Dr. Gates makes everything so fascinating. He’s got that golden voice, with the likes of Morgan Freeman and James Earl Jones. Such eloquence. I adore his demeanor and delivery. I assume he’s won Emmy’s. If not, he’s deserving of an entire wall of awards. Dr. Gates, you’re the STAR of the show. ✨💫✨

My fifth great gramps trained Napoleon s cavalry. His skills saved his head, but then he lost it at Waterloo, to a cannonball. When I watched the recent film, it's all I could think of.

I never miss this show. Dr. Gates makes history come alive.

Having dna testing can sometimes amaze you or even surprise you, it changed the history of my life.

Bob has a proud and strong family background.

That finger injury his ancestor got was a million dollar wound. Without it, Bob probably would never have been born.

It's like that episode from Breaking Bad were Saul (Bob's character) makes up a story about finding Ted's ancestors were from Dutch royalty

My mom was doing this genealogy stuff a couple decades ago, and I learned that my ancestors were "land speculators" who started towns in various places around the nation. I am supposedly related (not directly) to President Garfield. My ancestors were part of the Underground Railroad "assistance program" in Southwestern Ohio (Price Hill), a fact that I am quite proud of. And that is just my Mom's side. Hey, Doc... do my tree, man.

What I learned is that no matter what anybody thought in the past was the biggest deal to them. They went out to fight some war or to accomplish some great feat We look back on it now as an unimportant thing. Very distant from ourselves. We must maintain the fact that no matter what is going on today it is equally unimportant in the grand scheme of time. No matter how big the war is today we should never fight it because 300 years from now nobody will care

I’ve been trying to find definitive evidence that one of my 5th great granduncles from New Brunswick, Canada, fought at Waterloo, as family legend has it. I know he was transferred from Canada to England in November 1814 as the War of 1812 was starting to wrap up. I found someone with his name in the paybook for the 23rd Light Dragoons that started on December 25, 1814 and went through three years. In it, that person was recorded as a Waterloo veteran. If I can find the paybook that preceded the 1814-1817 one and see that the person is not in that one, I would be very confident that he is my distant relative. Unfortunately, that earlier paybook is not online, and I can’t afford to hire someone to go to the archives in London to look it up. The first mention I’ve found of that legend was published in 1900 in a Who’s Who of New Brunswick mini bio of another family member, so it is an old tale. That early date reinforces my thoughts that this is a legitimate story. But, I really need that earlier paybook to verify it.

I try to never miss an episode. I find it fascinating how closely related we are in this country! And not just to each other, but to the whole world. When I first started watching, the what’s it like, question bugged me. But I’ve come to realize how that question would impact this guy with only 6 cousins, 4 of which are only partial cousins. My fraternal grandfather died in a pool accident before his half brother and sister were born. My mother’s only sibling, a sister, had three children by two men. My family is very small. I don’t have relationships with those cousins a cause of distance, and religion.

❤ Your series Dr. Gates 🏆

Thank you Dr Gates every story is fascinating, i am from France and i wished we had the same tv show as yours. ❤

Ancestry!!! I just got my daughters resulta today. I came here to find out why they decided to charge my 5 year old $100.00 /3months just to see her traits!!

Don't follow crazy people into war. Hahahaha! Bob is the coolest dude. I am a big fan of David Cross too.

Hey Bob I did a DNA test and have a line that leads to the same royal line as you. I can see a resemblance, hey cousin!

My favorite human & favorite episode! It’s all good man!

Question: what happened to the video about Sting's roots? It completely disappeared from the Ancestry channel. Was this because of Sting's request?

My dad lost his pinky finger in a car accident and then he went on to build our house and be a handyman and mechanic so I think he was probably okay lol

Love the tie.

One must be a A lister to get these free probably, searches. My parents lost one of their parents long ago, and I am from one of the ancestors that go back further, yet I will not get this kind of help from Ancestry. I need to delete my family trees and start over this year and hope to live long enough to do it all myself. 😢

Love Dr. Gates ❤

j adore ce gars . viens en France Bob ^^ chez toi ^^

Bro half of my family is impossible to find

no way saul goodman related to there is nothing we can do

I wonder if JJ Fricker was “French” or ethnically an Alsatian, definitely that is a German surname.

Watching this is the most near to an animus.

Ancestry! Shame on you. Disgraceful act make people pay subscriptions now to see their shared matches. What about the loyal customers who have been with you from the start..

his wives died? yeh like he had no hand in it. serious neglect or mistreatment which of course would be unrecorded.

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He looks English.

"Odenkirk is an anglicized variant of the German locational surname Odenkirchen or from the Dutch locational surname Oudekerk which literally means “old church”. Notable people with the surname include: Bill Odenkirk (born 1965), American comedy writer." "A user from Hong Kong says the name Odenkirk is of Scandinavian origin and means "Odins church"." "The surname Odekirk is of Dutch origin. It is a variant of the name 'Oudekerk', which is made up of two words, 'oude' and 'kerk'. 'Oude' in Dutch means 'old,' and 'kerk' translates to 'church', so the surname Odekirk essentially means 'old church'. This surname likely originated as a topographic name for someone who lived near an old church or as an occupational name for a person who worked at such a place. Dutch surnames often reflected the occupation or the place of residence of an individual, and this seems to hold true for the name Odekirk. It is also important to note that spelling variations of this name can include Ouderkirk, Oudekerk, and others, which further support the interpretation of the name's meaning. Given the variance in spellings, the surname might have geographical differences within the Netherlands itself. The surname is relatively rare and most prevalent in the United States, presumably carried there by Dutch immigrants."

Napoleon is one of my direct Paternal Paternal DNA matches on my Big Y-700 DNA test at familytreedna.