I actually watched this episode. One of the things Jesse said really stuck with me. He said something along the lines of how people of color are “Alchemists” and why. When he gave his explanation, I agreed with him 100%. ❤❤
I watched this on PBS and his connection with the Swedish grandma x3 who was a singer and the great grandad x6 connected with the Salem witch trials, plus having a slave owner in the family tree is a prime example of how deep our stories are.
Yep! I think I have a ton of slaveholders - if not as ancestors, as siblings of the ancestors. Crawling all over North Carolina. I wish I could get professional help like this with some of my brick walls.
He looks like Isaac in facial bone structure, his ancestor has the same eyes as Jesse. That’s wild! Jesse’s eyes goes back into the 1800s. Amazing ❤️ We see where his eyes come from.
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I'm so happy for Jesse, That he was able to find some information regarding his family and where his roots originated from? My ancestor's some my roots were planted in deep in Georgia. I need to get some unanswered questions to my grandmother & her father I feel like their more to my story.
He has the same first and maiden name as my great-great grandmother Jessie Williams. But she was mixed of First Nations Indigenous and Scottish heritage.
There's no AmericaS. The continent is called AMERICA, which includes North America, Central America and South America. The AmericaS is something the U.S. invented so that they could appropriate the name of a whole continent and use it for themselves 😢
I love this show but lm so envious of people who have the money to find their heritage like this. I come from a mother who never knew love nor proper communication by her parents, so she knows very little of her family line and her parents have long past. Then I have a father who I only met once as a child therefore I never got the chance to even know who his parents were, and now I have my own baby and I wish I could tell him something. All Ik is im Black so I can only assume my ancestots were slaves but honestly I dont know .
@@QueenK88 Maybe his father's side was the only missing. To hide "uncomfortable" sides (slaves, prostitutes, convicts etc) was common but thank God science figured how to find it
I think I related to Jesse Williams I had Hadley's in my family in different name is Jesse Williams is related to Caleb Handley Rand and also born in Georgia can you check Jesse Williams DNA if he's related to Caleb Handley Rand and that my question for you sir 😁
Indentured servants weren't slaves. Indentured servants were to pay debts or recieve something in the end and it lasted less than a decade for the most part. They weren't born into a system that kept them in servitude for centuries. Their children/loved ones were not sold away from them. Indentured servants were not property like the enslaved. Indentured servants still owned their own bodies and lives.
He digs into actual facts through research. Going back to the Kings and Queens is harder because there’s no records. Just guesstimates. So much has been stolen from Black Americans. So, here this is what he does…. If you’re looking for more you won’t have accuracy. DNA can give us regions.
What about the woman the man was married to that birthed those six children? When things like that are left out it makes me ask a lot more questions. History tells me that 3700 of those slaves who were freed owned 12,000 slaves of their own. It’s all not quite that easy. I’m not disputing the facts brought forward I’m just saying there’s a lot of stuff left out.
@@Calmzat Some people hate history and they want to deny it . One of the greatest educators of our time is “Thomas Sowell”, an absolutely brilliant black man who I wish had been our first black president of the United States and I wish he was my next-door neighbor. I’ve learned so much from him and his books and writing. Extremely well investigated/researched and presented. Lots of lies have been told over the centuries and he exposes many of them.
Sadly, it’s not surprising that his wife is not known or mentioned. Black women in that day and age weren’t high in status. Of course, since this is only a portion of the episode, we can’t be sure she wasn’t mentioned. I’d like to see the complete episode.
@@MrsBrit1doesn’t matter. That’s how it was back then. If you could afford a slave then so be it. Would be nice for all the slaves to have nice owners though. Not many of them got so lucky.
@@solitarymaninblackblack people also owned slaves both in the Americas and in Africa. It was a way of life. You cannot use 20-21st century principles to judge people of the past.
It’s interesting to know your ancestors and their experiences good and bad, but to get emotional about it is odd to me. I only know my history to my great grandparents, and just know they left Ireland for I suppose a better life. I know some of Irelands history of the Great Potato famine and the genocidal starving of them by the British, but it’s history. I can’t change it, it’s done. Enslaving yourself to history of 150 years ago seems ridiculous. I’m an American. I’m not Irish. We constantly work on being better. We can’t undo our past. Using long past slavery as a crutch, excuse will only hold yourself back.
Easy for you to say. My Great great grandfather was the son of a white man with four white brothers and sisters. He married 14 to a woman who was also the daughter of a white father. Without looking any of the other factors it certainly does prove people were oppressing and discriminating against their own relatives. And this same situation is on both sides of my family. Throughout the photos of my relatives are non-black faces. So it's not something we should just forget about and that doesn't even touch on how the system has privileges and benefited some while penalizing others based on skin color which is such a ridiculous way to attempt to categorize PEOPLE.
So maybe you’d feel different if you lived in a country that were still actively oppressing Irish people, a country who wouldn’t allow you to know what country you came from, what language you spoke, wouldn’t let you name your own kids or have your family last name instead having to take names from people who owned you, who forbade you from learning to read or write, who actively kept your forced labor in tact by having the entire community monitoring to make sure you didn’t escape, if your people were lynched and victims of government violence today solely because you’re Irish, if you were forced out of living in certain communities until recently just because you were Irish, if your people for the last 100 years or so lived as second class citizens just because you were Irish or rather because of the way you looked, were taught you were ugly, your hair, complexion and features, maybe didn’t have access to home loans and financial resources which is how most people have wealth from inheritances you couldn’t hope to receive, were limited in your employment choices etc etc etc Just saying. When I was a kid I met a lady, this was in the 80’s, who’s mother was a slave. We think of American slavery as being so far away but we’re really only one generation removed often times. For us, this history hasn’t been always forthright so it’s painful that it happened and that it’s covered up and before you’ve even processed it happened you’re told to get over it. I understand the Irish didn’t have a walk in the park with the potato genocide and indentured servitude but it’s still a lot different.
Jesse Williams literally looks like his ancestor Isaac. So glad for him that he got to learn more about his family history.
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"...and take him with me." WELL said!
Don't we all? Williams' reaction is very touching and very relatable once you've been reunited with your ancestry. www.ancestry.co.uk/
@@AncestryUS SHOW BOTH HERITAGES NOT JUST 1...we mixed race take pride in our MIXED roots...show his MOM and DAD smh!
@PsychicMedium4747 why when that's not what he asked them to do???
I’m so happy for him and his ancestors that Dr. Gates and his team discovered. They’re no longer un-named or lost to Jesse’s family.
The fact he looks like Issac in bone structure is amazing
I actually watched this episode. One of the things Jesse said really stuck with me. He said something along the lines of how people of color are “Alchemists” and why. When he gave his explanation, I agreed with him 100%. ❤❤
Truth.
He gained so much knowledge
One of my favorite actors and it’s so interesting to see his heritage! Thank you for all of your hard work!
I watched this on PBS and his connection with the Swedish grandma x3 who was a singer and the great grandad x6 connected with the Salem witch trials, plus having a slave owner in the family tree is a prime example of how deep our stories are.
Not just deep, but so very complex
Yep! I think I have a ton of slaveholders - if not as ancestors, as siblings of the ancestors. Crawling all over North Carolina. I wish I could get professional help like this with some of my brick walls.
That man is so beautiful.
You should of seen him in his Broadway show! 😳😳😳🤤
Yeah, he is
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Amen!
He looks like Isaac in facial bone structure, his ancestor has the same eyes as Jesse. That’s wild! Jesse’s eyes goes back into the 1800s. Amazing ❤️ We see where his eyes come from.
This must be hard… To see their names with a price on them. So glad Isaac got to be free with a family and property!
I know right 😢
What an intelligent and beautifully spoken young man.
He is supposed to be as a man and former teacher
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This made me sad.....Thank you for your work Dr. Gates!
Why Jesse out here looking like his great great grandfather Issac? Got some scrong genes in his family.
Not him looking like issac😮
Toni, african features are the Blueprint.
he looks nothing like Issac...completely different features...Jessie looks like his white mom @@PHlophe
@@PsychicMedium4747 I could see resemblance of Isaac. If you don’t see it doesn’t other people cant.
It really is a spitting image! We're big fans of when that happens.
@@Simplelivingslowliving
I saw a faint resemblance.
I was trying to remember where I recognized him from, now I do :)) Loved him in Detroit Become Human
He was also on Grey’s Anatomy for a long time and a hot topic on the Wendy Williams Show during his divorce.
That game was fun 😅
I like watching normal people do this, not celebrities.
I promise I'm no celeb....it would be nice to be one, but I'm just not.☮️
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Lovely. So happy for him and his family ❤
I'm so happy for Jesse, That he was able to find some information regarding his family and where his roots originated from? My ancestor's some my roots were planted in deep in Georgia.
I need to get some unanswered questions to my grandmother & her father I feel like their more to my story.
I wanna be on this show 😩
Me tooo!!!!
He has the same first and maiden name as my great-great grandmother Jessie Williams. But she was mixed of First Nations Indigenous and Scottish heritage.
I have an ancestor named August. He was also in the slave rolls.
I love this man ❤
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“HELP ME JESSIE”😭😭😭
He Looks Just Like a Black Steve McQueen, May He R.I.P. Stay Healthy, My Friend. (smile)
"Say his name and take him with me"
Appreciate they do have differences but Jesse williams and matt willis always remind me of each other
We need Ancestry to launch a Spanish language version of Ancestry for the rest of the Americas and for it to be broadcasted in the Americas.
There's no AmericaS. The continent is called AMERICA, which includes North America, Central America and South America.
The AmericaS is something the U.S. invented so that they could appropriate the name of a whole continent and use it for themselves 😢
@@nillyk5671it just rolls off the tongue. “America”.
Isaac had 50 acres, but what happened to it?
All the Gringo Chacales snatched it from him .
Show both of his roots...his african and european.....
He asked them about his dad side. 🙄
But where did Hadley come from? How did they link a one name person as his ancestor? How do you know for a certainty????
@@Mimi-ht6xr I simply asked about both parents not just 1. It is clear he is half white. I want them to explore BOTH parents.
Do mariah carey cousin❤
Jesse is so handsome
He's so cute, handsome. Grandma thinks so
The sexiest man on the planet. ❤
I saw this guy D on Twitter lol
I'd like to hear more about his European ancestors.
He can trace those without all these resources
No.
No one cares about colonisers 🤮
The difference between him and Sunny Hostin!!! 😂😂😂
Chulo, she is not half swedish.
💯
I love this show but lm so envious of people who have the money to find their heritage like this. I come from a mother who never knew love nor proper communication by her parents, so she knows very little of her family line and her parents have long past. Then I have a father who I only met once as a child therefore I never got the chance to even know who his parents were, and now I have my own baby and I wish I could tell him something. All Ik is im Black so I can only assume my ancestots were slaves but honestly I dont know .
isnt he biracial? was his other side of the family researched?
Maybe he wanted to know more about his fathers side first
I bet it was researched and found years before this one. Maybe Jesse had the documents already
There are people who are simply very mixed and if light color well from a 1 grandparent
@@QueenK88 Maybe his father's side was the only missing. To hide "uncomfortable" sides (slaves, prostitutes, convicts etc) was common but thank God science figured how to find it
@@ronny-lb1crwhatever makes u feel better 🙄
I think I related to Jesse Williams I had Hadley's in my family in different name is Jesse Williams is related to Caleb Handley Rand and also born in Georgia can you check Jesse Williams DNA if he's related to Caleb Handley Rand and that my question for you sir 😁
*Check out Jesse Williams in Detroit: Become Human* .
Scotch-Irish people were enslaved too. My ancestors were.
Not quite the same. Irish were indentured servants. Also no such thing as Scotch Irish it is Scots Irish.
Indentured servants weren't slaves. Indentured servants were to pay debts or recieve something in the end and it lasted less than a decade for the most part. They weren't born into a system that kept them in servitude for centuries. Their children/loved ones were not sold away from them. Indentured servants were not property like the enslaved. Indentured servants still owned their own bodies and lives.
❤
My thing is does he ever do background on royalty not jist slaves we are n were so much more
He digs into actual facts through research. Going back to the Kings and Queens is harder because there’s no records. Just guesstimates. So much has been stolen from Black Americans. So, here this is what he does…. If you’re looking for more you won’t have accuracy. DNA can give us regions.
What about the woman the man was married to that birthed those six children? When things like that are left out it makes me ask a lot more questions. History tells me that 3700 of those slaves who were freed owned 12,000 slaves of their own. It’s all not quite that easy. I’m not disputing the facts brought forward I’m just saying there’s a lot of stuff left out.
Sus
@@Calmzat
Some people hate history and they want to deny it . One of the greatest educators of our time is “Thomas Sowell”, an absolutely brilliant black man who I wish had been our first black president of the United States and I wish he was my next-door neighbor. I’ve learned so much from him and his books and writing. Extremely well investigated/researched and presented. Lots of lies have been told over the centuries and he exposes many of them.
Sadly, it’s not surprising that his wife is not known or mentioned. Black women in that day and age weren’t high in status. Of course, since this is only a portion of the episode, we can’t be sure she wasn’t mentioned. I’d like to see the complete episode.
@@pattywilliams788its on pbs, you can watch on your computer or app on tv
@@pattywilliams788 ⚜️ The wife's name is literally listed right there on the document under the husband's name. " - Frances, Wife"
MY family owned his family.
I hope you're not proud of that fact....
@@MrsBrit1doesn’t matter. That’s how it was back then. If you could afford a slave then so be it. Would be nice for all the slaves to have nice owners though. Not many of them got so lucky.
@@milaevropa People should not have owned slaves. Reparations are still owed.
@@solitarymaninblackblack people also owned slaves both in the Americas and in Africa. It was a way of life. You cannot use 20-21st century principles to judge people of the past.
@8 read books. Africans did not owe slaves. You need to stop educating yourself with movies.
Thank you President Lincoln!
Mass incarceration puts everyone in prison ie slavery so no
He Black?
obviously
Yes. His dad is African American. His mom is white (Swedish).
He is mixed
he's mixed ..his ancestors were black...he is obviously mixed race smh black AND white@@Scoutbq1l
NO...he is mixed...black and white
It’s interesting to know your ancestors and their experiences good and bad, but to get emotional about it is odd to me. I only know my history to my great grandparents, and just know they left Ireland for I suppose a better life. I know some of Irelands history of the Great Potato famine and the genocidal starving of them by the British, but it’s history. I can’t change it, it’s done. Enslaving yourself to history of 150 years ago seems ridiculous. I’m an American. I’m not Irish. We constantly work on being better. We can’t undo our past. Using long past slavery as a crutch, excuse will only hold yourself back.
Easy for you to say. My Great great grandfather was the son of a white man with four white brothers and sisters. He married 14 to a woman who was also the daughter of a white father. Without looking any of the other factors it certainly does prove people were oppressing and discriminating against their own relatives. And this same situation is on both sides of my family. Throughout the photos of my relatives are non-black faces. So it's not something we should just forget about and that doesn't even touch on how the system has privileges and benefited some while penalizing others based on skin color which is such a ridiculous way to attempt to categorize PEOPLE.
So maybe you’d feel different if you lived in a country that were still actively oppressing Irish people, a country who wouldn’t allow you to know what country you came from, what language you spoke, wouldn’t let you name your own kids or have your family last name instead having to take names from people who owned you, who forbade you from learning to read or write, who actively kept your forced labor in tact by having the entire community monitoring to make sure you didn’t escape, if your people were lynched and victims of government violence today solely because you’re Irish, if you were forced out of living in certain communities until recently just because you were Irish, if your people for the last 100 years or so lived as second class citizens just because you were Irish or rather because of the way you looked, were taught you were ugly, your hair, complexion and features, maybe didn’t have access to home loans and financial resources which is how most people have wealth from inheritances you couldn’t hope to receive, were limited in your employment choices etc etc etc Just saying. When I was a kid I met a lady, this was in the 80’s, who’s mother was a slave. We think of American slavery as being so far away but we’re really only one generation removed often times. For us, this history hasn’t been always forthright so it’s painful that it happened and that it’s covered up and before you’ve even processed it happened you’re told to get over it. I understand the Irish didn’t have a walk in the park with the potato genocide and indentured servitude but it’s still a lot different.
Williams georgia that some of my cherokee lines you do his dna
Ok…ok…stop with the slavery mumbo jumbo. Our ancestors came from the Bible from Adam to Jesus and the apostles. It didn’t start on a plantation.