Shonda Rhimes Reacts to Family History in Finding Your Roots | Ancestry
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- Shonda Rhimes sits down with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in an effort to uncover more about her family's history in the deep south in this clip from PBS' Finding Your Roots. Start Your Ancestry Family Tree:
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It's amazing, mystical, unexplainable how Shonda wanted to name her child Matilda, which was her great, great, great grandmother's name and Shonda never knew this information. It's not like "Matilda" is a common name. It speaks on how God moves through your family and through you. Incredible.
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Wonderful “coincidence?” You won’t catch me believing it was anything less than an imperative sent through time (with love.)
Matilda is a very common name come on
@@tvs9978 really ? I don’t know anyone named Matilda ?
@@michelleboldan5 what strange reasoning. So because you personally don't know a Matilda, it means it's not a common name?
Epigenetics are incredible. The moment she spoke of always wanting to name her daughter Matilda--was powerful.
I truly believe our ancestors speak to us even if we don't know it.
. . . Absolutely. We KNOW, inherently, people we've never physically met. We know them in here -->> ♥.
Our ancestors are dead without any ability to communicate with the living. Says the Creator of Heaven and Earth!!
Fascinating.
LL Cool J said something profound when Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncovered his family ancestry; paraphrasing, "Does consciousness pass through DNA?"; in this episode, Ms. Rhimes was thinking about the same name her ancestors thought regarding the name, Mathilda, someone she's never met before nor knew about.
What do you believe?
I'm so thankful for this wonderful show. We, black people have history because we matter 👍🏽
AGREE!
Hi Gilmore, we are happy to hear that you enjoy the show. Have you had a chance to dive into your own family history?
I am light skinned, but have known my WHOLE life the person I saw in the mirror was “ not right “ somehow. The white children I went to school with ALSO “ knew “ , they made fun of my mouth and the different shades of skin on my hands. My hair that is not just “ curly “ but ethnic, as is my children s. So finding out that I am the eighth great granddaughter of the first black man freed in Virginia, and that five generations of my family were born into slavery was not really a surprise it was a relief of sorts even though it hurts.
One of the most surreal & heartbreaking things I've seen researching my family is seeing them connected to a plantation with only the names of the owner & the prices listed by the names of what was more than likely my GGG Grandmother...I felt sick, angry, disgusted & saddened at the same time....History
I love watching the reactions of the people when they learn of their ancestors..WOW wanting to name her daughter Matilda not knowing it was her great grandmother’s is incredible it gave me chills
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Many families from Chicago have roots from MS. A lot of families from MS migrated to Chicago, settled and restarted their lives.
Boy, Matilda was certainly with Shonda.
Matilda is the one that survived to give us Shonda, amazing
Wow. And look how successful Shanda has become an incredible, amazing woman. Bravo.
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Wow! Matilda was her favorite name as a child!
No Shonda not strange just proof that our ancestors are always with us
My family believes we we’re actually awarded our 40 acres and a mule. I would love this show to actually help us prove it
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Could anyone be a more beautifully souled human. He is the only celebrity ive seen on this show to be humbled and thankful for their ancestors.. bless him
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I have done the Ancestry dna test and have been doing my family tree. I have learned so much. I’ve been found out the name of my 3rd great grandfather and the family that owned my family. I’m so glad I joined your site.
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@@wandabolden5641 My family has too! The only difficulty is that my grandfather can't find any relatives on his Mom's side of the family.
The Census “slave schedule” form shown in this video had no space to record names, but other documents, such as mortgages or overseer’s journals, often did have lists of named individuals. The chances of finding individual names increases with the size of the group being reported. “Large” owners naturally generated a bigger paper trail. I don’t know if “Finding Your Roots” carries their research beyond the readily available census schedules, but more than one subject on the program has commented on the absence of a personal name in the records they are shown. I would enjoy seeing a program on their anonymous researchers; who are they and what are their methods? This would be helpful to persons pursuing their own family history.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Karen. There is a lot that can be done to learn more about your ancestors. Good luck!
Amazing... those connections are so spiritual.
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@@AncestryUS Thank you! It makes me think of my own family (which includes Oscar-winner Hattie McDaniel).
It's interesting how ancestors reach through from the past to influence us on the Subconscious.💗Beautiful
I love her comment at the end.
What a moment. You can also hear and see Dr. Gates getting emotional after hearing her revelation.
Please can you tell us how you do these findings, it's so touching, history isn't boring like kids in school complain about
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whoaaaa the Matilda part 🤯🤯
Thank you for sharing! 😭😭❤❤
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Mr Gates, you're the best!
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This is so fascinating. As a Black person there are so many gaps in my family lineage that I long to fill. If I had thousands of dollars to spend I would do this in a heartbeat. I know it would help fill me.
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Every family tree has gaps and brick walls. Most places were not required to keep marriage or birth records. It's frustrating for all of us who do genealogy every time we hit a wall.
@@fishinwidow35 A resource might be the the wills of southern white landowners who kept a log of live births among their black workers and listed them in their wills,. The landowners thus divided whole families, bequeathing living humans who were working the owners’ land, or cooking and cleaning their homes to the landowner’s own children, tragically splitting up families as though they meant nothing more than the animals, furnishings, and parcels of land they left to their children.
It breaks my heart to see such a legacy in the Southern branch of my own family’s historical papers.
@@artistaylor I live in the Northeast and keeping records was not law until sometime in the mid to late 1800s. Part of my state was disputed land with Canada. In 1800 it was just being settled and was wilderness. Fee were Catholic and other churches did not keep records, also there were no town records. Not many people had enough of anything to bother with a will.
Love this show.
I always liked watching this program on P.B.S. & Mr.Gates--- I always wished I could go on that program & have him do my ancestry search the Native American from my faters side--👍🙂
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Having met my great great great grandmother this isn't as far away as you'd think
So true! I met my great grandmother who was the daughter of the last slave in our family line!
Now Shonda is brilliant ❤
She cried because She had Matilda in mind as Name to give a daughter.
She said *something* *was* *circular*
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It would be a step forward if these types of shows remembered that people with families, jobs and a place in their society, were dehumanized and turned into 'slaves', everyone lightly skips of the horror of slavery, I don't know how people live with themselves.
We reborn through us again
This is so incredibly awesome
Slavery made such a big cut into the fabric of America. I can't call it a scar because it is still an open cut for many. I am a white guy, but anyone who can't feel the emotion of African-Americans when they get the "luxury" of hearing about their ancestors, is not human, but rather a robot. I was adopted and made to feel like it didn't matter where I actually came from, so maybe that's why I empathize. It always makes me emotional.
Wow.
I kind of want to do a DNA test kit, but I don’t want to be cloned or have my DNA in the prison databases. It’d be a cool fun fact though.
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Have you ever had blood taken since Obamas presidency your DNA is in a data base
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I am wonder about my ancestors as well
Honestly, I am never sure I ever want to watch these when the subject is African American. I have no context to work from but the empathy I feel takes me to such a mournful place, it's almost too much. But if I turn away, if we don't even bother to know about these humans we treated to inhumanely, what does that say about me? I want to believe this is no longer possible, but for that to be true then we have to know, at least, this much. It's so little and insignificant by comparison, at least we can learn and share their stories. So thank you for sharing.
When start?
Chills!
I wish I could be on this show..I want to find my Great Great Grandmother's family history.
God morning, I would like to contact Ms. Rhymes I too am interested in my ancestral up line. How can I reach her?
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Wait until Black Friday it goes on sale for $49
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I can take a look, if you want to tell me the farthest back grandparent you know if, and about when and where they lived
@@Divingmary I don't know much about my grandmother side of the family I j ust know that they live in Chicago, Illinois
I cry every time i see these. Just three fact that people get back to a point where it's just a gender and age and their history stops.
This is nice! A lot of my moms side of the family is basically hidden, and some of us on that side of the family are trying to find new folks. Pity how some people don’t get the chance to know others before us
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@@AncestryUS Someday I hope to get a DNA test so that I could research more and more :)
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@@AncestryUS my family also says we are related to Meriwether Lewis. ( co-leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. ) Though I’m not sure if there’s evidence to back it up. I’m not saying I don’t believe my fam, I just want to see evidence. They say he was my uncle of a couple generations.
@@AncestryUS alright! Thanks!
Ima ancestry member with Puerto Rican , Cuban and African American ancestry. I have not found ANY records on slavery in America as well as any much information on Cuba. I paused my membership for this reason. You hit a wall with the information on ancestry. There should be options to find a genealogist.
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great video, how does one get a chance to be on "finding your roots", I would like to have someone help me find my roots, please and thank you 😊 🙏
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I think she has the most creative mind of her Generation
Sure would like for them to trace my family.
Reincarnation connection to Matilda?
HAHAHAHAHAA
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0:45 grandparents born in Mississippi a decade before the Civil War, "so they were slaves" 1366 free blacks in Mississippi the assumption should never be slaves just off the location. Free black have existed here since before 1776 and their history is trampled over. Zipporah Atkins is talked about zero
In 1860 there were 435,000 slaves in Mississippi. They outnumber white people. So while I agree, there were free black people all over the US at the time it's not unreasonable to assume a family member was a slave especially in Mississippi.
It’s because most African Americans don’t have free people of color in their lines. Most of us with free ancestors only married other free people of color.
Yes, towards the end of the civil war, 10% of African Americans were free. If you talk to any professional AA Genealogist, they would cringe at that assumption he made.
@@urban-nomics1082 10% isn't a lot, compared to 90% so it's likely that those of The Pre Civil War Black American Population was enslaved by 1860 and most likely on a slave schedule. Especially in Mississippi.
In my case, even my 2 Free Black American Ancestors before The Civil War were slaves who were freed via manumission(Mason County, KY) The rest of my ancestors who were part of The Pre Civil War Black American Population were slaves until after the Civil War.
I actually have records for 5 ancestors who received the ability to be able to vote(Reconstruction Oath and Voter Act) because they were finally able to become citizens in 1867 and 2 other ancestors that were on The Freedmen's Bureau because they were slaves.
I'm not ashamed of being a descendant of slaves and slaveowners. I have 21-23% Northwest European admixture because of the history of Chattel Slavery in the US and yes I know about Black Americans who has a long Free People of Color Lineage but that's not the experience of most Black Americans and it's ok because all of it is the history of that Community.
Thanks for sharing with us, Curtis. We're happy for you and the success you've experienced. We hope you'll continue to research and grow your family tree.
Girl, that's your ancestors talking to you! Hear them
Just because the Great...Grandparents were born before the War, didn't automatically make them slaves. They may have documentation but that was a broad statement. In the USA 1860 census there were approximately 3-3.5 million enslaved people and 5-6 million Black Americans who were free.
Damn. Interesting. She could feel her. She could feel Matilda.
she looks like jordan peele in a costume
😫🤣
I am not making less of the horrors of slavery but the census records are not as bad as seems. As I've explored my ancestry I have found problems identifying some people because the census records didn't record the names in a household. Not sure what year it started listing by name but many earlier records are only listed by head and then males by age groups, females by age groups both white or black. Near end may ask total whites or blacks in record, regardless of age. So at one time the only person worth naming was the main usually male head of those on property counted.
But still a listing for whites, nonetheless...however, there were very few to none freed blacks, let alone 'heads of household', thus eradicating names of enslaved ancestors on a census until after the civil war, in several cases.
Looks like I’m gonna have to become famous to find out whom my Inka ancestors were lol.
I am sick and dying and wondering what stories my DNA could tell... I Do believe it would be fascinating .. multiracial.
Amazing. I was doing my bi racial daughters dna ancestry. Her daddy's side some branches I could only go back to 1799. Another of her daddy's branch back to 4th generation it was recorded the son of the enslaver as the father with a black woman *they had maybe 6 kids. So I traced the white line to England and direct descendant of King Henry the 8ths sister ( so therefore to the kings and Queens of England. My Scottish roots family tree can be traced to some same royal lines. So my black husband and I share the same 18th great grandparent whichever King of England that was ( king Henry the 8ths father). I traced on woman on her daddy's side as a black woman that was stolen from Africa. Her name wasn't listed but we call her Rose😢. History matters and when I can trace my tree as far back as 900 and my husband's to only 1799 hmmm. But if more and more people take dna test and make their trees public on ancestry we can fill in gaps of history for each other
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How can she not think she'd go back to slavery? Didn't understand that
Which she find her roots back in Africa , May be Liberia, Sierra Leone,Cameroon, Gabon , Senegambie or Bissau ....... may be woloff , Balante or
He is assuming they were slaves. Just because they were black doesn't mean they were slaves.
You're correct. There were "free people of color" but they represented a small number of people. (Checkout Bryant Gumbel's search) Given the time, location and lack of documentation, the odds are against her ancestors being born free prior to the civil war.
Even with the scientific breakthroughs of DNA, this is a blurred "science" by the lack of concise documentation. I've hit many walls in my search which is frustrating. That frustration can be offset by a link to other distant relatives who can fill in the blanks. Keep looking.
There's zero evidence those two people were her ancestors. Did we go over the free black in Mississippi at the time?
So where is your proof?
@@thezmanchar my proof that free black people existed on the continental United States before the colonies even United or proof that they had no evidence those were her relatives or proof free blacks existed in the south? The history of the free black population has been suppressed, especially since the 70s.
Yes, this isn't true genealogy, Gates knows better.
@@odnewdylee And the ratio between Free People of Color and enslaved Africans at that time in Mississippi?
If you hear hoof beats where you live, is it more likely a zebra or a horse?
Also: How do you know that - off camera - documentation regarding FPoC wasn't already consulted to rule out the possibility?
@@odnewdylee Your comment is disingenuous. More than likely based on your egregious agenda regarding being Black. There are episodes where he has guest with free relatives. However most Blacks during this time were not free. Your argument is narrow and shallow not to mention filled with lies.
Wait did she think her ancestors were Bridgertons? Why is she surprised they were slaves?
Crocodile tears if I ever saw ones.
They were enslaved Shonda.
Facts or not ?? Saying could be doesn’t convince me of anything
Nothing is concrete, as the records don't precisely indicate everything, but rather show coincidences from which a conclusion can be drawn...deductive reasoning.
Is she delusional? She didn't think it would go back into slavery. SMH
Eeww she bleaches her skin!
Wow! I’m more shocked by how Shonda voice sounds! If I was listening without looking, I would never imagine that to be the voice of a black woman😂 I guess I never heard her speak before
Chill out. We aren't a monolith. Our voices vary.
Listen to an interview with former NFLer Randy Moss and you'll have your mind blown.
What kind of coulda, woulda mess is this?
Any professional African American Genealogist will tell you a Slave Census tick mark is not suffice.
Shonda, please hire Tony Burroughs, Nicka Smith or Labrenda Nelson.
For all of those who demand reparations for slavery, how, exactly, will you determine a dollar amount? Like Pharrell, who is already wealthy, said, he demands $4,000,000 in reparations. How does anyone come up with a number like that? Monetary reparations demanded by people, who are not slaves, from people who had nothing to do with their ancestors who might have been slaves.
Slavery was only the start. The impact of slavery has eaten through every generation of african americans. Psychologically, pathologically, economically and emotionally...it's asinine to think what happened to our ancestors hasn't affected us; we don't have to be enslaved ourselves to be connected to the pain or adversely impacted by the trauma of slavery, jim crow era and countless other civil rights issues still ongoing today.
If someone worked it out and wanted to explain it you- you'd still argue. Just say you're ok with suffering past and present. Be honest.
Forgive me Lord, but I do not like this woman !!
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