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- No documentary series does revelations like "Finding Your Roots." Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most surprising familial discoveries made by celebrities on the genealogy documentary series “Finding Your Roots” or any of its related variations. Our countdown includes Ben Affleck, Joe Madison, Anderson Cooper, and more! What other celebrities do YOU think may share an eerie connection? Share your suggestions in the comments below!
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What other celebrities do YOU think may share an eerie connection? Let us know below, and check out our video of the Top 10 Dark Family Reveals on Who Do You Think You Are: th-cam.com/video/ZFaWYB6PimI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=d5wYHLrPjQol_hsy
Finding Our Roots other guest
1.Keenan Wayans orgins is not in Africa 😂
2. Michael Strahan related to royalty
3.Ed Norton 12 great-grandmother was Pocahontas
4. Tracy Morgan great grandfather was Jewish
5. Rosaline Cash, daughter of Johnny Cash, both parents had sub-Saharan blood
Also, she is related to Angela Bassett
6. Henry Gates related to John Lithgow
7. Joe Magliano great great great grandmother was a slave
Remember, grandparents each generation back N2 squares! Your four grands, had 8 parents, they had 16, they had 32 six generations back! (Everyone had slave owning relatives!) Just about!
For me Personally it's a shock to find out that Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey share Dna Ancestors. I have seen it.with my own eyes. (as I have added both of them to my tree) and Now I can't get that image out of my head of him jumping on her couch! I still cant believe That they are Blood Relatives? Why am I the only one talking about This? Surely someone else has noticed this too?
joe manganiello
P.Diddy
Ll cool Jay
Michael Strahan
Lisa ling
Really interesting historical connections.
I'm Not Surprised!!! About the families Owning Slaves!!!😮 And other devious Behaviors!!!!
I loved the Larry David and Bernie Sanders reveal. That was just so totally cool that they both did the show.
Bernie & Larry had me roaring! 😂😂
I guessed that immediately!!
No wonder they look so similar😂
It also means that all those times that Larry David played Bernie Sanders on Saturday Night Live are funnier than anything the writers came up with at the time.
Tbh,I'm not the least bit surprised to hear that Bernie Sanders & Larry David are related 😅
Until I saw them on-stage together, I was sure it was 1 guy with 2 personas.
Me neither. They look alike and have similar mannerism.
😂😂
If this show teaches us anything it should be humility. So many times people who hate find they have ties to that exact thing they hate.
@sandyshoenberger2697, Especially Angela Davis and Sunny Hostin
That's why they hate it!
JESUS: "“If you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else-your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters-yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14:26)
@@jdfodio Amen!
The truth in this comment. 😊
@@muntuzakhwela5924 Thank you!
Definitely one of my favourite genealogy shows. Anderson Cooper discovering that his ancestor was killed by one of his slaves is certainly a memorable reveal, and unsurprisingly, Cooper showed more sympathy towards the slave.
Odd .. cooper already knows his ancestry … van der builts .. i mean..,
Do you think he should have been more compassionate to the slave owner who was killed?
They called it "unsurprisingly".@@MeyerHoffman-ry9gy
Waste of time, Anderson knew his well documented history .. Greedy, should have let someone else find their roots ..
@@expatleanie His mother's side, sure, but his Cooper father's side was a little less known.
Half of my ancestors fought for the South, the other half for the North. Same thing happened to Abe Lincoln: four of his brothers-in-laws were Confederates. It's family.
And one of the many reasons why a Civil War is so evil
Remember, grandparents each generation back N2 squares! Your four grands, had 8 parents, they had 16, they had 32 six generations back! (Everyone had slave owning relatives!) Just about!
Pretty sure some of my ancestors fought on both sides of civil war also.
My East Tennessee ( Smokies) & Ohio family.
Go figure. Lol
MOST of my ancestors fought for the South. Only 2 fought for the Union. Also had several slave owners in the family, too. Not happy about it but it is what it is and I don’t hide it. I’m not going to try to rewrite history because it makes me uncomfortable. *I* didn’t do those things. *I* openly condemn those things and try to learn from ancestral mistakes.
I had ancestors who were slaves and other ancestors that shipped slaves. I bet my slave shipping ancestors did not see that one coming.
Tia and Tamera Mowry's family tree discovery on their father's side shocked me in a good way. On their mother's side, they are descended from slaves; on th or father's side, their 13x great grandfather was Rev William Bradford, the minister on the Mayflower whom offered the blessing at the first Thanksgiving in 1621
Wow 😮😮
Remember, grandparents each generation back N2 squares! Your four grands, had 8 parents, they had 16, they had 32 six generations back! (Everyone had slave owning relatives!) Just about!
@@j.dunlop8295yeah but what about Quakers who protected runaway slaves or just good people like Elijah Lovejoy who knew that slavery is wrong, so nope not really
Tia and Tamera, Angela Davis, Niece Nash...DAR, baby!
A MIXED BAG
The way Anderson responded to his ancestor being a slaveowner vs Ben is very telling
It's not telling at all! I doubt either man felt great about it and One felt enough shame that he didn't want it to be known.
Remember, grandparents each generation back N2 squares! Your four grands, had 8 parents, they had 16, they had 32 six generations back! (Everyone had slave owning relatives!) Just about!
Ben Affleck didn’t have any control over what happened in the past when he tried to hide it is when he became a bad guy
@@j.dunlop8295 Everyone? Are Americans everyone?
@@j.dunlop8295Not everyone. A lot of people’s ancestors were the slaves, not the slaveowners. Truly a disgusting and shameful period of history.
Knowing you’re a descendant of slave owners is not something to be proud of, but it’s not something to be ashamed of either. It’s the past, you can’t change it. You didn’t choose to be born into a certain family.
I had to face it myself. I realized that I could not repent for what my ancestors had done, but I can work to dismantle systemic racism here and now.
Great Point! No reason To feel guilty about something you were not a part of. But trying to hide it. Makes you look 'guilty'
Even some slaves were descendants of slave owners
If you still have racist beliefs, you're not any better than the slave owners and anyone else involved in slavery.
@@1rjonaabsolutely, slave owners who raped slaves to reproduce will reproduce so one with both ancestries.
Fred Armisen finding out he’s not Japanese will always be one of my favs
And being a nazi spy etc
He looks white.
Fun fact: I'm related to Benjamin Franklin. We did a DNA test and it showed it he was my great-something uncle. His brother, James Franklin, was my great-something grandpa. This makes a lot of sense since the name, James, runs through the family. My great grandma's maiden name was Franklin as well :)
I am also
I watched a clip from this show recently and it was Mandy Patinkin featured in it. He was shocked to find out that his family was killed during the Holocaust and nobody in his family told him about it. His relatives were killed in the Treblinka concentration camp in a gas chamber and their bodies were cremated shortly after. He had been there before and he never thought he had any family members who died during the Holocaust.
I love this show! I think it's fascinating to learn about your roots.
My favorite was the Angela Davis Mayflower connection … she was not thrilled😮
She was not thrilled for a very good reason. With few exceptions, a black American finding a white man's DNA in their ancestry can be close to certain that the white man's DNA was introduced into their genealogy thru the heinous act of rape.
This inexcusable behavior was actually quite common in the antebellum south after the 1807 Act that prohibited the further importing of Africans to our shores in order to enslave them. If you can't import humans to be enslaved and your wealth is based on their unpaid labor, how do you acquire more humans to enslave? The masters realized that they could create them by raping their enslaved females as soon as the females reached puberty. For the offspring of an enslaved women was automatically also enslaved and owned by said "master".
So, how else would you expect someone to react when faced with the proof of the raping of one's 3rd, 4th, or 5th Great Grandmother (or all three)? 'Not thrilled', I think would be the mildest of possible reactions.
BTW, my favorite was Anderson Cooper's reaction to the murder of one of his ancestors, who owned 12 enslaved people,
by one of "his" enslaved with a farm hoe. When he is told this and Skip asked him, "if he deserved it?" Anderson immediately said, "Yeah, I have no doubt." When Skip says, "It's a horrible way to die, Anderson". Cooper responds, "He had 12 slaves. I don't feel bad for him." A righteous reaction.
The video response on Angela Davis ancestry surprises me. She is fair skinned so she has as many black people have European ancestry. I’m 98% sure that some part of her ancestry owned slaves, and the ancestor that became fair skinned if it was an enslaved female it wasn’t consensual. The video does speak on the enslaved that petitioned the court for the nephews freedom.
She took it well. We come in all shades. worldwide
I thought it was hilarious. There is some kind of exclusive association she would be eligible to join.
But Davis made no attempted denials of her mixed race and ancestors being both slaves and slaveowners, so maybe you're reading a lot into her facial expressions?
While watching the episode of Finding Your Roots with Robert Downey Jr., I discovered that he and I share a common ancestor, Rudi Guttan, from 15th-century Switzerland. My paternal grandmother was a direct lineal descendant of Rudi.
Angela Davis. A descendant of William Brewster? So am I; he's my 11th great grandfather. So are Ashley Judd and her sister Wynonna Judd. Fanny Crosby. Julia Child. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. And, according to my research are about 3 million other Americans.
I, too, am a descendant, as of course are my siblings and maternal lineage😂
Hahaha
That Brewster fellow got around
YOU MISSED SOMETHING.
Lol
I'll never recover from David Tennant's episode. They took him to an old family church and he immediately climbed down into an open grave, grabbed a human skull, held it up, and said, "Is this a relative?!" 😂
That was the show "Who Do You Think You Are." This is a different show only in America.
Yeah - that was shockingly offensive! Couldn't believe he, of all people, would have done such a thing.
@@susanmilone2 he played Hamlet at a theater that uses a real human skull as a stage prop.
@@MsKimifer it's real??? Good Lord, how unnecessary and disrespectful of the dead!
@@susanmilone2 oh no, this guy was a long time thespian of that theatre and specifically donated his skull when he died for the use in that particular play. So he could go on being a star. 🙂
Roseanne Cash should have been on this list. Finding out that your mother was part black when you/she thought her whole family was white, pretty shocking and hits close to home.
I believe she knew what was said, but wasn’t sure. My mother used to say that Rosanne’s mother looked black (mixed) and there were gossip rag articles on the topic.
Roseanne’s brother also looks black like the mother Vivian Liberto.
She’s included in another finding your roots compilation video by Ms. Mojo. Such a sad story 🥺
How wonderful to have black ancestry..in your dna...l also found a portion of mine was Nordic....and German...but mostly British white
Madonna and Ellen DeGeneres are 9th cousins through their French family tree. Madonna's mother was French and Ellen's father was French. That was confirmed.
They do have a slight resemblance (at least the eyes have it). But I thought Madonna's mother was French-Canadian and Ellen was Cajun because of her Louisiana roots.
@@bellefemme87Same thing Madam.
Our people (Les Acadiens) were put on boats in Port Royal, Nova Scotia and sent down the eastern coast to Louisiana becoming The Cajuns.
Five families escaped to the shore of New Brunswick Canada.
They were rescued by the Mic Maw First Nations People and survived.
My Dad’s hometown of TRACADIE, New Brunswick is obviously part of the word
L’ ACADIE.
This little known Diaspora occurred between 1755-1778
Your history may be more rich than you realize!
Best to all.
Ps; The boats were NOT filled in an orderly fashion with complete families… all families were torn apart with mothers, fathers and children torn apart.
Longfellow wrote a poem called
EVANGELINE
I personally think it would make a great movie but the only one is from 1920’s Black and White no voice! Time for a redo, Oui?
Endogamy.
@bellefemme87>> MADONNA IS ALSO PART ITALIAN . HENCE HER LAST NAME IS ITALIAN
As an Irish person, I feel that Finding Your Roots presenting Bill O'Reilly & Bill Maher's relationship as something unique & special because of some common relative they had back in the Irish medieval period (about 1150 to 1550) is quite ridiculous. The sky is the limit if that's the case as we are all extremely likely to be related to each other if we go back that far.
Agreed. Nothing uniform about genealogy over centuries. And we may indeed all share genes in common with an African mother long, long ago.
I read all white women descend from only 8 women, all people with blue eyes descend from one man who had the blue eye mutation. So just go enough centuries back in time and you'll find common ancestors.
That's The Point. If we go back far enough, then we all have common ancestors - Adam & Eve! Humans are destroying each other over petty prejudices.
Really? You found that ridiculous and not the fact that O'Reilly and Maher are related and probably hate each other because of their political views.
True, though through their direct paternal line (a single line of ancestry) makes it far more interesting IMHO.
Bless you Kerry Washington and live strong with your parents so much love!
I come from a large family. A young woman contacted us after she did a DNA test and said my parents were her grandparents. It had us all wondering and questioning. It turned out my niece had donated unused eggs when she had her children years ago. You just never know. We welcomed her to our large family. She now has two brothers and over 100 cousins.
I thought Pharrell's reaction was the most astounded, and emotional. It should have made top of the list.
YES.
Yes! And if I remember correctly they had to pause recording for the first time ever and allow Pharrell to regain his composure.
I could feel his fury
I watch it every week and love it. I wish I could get them to do my family research and DNA breakdown.
Why is Ben shocked and mad He is so extra
Of course he nearly shut the show down. He’s insufferable
He is a real creep
explains him
Overrated and insufferable too.
What does JLo see in him?
I love Finding Your Roots! Thank you for this video!❤
It actually doesn't surprise me that Affleck tried to cover up his ancestry.
Ben Affleck thinks Islam is a race, not a bright boy
I agree. He is such a douchebag.
The fact that he tried to get the show cancelled just shows how much of an entitled egomaniac he and the rest of his ilk are.
@@kcirtapelyk6060 Affleck think Islam is a race 🙄
Why cover it up? Its not his fault!
You totally forgot about Kathryn Hahn and Regina King being cousins.
Wow. That's crazy
Thank you Professor Gates...love your show & research!
Love this show
I learned that I am related to Martin Sheen, via is Grandmother, who was a “Phelan from Ireland!” She was my 2nd Great Grandfathers Sister! Jackson Rathbone is my 6th Cousin once removed!
I'm related to Kyra Sedgewick which makes me just one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon. :P
its basically impossible to not find a common ancestor with someone of common ethnic background. youd have thousands of ancestors to even just account for a handful of generations
Especially if you have European Ancestry. Europe is not that genetically diverse. It actually has the least genetic diversity... so,you're right. We're going to eventually run into common ancestors. This also is true for African Americans who on average have 20-25% European Ancestry. We're pretty much all cousins.
That’s pretty much what an ethnic group is. A large extended family.
Sunny hosting finding out her ancestors were slave holders! Cousin to Anthony Ramos!
Great show, I've always enjoyed watching!
Sarah Jessica Parker found out that her ancestor was tried for witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials.
And she was in the Halloween classic “ Hocus Pocus “! 😂
Wow..I may be related to her,lol.😄
She looks like a witch
Seriously are you really surprised.
It was Who do you think you are that SJP appeared on where she found out that her ancestor was accused of witchcraft. As far as I know, she hasn't ever appeared on Finding your Roots. I remember SJP was in the slate of actors during the first season of Who do you think you are along with Emmett Smith & Lisa Kudrow.
I love Finding Your Roots Family History
Don Cheadles finding out White people didn't own his ancestors ,but Native American (Chickasaws) did was Beautiful
Was it not the Seminoles?
@@RomyAndMichelle
NOPE . Chickasaws. see for yourself here on TH-cam watch Don Cheadle learns his ancestors.
Fun fact , The Chickasaw refused to give up their slaves ,even after the White man freed them and had to be forced by White men (union soldiers) to give them up .
I felt so hurt for him
@@beyourself2444 me too
@@RomyAndMichelleno, the Seminoles were really a multiracial group of natives, blacks, and whites who wanted no parts of the evolving US or slavery. Escaped Africans, non conforming Europeans, and resisting Native Americans banded together to resist US domination. The Africans in the group were the main resistance to Andrew Jackson's agression and quest to take Native American land.
Why be embarrassed about an ancestor. Its not you! Good grief.
Why be proud of the ancestor?
Why not?
@@QbnAmCan Being proud of a slave-holding person is stupid. That's why not.
@@demh7823 ok so your only options is to be proud or embarrassed by someone or something that you had nothing to do with.
You know, there are other options. It's called accepting that is your ancestors and you believe it was wrong and live YOUR life differently.
Whoa what a concept.
@@MrsSpiffilicious Accepting ancient history… I’m gonna write that one down 👍👍👍😂😂😂
Ed Norton's story was pretty impressive.
I love his show. So well done
If you go back far enough we are all related, so sixth cousin once removed are probably Oprah Winfrey and the king of Norway.
Oprah has no European ancestry. She has some Native American ancestry added to her African ancestry. 😀
Yep we all are related. God made one pair of people. We all are descendants of them.
I wouldn't try to bury it if it turned out an ancestor of mine owned slaves. Of course, I won't be proud of it, but why would I want to have it deleted? I didn't do it. What someone did 200 years ago is not a reflection of who I am.
People should remember that you are not responsible for someone else's actions we are unique and different , learn from the past and move on to a better place for those that follow , Just Saying 🌴
Of course i agree. Happy monday afternoon, Sophia. Take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well.
What about when RuPaul is cousins with Cory Booker
❤this! First time here just subscribed!
LL Cool J should have been at the top of the list.
Agreed, much more shocking!
Right? I was sure LL Cool J would be the big reveal. The Larry David/Bernie Sanders cousin thing was weak sauce.
Agreed! That was shocking for him and his mom
I love how Nora O'Donnell and Henry Louis Gates Jr. are cousins. I loved that episode too.
Glad you cleared that up.
I now know my husband and kids are related to Kevin Bacon… my husband is also a descendant of Edward Longshanks (who was a descendant of William the Conqueror and Rollo the Viking).
More commonly known as King Edward 1 of England. Your husband and children are therefore related to our Royal family too. It’s estimated that two million people can claim Edward as an ancestor which boggles the mind but it’s still an interesting fact to know. Your family has a lot of relatives out there!😊
Your husband and I are distantly related as I am descended from Edward as well, so as the other poster said, another of the 2 million people…
Pretty much everyone with significant English ancestry is descended from the House of Normandy and the House of Plantagenet. That was so long ago, those genes have really spread out. And I think pretty much all people with western European ancestry could trace back to Charlemagne, if we had all those records.
Courteny Cox has both William the 1st (William the Conquerer) and the person who killed William the 2nd in her family line. Now THAT was on interesting episode!
I’m not surprised about Anderson Cooper
Bill Maher is becoming more and more like Bill O'Reilly as the days go by.
I'm glad someone else is seeing it!
He certainly is.
It's normal for elderly to become more conservative. Churchill said, if you're not liberal you've no heart! If you're not conservative when old, you've no brains!😅 I'll stick with the heart!
I can't stand Bill Maher! Especially after his comment about 9/11.
O'Reilly is an obnoxiously loud - Maher not so much
I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE this show!
Mojo and MsMojo are like the Reader's Digest for the internet and pop culture, and I'm here for it!
Thanks so much for watching!
Love this show.
One of the good ones. Favorite show.
The Ben Affleck one never gets old. LMAO!
I Wish He Did the Late Great Louis Gossett jr. May He R.I.P.
A lot of these are very surprising 😮❤️
My husband was a professional genealogist. He is descended from the Viking Rollo and from Saint Margaret of Scotland.
Seriously? This is crazy. Rollo was my 34th great grandfather & Saint Margaret of Scotland my 29th great grandmother. Although I'm not a professional genealogist, I've been working on my ancestry for almost 20 years and try to thoroughly dissect every bit of information I get, so I'm fairly confident of my results. So I guess your husband and I are cousins?
Cheers from Canada!
Rollo is also my 34th Great grandfather through William The Conquerer and the Plantagenets
@@CharCanuck14Wow! What incredible ancestry!
Edward I (mentioned in the video) was also a descendant of Rollo and William the Conqueror… my husband is of that line.
@@carmie9400 I think everyone has an amazing ancestry Carmie. I find the interesting & incredible stories coming from the "average Joe" ancestor like my 3rd great grand uncle in England who stole some cloth & was sentenced to be transported to a penal colony in Australia. Amazing history lessons involving "family".
Greetings & cheers from Canada!
Man, I wanna do this but I’m scared at the same time, I already have messed up family history to begin with.
I faced a LOT of negative blowback from older relatives when I began my family history journey. Most of them were found to have situations that are (typically) not a big deal today. Illegitimate births? Multiple marriages? Infidelity? *shrug* So what? The current generation should not be repressed because of beliefs held by their great-grandparents that do not have the same impact today.
Digging in anyway, I found people who had a positive impact on history. Using DNA, I resolved some skeletons about parentage that created generational trauma for a lot of people. A relative who had been abused their entire life because it was thought they were the product of rape? Nope. They had the same father as all the people who they were told were only half-siblings. The *victim* of the rape was well-deserved of sympathy for their trauma, but they took it out on the child they bore, which was absolutely wrong and damaged several generations thereafter.
I've been doing this 20 years. My advice: go into it with a stout heart and prepare to be faced with a version of history that may not be the one you've always been told. Also, be prepared for decisions on what information should be revealed and what should be guarded out of respect. A cousin and I came to a nearly simultaneous revelation about a common ancestor who was jailed for life for murder. The information had a greater direct impact on them than me, so I left it to them to decide on what to reveal. My knowledge went into a non-reveal folder.
It's been an enlightening and gratifying pursuit. For all the ugliness and unhappiness to be found, I have absolutely *zero* regrets about the research I've done.
@@terria4698 oh wow, that’s crazy, my father walked out on me so I know nothing about his side of the family. but my mother side of the family treated everyone terribly. that’s why she and my grandmother distance themselves from them.
@@terria4698 this was well said! Agree 💯
@@123theprodigy5 if you have a name is a good place to start with lineage. You can find out a lot about his past. someone out there has him on their lineage I promise, and when you link up with theirs you'll have a lot of information. That is how we are doing ours.
I enjoy this program, Finding Your Roots!
It inspires so many of us to want know the secrets of untold history.
It's amazing how many people that have been raised by grandparents or other family members, that don't know the truths or their backgrounds but share the need to know of who they really are.
Especially when you're family all look different, with various skin tones, hair and facial features, or how much you look like someone!
So the questions all remain the same.
Who are your people? Where do I come from?
What's my story?
Why has no one ever told me?
It's sad really...tht all this important information is kept secret and taken to the grave because of embarrassment or someone's infidelity!
I too have these questions and would like to know!
I love this show. I wish I could get the same information as these celebrities.
You can....if you hire a professional geneologist and PAY lots of money for the research.
Since slavery and slave owning has a long history in most human civilizations, it would be unusual for it not to show up in most people's ancestry. I think it is way past time that we stopped judging people in the past based on today's culture.
Slavery was an integral part of the development of this nation just like taking the land from the native people. All nations have "skeletons in the closet". The hypocrisy is America has made great brags about equality but as history shows: you can't dictate "love of neighbor" , honesty, humility: qualities that only Jehovah and Jesus inspire and can enforce. Matthew 22:26-40; Ecclesiastes 8:9
Love this❤❤❤❤❤
Why Binnifer deserve each other
You should have put Sunny Hostin on there because her family came from Spain and moved along with their slaves to America. La' var Burton is another one had to do two DNA to proved that his great grandfather was a slave owner.
She’s coming up I believe.
Gotta LOVE when RACE BAITERS...find out their families ARE those exact people 😂😂...
I learned that NFL Quarterback Russell Wilson is supposedly my cousin from this show.
Maher and O’Reilly makes sense actually
Hoooo yea, we're all related over here, it's a small island. I wouldn't be surprised if they were related to Tom Brady as well.
I love this show!
The best 2 of all time:
Sunny Hulston (the view) and Don Cheadle.
Sunny is directly descended from Spanish slavers who left Spain to continue their slave business.
Don Cheadle found out his ancestors were owned by the Indigenous Chickasaw tribe.
Her last name is Hostin.🙄
Ben Afflecks reaction actually shows how insecure and fragile his ego is. Pitiful.
I was going to say something similar, but with bad words. ;).
JUST FEEL PITY..He cannot stand to feel "flawed," but we are ALL flawed. A childish initial reaction.
That's why I never liked him as Batman
Right. Anderson Cooper had a similar ancestry but just accepted that was part of his lineage and understood that it doesn’t define him as the person today. Just accept and move on.
AWHINER
Best show on RV for many years!
RuPaul & Cori Booker!
The Bernie, Larry connection wouldn't have occurred to me. But the minute you say it, of course!
I had relatives that settled and lived in the south and still fought for the union .
I had grandparents fighting for the north and uncles fighting for the south with the same name . And it happened at least twice !
Shame on Ben trying to control his personal narrative. He shouldn’t have been on the show if he didn’t want true data revealed. What an actor. 😠 He just needs to be real and present. He’s not living in the past. He needed to acknowledge that he had a slaveowner in his past and move on. SMH
Edward I of England is a LOT of people's 20-something great grandfather.
My roots: wine makers, pig farmers, dairy farmers, and border reivers.
All I know about my roots are irish Welsh and native Americans debated learning more of my genealogy
BORDER REIVER here too ! Bell ! Loads of BR families, Bell, Baty ( Beatty) Forster, Graham, Halliday, and more ! You?
The Joe Madison🕊️and Angela Davis reveals were wild. Joe Madison’s family tree had a lot going on, for centuries. Angela Davis a Mayflower descendant, never ever would’ve thought that.
Britney Spears is MY 5th cousin! And Duncan, King of Scots is great, great..grandfather!!
Huson opposed British colonialism in North America, you say? He was a Briton who settled in a British colony, Pennsylvania province, before the beginning of the American Revolution. So he was clearly not opposed, he just changed sides conveniently as many did. Of course, British colonialism was a necessary precursor of the United States’ very existence. It would never have come into being without it.
This takes 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon to a whole new level hahaha
I really enjoy this show
So Angela Davis can walk in the front door of the Daughters of the Revolution? Do it!
HO. YES SHE CAN!!!!
So hoping for more videos like this one eventually please😅?
So Reynold's ancestors owned slaves, so what, it had nothing to do with him. People have to quit trying to rewrite history and learn from it. We still have slavery in this country, the media just calls it human trafficking. Maybe if we called it what it is people would stamp it out 😢.
Ummm, I must have very interesting ancestors as I was very underwhelmed by this video.
It wouldn’t be right for me to mention recent, let’s just say, very interesting ancestors but I can mention that I have a few lines of my ancestors that are royal in origin but living in Scotland and being 99.2% (I have done a few genetic tests as I am very interested in my family history as there are some really intriguing dead ends of pretty recent generations in my family history) of British & Irish heritage, which was slightly disappointing on a personal level as I would love to be able to go somewhere a bit exotic and think this is where my ancestors are from.
That having royalty in your family history isn’t statistically significant when you realise that the generation of 22nd grandparents can include up to about four million people.
It’s deeper than this.
My ancestors were Adam and Eve. 😁
Also, my grandfather's brother was the grandfather of Matthew Perry.
So Robert Perry is second cousins to Matthew Perry. Not a huge surprise!
We are ALL related to Adam and Eve somehow. Cool you brought it up though 👍
Hello cousin Kevin!
I keep missing the shows. But love it. Wonder if this show or the other one has ever given thought to do this for a non celebrity and see if actually related to a celebrity. That would be nuts.
Finding Your Roots had a contest last year for the public to ask a genealogy question about their family. The winners will be shown sometime in April.
The ‘Viewers Like You’ episode aired last week, April 9th. It was good, the three ladies were sincere and genuine. (Lookin at you Ben.)🙄 Also the format was a little different where they did one story from start to finish, which I enjoy a lot more than the jumping back and forth between stories.🙂
Jacqueline, I have it in my phone calendar reminders!😉
It also reruns later in the week, or so I’ve seen on the TV guide channel. I’ve watched a few of them twice!🙂
If we go back long enough, you’re related to me.😂
Courtney Cox being a direct descendant of William the Conqueror blew me away.
As there is an almost 1,000 year line of descent, there are a ton of us out there that can claim the same.
Absolutely love the aspect of the show!!! But...they always go with famous people...what about picking and choosing those may have potential connections to bigger things and not knowing how it all ties in...supposedly i have a relative that died on the Lady Elgin that sunk...as well as supposedly being related to William Davidson...as in Harley Davidson the motorcycle brand...can't afford to look into it myself sadly...if you can put forth for the rich and famous what about us small folk???😮😮😮
Kevin Bacon must be my distant cousin, then. Longshanks is also my 22nd great-grandfather! (The 10th great-grandfather of my 10th great-grandfather [born 350 years before me] is another way of looking at it.)
This video pointedly leaves out the emotional disbelief and denial of Angela Davis upon learning that one of her ancestors was a white colonist coming over on the Mayflower, a status long accepted in America as the beginning of white Europeans inhabiting North America in general -- and in particular settling in the British colonies that formed the foundation of the USA.
Apparently she's always been in denial about being of mixed race, but her ancestor being one of the founders of British colonization on the North American continent was an unbelievable surprise NOT shared in this slanted video. Her complexion and iconic black afro hairstyle had made her a symbol of a radical movement defined, in part, by her one-sided rhetoric, but when confronted with gaps between ideology and the complexities of identity politicsher reactions were reveaingly personal.
Professor Gates has released the whole video on his ancestry-focused TH-cam channel.
As a native American going back to 1790, we also found Moroccan, and Chinese ancestors .
I wish the rumor that i`m a decendant of the old viking, Gorm the elder was true. That would be awesome.
I have a paper trail back to Rollo the Viking (the first Norman)
Found out I'm related to Clara Barton(American Red Cross founder) John Chapman aka Johnny Apple, Gene Roddenberry(Star Trek)
If you go back enough generations, we're pretty much ALL related.
And if you believe in Heavenly Father, we're all brothers and sisters.
I don't
But, if you go back as many generations as they do on the show, you can be related to athletes, entertainers, royalty, etc.
In other words, being someone's 10th cousin 5 times removed doesn't mean a whole hell of a lot.