Top 10 Darkest Family Reveals on Who Do You Think You Are

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These celebs really didn't know who they were. For this list, WatchMojoUK counts down the Top 10 Darkest Family Reveals on Who Do You Think You Are. We're looking at big names, including Jack Whitehall, Martin Freeman, and Amanda Holden, unearthing their dark, family secrets. Let us know in the comments any interesting stories from YOUR family history.
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@WatchMojoUK 3 месяца назад

Which revelation shook you the most? Top 10 British TV Themes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JlqVVxBS4QU.html

@lewisprice8616 3 месяца назад

I remember Jack whitehall saying in a standup routine that his father's main shock was that they were descended from welsh people.

@WatchMojoUK 3 месяца назад

😂

@lorrainebishop3520 3 месяца назад

Yes. Made me laugh

@rhiburgess5616 3 месяца назад

They should be so lucky 😜 (Ironically I am descended from Chartists - Blackwood marchers)

@welshman8954 3 месяца назад

He should count himself lucky we welsh are the original inhabitants of Britain the English are runts saxon and Danish blood

@randywatts6969 3 месяца назад

😲

@charlotteinnocent8752 3 месяца назад

There are so many conflicting tales in my family I can't even trace. All I can say is: You are NOT your ancestors. You are only yourself. This goes for the good stuff as well as the bad.

@steveOhh68 3 месяца назад

Wise words thanks❤

@matthewjamison 3 месяца назад

The man makes the name, the name doesn't make the man.

@thartiustheslayerofthots7088 2 месяца назад

I mean, my family descend from vikings on one side and cheese farmers on the other so I’m pretty interesting on one side and not on the other

@charlotteinnocent8752 2 месяца назад

@@thartiustheslayerofthots7088 My point would be that your ANCESTORS would be interesting, and you yourself are only what you have made yourself into in your time on earth. People need to learn from history, but at the same time, not take it personally as if that were something they are personally responsible for, or get the credit of. History is ALWAYS interesting, including cheese farmers because we don't know all the story and there may be facets to it that make that the more interesting than the Vikings. Also, you are not personally responsible for anyone a Viking might have killed or plundered. That was THEM, not you. You will have your own page! :)

@thartiustheslayerofthots7088 2 месяца назад

@@charlotteinnocent8752 I know that’s what I was saying, my Ancestors were those things and I do what I do now.

@PBurns-ng3gw 3 месяца назад

I've recently discovered that I'm half Targaryen, as I've long suspected. Since there aren't a whole lot of dragons here in the East Midlands, I'm trying to tame and ride some of the larger pigeons in my garden. My neighbors have asked me to stop, but I won't be denied my birthright.

@ld8483 3 месяца назад

😂 maybe try a crow 😂

@jaimelowe4246 3 месяца назад

@@ld8483it’s wildlings that ride crows tho.

@ashleysharp7773 2 месяца назад

I thought I seen something flying over derby

@georgedavies5042 2 месяца назад

Might steer clear of your sister if I were you, your Targaryen heritage might make you do something that’s only tolerated across the pond😂

@skullzyy6633 2 месяца назад

Think yourself lucky as we just saw a “long lost Targaryen” get burnt for trying to ride a dragon Source: house of the dragon season 2

@NewWaveWill Месяц назад

Brendan O’Carroll had a very dark episode when he found out that his grandfather was shot dead on his doorstep by a British officer because the man wouldn’t give up information about his sons who were in the IRA. Really messed up

@robjohnson7806 Месяц назад

I remember that one -they just marched in and shot him. I was shocked because my grandfather was based in Palace Barracks in Belfast at the time. Yes, he was not in Dublin, but it made me wonder just what did Alfred Henry Johnson get up to in Ireland? I still do not know.

@Gunnersaurus1 Месяц назад

There is a saving grace in that he didn't find out his ancestors created Mrs Brown's Boys

@mcculloch29 10 дней назад

Thank you for mentioning that. I think it was one of the best episodes ever. One of the many war crimes committed during the period.

@ambrabridges2161 3 месяца назад

My grandmother's maiden name was "McGuffin" which we knew originated in Scotland and wasn't as common a surname as others. My aunt went to the genealogy library in Edinburgh, Scotland to see of she could find more information. When she told one of the librarians there her mother's maiden name, she was advised not to tell people that information. It turns out, the Mac/McGuffins were known for being ruthless marauders that terrorized early Scotland to the point that they were hunted down and, those who weren't killed, were run out of the country. As a result, many of them changed their surnames. The name still has a stigma to it to this day in some areas, which is why my aunt was advised not to let people know her connection to it.

@nicolad8822 3 месяца назад

If they said anything of the sort they were completely winding her up! 🤣🤣

@micahgray3901 3 месяца назад

My great grandmother’s maiden name was McGuffey and when they immigrated to the US, they changed it to Guffey to make it not stand out as much. This was back in the late 1890’s to early 1900’s.

@elizabethnavarre7972 3 месяца назад

Mac is Scottish, Mc is Irish - they both mean "of" but there's a difference.

@Gaelach32 3 месяца назад

@@elizabethnavarre7972actually 'Mac' is the original Irish/Scottish Gaelic form of 'son of'. Both languages were one and the same at one point, and even today are extremely similar. 'Mc' is an anglicisation.

@kitm141 3 месяца назад

I’m Scottish, so I hope I can bring you some comfort - this isn’t correct. The only thing close I can think of is the Sawney Bean family and nowadays that tale is seen as anti-Scottish propaganda. Mc is more common in Ireland, but I can promise you that there were no marauding McGuffins and nobody in Scotland would look down on someone because of their name. I did a lot of genealogy after my mother died and I found some terrible family secrets. It may be that your aunt chose to tell you this because there was something she didn’t want to share with you about her mother’s family, so don’t hold it against her.

@rayskitten78 3 месяца назад

You missed a few how about the fact that is the bloodline had gone a slightly differently Danny Dyer could be king of England or the fact that Stephen Fry lost half of his ancestors in concentration camp or how about the most moving episode in my opinion when Jerry Springer was crying at the wall of hands in a crunching coaching camp Museum

@brendanm6921 3 месяца назад

Danny Dyer as king. Now there's a thought. "Awraight geez, let's be lobbin' off yor 'ead, then".

@britishhedgehog 2 месяца назад

Crunching coaching?

@danmakingstuff8392 Месяц назад

@@britishhedgehog I think it's where the Nazis made you do lots of sit-ups until you were really sore.

@WreckItRolfe Месяц назад

As a sectarian jew, I'm sure Fry already guessed that.

@lucabrasi3964 Месяц назад

You were trying so hard to be profound your comment is ironically funny 😂

@rachelcookie321 3 месяца назад

I was expecting these to be a lot darker, these really aren’t that dark. Go back a few generations in anyone’s family and you’d find stuff like this. It might not be in written record but it likely happened all the same.

@dadcomeback1470 2 месяца назад

There are FAR more darker reveals in this show than what is shown and I don't understand it really one of them who was an activist and anti white found out one of her grandfather's was a slave trader her family was black same with ansley Harriet who is a brilliant dude one of his ancestors was a slave trader as well from the Caribbean

@Spermwhales93 2 месяца назад

Not a dark one, but Dame Judi Dench finding out that she was related to a real-life person who's a character in a Shakespeare play was incredible.

@robjohnson7806 Месяц назад

That had to be true as well because you could not script something that bizarre.

@PresidentHotdog 2 месяца назад

Be careful what you look for. Turns out I'm French. No going back.

@bapo7665 2 месяца назад

Sorry to hear that man

@PresidentHotdog 2 месяца назад

@@bapo7665 merci

@bapo7665 2 месяца назад

@@PresidentHotdog maybe one day there will be a cure

@jamiehayn 2 месяца назад

@@PresidentHotdog my condolences

@Hugh_Morris 2 месяца назад

Allot of French Protestants (Huguenots) came to England, they came for a good reason and integrated well. I'm not saying you belong to that group but it's actually quite common.

@Manaklyps 3 месяца назад

I can well imagine why there isn't a show like this in Germany, perhaps most people don't want to know exactly what their grandparents did. Although I do find the personal records of my grandparents and great-grandparents very exciting. And my father has also told me some funny and sad stories about old relatives. I think that's important. They say you always die twice, once when your life ends and once when no one remembers you.

@karlosdeevs 17 дней назад

agree, it is. And honestly many in the decending generations do want to know..

@hanpolo2727 3 месяца назад

I have 2 stories from both sides of my family. My Grandads dad (on my dads side) was in the royal navy, and he was on a ship called HMS Zulu. From what I remember from my grandads stories was his job was to look after and organise the captains paperwork. He couldn't swim, and when the ship was sunk, my great grandad survived by holding onto a bit of wood from the wreckage. I can only assume he didn't have time to put a life jacket on at the time. I don't know much about my biological great grandad on my mum's side of the family, but I can tell about my great step grandad who was in the RAF and he flew Westland Lysander planes at the beginning of WW2. His job during that time was to deliver and pickup British and French spy's into Nazi Occupied France during the dead of night. He didn't do many missions though as it scared him to death quoting "you could never tell who was hiding in the trees." For the rest of the war he flew Wellington bombers. He hated talking about the war and had many nightmares about it.

@michellecrocker2485 3 месяца назад

I think that’s the one risk of genealogy: finding out something that you don’t particularly like

@lorrainebishop3520 3 месяца назад

I found out very sad, hapoy, funny things. It's very moving and interesting

@katetuer8394 3 месяца назад

Or everything you do find is incredibly dull like my family 😂

@MayCorn 3 месяца назад

I actually think it's a good thing (especially as a white brit whose ancestors were mostly terrible) - at least you know how you can be better than your ancestors

@michellecrocker2485 3 месяца назад

@@MayCorn that’s very true

@rachelcookie321 3 месяца назад

Even if my ancestor was a terrible person, I’’d still find it very interesting. I don’t know why anyone would dislike it. You didn’t do anything, it was your ancestors. I’d just think it’s cool that I’m connected to something of somewhat historical importance. I love finding out all the dirty family secrets.

@woodrobin 24 дня назад

In re: Black people having ancestors who were slave owners -- in the United States, this is so common that it's rarely a surprise when it comes up in genealogical research. It was tragically very common for a sexual exploitation/rape culture to exist (even, in some cases, for one or both parties to believe it was love or at least a transactional choice, but Stockholm Syndrome of course pertains -- how else could a person be expected to react to a potential relative position of safety offered by a person with life and death powers over them?). And the children of such interactions were almost always considered slaves and sold and traded as such, rather than being acknowledged as descendants of the slave owner (although there were instances where slave owners acknowledged such and freed said slaves in their wills, since it could no longer tarnish their reputations after their deaths).

@andycarmichael3012 2 месяца назад

I found out that a distant relative as a boy was decapitated when his head got stuck in a carts wheel as he fell off when his horse was spooked, and that a relative was the doctor that pronounced admiral Nelson dead, other than that my lot were dull as dishwater

@crissy4445 3 месяца назад

Unfortunately, if you have slaves in your family history you almost certainly have slave owners. Such are the horrors of slavery.

@JoeZUGOOLA 2 месяца назад

They did the dirty

@samaraisnt Месяц назад

^Slaves cannot consent to sex! There’s a word for that and it’s not sex…that’s like saying your dog did “the dirty” with your mom. You can’t consent when you’re owned.

@JaneAustenAteMyCat 25 дней назад

@@JoeZUGOOLA If that's what you call r*pe

@richersonkate 13 дней назад

I discovered this two years ago. I'm still in shock.

@NJTRAF 3 месяца назад

My Aunt did all of this a few years back and when she traced it back we found out that on her Mother (my Grandmother) side of the family there was a relative who was 2nd Cousins with the mother of The Queen Mother (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon), which surprised us that there was any kind of Lord/Lady in our family because as far as we were aware from my Grandmother and Great Grandmother, our family had always been poor, only just managing to avoid being in total poverty! As it turns out, that relative ran off with a stable boy and got pregnant, so was basically disowned by that side of the family and that’s how the rest of us became piss poor 😂

@marymcanany8575 3 месяца назад

My great great great grandfather was the 7th of 8 men murdered by his second wife. She was the original black widow and would poison her husbands with potato soup

@samaraisnt Месяц назад

omg who is she i’m fasssscinated

@EmzMc 3 месяца назад

I did a dna journey test. Found out I have a half sister that I never knew existed. Dad tried to claim that he’d told my mum. Which he didn’t. But my dad is a professional bullsh*tter

@robjohnson7806 Месяц назад

Mine was too. It was common I think.

@samaraisnt Месяц назад

@robjohnson7806 Common for cheaters. ;) If you’re saying all men are cheaters I disagree. It’s very easy not to have a secret family. In fact, it’s common.

@cheyennebrennan966 3 месяца назад

So suddenly Fiona Bruce cares about poor and desperate people...

@lorrainebishop3520 3 месяца назад

Lol... FB only looks after FB

@JaneAustenAteMyCat 25 дней назад

Exactly what I was thinking

@cherrydoodles 3 месяца назад

One of my great great grandmothers was sent to the workhouse for being an unmarried mother. She was there over the course of a few censuses, so I could see she kept having children whilst there, including my great grandfather. I and the rest of my family, have absolutely zero clue who the father was.

@JaneAustenAteMyCat 25 дней назад

Possibly something quite sinister going on there

@RankinMsP 11 дней назад

Well the workhouse clearly wasn't the deterrent the elites pretended. Just a source of cheap labour and other nefarious activities

@serenepeacefulrelaxingmusi3874 2 дня назад

A lot of young female house servants were looked upon as fair game by the young masters (also some of the senior masters) of the house in those times. The female house servant may/may not have been willing, but the young master's intentions were usually not what she might have been promised or imagined. She would have been blamed, castigated, fired with no references to gain further suitable employment, even if she had been able to after they realised she was an unwed mother. The workhouse would possibly have been the only place left to go. Once there, if there was a male employer/manager, she would have been at risk of further abuse particularly if she was young and attractive. Females, in those times, were pretty much at the mercy of those around them. Especially those who were poor and had no protectors.

@russelljds 3 месяца назад

ok I got 3. 1) Belle Starr (outlaw queen) 3rd G. Gramma. 2) James (Jim) "the Deacon/Killer" Miller G. Grampa, and my fave 3) Muhamed Ali (Cassius Clay) 13th cousin once removed (Irish).

@solomonblake7041 3 месяца назад

Do you realise how unrelated a 13th cousin is…

@caitlinireland4396 3 месяца назад

In the 1700s an ancestor of mine, called Patricia Wemyss was sent to Australia for counterfeiting money for 7 years, but returned

@Elit1882 3 месяца назад

She sounds awesome

@xxxmcrqueenxxx 22 дня назад

The producer did a talk at my uni years ago and said some don’t even make it to air as they are too upsetting or too controversial. Think it’s quite brave to go on a show like this! Must be daunting.

@tonybrett5209 3 месяца назад

My great great great Grandfather was Sergeant Charles Brett, the first police officer murdered by Fenians (Irish Republicans) on British soil in 1867. They are known as The Manchester Martyrs. Its highly unlikely they were guilty.

@captain_nicepool 2 месяца назад

Yeh. Sadly when one invades another's country and attempts an extinction on them, those things tend to happen.

@esmeecampbell7396 2 месяца назад

@@captain_nicepoolJust revenge for what the Irish started back in the 700s.

@captain_nicepool 2 месяца назад

@@esmeecampbell7396 elaborate

@captain_nicepool 2 месяца назад

@@esmeecampbell7396 Are you talking about when the Irish and Scottish teamed up on England 700 years ago* ? If so then what's your point? Ireland would have been at war with England invaders for over 200 years at that point. England first invaded Ireland in 1169. So I don't get why you're talking about the 700s.... England was being majorly claimed by Anglo and Saxons at that point.

@esmeecampbell7396 2 месяца назад

@@captain_nicepool 700ad yeah, when Ireland started raiding and murdering and raping and looting anything they could find. The English invasion later on was just a preventative measure against that. Sounds fair enough to me... After all Ireland wasn't a united country in 1169 yet you can bitch and whine about it being "invaded" and justify terrorist atrocities with it? So why not me? Is it just because you like your team and not mine? Therefore anything you believe "must be correct" hmmmm....

@Dan19870 3 месяца назад

My families lineage has been pieced back together over a couple of generations; Despite being named after an English town in North Yorkshire, the earliest records of my family come from Ireland.

@barbaradyson6951 3 месяца назад

Shows how dense some celebs are. Children back in the day worked the same as adults. I know my grandmother was involved in the black market during ww2 but what she did I have no idea.

@maddyc2412 2 месяца назад

Everyone knows that. They are looking for the details about their ancestors specifically

@Atrivion 2 месяца назад

My mom recently told me I am, on one side of the family related to a king that got assassinated. On the other side of the family... I am related to the assassin of said king. Fun mixture of blood I have in my veins. lol

@sazfretz1945 3 месяца назад

I'm a descendant of a Mayflower passenger, Edward Doty.

@Jabber-ig3iw 2 месяца назад

How unfortunate for you, being descended from a religious fundamentalist 🤷‍♂️

@callumstanden7149 2 месяца назад

My great great uncle managed arsenal in the 70s his name was Bertie Mee

@RankinMsP 11 дней назад

*Doffs cap* Sir Bertie is a Gooner legend.

@rebeccabennett8188 3 месяца назад

You can't not rewrite history it is what happened and you have to come terms to it

@vociferateforme 3 месяца назад

Double negative

@redgoon698 3 месяца назад

Actually it’s impossible to rewrite history.

@totallybored5526 3 месяца назад

You can not not rewrite history?

@AceofSpadesWTF Месяц назад

If you dig up the past all you get is dirty

@redgoon698 Месяц назад

@@AceofSpadesWTF You can’t dig up something that has no physical form wtf 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@dydangerous 29 дней назад

Oh man thats crazy. I found out a few years ago that I descended from an ancient warrior who thought this video was boring.

@morganhampton9908 3 месяца назад

My great grandfather died on Christmas Day in 1953 when my grandfather was 15 years old

@tm5267 3 месяца назад

"Evil Disposed Person"... how is Amanda shocked?!

@JGrowl-er9md Месяц назад

😂

@Mlo-tn9yr 3 месяца назад

My family history is mental let's just say my family in the 1930's were horrific and I really hate that I am related to them. Especially as many were involved before the 1930's very much in the early days.

@rachelcookie321 3 месяца назад

Why do you hate that you are related to them? Just because you share blood doesn’t make you responsible for anything they did.

@mollsypops2002 3 месяца назад

⁠@@rachelcookie321anyone who is related to someone who has done bad things often feel shame for their relation to them. Would you not feel ashamed if a member of your family committed an awful crime?

@rachelcookie321 3 месяца назад

@@mollsypops2002 nope. They committed the crime, not me. I’m in no way responsible for their actions. Why would I feel more shame compared to a stranger just because we share blood?

@RankinMsP 11 дней назад

@@rachelcookie321yeah. Go around telling everyone your relative ate live babies. 😐🙄

@rachelcookie321 11 дней назад

@@RankinMsP I certainly would because that’s very interesting. So far my best family fun fact is just that my great grandad had a whole nother family that he abandoned when he met my young Italian great grandmother. Eating live babies would be way more interesting and certainly would get conversation going.

@chrism7395 Месяц назад

We found out one of our ancestors was a High Sheriff of Devon shortly before the English Civil War; he clearly backed the wrong horse because their manor house is now an overgrown ruin and I am definitely *not* Landed Gentry! :D There's a local myth about the High Sheriff's pack of hunting dogs - the Master of Hounds was said to be particularly cruel; starving and mistreating the dogs to make them more vicious and determined. TLDR: the Master was eaten alive by his dogs when he left the cage doors open! I've read somewhere that some suggest that Arthur Conan Doyle may have heard the myth whilst he worked in Plymouth as a Doctor and that it influenced him when he wrote Hound of the Baskervilles.

@MyEgoRules 3 месяца назад

Omfg I love mark Gatiss family story ❤

@neilperry2224 3 месяца назад

Im related to the famous Irish Navvy, brought over to help build the canals and railways. He married a young relative who was in srvice to a large house in Warwickshire.

@beck86 3 месяца назад

I'd love to go to the UK, trace my family history and connect with any distant relatives I might have over there. My fathers side from England goes back to at least the 16th century but I don't know much about my mothers side other than it's made up of Scottish and Irish.

@robjohnson7806 Месяц назад

I found ancestors from Scandinavia (Rollo, 1st Duc de Normandie), Germany (a sailor who emigrated to the UK and won the third ever VC), Holland, Italy (Emperor Trajen), England, Scotland (King Duncan of Scotland - yes, the one Macbeth killed in the play....), Ireland, Wales, America (Captain Gabriel Archer, one of the founders of Jamestown) and Australia. But the one that still stands out is that Elizabeth Woodville is my 14x Great Grandmother. She of Edward IV fame and who had two sons who were supposedly locked up in the tower of London and vanished off the face of the earth. Thus, I am related to her daughter, Elizabeth of York and her well known son, Henry VIII. The most recent find is someone that I found just this week, that through my mother's side, I am related to Thomas Cromwell, he of Wolf Hall fame. It has taken me ten years of searching to find these and a lot more, and been worth every penny!

@jamielehman4934 3 месяца назад

I traced some of my ancestry and on my mothers side, all of the women in the past 3 centuries lived to be between 70 and 90 years old. I couldnt find a single female who died before age 70 until the 1700's. Can you imagine living to age 90 in 1800? 😳

@rachelcookie321 3 месяца назад

There was no children who died? Because back then it was fairly common for infants to die. There are a ton of people in my family tree who died under the age of 10. There will be like a family of 10 kids and only 3 of them made it to adulthood.

@evelynwright329 2 месяца назад

@@rachelcookie321 my family was very lucky, only 3 child deaths (including death at birth) in the last 300 years. they were poor, and still managed to have almost all 4-16 of their born kids survive. having 16 children in the early 1800s and not having ANY of them die in childhood is crazy lol. I'm cousins with half of southern Iowa lol.

@jamielehman4934 2 месяца назад

@@rachelcookie321 I suppose it's possible. I was just looking at my mom's mom's mom's mom's mom's mom's lol.

@hymmj147 28 дней назад

My lineage, too! On my Northern Welsh side, my direct relatives lived into their late 80s in the 1700s, and it improved for most as you moved forward in time. My grandmother, the baby of ten children, lived just short of 100, a few siblings of hers into their late 90s, and a sister that made it to 102. Spreading out a little wider, the few that did die as young adults were by war or accidents, but not by their own health. It's unusual certainly. I'm 54. I tell people I've got another 50 to go, I'm just getting started!

@Alsebra 26 дней назад

I honestly could go either way...my mom's maternal grandparents passed at 96 (great-grandpa, 2011) and 103 (great-grandma, 2017), so I've got some incredible longevity (they both stayed in their marital home until the end)...but my paternal grandfather passed on in 1965 at the age of 38 (heart trouble, though he's the only one with any cardiac issues), so I may "only" live to be 85 or something 😉 (though I'm currently 40 and my body seems to be falling apart quickly).

@kizkazzy 3 месяца назад

i saw a documentary where a man traced his mother and she was the bearded lady at a circus

@joekirkwood 3 месяца назад

I Did ancestry DNA and I am 36% Scottish,19% British, 11% Dublin Ireland, 9% Scandinavian, 7% Native American planes Indian, 4% Congo, Cameroon, Nigerian, 1% West European Jewish. Somewhere in this My Mother's Father and Mother are from Ponce, Puerto Rico. They came from Portugal/Spain around 1700s To Puerto Rico. Father's Family is from Loeffler Germany 1736 Civil war and the confederate Army 1861-1865 His Family is from Columbia Kentucky Whitherspoon to Spoon, Morrison,Tabor to Hadley/Waters to Vega.......

@brendanm6921 3 месяца назад

36% Scot and 19% Brit... something's not adding up there. Think you mean 19% English or Welsh.

@jackiel3100 3 месяца назад

Makes no sense. Scotland is in Britain, the Scot’s are British people, so how can you be 36% Scottish but only 19% British?

@elvikingobarbaroja 3 месяца назад

When you do a DNA test, they can often isolate parts of your DNA and home in on specific areas, like Scotland. With other genes and strands of DNA, they can only "zoom in" so far, so to speak. That's why there's some specific Scottish DNA and some general British DNA.

@JimmyJr_7 3 месяца назад

I’d love to be able do this, but it seems the show only investigates for celebrities

@parallelfinn 2 месяца назад

You can hire people to research your history, seems fairly pricey though

@lallalucas4145 3 месяца назад

What's tragic is that whereas I used to really enjoy this kind of programme, I am now so skeptical, because of fake history on TV, that I doubt the veracity of such stories!

@crissy4445 3 месяца назад

Yeah especially since this kind of history is SO difficult to track and names are so easily mixed up

@Brown87 18 дней назад

I'm named after a great Protestant reformer, who was one of my grandpa's from my dad's side of the family back in the 1600's 💙 One of my ancestors (on my dad's side) was also granted the title of Lord Provost of Annanshire by Robert the Bruce in 1324 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@tailipeters2003 18 дней назад

On looking into my ancestry I found out that on my birth mums side, my 6x Great Grandfather, Stringer Tonks was a basket maker. One Wednesday in 1811, he had a scuffle with a farmer, Charles Beale, and so they decided to settle the dispute with a boxing match the next day. I’m presuming they weren’t meaning any harm but to just have a good old fight and get their anger out. Unfortunately for Stringer, he punched Charles right under his ear and knocked him clean out and Charles was pronounced dead moments later. Stringer got 7 years in jail for manslaughter, over something that could’ve been settled a different way.

@Sydroo1969 2 месяца назад

I'm American and found out a few years back my parents had some common ancestors in England pre-1700s. I'm related to myself.😅😅😅

@Ghoul_Boi 2 месяца назад

What state are you from? Alabama?

@Jabber-ig3iw 2 месяца назад

Pretty much everyone has that in their family past. It’s only fairly recently that marrying family members became taboo.

@pandaliving23 2 месяца назад

I wish I could trace my family but it ultimately stops at my great grandfather on my mother’s side. He used a fake name to enlist in WW2 and tracing him is almost impossible. Though we do have a shocking amount of memorabilia from his time in the war. If only my grandma knew the names of her own grandparents

@hymmj147 28 дней назад

There must be a way through regular census information, no? Following inhabitants at an address? I see that all the time on Henry Gates' show.

@pandaliving23 27 дней назад

@@hymmj147 I’ve tried this but because back then everyone had the same or similar name it’s very difficult. My great grandfather had a brother and his father with the same name one of his cousins also had the same name.

@josouthwood438 3 месяца назад

I think Amanda holden should be imprisoned for being annoying.

@captain_nicepool 2 месяца назад

😂

@coreyholloway6898 2 месяца назад

I don't understand what they cry i actually feel most people would laugh discovering you had an ancestor who was an absolute monster involved in one of history's great atrocities

@coreyholloway6898 2 месяца назад

My freinds great grandad was an SS war criminal and we bully him for it constantly

@GallowglassVT 2 месяца назад

One of the things that's always hard to swallow for many is that, statistically, your ancestry probably has some really shitty individuals counted in their number. Hell, some of us don't even have to look that far back...

@CharlieyT95 3 месяца назад

Is the last one really a shock? Harriet is not a black name. So for that to be Ainsley’s surname and have caribbean heritage, it’s not surprising.

@Hollows1997 3 месяца назад

Honestly it’s quite surprising how little known this side of the slavery story is. People just assume or take what they’ve been told at face value, a good example is of Don Cheadle who didn’t realise Native Americans owned slaves…

@HannahAdamsSister 3 месяца назад

Honestly whoever you are it must be a shock to learn people you're related to owned slaves. It's an extremely fucked up thing mate.

@elmatador2139 3 месяца назад

I've heard of at least one case where a black person changed there name to avoid discrimination. Here in Ireland it is also very common with what feels like half of Irish names are Anglecised to some degree

@lyndseyb4852 2 месяца назад

Alot of slaves took the last name of their owners, slaves didn't have surnames to start with. The slaves in my family had English surnames.

@rosesweetcharlotte Месяц назад

@@Hollows1997To be fair, I think a lot of it is that you sort of have these family history and stories and you don't really want to give them up

@deer0skullz 3 месяца назад

i like how half of these are english people finding out all the terrible shit the british did to the irish lol

@Hugh_Morris 2 месяца назад

We aren't really taught about it all that much mate, and now The Troubles are over we don't hear about any modern stuff either.

@GeorgeyTheApe Месяц назад

@@Hugh_MorrisWe'd be taught that Britain ate the apple in the garden of eden if the education system knew they'd get away with it.

@ellescattergood2012 3 месяца назад

I’d love to go on a show like this. My grandad doesn’t know who his father is. His mother had him out of wedlock and would never tell anyone anything about his dad. Since he was born at the end WWII we all want answers.

@nolasyeila6261 3 месяца назад

My father didn't know who his father was as the man his mum named as his father denied it. He died never knowing. But I did the Ancestry DNA test and found relatives in England..and it was that man all along.

@fionamcwilliam8703 3 месяца назад

There is a show in the UK called DNA Family Secrets. They find out this info for ordinary people.

@rachelcookie321 3 месяца назад

Your best bet would probably be to take a dna test like ancestry dna or 23 and me and see if it can connect you to anyone on his father’s side of the family. There very likely won’t be any written records. My great great grandfather had already abandoned his family when my great grandfather was born so everyone is pretty sure he was not the father. All the records have my great great grandfathers name so I’m just hoping I’ll be able to figure out who his real father was through dna connections.

@ellescattergood2012 3 месяца назад

@@rachelcookie321 yeah we got my grandad a test a few years ago and it linked him to someone in Holland and we think it was probably one of her 6 grandfathers but no way to tell which since they’ve all passed away. His mum drove Lorrie’s in WWII so could have been anyone really and she never told anyone anything. Just seems we have hit a brick wall with it sadly.

@_hxrryyy6794 2 месяца назад

Tried to look back at my family my dads side in Ireland but it was far to large and only managed to track back around 3 generations

@TheFosseArmy 3 месяца назад

My family’s always told me I’m related to the first ever prime minister, I’ve not really looked into much myself but the last names there and it’s not exactly a common one

@ashleyjennings5691 3 месяца назад

One of my family coincidences let's say more than a dark secret a great uncle on my mum's side was deported to Australia for sheep rustling, my father's side are farming family and primarily sheep farmers

@gamerjaqi7873 3 месяца назад

My mothers mothers family the Benhams have family ties back to sir Thomas Moore. Fathers father side is Scottish Lindsley

@timholder6825 22 дня назад

You didn't do John Hurt. It's one of the very best, not just the story, but Hurt's reaction to it. Talk about hurt! Actor's mask dropped you could see the real anger of the real man.

@blondie944 3 месяца назад

I found out my great great uncles died in the most unpleasant ways after world war 1 1. Was in a pub that the IRA bombed (my family is English and pretty sure all the men were in the navy) and he lost his leg and rushed back to his merchant navy sail boat and he ended up dying 2. There was a massive storm and his German Shepard ripped his throat

@matrixiekitty2127 3 месяца назад

No ancestry is squeaky clean, but we must remember we are not our ancestors!

@usvidragonslayer3091 3 месяца назад

Well... damn

@Sarah-i4t2h 2 месяца назад

I found out recently that one of my relatives got sent to jail for 7 years for not paying to go to church

@british87 2 месяца назад

Where is Danny Dyer?

@TheCriminalViolin Месяц назад

Apparently on my dad's side, we have some distant relation to Hitler, and on my mom's side, we have relation to both Princess Diana (via the ever royally prestigious line of bedfellows, aka, concubines), and then relation to the Swedish Royal Family, via specifically a outcast/rejected daughter of one of the rulers of the time, though I can't recall of the top of my head when exactly that period was. I believe it was the 1800s, though. Arguably the most "interesting" part of my family heritage.

@Matty-738 2 месяца назад

Crying over ancestor's is crazy

@lnhart7157 Месяц назад

If they did a German version of a show a Top 10 wouldn't be enough for all the dark reveals about our (great) grandfathers lmao

@jfournerat1274 Месяц назад

They would basically be talking about how their great grandfathers were Nazi war criminals who killed countless innocent people.

@yggdrasild755 Месяц назад

6:09 is that thoughty2 ?

@ebonymjenkins442 Месяц назад

im a descendant of Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire and Catherine Parr Henry the 8th last wife

@aliciashazzam33 3 месяца назад

10 mins for 11 things

@thesonofthesouth 6 дней назад

My ancestor colonel Thomas Blood was the only person to successfully steal the Crown Jewels

@mariannehavisham8323 Месяц назад

My granny's grandad (my great great grandad) was an alcoholic from a wealthy family who lost all his money and shot himself in the head. His wife was a attractive redhead who took no prisoners and was NOT a softie. He once came back from the pub late drunk with a bouquet of flowers to apoligise to his wife. She angrily threw them on the fire not missing a beat. I've seen a photo of her. She was beautiful although she had a thin stern mouth. My great grandad luckily escaped execution for cowardice. He ran away from the army for 2 months illegally during WW1 to visit his mother and rejoined at a different army barracks to go back to war so he wasnt caught thankfully or he could have been killed as many where

@joannedavies4958 Месяц назад

My father has very much into genealogy inc the DNA side of things. He’s discovered loads. It’s been a real surprise to find out who we are related to by researching the family tree and checking DNA. Through my father’s mother’s side we found a direct link to the prince’s of Gwynedd and cousins to the Tudors including Henry 8th. Links also to both sides of the gunpowder plot too. Then dna shows links to Ashkenazi Jews. Bonkers. There were we thinking we were just a bog standard working class log. lol.

@MuFu23 Месяц назад

My ancestors were burned alive on the order of the Swedish King. All they did wrong was fight for their country.

@PippaRilley 3 месяца назад

Jumps bout too much. Never hearing the whole story of any person.

@maddyc2412 2 месяца назад

The whole video would be too long, it's a compilation of clips.. weird that it needs to explained to you

@mostly_insane2291 3 месяца назад

For some reason a great-I have no idea how many- grandfather changed the family name by adding one extra letter. Nobody living knows why.

@crissy4445 3 месяца назад

Incredibly common, take trump drumpf or all the variations of the German name asman, that’s not a strange or uncommon thing to have occurred

@oisin7712 2 месяца назад

Illiteracy my surname I believe was changed three times since the late 1600s (they weren't all that different but still an example).

@hymmj147 28 дней назад

I learned that at Ellis Island, those writing in the paperwork for the arrivals just did their best at spelling names, especially when the name was spoken aloud. And back in Europe, on my mother's side, depending on whether it was currently Austria or Hungary claiming the land, the surname changed spelling back and forth over three generations.

@sheamcloughlin1078 17 дней назад

Same happened in my family, went from O'Hagan to Hagan or the other way round, no one knows why perhaps a falling out in the family or something who knows?

@Vincornelis 3 месяца назад

Genealogy is nonsense. One mother lying about paternity or one man protecting her honor by taking on a kid he knows isn't his and the whole tree is off.

@StefferKatz 3 месяца назад

Or the many men refusing to acknowledge paternity or those who leave numerous illegitimate children in their wake yet claim never to have slept with the mother.

@nicolad8822 3 месяца назад

@@StefferKatz I’ve found a paternity case which was found against the mother. DNA shows he was lying.

@lorrainebishop3520 3 месяца назад

Dna.....it links you up to anyone else related who has taken the test. You soon see if you've gone wrong

@ClaireCaoimheRaeMoonshadow 3 месяца назад

Yep. Found out my grandma’s step brother was actually her half brother.

@jhibberd6290 3 месяца назад

That's what I often think when I'm doing my tree.

@Dane-ek5vn 3 месяца назад

@stardrasmith6654 3 месяца назад

This who it started, disease

@Gary-xc7tx 3 месяца назад

Who cares about celebrities?

@sazfretz1945 3 месяца назад

Other celebrities. 😂

@nicolad8822 3 месяца назад

The idea is to encourage us plebs to be interested in our history.

@just_kos99 3 месяца назад

My family's convinced that we're related to Princess Diana (Spencer). My great-grandmother was Grace Spencer of Connecticut, a rather blue-blood branch of the family. The instant I saw Diana for the first time, I thought "SUSIE!" -- one of my sisters. They could've been twins. I'm glad I recognized ONE person on this list: Matt Gatiss. The others? Uh-uh.

@Fcutdlady 3 месяца назад

If you're American, I doubt you'd know many of these people, I'm irish . I do know them .

@nicolad8822 3 месяца назад

A bit like when Brits watch the equivalent US show and see a “famous” footballer or two bit sitcom actor then?

@holonet2936 3 месяца назад

Surprising that you recognized Mark Gatiss, but not Martin Freeman 🧐

@Jabber-ig3iw 2 месяца назад

lol Americans are alway related to someone famous😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@kevpeacock9163 2 месяца назад

Another video ruined by unnecessary commentary

@AbbyScottO 3 месяца назад

And they still want us to pay reparations 😂😂😂

@thaloblue 3 месяца назад

Why not? Every other race has received them. Native Americans still have them. Jewish people received them. Its our turn. So what if you whites bought slaves from black people? Buying people is still wrong. And africa can give us reparations too.