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!!!!

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.

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.

😂😂

@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!

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.

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.

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.dunlop8295​​⁠yeah 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

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.

And being a nazi spy etc

He looks white.

I am also

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.

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

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?

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. 🙂

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

I, too, am a descendant, as of course are my siblings and maternal lineage😂

Hahaha

That Brewster fellow got around

YOU MISSED SOMETHING.

Lol

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

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.

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?

Wow. That's crazy

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Was it not the Seminoles?

@@RomyAndMichelle NOPE . Chickasaws. see for yourself here on KZfaq 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 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 👍👍👍😂😂😂

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'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

Thanks so much for watching!

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!

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!

You can....if you hire a professional geneologist and PAY lots of money for the research.

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

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.

She’s coming up I believe.

Gotta LOVE when RACE BAITERS...find out their families ARE those exact people 😂😂...

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?

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!

HO. YES SHE CAN!!!!

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

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 👍

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.

How ridiculous- the celebrity has gone to his head

I didn't know that part. Affleck sure is full of himself!

@@same5952 Well, he married JLo...2 peas in a pod.

She was not very happy about it.

Imagine how many react privately and publicly when they find African or Jewish blood in their DNA.. It's only shocking if one doesn't accept we are all one family! Genesis 1:27, 28

Her last name is Hostin.🙄

As there is an almost 1,000 year line of descent, there are a ton of us out there that can claim the same.

I have a paper trail back to Rollo the Viking (the first Norman)

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!🙂