Reggie Traces His Mixed Race Heritage | Who Do You Think You Are

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Presenter and DJ Reggie Yates grew up knowing very little about his father's side of the family. Reggie sets out on the trail of his grandfather, Harry Philip Yates. His journey takes him to Ghana, where he unravels a complex family history where Ghanaian culture and British colonialism collide.
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@minskdhaka 4 жыл бұрын

I wish Reggie would find his English second cousins (George's other great-grandkids) and meet them. He already has the names of their grandparents (George's other children). With the power of the BBC behind him, it should not be too difficult to trace those lines of his family down to the present day. Some of them may be quite shocked to discover that their great-grandfather had another family on the side, but others may love discovering a new cousin.

@hc2155 2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't be useful for his career to connect with that side of his family...

@mr.trades 11 ай бұрын

@@hc2155 Your joking family is family, another thing if they reject him. Don't under what it has to do with his career.

@hc2155 11 ай бұрын

@@mr.trades The BBC are interested in promoting, recruiting and marketing 'diversity'.

@user-es3zh3jk5o 2 жыл бұрын

I think the fact that his great-grandfather returned before his son was born says a lot about the man. It's very possible he had a loving relationship with his family in Africa. This cute guy should try and find out more about both sides of the family.

@tvs9978 Жыл бұрын

Not really. It was par jour then to have local wives because their European wives could not accompany them to West Africa

@CHRISTiandoll7 5 жыл бұрын

Too bad this is only for celebrities. It’s a shame that we as a people can’t trace our lineage. Wish this was offered to everyone.

@saulwest8254 5 жыл бұрын

African countries don't keep birth records? How far back have you managed to trace your ancestors?

@milksips3876 4 жыл бұрын

I’d 💯 watch that, it would be so interesting

@karentucker2161 4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@QueenMegaera 3 жыл бұрын

Isn't all the stuff they're going through public records, though? It would just take longer to go through it on your own.

@michaeldukes4108 3 жыл бұрын

You’re just not putting the work in.

@QueenMegaera 3 жыл бұрын

The slightly annoyed researchers/library readers in the background are litterally going "who do you think you are?" 😂

@mi3helle707 3 жыл бұрын

🤭😭😂

@TAMUlady 3 жыл бұрын

Facts!!! I believe it was definitely directed at the lady’s statements and categorization of the Europeans.

@leonardssenkindu8445 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe they were jealous, lol 🤪😂😈

@shealuvm 2 жыл бұрын

It’s really rude of them. They could have found a somewhere private…..

@chelseafcrocks82 3 жыл бұрын

I've watched this man since I was young. A beautiful entertainer and a British treasure.

@bfc2155 2 жыл бұрын

Google how he got fired

@johnaldred6864 Жыл бұрын

Not quite as beautiful as you think eh ...

@purpleskies4553 3 жыл бұрын

I love Finding Your Roots its so interesting. Everyone should try to dig into their history a bit it really gives a lot of understanding. One day our future relatives might be researching us

@briksization 3 жыл бұрын

And the "tradition" continues to this day win the U.N. workers , aid, police, military... having 2-3 families on each mission or continent.. :(

@matsuewiles4972 2 жыл бұрын

So true. There are towns and villages in my country with Chinese Liberian children and Bengali Liberian children about and abandoned.

@ashog1426 6 күн бұрын

Eh good for them.

@christinagiannaros9817 Жыл бұрын

' a long, um, tradition' says it all really, and his great grandmother's story is conspicuously absent/not recorded.

@kissyfurr4189 5 жыл бұрын

A long tradition of relationships? I'm sure the women who were subjected to the cruelty of the British men would say different.

@michaeldukes4108 3 жыл бұрын

Were you there? Can you speak for them?

@hollydriscoll8315 3 жыл бұрын

Not all interracial relationships at that time were cruel or even subjective

@frag9575 3 жыл бұрын

@@hollydriscoll8315 wheres your sources

@im937 3 жыл бұрын

@@michaeldukes4108 I mean I can ask you the same question, imagine romanticizing a relationship where a man has basically right of life or death over someone with no repercussions smh

@djfhfh 3 жыл бұрын

Considering how the british treated the irish in recent history (up to 1990s) i can only imagine... As a young girl you wete petrified when you noticed you had to walk past a group of british soliders.

@africaninsider Ай бұрын

Reggie has the same ears as his great grandfather George William Yates 😄

@muitolinkemsky 26 күн бұрын

Yah I also think so

@reneedebeersaab5854 5 жыл бұрын

All us mixed race people from Africa have similar heritage stories.

@williambuck5617 4 жыл бұрын

all people are mixed and have these storys in our familys

@sabrinastarks7868 3 жыл бұрын

@@williambuck5617... very much appreciate this sentiment. Tired of people feeling like they are so "special" whilst simultaneously trying to be so "relatable".

@guguncube2308 3 жыл бұрын

Not true

@waitaminute2015 3 жыл бұрын

Back in those days, people could get away with hiding all sorts of things.

@myronsmith2114 4 ай бұрын

No internet

@myronsmith2114 4 ай бұрын

Not even a phone

@bbpadejumo5357 5 жыл бұрын

Hmmnnn,....... this ‘tradition’ of Expatriates Watering the local impoverished Flowers, and taking off, still continues till today

@MoveSomethingWithTee 3 жыл бұрын

From one Yates to another salute. I just started my DNA search.

@truthseeker3322 3 жыл бұрын

I worked with a lady with the last name Yates and she was lighter skinned with long curly hair.

@puffymuffin9064 5 жыл бұрын

I try tracing mine on my dad side got good info but on my mum side nothing much

@santhoshkumar-vd7jo 2 жыл бұрын

Great grandfather looks like former South African fast bowler Allan Donald.

@tynkirbell599 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating story

@SUNNYDAILYNEWS 3 жыл бұрын

Grandad probably have kids al over the place!

@mandamorris7934 11 ай бұрын

The advantage here is that those affiliated with the show are better at interpreting what information they do find. There is an abundance of knowledge out there, but the average person must first educate yourself on how to search. If you hit a wall, there are ways to obtain help. Jump in and see what you find! You won't know until you try.

@greenpancakemix 5 жыл бұрын

The amount of baseless assumptions in the comments is wild

@lisapoole1219 3 жыл бұрын

Baseless? Please!

@praises5139 3 жыл бұрын

How about we look at history, and I am not talking a false narrative written by Europeans.

@NickyM_0 3 жыл бұрын

@@praises5139 Right! let's look at the less sanitised version.

@sabrinastarks7868 3 жыл бұрын

Yup...and you are going to see even more now that people are under firmly the race-baiting/"race war" spell. This is just one person's story but everyone obviously needs it to fit another 'narrative".

@jeffreykuhn965 Жыл бұрын

I agree. Much more research to do to define the relationships or improve perspective. It was during the turn of the century, THE LAST CENTURY, so apply the standards of the time. Maybe she was all alone in the world and really in love or grateful? (Another baseless assumption). More research. Reggie seems happy and really that's what matters.

@Laura-sg6ss 3 жыл бұрын

0:40 I'm sorry but this made me giggle💀🤭

@angiepronzola6622 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@leonardssenkindu8445 2 жыл бұрын

What was funny, I check at 0:40

@Neokulay 5 жыл бұрын

Reggie Yates is a cutie! 😂

@jimcree6869 2 жыл бұрын

Let's not forget his uncle Eddie who was on coronation Street

@tenayadawson5541 2 жыл бұрын

Reginald you are such a sweetheart and handsome man love you 😍❤😘

@WashingtonDC20032 Жыл бұрын

He looks like him too! Around the north and cheeks.

@TAMUlady 3 жыл бұрын

I’m really despondent by how the lady is very permissive of his great grandfather. I shared Reggie’s disbelief of his behavior. She made everything so kind and clean often appeared to be defending great grand pappy’s behavior. I felt much irritation with her.

@NickyM_0 3 жыл бұрын

@TAMUlady Me too!

@PJ-po7fu 3 жыл бұрын

Same!

@lindyashford7744 3 жыл бұрын

At least you can recognise that, it shows you have not been educated out of having a moral compass.

@danielakut4861 3 жыл бұрын

You are very smart, I felt the same the whole time. There is no way I can look past the fact that they could have a consensual relationship where a whiteman has the power over someones life with no repercussions

@sabrinastarks7868 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone's in these comment making some really weird judgements that are obviously based in today's race-baiting climate. We weren't there so to make this more than what it is, is simply ridiculous. He led a double-life. Of course that is NOT admirable but I refuse to get so far into the mindset that there is ALWAYS a "victim".

@blakaeg 3 жыл бұрын

I kinda knew he had some sort of mixture in him. This is very interesting stuff.

@collinsagyeman6131 3 жыл бұрын

I used to live in Sekondi

@enoch6450 5 жыл бұрын

Having spent time in West Africa...to this day women are treated very badly....nevermind 100 years ago!!

@TextBookPuncher1 5 жыл бұрын

I’ve seen women treated badly in pubs too.

@huldah1605 3 жыл бұрын

@@TextBookPuncher1 Lol you have no idea. Do some research and you might understand Enoch comment?

@incoco2 3 жыл бұрын

Your name gives away your ideology, Have seen and heard women are not treated good on the continent

@optimist-warmheart8291 3 жыл бұрын

he lookslike him amazing

@ms.rstake_1211 5 жыл бұрын

Scared to check mine.

@karentucker2161 4 жыл бұрын

Never be scared.....you might find good things too

@tasman9721 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to take a closer look at the writing with a forensic graphologist

@Exiria 5 жыл бұрын

What a menace yates was

@saneleofmargate8785 3 жыл бұрын

He was a g

@amyclarke41 3 жыл бұрын

Great

@falloutgirl902 5 жыл бұрын

I wanna do this just not on telly.

@lfcforever1482 5 жыл бұрын

You can sign up to Ancestry.com and find out your history. I think you have to pay but you can always get the free trial.

@patriciamurashige6879 Жыл бұрын

Wow.. it’s great to know the story before deciding who their ancestors actually were.

@dplj4428 5 ай бұрын

My family names have been mispelled repeatedly over 5 generations. Even from sibling to sibling! So, keep hold of that “W” and “E” yates affidavit. No telling what trail it might lead to.

@tasman9721 3 жыл бұрын

The viscosity changes

@whatchwhatch628 3 жыл бұрын

I care not for looking into family face's from history! I just look forward to seeing knew ones magically appear,

@alisonnorcross951 3 жыл бұрын

We have some jerks like that in my family too.

@tasman9721 3 жыл бұрын

That could prove something

@oseiosei6649 5 жыл бұрын

Why is this series trying to romanticize colonialism in Ghana?

@lizzyscorner 4 жыл бұрын

I don't think they are trying to romanticize anything, just tell his family story.

@msoda8516 3 жыл бұрын

I think family history is sometimes complex.

@Lizzy514 3 жыл бұрын

Colonialism happened with inside help

@lisapoole1219 3 жыл бұрын

@@Lizzy514 your point? Does that somehow make it okay and less atrocious. I bet you say that whenever someone mentions slavery too huh?

@TAMUlady 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@EagerPyramids-bc7hh 3 ай бұрын

My Dad left us for eight years.told he was in Iraq... only GOd know..coz we were 10 back home hear from different mother's

@tasman9721 3 жыл бұрын

Means different use

@KL-nw9mi 5 жыл бұрын

I remember meeting him he’s so cute

@calderone5559 5 жыл бұрын

WHO ? REGGIE ? JUST BECAUSE HE IS LIGHTSKINNED, HIS FEATURES ARE TOO PREEMINANT FOR HIS COMPLEXION ...

@KL-nw9mi 5 жыл бұрын

Chris Opium you Buffoon

@dumfriesspearhead7398 3 жыл бұрын

@@calderone5559 You sound bitter......

@calderone5559 3 жыл бұрын

@@dumfriesspearhead7398 No, Just the truth !

@leonardssenkindu8445 2 жыл бұрын

@@calderone5559 💀💀💀💀🤪🤪🤪😂😂😂😂😈😈😈😈😈😈

@myronsmith2114 4 ай бұрын

Also West African women were gorgeous back in those days with killer bodies and beautiful skin

@SummerTyme2023 5 жыл бұрын

Reggie actually looks like his grandfather...or is it just me???

@dukadarodear2176 5 жыл бұрын

He looks only just like you? Are you related?

@jjgems5909 5 жыл бұрын

I see the resemblance.

@connormadeley7979 5 жыл бұрын

Looks nothing like him, as is the case with all mixed people...they're stripped of the phenotypical characteristics from the homogenous sides of their heritage.

@SummerTyme2023 5 жыл бұрын

@@connormadeley7979 that's not true at all. You may not see what I am seeing, but what you state as fact, is just your opinion and entirely false

@connormadeley7979 5 жыл бұрын

@@SummerTyme2023 You're delusional then. Reggie doesn't look European, nor does he look African.

@Princess-sk3me 10 ай бұрын

I wish they would do for people that can’t afford it

@heatherwhite2788 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if he had both middle names-4 names is common in England.

@juleerowley9706 3 жыл бұрын

Reggie is....🥰😍😍🤩😘🥰💋💋💓❣💜❤💋💋💋💋

@yesto784 3 жыл бұрын

I see the resemblance.

@MI-vn4tp 2 жыл бұрын

Reggie you have your great grandfather’s nose. 😂

@kristinekhan8465 11 ай бұрын

Reggie looks like hus grandfather

@Mr.Capricorn11 2 жыл бұрын

They did the same thing in Canada during the fur trade with Indigenous women. But they were called their "country wife".

@bcase5328 5 жыл бұрын

The Grandfather died Dec 28, 1917? of chill then pneumonia. That would have been during WW1, could that have been a code term for the 1918 Flu or would that have been before the 1918 Flu arrived?

@EmpireYellow1 5 жыл бұрын

Great grandfather. 1925

@sr2291 Жыл бұрын

No penicillin back then.

@rojamillerover 5 жыл бұрын

This family probably had family all over,ge should keep digging

@rojamillerover 5 жыл бұрын

@Emcstea that's a lie,you are talking about his grand dad now lm referring to his great grand father who travelled to SA,America etc and died in England.He did not have 10 children around only 1 with that Ghanian lady.So I'm saying since he was well traveled he probably left other kids elsewhere too

@April-201 Жыл бұрын

Wow!! He looks like his GG

@sarahmuzaki4656 2 жыл бұрын

This boy is simply warm in character!!

@lisah5784 Жыл бұрын

😖 This is a man

@chulababy2120 10 ай бұрын

“Boy”??He is a grown man…

@myronsmith2114 4 ай бұрын

I wonder if his Great grandfather has children in South America as well . The guy couldn’t keep his pants up

@sarahjanesweetlife4341 2 жыл бұрын

Reggie, i think you look like your grandfather.

@EchoBravo370 3 жыл бұрын

I don't suppose his great grandfather really meant to start another family.

@shealuvm 2 жыл бұрын

@cherijoseph7819 2 жыл бұрын

He probably didn't consider them as family. He did abandon them.

@tvs9978 Жыл бұрын

@@cherijoseph7819 if he didnt care, he wouldnt have left gold dust behind for the wife to care for the kids

@tasman9721 3 жыл бұрын

The ink looks like it’s been tampered with

@leonardssenkindu8445 2 жыл бұрын

Lol, 🤪😂😈

@kozmickhandi9951 2 жыл бұрын

In a colonial state some how I don’t think it’s a tradition to have a relationship with a native woman it’s probably something else.

@nigelsheppard625 2 жыл бұрын

It was very common to have local arrangements, hence the Cape Coloured population and the Anglo-Indians in India.

@really8930 3 жыл бұрын

Great-grand”father”? Paternal ancestor yes. But a father of any kind? No.

@AAA-we2st 5 жыл бұрын

This is old lols as in it aired years ago why has it been reposted

@ligiak4270 5 жыл бұрын

aayesha hamidu snyper thought I had seen this before 😢

@karentucker2161 4 жыл бұрын

Because

@karentucker2161 4 жыл бұрын

I haven't seen this one

@pinklady4772 2 жыл бұрын

Reggie resembles his great+ grandfather.

@marella2017 5 жыл бұрын

While most people would feel disgusted to have a slave master as a great grandad, Yates looks rather chuffed and proud.

@kac3223 5 жыл бұрын

Why would he? He is still his great grand father

@lindyashford7744 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe because thatnis not what his great grandfather was, jobs he did were described in detail, something you have chosen to ignore so you can insert a narrative of your choice.

@SummerTyme2023 5 жыл бұрын

Did you even watch this?

@mrnumba154 5 жыл бұрын

Slave master? I'm guessing that you didn't watch this

@marella2017 5 жыл бұрын

Queen Z Lol do you really think his great grandad was digging the gold himself or did he use slaves..

@tenayadawson5541 2 жыл бұрын

Hey handsome reggie you're so sweet I think you are cute and good looking love you 😍

@alisonnorcross951 3 жыл бұрын

They were bigamists two timers

@leonardssenkindu8445 2 жыл бұрын

Lol, 🤪😂😈

@greekgod5193 5 жыл бұрын

This guy reggie owes me child support

@ashog1426 6 күн бұрын

If ur skin is light… ur mixed 😂

@peacelily7751 8 ай бұрын

You resemble your great grandfather.

@SKITNICA95 5 жыл бұрын

He is Akan?

@G-Man78 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. I think Fante

@expatleanie Жыл бұрын

Meaningful relationship? You mean he cheated like most of the men of that time..

@sweetzlovin4239 5 жыл бұрын

You look like him fr

@alisonnorcross951 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a greedy man. Nothing to be impressed about..

@cgreer9010 3 жыл бұрын

All of them are that way

@sabrinastarks7868 3 жыл бұрын

@@cgreer9010 us vs them.... yup

@akorfaaisha7562 2 жыл бұрын

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

@moyurbird7829 5 жыл бұрын

So interesting that blk/wyt ppl have different races in family history but do we Asians?

@Catlily5 3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes.

@treeflower3722 3 жыл бұрын

Man it is plenty war babies just stop with the bullsi##

@leonardssenkindu8445 2 жыл бұрын

@@treeflower3722 Lol, 😂😈

@cherijoseph7819 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I am part Indian through the indentured servants that were shipped to the Carribbean. Most Indians ignore this or deny that we even exist.

@scanticmediatv 3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be happy about that history

@j.b.4614 3 жыл бұрын

It's a tradition to cheat on your wife?

@sr2291 Жыл бұрын

Yes.

@kinebrembry6224 Жыл бұрын

Bruh, just marry who you want.

@spike2227 Жыл бұрын

That statement has so much ignorance to it

@teetrav 3 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with these Yates men! Lol presenter is a bit unprofessional

@Nash0303 5 жыл бұрын

He's obsessed with mixing... smh...

@marilynseptember21 5 жыл бұрын

He is not. He needs to know who he is. He is just stating the facts which he was unaware about. It is an immediate and genuine reaction to the information he is getting. Sometimes when we process things we repeat what we have been told several times for that information to sink in. It is a normal human reaction.

@katsbreez 5 жыл бұрын

@@marilynseptember21 Agreed. He's just trying to figure out his family history.

@Nash0303 5 жыл бұрын

@@marilynseptember21 he has brought this up before, he KNOWS he's mixed!

@elleret 5 жыл бұрын

That’s who he is...stop hating!

@kyrashantae1080 5 жыл бұрын

He’s mixed race dummy 🤦🏽‍♀️

@godisiam9614 Жыл бұрын

Genealogist really was insistent not to smear d eldest Yattes character..... Excusing his womanizing; impregnating an African woman altho he had a family!