I wish that this show were still on PBS. It would be the perfect show to go hand in hand with “Finding Your Roots”.

PBS please bring this wonderful show back to your network. It would be a great show to pair with Henry Gates programs.

This show has that "Who Do You Think You Are" discovery element but for regular people instead of celebrities.

I too am a 4th generation San Franciscan. My Irish maternal great grandmother married Captain Carroll who fought in the Fire Department 🚒 1906 fire 🔥

The young lady who story of Irish roots among the earthquake victims, looking at the photograph she looks so much like her great-grandmother! 💖

I remember submitting an application to be a guest for season 3. Although not selected, I was hoping to be a future guest to learn more of my family history... and then they canceled the show. I wish they would bring it back

The walking stick story brought tears to my eyes. How cool that he has it!

Pbs bring this show back its amazing

I am a native San Fransican my Grandmother Ruth survived the 1906 quake and fire. Her father was one of the special police appointed after the quake His name was Charles Mahnke.

What a wonderful show. I can only imagine the overhead it took to uncover the stories for just common people; if it were celebrities it would still be going.

I end up crying every episode! I love these stories.

My 5th great grandfather James Reed, of the Donner/ Reed party. Sutters Fort of Sacramento. I have the diary 's passed down generations to me of their journey across ❤.

I enjoy genealogy, live in San Francisco and worked for the local PBS station for many years. For those reasons I decided to watch this episode. Imagine my surprise when Casey Robbins appeared asking about her biological father’s connection to Ben Franklin. I’ve known her mother for decades!

This shows that even ordinary people can have very interesting stories.

I wish I could do something like this. So many unanswered questions about my families ancestry. No one ever talked about our ancestors.

I can relate to those who get family stories shot down after research proves otherwise. One of the few stores we had about my dad’s mother’s side was that a 6th great granduncle was Alexander Hamilton. My aunt told me that when I was a little kid in the early 1970s and had no idea who Hamilton was. Well, after starting my own family research, I found out that I do have a 6th great granduncle named Alexander Hamilton! Problem is, mine was born 20 years after the famous one and in Pennsylvania, not the Caribbean. That was a big disappointment to my dad and uncle, since they had heard that story a lot longer than I had.

Yes, please bring this show back PBS

Can we GET MORE !!! If so where we can we watch ? We got hooked on WHO DO U THINK U ARE. . They shut it down Currently watching FINDING MY ROOTS and hooked And now I see a few episodes on YT and someone said these are the only episodes we can watch Come on now bring all the ancestry shows PLEASE

Joshua can say the word genealogy faster than I’ve ever heard it .

It’s really wonderful to hear all the interesting stories from our past - how all our shared stories have heroes and villains, and they may be one in the same depending on who is telling the story. We all have a piece and a place in our American story and we should only want to add to this rich and complex history.

The mom in the back of the young lady in black . She is more invested in the story . The faces she is making would totally be me 😂😮😊

that trail was Supposed to run cold Big Ups to Big Jim Chin❤

I am also related to Ben Franklin via the Folgers. I'm related to the Folgers, Starbucks, Coffins and I think one other family from Nantucket. Their whaling ship the Essex was "stove in" by a whale which inspired the story of Moby Dick. A character in Moby Dick inspired the name Starbucks for the coffee company. Also via the Folgers I'm related to Abigail Folger of Charles Manson's Helter Skelter killings. I've also spent half my life in Boise, Idaho. *EDIT: I wrote this out before they got to the part of the video about Moby Dick. I was too excited to keep quiet. LOL

If the show was still on pbs my whole San Fran family would’ve been in the episode in sanfran

That walking stick has museum value in it. It is simply priceless to the family, but it is just an old carved up stick.

I'm so glad to have discovered this

I like the info about the San Francisco mint building. Designed to float? Why not do that today?😮

The lady related to Ben Franklin said her mothers family immigrated from Europe , so she couldn’t trace her family there. Many Churches had family information going back to when the Church was built.

This series was so cool. It deals with regular people's stories which makes it so interesting!

That last story... wow.

Wow! Wonderful Show!👏🏾👏🏾💯😁

Peter Folger is my 8x ggf, too!

Wonderful stories

There will have been plenty of stables in San Francisco at that time And so the part about the ancestors staying in what someone called a barn Can still be perfectly true People frequently bunked In barns in those days. It makes sense that every available remaining dwelling was utilized.

My mom always said we were related to people on the mayflower Stephen hopkins

Get told a story about your 10th great grandparent and act surprised saying “Oh, I didn’t know that!” 🤦‍♀️

That was beautiful

Gosh can't belive how she was smiling and joking about her grandfather's Murder

So is the Genealogy Roadshow back, or is this an old episode?

Do you give the records and pictures you find for the people to them after the show?

Awwww the guy that cried

I’d like to find out about my grandfather’s stories of him knowing Poncho Via !! He constantly talked about him . He was his hero . I don’t know much about the man myself but sure would like to find out the connection they had !

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Joshua Taylor has GOT to be related to Will Wheaton (Wesley Crusher). He looks soooo much like him.

are they still doing the show

How does someone go 3 YEARS without getting paid? Wouldn't someone leave and go work for someone else? Something fishy there.

Yeay, Benjamin Franklin was my 23rd Cousin 10 times removed :-) I'm from Sweden with most my ancestors in the Scandinavian and North European area, so quite nice to have Benjamin Franklin on my tree. (Just like loads of the American Presidents)

I traced my family back to the 1300s pretty interesting

I would love to be able to do this. I would love to be able to pass down my genealogy to my son and future generations. However I am a single mom and have no way of being able to do this.

Peter Folger and Mary Morrel are my 8th great grandparents and I am Ben Franklin’s first cousin 8 times removed. My ancestors were also whalers who migrated to the Outer Banks of NC.

I was i would have known they csme to San Francisco i would of went. I have lots of questions about my grandmother and grandfather side of the family

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I would have loved to be on this show! I have some stories that would be very intriguing to investigate. I have some pretty interesting historical ancestors with some actual proof. My daughter even has a few more illustrious ancestors through her father. I don't know much about other parts of my family. I don't even know my entire genetic make-up. I wish I could afford the really good genetic testing that does your genetic breakdown and medical genetic markers. I wish I had six hundred dollars for it. Oh well❤

The pronunciation of Vivek's last name is rawma swamie.

My great grandfather is allegedly was Diamond Jim Brady...James Buchanan Brady, born 1856 on lower east side NYC where his Father ran a saloon. He had at least one brother. He had 2 loves in his life one being Lillian Russell...but he never married. Philanthropist, financiers, telegraph messenger railroad parts manufacturer...with his early jobs in the halls of Broadway as an usher, and sweeping trains. Supposedly he was the first person on his block to own a car. Supposedly there is a brownstone marked as his home in NYC. He owned thoroughbreds on a farm in Brooklyn and the Jersey shore. He' buried in Brooklyn. My mother looks just like him. Can you find out the truth about his dissenters? Supposedly he got his or Lillian's maid, Mary Sullivan, pregnant. He had a relationship with a famous boxer named Sullivan. Thanks, Eva Growney

I'm a direct descendant of Mary the queen of Scott's

What does the term like 10 times removed mean?

my grandpa's great gandfather was a judge

I am related to two Famous Revolutionary Period Leaders who may have met both were considered traitors one a double traitor.

John w Lamberts factory was in Ohio city, Ohio. The factory is gone its just a little village in nw Ohio. There is a historical marker near the original factory location.

That her great grandfather was Delaney Rogers was just - - - popping. We probably are Not related. But my given surname at birth was Rogers. I didn't expect anyone in California to possibly be related to that family. I don't know why, I just didn't. Also that Delaney's father, I think, was in the Civil War, Union side, and mustered out of Chattanooga, Tn is amazing. My Rogers's are from TN, Blount and Sevier county, as far ad I know. This is very interesting to me.

What I want to know why the guy lost the court case of the debt owed to him!

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Wow, I never knew about the Chinese Immigrating Act. That's wild!

That's pathetic not driving specifically that car for specifically that reason

I'd also like to know the location of Diamond Jim's father's Irish pub on the lower east side? Where in Ireland was he from? Is it true that Mary Sullivan moved to Demerest New Jersey where she raised her son from DJ , who is my grandfather? He supposedly was adopted by an Italian man Cattelona, and later married my Italian grandmother Belusci. ...who may also be related to the Belucci family?

If I could afford it, I would hire a professional genealogist to find my 2nd great grandmother’s marriage record to her second husband, as well as their divorce record. I have tried really hard but struck out in both states they would have married and the most probable location they would have divorced. The lack of documentation on either end of their marriage is leading me to suspect that they never officially married but only said that they had. She did officially remarry two years before “Husband” #2 died, so if they were married but never divorced, she would have been a bigamist. I would like to have a professional either find the records, or also come up empty, to verify my suspicions or at least not negate them. Also, if a pro could find that second husband before they got together, that would be great. He had a common name and lived in NYC before moving to Chicago, and I cannot track him down at all before 1900.

I am wanting to find out what happened to my great uncle.

I wish I can afford to do this. I would love to find out the truth about both sides of my family. I'm supposedly royalty on both sides [ mom & dad ] and on my dad's side, I'm supposedly related to William Shakespeare.

The only reason Ford got the credit is because he payented what he knew. I'm not saying how he got it, or getting into anything ethical. That her great grandfathet actually invented the first gas automobile is quite interssting.

In the San Francisco episode, a young woman ;looks for how her gg grandparents met. Who is that blonde woman mugging to the camera during the interview.

Good ol Edsons. Know some and seems the blood lost and criminal continues. Not that far from the father. Lol

Does the woman whose relative fought in the American revolutionary War, get to join the daughters of the American Revolution?

Great show! The lady behind the San Francisco earthquake descendant looks like she's hearing voices or possibly on some interesting meds. Everyone else is calm and paying attention. She was very distracting and even the host looked at her at one point.

My Ancestry is FRANKLIN

How do I get on "The Genealogy Roadshow" I think My great, great grandmother was an identity thief and can;t find any way to prove it. I was raised in Utah, The CHurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormons are HUGE on geneology.She doesn't show up by her name that I know, in the traveling company records, I lack the resources to find her..

Regarding the Chinese Exclusion Act … in the walls of my first house, an 1885 Italianate Victorian in Oakland, was found a front page of The Morning Call, the leading SF newspaper of the day, headlined “The Chinese Win They Can Come In And Stay”

So one person comes from gangsters and outlaws, another from people who chose the losing side in two major wars... I guess you need to be up for embarrassment when you go on this show.

I think what killed the interest in this show is the amount of filler/happy horseshit the whole show is larded with.

The first lady was annoying

I wish this show was on instead of Finding Your Roots, since this one focuses on all races. I used to love FYR, the the presenter changed the focus to only your connection to slavery. It's sad, like when Oprah turned her focus from all to only black matters, that's when she lost her audience and credibility. I'm interested in all lives and histories, not for persecution of the living or their ancestor, but for the fascination of the living person's history.

I have been told that we are related to Abraham Lincoln via his marriage to his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. I wish I knew more, we are from Irish descendants that came over during the potato famine. That’s about all I know but very proud nonetheless ❤