaps out at me from this family tree is that, in the late 1700s, three apparently unrelated families; the Fugates, the Wells', and the Smiths, all carried the rare met-H gene. There's definitely a lot more crossover in this family tree before 1750!

    • @A.Martin
      @A.Martin ปีที่แล้ว

      yea i noticed many of the blue people were born from unrelated parents, only 1 was inbred.

    • @Alpha1918
      @Alpha1918 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Maybe its just bad genetic luck

    • @msylvini
      @msylvini 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Alpha1918 genes are hereditary. People do not just "spawn" into life. They are "bred" for lack of a better term.

    • @Alpha1918
      @Alpha1918 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@msylvini and you know how genetic traits come to be? It’s a little thing called mutation, independent assortment, and recombination! So traits can “spawn out of thin air” in that your gametes can randomly change in a way that either harms or benefits your offspring. Where do you think the blue skin gene came from?

  • @MiffetBlue
    @MiffetBlue ปีที่แล้ว +545

    I was already confused by 3:35, lol. This family tree is quite tame when you compare it to all those dastardly royals of old but still, I get completely confused when a married couple can be cousins in more than one way, lol.

    • @tracycombs1484
      @tracycombs1484 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      It happens ...my Great grandparents were both Combs ...so cousins. So the lines do become intertwined and confusing to say the least. We are still talking 1800s and early 1900s as far as my Great grandparents. I'm sure people back then didn't realize there could be repercussions. When u live in restricted areas with few families its bound to happen.

    • @Dwightstjohn-fo8ki
      @Dwightstjohn-fo8ki ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@tracycombs1484 back in the day lethal genes would make sure children didn't survive: we know have kidney transplants, etc. but don't intermarry often. Maybe New Brunswick. I genetically "outcrossed" my breeding: my wife in Chinese and about as far genetically removed from Sweden and Norway as you can get.

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Why aren't there blue skinned royals though? 🤔💭

    • @brodielynn5273
      @brodielynn5273 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I was confused by like 15 seconds in 😂😂😂😂

    • @codename495
      @codename495 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This still happens in small communities. Growing up I refused to date in high school because I was related to almost everyone and some I was their first cousin on their moms side and their third cousin on their dads side so yeah… my hubs of from thousands of miles away from my hometown.

  • @yeetyeet1655
    @yeetyeet1655 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    As someone who’s grown up on a small island, checking to see if you’re related in any way is actually something common to do when you’re dating a new person

    • @gavanwhatever8196
      @gavanwhatever8196 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Iceland?

    • @yeetyeet1655
      @yeetyeet1655 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@gavanwhatever8196 Nah, Newfoundland

    • @gavanwhatever8196
      @gavanwhatever8196 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@yeetyeet1655 Well I didn't know that! Do you have an app like the Icelanders?

    • @yeetyeet1655
      @yeetyeet1655 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@gavanwhatever8196 Not to my knowledge, actually! We usually just ask around. That is a really good idea though

    • @joeblow8206
      @joeblow8206 ปีที่แล้ว

      Chincoteague island va

  • @andyt7295
    @andyt7295 ปีที่แล้ว +731

    It was really less uncommon than we may think, especially in the past and in more remote areas - given a few generations, it was hard to find a partner you had no kind of blood kinship to!

    • @lightyagami3492
      @lightyagami3492 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      Yep. This is a very different scenario than royals marrying thier relatives. They had no excuse while people of the lower classes did.

    • @IrishAnnie
      @IrishAnnie ปีที่แล้ว +92

      My mom will tell you….she lived in WV and would come home to tell grandma she was going out with so and so…..Grandma would say, “Oh!! He’s your cousin…”.

    • @tracycombs1484
      @tracycombs1484 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Yes ive tried to explain this ...when u are in remote areas the families end up with intermarriage. There were Fugates, Combs, and Stacy's. I'm from this line way back ...I know my Combs line is so confusing because family names over and over ...Jerry, Nicholas, John, William...ect.

    • @fluffydevil13
      @fluffydevil13 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      My best friend’s dad had to drive 2 hours out of town to date someone who wasn’t related

    • @emilyberry1985
      @emilyberry1985 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      It’s kinda gross to us now, but the majority of our ancestors were most likely 2nd or 3rd cousins. Idk, I don’t judge them for it, it’s not their fault that the gene pool was constricted. It’s just what happens 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • @everythingisalie5320
    @everythingisalie5320 ปีที่แล้ว +352

    This gives the term ‘ blue bloods’ a new meaning.

    • @D9526328443789
      @D9526328443789 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      💀

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Makes you wonder why you don't see more royals with blue skin... 🤔💭

    • @SmittenKitten.
      @SmittenKitten. ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I believe that's precisely why the term was coined.

    • @LifeCompanionDogs8083
      @LifeCompanionDogs8083 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@dubuyajay9964 because around the later 1800 the royal families decided they didn't like the hapsberg jaw and blue skin that's why they powdered their faces white.

    • @paranoidhumanoid
      @paranoidhumanoid ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It came from Spanish following the _Reconquista_ where the new Christian state (Espanya) recaptured territory that was previously under hundreds of years of rule by the Islamic Moors. Since the Moors had darker skin (they were mostly Arab and African), the Castilian Spanish who were from the northern regions along the border with France would boast of being able to see their _sangre azul_ ("blue blood") through their fairer skin and thus coined the term to refer to the Christian nobles of Castile and Aragon. The royals of Spain were severely inbred as well, e.g., the Hapsburgs.

  • @whiskeykel
    @whiskeykel ปีที่แล้ว +1006

    Banjo music intensifies

    • @metalavenger23
      @metalavenger23 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      You know you play that stereotype but the worst well documented inbreeding comes from the ancient Egyptian pharaohs. I mean if the Hapsburg line closer resembled a Christmas wreath. king tuts line is literally a tangled extension cord.

    • @weego2585
      @weego2585 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      “Play Dixie”

    • @orafranc
      @orafranc ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Deliverance 😂

    • @holliemollie5409
      @holliemollie5409 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@metalavenger23 Appalachians beat both the Egyptians and Royals by far. They still inbreed

    •  ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Sweet home Alabama.

  • @zvsmith2008
    @zvsmith2008 ปีที่แล้ว +317

    That was interesting to say the least , It got a little scary when he mentioned the smith family, Bc my Father is from Kentucky , his Grandfather was named Zachariah , for which I’m named after.. I’m black not blue.. Unless I’m extremely dark Blue…😂😂😂😂

    • @abbieb8130
      @abbieb8130 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      When I was a kid, I had a lamb with dark wool, so I called it Blackie. After Blackie was shorn later, I saw that under the wool Blackie was actually dark blue.
      So, it could happen. 😸

    • @Dwightstjohn-fo8ki
      @Dwightstjohn-fo8ki ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@abbieb8130 I have "blue/black" chickens. It's everywhere. They're taking over.

    • @lylavati
      @lylavati ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂😂

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hope you are doing ok.

    • @LifeCompanionDogs8083
      @LifeCompanionDogs8083 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think youre navy blue with a touch of jet black.

  • @Kelnx
    @Kelnx ปีที่แล้ว +62

    I'd heard about these people when I was a kid, but everyone made it sound like they were very inbred, like genetic mutations level inbred, which is why many had blue skin. According to this family tree they weren't any more "inbred" than a lot of rural families since before modern times. It looks like they at least tried to avoid marrying too close, but just not enough bloodlines and the blue skin thing was just a rare genetic coincidence made possible by isolated gene pools.
    So basically they weren't the "wicked perverts" I was led to believe.

    • @Alpha1918
      @Alpha1918 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      exactly

    • @AemiliaJacobus
      @AemiliaJacobus 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I think this is just a tragic consequence of living in a small community that's mostly isolated from other communities. Your comment is compassionate.

  • @craycraypartay1050
    @craycraypartay1050 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    "it's interesting to see who married who and who turned blue" why was this funny to me

  • @SomeWhereInTheMiddleGenX
    @SomeWhereInTheMiddleGenX ปีที่แล้ว +420

    God this is so disturbing!! My kin on my moms side came up out of the hills of Kentucky, half of my grandma's DNA came from a Fugate.... and what's really really weird, and I cant help but wonder if that fact has something to do with my life long illnesses. I was sick pretty much from birth, at 9 they discovered I had extremely low PLATELETS!! After a bone morrow test they settled on a diagnosis of ITP which is an auto immune disorder, my immune system destroys my platelets in the same way a healthy person's would attack and remove bacteria or a virus.... but it didn't stop there, initially they told us that I would grow out of it, but that never happened.... my symptoms continued to mount becoming more and more severe, so they decided a more in depth look into exactly what was happening was needed, so I was then sent to a rheumatologist.... this doctor was completely stumped, I had/have all the hallmarks of Lupus, but then there is a whole bunch of symptoms they couldn't quite fit into either diagnosis so I was basically told Lupus would be my diagnosis, it would be the fastest way to get doctors, nurses, emt's etc. Understand where to start until I or a loved one could give them a more in depth history.... ive had flares present in every known way and subcategory for Lupus (there are 4 known types). I was 13yo.... one of the issues none of my doctors have been able to rectify is its a genetic disorder, but couldn't be found anywhere in my immediate family. We weren't really able, at least at that time, to trace family medical history back beyond my great grandparents because they all migrated North out of the mountains of Kentucky and West Virginia.... not a whole lot of doctorin was done back then, let alone the kind that would lead to medical records, outside of digging through some backwoods doctors notes.... but there no way of knowing where to even start!! Alot of that information died with them.... Sorry for such a long comment, I just thought you might find it interesting.... I know I do!! I've always known my great grandma was a Fugate, but I didn't know there was anything notable about the name!! Let alone THIS insanity!! Might bring it up to my doctor next time I see him, see what he thinks about it!! But for all intents and purposes im considered kind of medical mystery.... I was used like a lab rat until i was 19 when i finally put my foot down and said no more, you wouldnt believe the amount kf trauma i carry with me because lf the things i was put through as just a child, and for alot of it, completely alone!! My mother had two other children to worry about, so she would basically get me checked in, and then leave. So all the tests, iv's, blood draws, the list is endless, but it was all done with me not being able to refuse, and no one to advocate for me.... my mother just blindly approved everything.... needless to sat, I can attest to the fact that white coat syndrome is a VERY real thing!! But Omgoodness im sure ive already said too much.... Thank you so much for ALWAYS coming through with the most FASCINATING content!! You truly have a way, beyond just the visuals, of bringing a story, history for that matter, to life in a way ive never really ever experienced... until running across your content anyway!! Im gonna close it here, thank you again, and as always, sending lots of love and positive energy your way hun!! MommaBear Hugs from Ohio!! 🥰🥰🤗🥰🥰

    • @lynn6221
      @lynn6221 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      You have definitely suffered!
      I had seen a documentary on this family a few years ago. It said that a couple of the kids went to a little hut of a female Dr. She became friends with them and realized that it was a medical condition that meds or shots could help. According to it, within a few weeks the family were no longer blueish. Idk if there was any truth to it but thats what it said.

    • @judyferguson3185
      @judyferguson3185 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      What a fascinating story. I would be curious if your condition could in fact be traced to the Fugates from this tree. Thanks for sharing.

    • @mysryuza
      @mysryuza ปีที่แล้ว +18

      That’s very fascinating, I’m sorry you had to suffer like that

    • @lydialjal
      @lydialjal ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Sending light your way and hoping that you are doing well.

    • @marthavillegas6250
      @marthavillegas6250 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🍀

  • @melindadouglas1673
    @melindadouglas1673 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    I just finished reading a very good book about the “blues in Kentucky”, called The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. It was very good, I recommend it.

  • @januarysson5633
    @januarysson5633 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    🎶 And that’s the way they became the Fugate Bunch… 🎶

  • @williamharris8367
    @williamharris8367 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    When I was a teenager, my cousin visited from out of town. I took her sightseeing in the "big city" for a day. My Grandmother commented that we made a lovely couple. 🥺 Um, no. Just no.

  • @lydialjal
    @lydialjal ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Amazing ability to keep track of all that! Wish there was a recreation of how they looked with their blue skin. Fascinating! Thanks for the great videos.

  • @tenner4817
    @tenner4817 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    my husband's maternal grandparents were first cousins (both their mothers were sisters) and due to this both my husband and his brother have severe vision and eye problems . thankfully his parents were from very distant countries and both of my parents and myself are also from different countries and therefore if we ever have children they will have a very diverse and hopefully healthy genetic bloodline and whatnot.

  • @IrishAnnie
    @IrishAnnie ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I actually knew a woman who was blue. She worked in a sister store for the company I worked for.

  • @norasmith4939
    @norasmith4939 ปีที่แล้ว +205

    Who married who and who turned blue! Made me laugh

    • @alisonridout
      @alisonridout ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Me too

    • @galegg
      @galegg ปีที่แล้ว +11

      "So in this family tree if their names are blue, it means they became blue."
      was definitely not a sentence I ever expected to hear

    • @klaudia2141
      @klaudia2141 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ahaha best quote💀🤣

    • @AmericanMephistopheles
      @AmericanMephistopheles หลายเดือนก่อน

      LISTEN UP HERES A STORY ABOUT A FAMILY THAT LIVES IN A BLUE WORLD

  • @ChristineInNornia
    @ChristineInNornia ปีที่แล้ว +127

    It’s generally better to marry someone with grandparents who have differing names from each other and yourself😅

    • @pamelapoulos5019
      @pamelapoulos5019 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Location, location, location....

    • @judyferguson3185
      @judyferguson3185 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hahahaha🤣

    • @Dwightstjohn-fo8ki
      @Dwightstjohn-fo8ki ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pamelapoulos5019 Actually, if you think about it, the movement to the new world was the greatest NON VIOLENT experiment in genetic "outcross" in the history of humanity. Most "outcross genetic" experiments involved slavery, the Mongols, military conquest, the Mongols, natural famine and other disasters, and the Mongols. The "Mongol Mark" screws up a lot of genetic research as it's not supposed to be so prevalent. Apparently the Mongols had a grand time with the "Kim Kardashians" of their day.

    • @diva80
      @diva80 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Check the bloodline still

  • @blue_anemone
    @blue_anemone ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I always have to watch these twice. But when you zoom out, and you see that their tree is a circle, that explains everything.

  • @kellie5476
    @kellie5476 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    They're blue, da ba dee da ba di. 🎶

  • @thesisypheanjournal1271
    @thesisypheanjournal1271 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I grew up in a very small town where two families frequently intermarried: the Ludys and the Emericks. Well, the Ludys and one of the strains of Emericks: the overweight Emericks with dark, very curly hair. The other strain of Emericks were slight and had sandy, straight hair. They didn't marry Ludys. And of the 18 kids in the special ed class, 5 of them were Emericks.

  • @Lizablue0608
    @Lizablue0608 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    My family are in KY. They’ve told this story for years. We just found out we are descendants of Daniel Boone. We’re doing extensive research on how we came from Scotland and ended up in KY. I named my son Levi. Guys, I’m scared. 😂 My parents played together up in the holler as little kids. One never knows when it’s up in the Appalachian Mts. But the blue people most definitely is a real family. 💙

    • @Dwightstjohn-fo8ki
      @Dwightstjohn-fo8ki ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Genetic tracking, research, and scanning is growing by leaps and bounds today, EVEN IN KENTUCKY. So back in the day a medical issue might be known. In cattle, we know as long as you "throw" the genetics forward you only have a 4% chance of getting worse. It's when you inbreed generation after generation that the bad stuff really starts to get to the top.

    • @jeffreygrantsr4525
      @jeffreygrantsr4525 ปีที่แล้ว

      Daniel Boone is my great4x grandfather.

  • @angelinaloubet621
    @angelinaloubet621 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Remarkable work on this very complicated family tree

  • @hal2054
    @hal2054 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    this was harder to keep up with than cleopatra's family tree omg

  • @Goldrefinedthrufire
    @Goldrefinedthrufire ปีที่แล้ว +74

    My neighbors baby is blue on the back. Something to do with the blood. Doctor said it's bc the mom and dad are a rare mix. Middle eastern father, aboriginal (indigenous) mother.

    • @zainabsiddiqui7358
      @zainabsiddiqui7358 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      My three children had the blue spot as well. Long disappeared now, my youngest is 40.. Regards from Scotland.

    • @RHR-221b
      @RHR-221b ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@zainabsiddiqui7358 Or is taqiyya bluey-broon? No response required ...

    • @IssyKew
      @IssyKew ปีที่แล้ว +11

      very common in polynesian babies- disappears within a few months after birth.

    • @juniekalu9340
      @juniekalu9340 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      My grandson had blue back when he was little but he outgrew it around 2 years old. We thought at first that it was some problem with delivering him but it was nothing. Some type of temporary skin pigmentation. The pediatrician said it happens to some babies. He’s 28 years old now. His son has blue marking (more like a big spot) on his back. When I told his wife about my grandson’s blue back, she was greatly relieved. Obviously no one told her that her husband had the same thing as a baby.

    • @childofcascadia
      @childofcascadia ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @Gold
      Its called Dermal melanocytosis, or in past times Mongolian Blue Spots in the West.
      Its a harmless birthmark most common among ethnicities with dark skin that usually appears on the butt or back. It happens because some melanin making cells aka melanocytes collect in clumps and stay deep under the skin instead of going where they are supposed to go when the fetus is developing.
      So the baby gets bluish spots where the cell clumps are from the melanin being made by the melanocytes. Its harmless and usually disappears by the time youre 12 or so. I had one on my butt as a baby. It faded away when I was about 10.

  • @darryltaylor9916
    @darryltaylor9916 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    colloidal silver can turn your skin blue. I wonder if the ground water had silver in it.

  • @janetl9093
    @janetl9093 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your awesome for putting this together

  • @kimberlydavis4772
    @kimberlydavis4772 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow! That was awesome and confusing! You did a great job explaining that. 👍🏼

  • @laughify2989
    @laughify2989 ปีที่แล้ว

    I WAS LOOKING SO LONG FOR THIS

  • @GG_Booboo
    @GG_Booboo ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love ur channel! I did an ancestry test a few months ago, and glad I’m not inbred

  • @lanagomisc.6005
    @lanagomisc.6005 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    My mom's family comes from the Midwest (Monon, Indiana to be exact) and there were in-laws marrying each other (two families: the Clarks and the Dentons) but to my knowledge, that was the extent. It's pretty likely that most people have that somewhere in their family trees.

  • @jstone247
    @jstone247 ปีที่แล้ว

    These stories make my skin crawl.

  • @CL-we8tn
    @CL-we8tn ปีที่แล้ว

    This is fascinating.

  • @itsonlycleob3317
    @itsonlycleob3317 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Lost it at Cindy, Jan & Marsha! 🤣🤣🤣

    • @matthewbrotman2907
      @matthewbrotman2907 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It took a few minutes to notice he was doing that 😆😆

    • @f430ferrari5
      @f430ferrari5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@matthewbrotman2907 when he said Peter married Jan…that’s when I shut it down. 😂🤣

  • @gumbypokey
    @gumbypokey ปีที่แล้ว +2

    OMG I worked in a state mental hospital in Illinois in the 70's, there was a fugate on our cottage with bluish lips!!...

  • @benmcreynolds8581
    @benmcreynolds8581 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I was born in 1989 in Corvallis, Oregon. There was a near by family that lived in a small town near here that had blue silver-ish skin. They would come in town for McDonald's sometimes. At least 4-5 of the family members were blue. It was the only time I've ever seen that condition. Other than this story. I'm curious if there is a way to see if a carrier of the trait lived in NW Oregon?

    • @CrimsonEclipse
      @CrimsonEclipse ปีที่แล้ว

      My husband said that family could be a bunch of crazy hippies who drank colloidal silver assuming it's good for their health. Oregon is famous for a bunch of hippies experimenting on dangerous health stuff. There is also a famous blue guy in Oregon who drank colloidal silver that turned him blue. It caused methemoglobinemia similar to the Blue Fugates.

    • @ravenzyblack
      @ravenzyblack 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A DNA test would prove that. My mom grew up near a family with the last name Fugate and they were from the Seattle area.

  • @zenseed75
    @zenseed75 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My great grandmother grew up on troublesome creek. Surprised we have no common ancestors with the Fugates. Not a lot of people from that area.

  • @christianaquilina5434
    @christianaquilina5434 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    How do you keep track?! I swear I almost went cross eyed trying to follow...is it possible inbreading was outlawed just for the purpose of keeping family lines UNtangled in this manner? if it was I d understand.

    • @STScott-qo4pw
      @STScott-qo4pw ปีที่แล้ว +4

      🤣😂🤣😂

    • @Dwightstjohn-fo8ki
      @Dwightstjohn-fo8ki ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@STScott-qo4pw "Inbreading" usually involves a few crums. It's like the scum theory: if you do it long enough you float to the top. I suggest frying a few.

    • @MrSqurk
      @MrSqurk ปีที่แล้ว

      Most places still allow you marry your cousin.

  • @doctorateinmadison
    @doctorateinmadison ปีที่แล้ว

    The Brady Bunch names had me in stitches, good job dude

  • @loverelentlessly5099
    @loverelentlessly5099 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Would love to see the family tree of Joan of Arc. I have never heard anything about her bloodline. Thank you.

  • @vickichavez9956
    @vickichavez9956 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting information about history

  • @clarsach29
    @clarsach29 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    If the gene is fully recessive then carriers should have normal white skin phenotype, but it is often more complicated than that so it is possible carriers were blue (or midway between blue/white). Clearly this condition did not affect reproductive capabilities so it continued to be passed on to descendents

    • @Dwightstjohn-fo8ki
      @Dwightstjohn-fo8ki ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yup. I can dilution genes and blue/black/white splash in my chickens. Genetics is complicated. In East Indians colour doesn't "dilute" like black colour. It may "pop up" and I have a Dutch friend that is very, very dark red, and his brother looks like a poster child for the Aryan Nation. Apparently 150 years ago (Dutch East India Company) a relative had an East Indian wife lost to history.

    • @antonioreconquistador
      @antonioreconquistador ปีที่แล้ว

      Melanocytic genes, the ones that determine your entire body's skin tone, arent as simple as dominant/recessive, as theyre multigenetic. Bluish skin tone can be caused by argyria (a chemical effect caused by silver), methemoglobinemia (a buildup of blue hemoglobin- a blood disorder that has nothing to do with melanocytes), and cyanosis (a lack of oxygen provided to red hemoglobin). The second case is greatly recessive but likely requires several recessive genes to build up that much blue hemoglobin. This is the primary problem with inbreeding- that possibly life altering recessive genes are more likely to pass through and express in a thinner bloodline.

  • @colsc55
    @colsc55 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    My second great grandmother is Rachel fugate the daughter of the brother to Martin. We are all white

  • @Lily-Bravo
    @Lily-Bravo ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was so interesting. I now live in a small Cotswold village, and the core inhabitants who have been there for generations all seem to be related to each other!

    • @swamp-yankee
      @swamp-yankee ปีที่แล้ว

      There’s plenty of that in New England. Funny looking folks some of em

  • @mrj.kottari8453
    @mrj.kottari8453 ปีที่แล้ว

    Around 5:17 I spontainously said IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE and broke into so hard laughter I couldn't breath well 🙈

  • @nmart1n
    @nmart1n ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The Smurfs

  • @midevalexponents2sqr
    @midevalexponents2sqr ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i wanted to see blue recreations >_

  • @Karen-kw4jl
    @Karen-kw4jl ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My father is a Fugate from the exact area in Kentucky. He was told he was born blue but isn't any longer - from what I know, that would indicate he was a carrier of one copy of the recessive gene, but the other copy is the dominant normal gene that was able to catch up making the proper enzyme so his blue appearance would have normalized not too long after birth.

  • @GymJones865
    @GymJones865 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Anyone else notice that he used the members of the Brady Bunch to name all the family members with unknown names?

    • @Undeniably_Asher
      @Undeniably_Asher ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Watching this with my eldest child and I noticed the Brady Bunch reference and mentioned it, and she was like “who’s the Brady bunch?”

  • @lovejones0686
    @lovejones0686 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not the Brady Bunch names reference....lol I loved that show!!!

  • @26beegee
    @26beegee ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Growing up in KY I knew some Fugates but, none were blue!

  • @helenatremblay4019
    @helenatremblay4019 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fascinating!!!

  • @wandamaddox7824
    @wandamaddox7824 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The first diagnosed case of this was Joseph Andor of Scotland in 1755. After that, many generations of Andorians were blue skinned.

  • @gx8841
    @gx8841 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nearly 4am and I REALLY don't remember falling down this rabbit hole. Wasn't I watching a movie? Wow, I've learned quite a bit of something I had no idea had been so prevalent. Great comments - smart ones and laugh out loud ones. Try not to side-eye everyone at Thanksgiving!

    • @jodybogdanovich4333
      @jodybogdanovich4333 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Comment section on YT vids is a great source of entertainment on a lot of channels. 👍😄

  • @zekelucente9702
    @zekelucente9702 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was interesting with a funny presentation.

  • @kykynb97
    @kykynb97 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My great-great grandparents were 1st cousins and were part of the first settlers in St Hyacinthe, Quebec 🙃 it's very obvious in the family, too.

  • @michaelwork9462
    @michaelwork9462 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm really high ...... but I think you just solved world peace with the way you explained that family tree ......

  • @BL-no7jp
    @BL-no7jp ปีที่แล้ว

    I was once acquainted with a few Fugates from SE Ky. They seemed to be the invisible introverted types. I don’t remember any of them participating in school sports or school activities but they never caused any problem either. They had no known enemies.

  • @spookyboi8446
    @spookyboi8446 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is my family...my mothers side comes from the Combs and Smiths but siblings of the two in the tree in this video, gotta love Kentucky.

  • @zabtronics
    @zabtronics ปีที่แล้ว +1

    New avatar movie looking sick bro 🥶

  • @Knappa22
    @Knappa22 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    They are literally the Smurfs.

  • @Mary-el3pi
    @Mary-el3pi ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the « Marsha, Jan, and Cindy » reference!,

  • @toriostrem7436
    @toriostrem7436 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the Brady bunch names!😂

  • @3_14pie
    @3_14pie ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You know it's gonna be rough when the tree forms a rectangle

  • @gothtarrare
    @gothtarrare ปีที่แล้ว +4

    While you couldn't do a family tree since we don't know his family or his birth name..I would LOVE to see a video from you on Tarrare.

  • @patriciajones2549
    @patriciajones2549 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I making my family tree and my great aunt last name is Fugate from Kentucky. She married my great uncle. Thank you

  • @sandywilliams8125
    @sandywilliams8125 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “That’s the way they all became the Brady Bunch” 😊

  • @smidge_of_serotonin
    @smidge_of_serotonin ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I usually like to play your videos while relaxing so I can fall asleep because I think your voice is soothing but oh my god, this shit is weird

  • @ElizabethT45
    @ElizabethT45 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I live in Michigan and have Fugate cousins on my maternal grandfather's side. I called the adults Aunt and Uncle, I could never remember what kind of cousins we were!

  • @brenstep1142
    @brenstep1142 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:58 Good title for a new Dr. Seuss book.

  • @freyasslain2203
    @freyasslain2203 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Makes me wonder why this physical phenomenon didnt happen to the Royal families : Like the Hapsburgs .

    • @klaudia2141
      @klaudia2141 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      lol look at Queen Elizabeth’s, Charles and all of their noses. Very freaking prominent genes right there.

    • @bryanfugate2501
      @bryanfugate2501 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because it's a myth. It's the rare gene that they both possessed. If it was due to incest, many, many other families would have been blue back then. This nonsense never dies.

    • @lynpatricia6854
      @lynpatricia6854 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They just inherited the uglies.

    • @user-ly3li3ex8c
      @user-ly3li3ex8c ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Hapsburgs had their own genetic aesthetic and health problems, they just didn't have this type of recessive trait at all apparently

    • @bryanfugate2501
      @bryanfugate2501 ปีที่แล้ว

      💯🎯... Spot on. Agree, the bs nonsense never ends....

  • @jeffreyelliott622
    @jeffreyelliott622 ปีที่แล้ว

    You lost me at Marsha, Jan and Cindy the Brady Bunch girls !!! Hahahahaa !!!

  • @michaelhowell2326
    @michaelhowell2326 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I'm sure there will be all kinds of kissing cousins jokes but it would do one well to remember the only fact you aren't inbred is bc your parents had options. That's all.

    • @annaelisavettavonnedozza9607
      @annaelisavettavonnedozza9607 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Or they didn’t mind walking an hr to the next town

    • @MiffetBlue
      @MiffetBlue ปีที่แล้ว +12

      One does not need to get married or have kids. If marrying my kin was my only option, I’d take my chances with spinsterhood.

    • @fuck_it
      @fuck_it ปีที่แล้ว

      when in doubt have a baby with someone that has different skin color than you. Mixed race is the superior race lol

    • @duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa
      @duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Miffet Blue religion, especially American Christianity, really pushes hard for people to get married and have children as young as possible. I grew up in the Midwest, my parents aren't that old but they literally only had kids because they 'knew that was expected of them'. Hell, my step dad didn't marry his first wife because he felt anything for her, but because they had been technically dating for two years, so it was time they got married and had kids. Neither of my dads wanted kids, my bio mum wanted them but she's so religious that she wouldn't not have kids, even if nunnery was available to her, because her parents really hammered home that you have a have a lot of kids for God. Ya can't just look at these things in a vacuum, the only thing that happens in a vacuum is space. Social pressures and lack of options really did small town people in. Hell, still does.

    • @saidroid3220
      @saidroid3220 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@annaelisavettavonnedozza9607 so true. Some people lack this comprehension till this days and age let alone in the olden times. They acted/thought they were on a secluded island and all they had was family members to mate with. These messed up people effed up their children's livelihood

  • @FireChildSlytherin5
    @FireChildSlytherin5 ปีที่แล้ว

    wait. this is the first time ever seen my name in any of your videos "Marsha" i feel touched. lol

  • @daffers2345
    @daffers2345 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Would you consider doing the "Colt" family from Australia? I don't want it as exploitation, but their tree was so tangled it's unbelievable.

    • @ray.shoesmith
      @ray.shoesmith ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey, the Colts were Kiwis who just moved to Australia! If you want to talk about inbred Australians just go to Tassy

    • @KMAllmond
      @KMAllmond ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ray.shoesmith What are kiwis?

    • @ray.shoesmith
      @ray.shoesmith ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KMAllmond People from New Zealand

  • @gurney4347
    @gurney4347 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i love the brady bunch names

  • @twostroke12v71
    @twostroke12v71 ปีที่แล้ว

    Commenting on the video for the algorithm

  • @conversemackem8653
    @conversemackem8653 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video. Are you a big fan of The Brady Bunch?

  • @ladyrachel13
    @ladyrachel13 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Back in those days there weren't a lot of suitors to choose from because of infant mortality rates, low census, rural living, etc. Inter-marrying was a common occurrence. A lot of second and third cousins marrying and begattin'.

  • @ellaeadig263
    @ellaeadig263 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My brain cannot even begin to process this family tree.

  • @cw4608
    @cw4608 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    they would save a bundle on monogrammed towels!

  • @oursimplelife72
    @oursimplelife72 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's a lady in Tenn. we seen often when we went. She was blue, some days she would be a grayish color.

  • @tracycombs1484
    @tracycombs1484 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Martin and Mary Wells according to my Geneology had 12 children....their daughter Elizabeth starts my line. Martin and Mary being my 5x great grandparents.

    • @animikokala
      @animikokala ปีที่แล้ว

      One of Martin's sisters was my 5x great-grandmother.

  • @felistine
    @felistine ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Happy Saturday. First . Maybe. LOL

  • @yesihavereadit
    @yesihavereadit ปีที่แล้ว +3

    NFN. Normal for Norfolk. (What doctors used to put on medical notes in Norfolk)

  • @em945
    @em945 ปีที่แล้ว

    My mind has been singing Madonna's 80's hit " True Blue"....You're the one I'm dreamin' of...etc.
    Puts a new slant on a love song.

  • @Larsbutb4d
    @Larsbutb4d 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just a question. Do you still have the references to this family tree?

  • @lesliepropheter5040
    @lesliepropheter5040 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Hilarious at first I thought you were just being funny but seriously, you have the Brady TV family through the smith lineage

    • @abbieb8130
      @abbieb8130 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hah! I didn't notice that.

  • @ManOnFire071781
    @ManOnFire071781 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And now we know why the Kentucky Wildcats use blue for their team color.

  • @genevievevitale8141
    @genevievevitale8141 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ahhh the Bradys....😅

  • @Lily-Bravo
    @Lily-Bravo ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There is a condition you can get which leaves you looking blue, if you use colloidal silver as a medicine. I'm not saying this is anything to do with this families predicament, that is obviously a genetic thing, but if you see someone who looks blue, it could be down to that. Also my veins are very close to the surface and gave me a bluish tinge when I was young. My school friends once said "Oh we are so bored, I know let's look at Lily's veins!!" How to make you confident, eh?

    • @r21167
      @r21167 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh no, kids are brutal!

  • @eileentruman5981
    @eileentruman5981 ปีที่แล้ว

    My children are related to the Fugates Through the ritchies and the combs.

  • @k.jamescarters9557
    @k.jamescarters9557 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Weirdly the term blue blood comes from the idea that the royal families had better blood that shouldn’t be mixed with the red bloods. These guys going blue probably made them ultra special

    • @hikaryagravity
      @hikaryagravity ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They are indeed true royals !

    • @user-ly3li3ex8c
      @user-ly3li3ex8c ปีที่แล้ว

      Also the royals were very pale due to being able to stay inside out of the sun unlike the tanned commoners who toiled in the sun. That vary pale skin allowed them to have blue veins presented and visually pop out underneath, some even enhanced and highlighted the color of the blue veins on their wrists and arms with what I assume to have been blue tinted makeup.

  • @michaelchapline6960
    @michaelchapline6960 ปีที่แล้ว

    Papa Smurf been getting busy

  • @dianacooper-havlik4115
    @dianacooper-havlik4115 ปีที่แล้ว

    Goodness!

  • @moisesortega3684
    @moisesortega3684 ปีที่แล้ว

    🎶whatta we do baby, without love?
    SHA-La-La-La!🎶

  • @herbiethekat3637
    @herbiethekat3637 ปีที่แล้ว

    Head is spinning 😮

  • @zainabsiddiqui7358
    @zainabsiddiqui7358 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    We're going to be all blue in Scotland this coming winter. (fuel prices!!!)
    What happened to the supposed 'heatwave'?
    From a milk bottle white Scottish Granny.
    Thank you from Scotland.

    • @Widdershins.
      @Widdershins. ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Username checks ou...wait.

    • @IrishAnnie
      @IrishAnnie ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I’m so sorry….please keep warm. Here in Florida we don’t have to worry about the cold, just Hurricanes. Have you seen the tea light terra cotta flower pot heater? Keeps a room fairly warm.

    • @MiffetBlue
      @MiffetBlue ปีที่แล้ว +2

      lol @ Widdershins

    • @tonydai782
      @tonydai782 ปีที่แล้ว

      Since the arctic tends to warm faster than surrounding areas, that'd mean that the temperature gradient decreases leading to a larger region being exposed to cooler arctic air.
      I'd think that since Scotland is pretty north I'd probably experience more cold events due to the polar vortex compared to areas further south

  • @alisonridout
    @alisonridout ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm totally confused lol 🔵

    • @STScott-qo4pw
      @STScott-qo4pw ปีที่แล้ว +1

      so's their county clerk.