lol . . . I watched this when it came out and totally didn't get the 'talking tree' thing. I just thought it was a 'zoom' type person asking the questions via video . . or something. 'talking tree' . . . 'leaf' . . . OK . . . I get it now. Kirsten's natural maternal beauty really shines thru here.

Regarding JFK - It WAS the same day as the shooting. Kennedy was taken to Parkland Hospital in Dallas where he was pronounced dead on 11/22/63.

Poor Scott, he was really surprised. On Kirsty it was during Kennedy's Assassination.

I loved this, D! 💖

That was soooo cool and interesting.

I LOVE THIS!! Yes this came out this past holiday season .

No clue it existed either and absolutely LOVED it! 🎉

Fun!

JFK was only treated once at Parkland Hospital. So Kirstie’s relative had to have been at Parkland when th ❤.

Too cute!

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Another fun competition they did was Cosmopolitan's That's So Emo, which is like charades but they have to act out emojis and get points for how many emojis they are able to get the others to guess: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bqlgn9qS2NfOkWg.html

Loved this!

This was so much fun! Great reaction. Thanks.

I saw this when it came out and Scott's reaction still makes me laugh. It's really not that surprising that his majority DNA is Scandinavian rather than German, Europe has so much movement of people in some places, and yet in others they just stayed put lol, so it's not unexpected that people are often surprised (I know I was not expecting a 24% Swedish DNA myself) but it sets you on the path to wanting to understand why we have the storieswe do and why we expect the things we do that turn out not quite right, etc. I find genealogy fascinating. On the topic of DNA testing and all that though... I think doing a test can be valuable if you have wider family you're looking to connect to and/or you're interested in where your various ancestors came from. I think this seems especially of interest to people in the US because it is such a melting pot. There are limits to the info that a test can give you, but it can give you matches to people who may have more in depth family trees you're a part of, and they might have photos and obituaries etc (you have to also have a subscription to get the most out of the matches, to make the most of it you need at least a basic tree of your own back a couple generations & be careful to double check other people's working out because sometimes they make huge & obvious mistakes in their trees). So DNA can tell you if you have a shared ancestor from both your trees, or sometimes it will even make kind of educated guesses based on info available to their system but that you mit not be able to see. Once you have names of ancestors & relatives the rest is down to you. Amazon does have a lot of year books on the site for the US, especially around the 60s-80s from my experience (varies from different states), which is probably how they found Matt's dad's nickname. A match may have led them to a tree who had the photo from Scott's great grandparent. And if you search names then it can also bring up relevant news articles, which is perhaps where they got the information on Kirstie's grandfather being in the hospital when JFK was brought in after being shot in Dallas, the newspaper probably jad an interview or comments from himmor a family member and Mitch's gandfather's involvment in dthe charity So all that info can be reached but it won't just fall in your lap after the test, you have to do a lot of digging & research for it. I expect this little "show" has someone assigned to doing that for the guests. As much as it can take ages and be difficult digging through irrelevant stuff, it can be very interesting and a lot of fun. I'm in the UK and found several of my great grandmother's siblings who sailed off to the US in the late 1800s/early 1900s and the fascinating stories I unravelled from immigration cards, newspapers etc. I found dozens of cousins I had no idea existed, all sprinkled through the US now, and it's a lot of fun seeing year book pics too, since we don't do that here. Lol. Another thing to look into before buying a test is where you expect your family to originate from, because different companies have better databases for other regions, eg if you are pretty sure you have a good chunk of Asian DNA there are a few services that will give you lots more detailed/specific regional info, the difference between saying "Chinese" and the exact province in China your ancestors like came from. Some are better at specifying Jewish DNA (where as the likes of 23 & me only refers to ashkenazi Jewish, even misidentifying other types of Jewish or not picking up on them at all). So if you're thinking of doing the test, it can be important to have a rough idea of where you might be from based on how you look or the names in your family (of course that's no help if you're adopted) and to look into how good the databases are for those areas from the different companies. Most people do default to Ancestry because they have the biggest database overall and they have such a good tree set up and subscriptions for researching too.

Love this ❤