Ancestry Helps Jonty Find His "Dead" Great-Grandfather | My Family Secrets Revealed | Ancestry

[@energymaven]

These are too short! Want more of the story.

[@kjw79]

I think they are clips from a series on the BBC.

[@abuimam]

I want this in Malaysia! My 70 YO MIL is a Chinese, who as a baby was given to a Malay Muslim lady for adoption during war time - Chinese were targeted by the Japanese army. Her adopted mother were tight lipped about her origin. The "secret" was brought to her grave.

[@jitaamesuluma9730]

family is often a very painful thing , divorce was near impossible then unless you were wealthy , i understand his actions , poor Jonty , its ok , we are who we are and he did not mean to hurt you all , just to be free of a marriage that was not working

[@munkittytunkitty]

Thank you :) I'm sure you're right - Jonty

[@rivkyb7840]

not In the Jewish world

[@sroy9789]

free of responsibility and kids he fathered. hmmm

[@williamsivy]

I have several amazing ancestry com stories. Just amazing

[@lahingkayumanggi]

Love the set up , feels like your sitting there too, watching and listening to amazing life story from the past.❤️

[@rivkyb7840]

That story is wild!

[@batya7]

Questioner doesn't understand Jewish customs- the guy probably returned to USA, had family there, and they sat shiva when he actually died. Jonty wouldn't have to do it.

[@michaeldukes4108]

He wouldn’t *have* to, of course not. I think the questioner was more likely being metaphorical here, asking if Jonty would bother mourning for him, or sitting his own personal shiva, at the man’s graveside.

[@saraschneider6781]

Wow, you missed the boat.

[@JulioGonzalez-db3mc]

Sounds like he didn’t love his first wife...arranged marriage perhaps?

[@sroy9789]

That cant be an excuse :) He slept with her and had children

[@LAVirgo67]

This was quite common back in the day, esp. when people left Europe. They didn't' expect to return & divorce was probably out of the question. Faking ones death was a better alternative.

[@terrikukla5017]

Awe...we dont reasons that people do things but they often have good reasons.

[@munkittytunkitty]

You're right. I don't like what he did but I don't have to run from landlord to landlord because I can't pay the rent, I don't have Jack the Ripper living round the corner from me probably doing the same job I'm doing and probably having the same origins as me and I don't have to feed a wife and five children on a barber's salary in a world with no unemployment benefit or health service or housing benefit or live in a country which isn't my own, probably struggling with the language and having a religion that no-one understands... I wonder what I'd do if I were him? - Jonty

[@elgee6202]

I remember Jonty as a Big Brother contestant.

[@rebbecahisrael2631]

Love the Story

[@thatruth6488]

I'm trying to find my real grandfather I have no clue what to do!!! I only have limited information. My dad and his siblings basically gave up looking for him, his father, so I always told my dad I will never give up but only if I had someone to tell me or help me find him. I already did my DNA to Ancestry leading to no clues. SO after I retired from the United States Army as started a vigorous search which always led a dead end! Why?

[@XO-uu8kc]

I am in the same position, I am also looking for my paternal grandfather. Little to no info. I hope my results show some clues.

[@amberjenkins4299]

It’s been 3 years, did you make a break through yet?

[@trainerskulb00d]

I still need to find my great's ship records....sure the name is spelled different since they probably didn't speak English on both sides of my family

[@toriannalanam5341]

You can definitely blame someone who was born in a different time. I blame my great grandma Lois for being a racist. I didn't find out till after she passed, but I get angry when I remember that information.

[@queenamo7624]

Would be nice just to be told!!!

[@mariagraziasolinas1146]

Vorrei ascoltarlo in italiano

[@mondoprime]

WOUND!

[@pattiwhite9575]

wow