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 года назад

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 года назад

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

@mr.trades Год назад

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

@hc2155 Год назад

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

@user-es3zh3jk5o 2 года назад

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 Год назад

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

@QueenMegaera 3 года назад

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

@mi3helle707 3 года назад

🤭😭😂

@TAMUlady 3 года назад

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

@leonardssenkindu8445 2 года назад

Maybe they were jealous, lol 🤪😂😈

@shealuvm 2 года назад

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

@CHRISTiandoll7 5 лет назад

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 лет назад

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

@milksips3876 4 года назад

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

@karentucker2161 4 года назад

Me too

@QueenMegaera 3 года назад

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 года назад

You’re just not putting the work in.

@chelseafcrocks82 3 года назад

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

@bfc2155 2 года назад

Google how he got fired

@johnaldred6864 Год назад

Not quite as beautiful as you think eh ...

@africaninsider Месяц назад

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

@muitolinkemsky Месяц назад

Yah I also think so

@briksization 3 года назад

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 года назад

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

@ashog1426 18 дней назад

Eh good for them.

@purpleskies4553 3 года назад

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

@christinagiannaros9817 Год назад

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

@kissyfurr4189 5 лет назад

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 года назад

Were you there? Can you speak for them?

@hollydriscoll8315 3 года назад

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

@frag9575 3 года назад

@@hollydriscoll8315 wheres your sources

@im937 3 года назад

@@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 года назад

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.

@waitaminute2015 3 года назад

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

@myronsmith2114 4 месяца назад

No internet

@myronsmith2114 4 месяца назад

Not even a phone

@reneedebeersaab5854 5 лет назад

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

@williambuck5617 4 года назад

all people are mixed and have these storys in our familys

@sabrinastarks7868 3 года назад

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

@guguncube2308 3 года назад

Not true

@puffymuffin9064 5 лет назад

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

@MoveSomethingWithTee 3 года назад

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

@truthseeker3322 3 года назад

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

@bbpadejumo5357 5 лет назад

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

@SUNNYDAILYNEWS 3 года назад

Grandad probably have kids al over the place!

@santhoshkumar-vd7jo 3 года назад

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

@tynkirbell599 3 года назад

Fascinating story

@greenpancakemix 5 лет назад

The amount of baseless assumptions in the comments is wild

@lisapoole1219 3 года назад

Baseless? Please!

@praises5139 3 года назад

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

@NickyM_0 3 года назад

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

@sabrinastarks7868 3 года назад

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 Год назад

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 года назад

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

@angiepronzola6622 3 года назад

😂😂😂

@leonardssenkindu8445 2 года назад

What was funny, I check at 0:40

@mandamorris7934 11 месяцев назад

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.

@jimcree6869 2 года назад

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

@tenayadawson5541 2 года назад

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

@blakaeg 3 года назад

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

@Neokulay 5 лет назад

Reggie Yates is a cutie! 😂

@WashingtonDC20032 2 года назад

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

@collinsagyeman6131 3 года назад

I used to live in Sekondi

@optimist-warmheart8291 3 года назад

he lookslike him amazing

@ms.rstake_1211 5 лет назад

Scared to check mine.

@karentucker2161 4 года назад

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

@tasman9721 3 года назад

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

@amyclarke41 3 года назад

Great

@Exiria 5 лет назад

What a menace yates was

@saneleofmargate8785 3 года назад

He was a g

@falloutgirl902 5 лет назад

I wanna do this just not on telly.

@lfcforever1482 5 лет назад

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.

@enoch6450 5 лет назад

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

@TextBookPuncher1 5 лет назад

I’ve seen women treated badly in pubs too.

@huldah1605 3 года назад

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

@incoco2 3 года назад

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

@TAMUlady 3 года назад

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 года назад

@TAMUlady Me too!

@PJ-po7fu 3 года назад

Same!

@lindyashford7744 3 года назад

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

@danielakut4861 3 года назад

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 года назад

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".

@alisonnorcross951 3 года назад

We have some jerks like that in my family too.

@oseiosei6649 5 лет назад

Why is this series trying to romanticize colonialism in Ghana?

@lizzyscorner 4 года назад

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

@msoda8516 3 года назад

I think family history is sometimes complex.

@Lizzy514 3 года назад

Colonialism happened with inside help

@lisapoole1219 3 года назад

@@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 года назад

Exactly

@tasman9721 3 года назад

The viscosity changes

@whatchwhatch628 3 года назад

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

@patriciamurashige6879 Год назад

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

@dplj4428 6 месяцев назад

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 года назад

That could prove something

@heatherwhite2788 3 года назад

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

@SummerTyme2023 5 лет назад

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

@dukadarodear2176 5 лет назад

He looks only just like you? Are you related?

@jjgems5909 5 лет назад

I see the resemblance.

@connormadeley7979 5 лет назад

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 лет назад

@@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 лет назад

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

@tasman9721 3 года назад

Means different use

@EagerPyramids-bc7hh 3 месяца назад

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

@juleerowley9706 3 года назад

Reggie is....🥰😍😍🤩😘🥰💋💋💓❣💜❤💋💋💋💋

@KL-nw9mi 5 лет назад

I remember meeting him he’s so cute

@calderone5559 5 лет назад

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

@KL-nw9mi 5 лет назад

Chris Opium you Buffoon

@dumfriesspearhead7398 3 года назад

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

@calderone5559 3 года назад

@@dumfriesspearhead7398 No, Just the truth !

@leonardssenkindu8445 2 года назад

@@calderone5559 💀💀💀💀🤪🤪🤪😂😂😂😂😈😈😈😈😈😈

@Princess-sk3me 11 месяцев назад

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

@rojamillerover 5 лет назад

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

@rojamillerover 5 лет назад

@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

@bcase5328 5 лет назад

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 лет назад

Great grandfather. 1925

@sr2291 Год назад

No penicillin back then.

@April-201 Год назад

Wow!! He looks like his GG

@myronsmith2114 4 месяца назад

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

@kristinekhan8465 11 месяцев назад

Reggie looks like hus grandfather

@sarahjanesweetlife4341 2 года назад

Reggie, i think you look like your grandfather.

@tasman9721 3 года назад

The ink looks like it’s been tampered with

@leonardssenkindu8445 2 года назад

Lol, 🤪😂😈

@myronsmith2114 4 месяца назад

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

@yesto784 3 года назад

I see the resemblance.

@MI-vn4tp 2 года назад

Reggie you have your great grandfather’s nose. 😂

@tenayadawson5541 2 года назад

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

@pinklady4772 2 года назад

Reggie resembles his great+ grandfather.

@AAA-we2st 5 лет назад

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

@ligiak4270 5 лет назад

aayesha hamidu snyper thought I had seen this before 😢

@karentucker2161 4 года назад

Because

@karentucker2161 4 года назад

I haven't seen this one

@EchoBravo370 3 года назад

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

@shealuvm 2 года назад

@cherijoseph7819 2 года назад

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

@tvs9978 Год назад

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

@alisonnorcross951 3 года назад

They were bigamists two timers

@leonardssenkindu8445 2 года назад

Lol, 🤪😂😈

@Mr.Capricorn11 2 года назад

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

@sarahmuzaki4656 2 года назад

This boy is simply warm in character!!

@lisah5784 2 года назад

😖 This is a man

@chulababy2120 11 месяцев назад

“Boy”??He is a grown man…

@peacelily7751 8 месяцев назад

You resemble your great grandfather.

@really8930 3 года назад

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

@ashog1426 18 дней назад

If ur skin is light… ur mixed 😂

@TurnSene 11 дней назад

You can be darkskin and mixed-race. People act like African people are the only people who can have deep melanin in their skin complexion when there are other races and ethnic groups that have that same trait.

@SKITNICA95 5 лет назад

He is Akan?

@G-Man78 3 года назад

Yes. I think Fante

@marella2017 5 лет назад

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

@kac3223 5 лет назад

Why would he? He is still his great grand father

@lindyashford7744 5 лет назад

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 лет назад

Did you even watch this?

@mrnumba154 5 лет назад

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

@marella2017 5 лет назад

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

@expatleanie 2 года назад

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

@sweetzlovin4239 5 лет назад

You look like him fr

@kozmickhandi9951 2 года назад

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 года назад

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

@alisonnorcross951 3 года назад

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

@cgreer9010 3 года назад

All of them are that way

@sabrinastarks7868 3 года назад

@@cgreer9010 us vs them.... yup

@akorfaaisha7562 2 года назад

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

@greekgod5193 5 лет назад

This guy reggie owes me child support

@moyurbird7829 5 лет назад

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

@Catlily5 3 года назад

Sometimes.

@treeflower3722 3 года назад

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

@leonardssenkindu8445 2 года назад

@@treeflower3722 Lol, 😂😈

@cherijoseph7819 2 года назад

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 года назад

I wouldn't be happy about that history

@j.b.4614 3 года назад

It's a tradition to cheat on your wife?

@sr2291 Год назад

Yes.

@Nash0303 5 лет назад

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

@marilynseptember21 5 лет назад

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 лет назад

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

@Nash0303 5 лет назад

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

@elleret 5 лет назад

That’s who he is...stop hating!

@kyrashantae1080 5 лет назад

He’s mixed race dummy 🤦🏽‍♀️

@kinebrembry6224 Год назад

Bruh, just marry who you want.

@spike2227 Год назад

That statement has so much ignorance to it

@teetrav 3 года назад

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

@godisiam9614 Год назад

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