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Television Show - Finding Your Roots
Posted on 1/16/18 at 8:11 pm
Posted on 1/16/18 at 8:11 pm
Was channel surfing and caught the tail end of this PBS show. It was actually pretty interesting. The host was going through Bryant Gumbel's family history with him. He shocked Bryant by showing him that his GGG Grandfather, may have missed a G or 2, became a free man in Louisiana in 1835 and worked as a carpenter and bricklayer. He shocked Bryant even more when he showed him that he joined with a thousand other free blacks and joined the Confederate army in 1861. Bryant refused to believe that was of his own will, but the host kept insisting free blacks did fight for the south. He was relieved when he was shown after New Orleans was defeated that Bryant's ancestor switched sides to fight for the union. He finally came to grips saying his ancestor was a survivor.
The show went through several other people's family trees. It was actually pretty cool.
Anyone ever trace their own history? I have a gap around 1830 in my tree but can pick it back up in the late 1700's when my family arrived from Hess Germany.
The show went through several other people's family trees. It was actually pretty cool.
Anyone ever trace their own history? I have a gap around 1830 in my tree but can pick it back up in the late 1700's when my family arrived from Hess Germany.
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Posted on 1/16/18 at 8:13 pm to Ramblin Wreck
I come from a family of criminals and scoundrels fleeing from the law in their respective countries so records are spotty before the mid nineteenth century.
I envy people that can go back many centuries.
I envy people that can go back many centuries.
Posted on 1/16/18 at 8:16 pm to Ramblin Wreck
My ancestors were English, and then bought land in Ireland. They then moved to Maryland, where my Great-something Grandfather became an officer and fought in the American revolution.
He later owned a plantation in Mississippi. He died in 1828 and the rest of the family lived on the plantation before well... you know...
He later owned a plantation in Mississippi. He died in 1828 and the rest of the family lived on the plantation before well... you know...
This post was edited on 1/16/18 at 8:19 pm
Posted on 1/16/18 at 8:18 pm to Ramblin Wreck
Last month I got stuck in BR traffic -- it was filmed for a new show called Finding Your Routes
Posted on 1/16/18 at 8:20 pm to Ramblin Wreck
James VI is my ancestor
Posted on 1/16/18 at 8:20 pm to Ramblin Wreck
quote:why is this so hard for people to accept? I have ancestors on both sides that fought for the confederacy...one came straight from Ireland and went right to war.
Bryant refused to believe that was of his own will, but the host kept insisting free blacks did fight for the south
Posted on 1/16/18 at 8:23 pm to Kafka
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Last month I got stuck in BR traffic -- it was filmed for a new show called Finding Your Routes
I know. I watched it thinking it was a show about parsnips.
I was dissatisfied
Posted on 1/16/18 at 8:24 pm to Ramblin Wreck
quote:
The show went through several other people's family trees. It was actually pretty cool.
Its really interesting once you find old newspapers going back to even the early 1800s. Most people think the media is bad now, but newspapers back then did not hold back anything.
Posted on 1/16/18 at 8:29 pm to Ramblin Wreck
My people came here after the civil war was over. I ain’t paying your reparations.
Posted on 1/16/18 at 8:34 pm to NYNolaguy1
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Its really interesting once you find old newspapers going back to even the early 1800s. Most people think the media is bad now, but newspapers back then did not hold back anything.
So true. And small town newspapers reported EVERYTHING that people in town did. They didn't need social media, they were way ahead.
Posted on 1/16/18 at 8:52 pm to Ramblin Wreck
Did you catch the Ben Affleck one? Heard it was good.
Posted on 1/16/18 at 9:03 pm to Tiger in NY
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Did you catch the Ben Affleck one? Heard it was good.
First time I've ever seen it
Posted on 1/17/18 at 1:12 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Well, hey there cousin. James II here.
According to anthropologists (and a Harvard mathematics professor), almost all of us with European ancestry have a common ancestor within the last thousand years, we just don't know it. As you go back in your family tree your number of ancestors doubles in each generation, while the population they are drawn from shrinks. It only takes a few generations for genetics to spread exponentially. I sat next to a boy in elementary school for 6 years and did not know until decades later that we had the same great grandfather.
According to anthropologists (and a Harvard mathematics professor), almost all of us with European ancestry have a common ancestor within the last thousand years, we just don't know it. As you go back in your family tree your number of ancestors doubles in each generation, while the population they are drawn from shrinks. It only takes a few generations for genetics to spread exponentially. I sat next to a boy in elementary school for 6 years and did not know until decades later that we had the same great grandfather.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 2:10 pm to Ramblin Wreck
I enjoy the show.
Another NOLA native, Suzanne Malveaux, was on last night's episode. She found out her 4th great grandfather, who was black, was a slave owner.
This Youtube preview has both Bryant's and Malveaux's responses.
The format has changed a little. They used to spend the whole show on one person, and give a more details. They had one with Trenton, NJ mayor Eric Jackson. He talked about how he used to ask his grandfather about where they came from, and he would never talk about that. He only remembered meeting a couple of people on that side of the family. You could tell not knowing about his past really bothered him.
They found out all of that info and took him to meet some of his relatives. These folks were a slave owner's decedents Can't remember for sure, but I think they were from either Louisiana or Mississippi. They filmed the meeting. His cousins were really nice people, and they got along well. It's probably on their site. I think you have to be a member to watch the old episodes.
Another NOLA native, Suzanne Malveaux, was on last night's episode. She found out her 4th great grandfather, who was black, was a slave owner.
This Youtube preview has both Bryant's and Malveaux's responses.
The format has changed a little. They used to spend the whole show on one person, and give a more details. They had one with Trenton, NJ mayor Eric Jackson. He talked about how he used to ask his grandfather about where they came from, and he would never talk about that. He only remembered meeting a couple of people on that side of the family. You could tell not knowing about his past really bothered him.
They found out all of that info and took him to meet some of his relatives. These folks were a slave owner's decedents Can't remember for sure, but I think they were from either Louisiana or Mississippi. They filmed the meeting. His cousins were really nice people, and they got along well. It's probably on their site. I think you have to be a member to watch the old episodes.
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