Greek American roots

[@necooo]

I am Turkish and finding out about the Chios massacre only now. It is sad. I read some of the comments and I am glad to see the typical hatred isn't there. Just wanted to say that I am a big fan of Tina Fey and still keep visiting random old 30 Rock episodes when I am down :) Hadn't heard about this show, watched the Larry David episode prior to this and it was great; was so happy to see KZbin suggest one with Tina Fey.

[@caribeandreams4231]

Dont learn much about turkish/osmanic history, you become depressed. Güle, Güle Arkadas, Allah Kurusun

[@Ecclesiastes11718]

The Chios Massacre was the most brutal thing the Ottomans did to Greeks,more than 50.000 men women and children were massacred without mercy,it sparked retaliation from Greek generals who did the same in some cases,to innocent Turks as well

[@GeorgiosKalarytis]

@@Ecclesiastes1171850000 souls gone

[@danielmorad5454]

Even though I am just 10% Greek. Which, it makes sense since my Great-grandfather immigrated from Athens. I am still deeply Greek in culture, heart, & soul. 3>

[@eljeffe3120]

Daniel Morad That's....sad, really. And that's saying something coming from a Greek.

[@elainakosmidis8657]

Daniel Morad: I was born and raised in Montreal, Canada (Greek-Canadian), and I am 100% Greek. Just came across this documentary. Love it! 🙏🙂 🇬🇷

[@danielmorad5454]

@@elainakosmidis8657 oh Yasu! :) that's awesome.. Yeah lots of migration happened back in the 1900's & on.. hopefully that we can reunite and live back in home country-- in my opinion nothing is more comfortable than just your home.. I live in the unites states, lets connect... my blood Greek friend :)

[@elainakosmidis8657]

Daniel Morad: I truly believe that’s where many of us would be (in Greece) if we could afford it. Meanwhile, I’m staying put in Montreal, & I look forward to future vacations. 🙂🇬🇷❤️

[@paokw.s.1048]

@@elainakosmidis8657 just a tip, don't visit greece for the next few years, most likely we will have to fight Turkey again.

[@Playmaker2810]

Most of Greeks who arrived in USA during the 1890-1920 era come from Peloponnesos (especially Laconia and Arcadia ). Later waves of Greek migrants come from all places of Greece and a large part comes from the Greek refugees of Minor Asia. My great grandfather came to Chicago from Laconia at the end of 19th century...

[@fuzzylogic218]

My Great Grandmother came here in 1911 from Kozani.

[@art.f7973]

Playmaker2810 there dont arrive turks

[@saintjustx1]

At least a sane person in this thread.

[@miastupid7911]

My great-grandfather went in 1892 and my grandfather in 1910.

[@SANTIAGO1979PR]

I LOVE Greek History. So fascinating! It is honestly surprising to hear that most of them do not know more about their history. But I love their reactions when they find out how great their ancestors were. ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@a.m.1401]

Terry Adam Santiago you should start bringing awareness of what is happening on the greek island cyprus then

[@vickivgs2485]

A Lot of wars and no papers. All burned

[@joanfourie1753]

Me too just a pity the Turks wanted to destroy it!!

[@ErisaDesu]

Caucasus has a greek name....that area is so deeply connected with Ancient Greece that evens appears even in Greek Mythology

[@mnm2156]

makes me think of that line, "for what is in a name..." apparently, a lot. guess i need to think more about what to name a future child of mine 😊

[@michailpapadopoulos907]

Hi, I would like to correct you ( the show) on the part concerning the DNA about Caucasus and Asia Minor. The fact of the mather is that the at least 40% of all greeks (hellenes) have their ancestory in the areas around the coastal line of the Black sea (the pontic greek) including Caucasus, todays Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria. This from ancient times. The same applies to the entire coast of todays Turkey. Citys like Konstantinopel (Istanbul) had about 300.000 thousand greeks until the 1950-1960 when they where forced to leave. Greeks lived in all these areas (Smyrna, Alicarnasos, ) long before the turks arrived. We are talking from approximatly 600-700 BC, through the Roman empire and later the Byzantine empire( Easter roman empire - greek ruled) and also during the Ottoman empire (1453-1919). SO TO SAY THAT SOMEONE THAT HAS ORIGIN IN THESE AREAS IS TURK that is wrong. Turkish origin is from the areas of Mongolia/Kazakstan/Turkmenistan not from Caucasus nor Asia Minor. There where other people that had their origin in these areas such as Caucasus - Georgians, Armenias, Greeks, Laz etc. If we talk about the rest of the Asia Minor then we have people such as Greeks, Armenias, Assyrians/Syriani/Kaldeik, Kurds and even Persian. My answer has nothing to do with beeing against the turks or saying that they are not from Caucasus, Black Sea area or Asia Minor today and from the begining of the 1100 (First the Seldjuks 1100 is small noumbers and later the Ottoman turks appr. 1400 in larger) but the show excluded all others. The turks where about 40% of the total population even during the Ottoman empire.

[@eliassmyrneos1247]

From the territory of caucuses , it could be Armenian, Georgian , not necessarily Turkish....

[@mel4776]

you're the real mvp for uploading this

[@FaithPickles]

It has been an absolute pleasure watching this program🎊

[@costasp100]

One of English university professor once told me how proud the English are of their Hellenic culture. When discussing a topic about culture and civilization, a French professor professed that they (the FRENCH) see themselves as the continuation of the GRECO-ROMAN culture. Hellenism is a global entity. There is a little bit of Greek in every freedom loving and honorable human. Isn't it amazing that the almost 200 years the Greek civilization flourished is still injecting the ageless, never-ending, values and knowledge.

[@art.f7973]

costasp100 τhey had Jewish culture not greek

[@costasp100]

Whatever pleases your misery.

[@claudeghendrih762]

@@costasp100 I'd contend the hellenistic culture flourished for much more than 200 hundred years , after all the Byzantine empire was more greek than Roman

[@costasp100]

@@claudeghendrih762 You are right. The eastern Roman Empire has been completely Hellenized only when the 3 preachers injected Christianity with the values of ancient Greece. we the Christian orthodox celebrate this day as the day of the Letters which is in a few days. Christianity has been able to spread just because of this. The enrichment of Jesus teaching with the ageless never ending Hellenic civiliatiazion which I call the phylosophy of life.

[@starman1144]

To say that the Asian DNA that they have is Turkic is very stupid. Even most Turks don't have Turkic DNA because they were in small number when they came to the region and had to heavily mix with local population to the point that they become genetically identical with the people of the area they conquered. The Asian DNA is probably native Anatolian DNA that Turks also have but predates them to the area. And the Caucasus DNA is most lucky Armenian. Also, Turkic DNA is categorized as Central Asian and not as Middle Eastern.

[@CrisSelene]

What you have to remember is that they're using their own method of DNA testing and myancestry's own classification of DNA specific to region, not anything written in books on the topic but something they devised to be easier for users to navigate.

[@britturk123]

Would it matter so badly?, most Turks have some Greek DNA and quite a lot of Greeks have some smidgen of Turkish DNA too, you could be right she could have Georgian or Armenian DNA in that 3% but it is also possible it's Turkish. You are correct about the Turkish DNA being Asian but weirdly many Turks do not have it in their Dna which annoys many Turks.The funniest thing is seeing reactions of Turks when they have Greek DNA they look absolutely lost.

[@AutoReport1]

Misleading, no fraudulent, to characterize the Anatolian and Caucasian ancestry as Turkish. Turkish would show as central Asian or east Asian. Caucasian is Georgian and Armenian. Greek colonies were in Anatolia in the mythic era, alongside Lycians, Luwians, Hittites etc. who brought their own mix of Caucasian and European DNA to the existing Anatolian farmer population. The much later Turkic contribution is barely a blip.

[@alexanderbig2277]

Most of the turkish people have greek origin , Lots of greeks conerted to islam and assimileted to turkish. Thats why turkish culture and greek cultere are so similar. And turks from ottoman era wasnt seeing greeks as inferiors and they had rights.

[@dkdkrkedjdkrk4773]

and lots of greek people has turkish origin. chill

[@HelloIdkwhatname]

@@dkdkrkedjdkrk4773 wrong

[@fadinakhle5557]

A Maronite Leb feels for you. Were also under the Turks

[@stellamantikou4978]

22:34 Crawling to the holy person/altar is a sign of respect and humility. Many believers make a promise to crawl in holy places like Tinos island (from the port to the church door) in exchange of their prayers being heard.

[@constancemiller3753]

It's sad how little grandchildren learn about their own traditions.

[@stellamantikou4978]

@@constancemiller3753 Sad but true. It is also understandable since she grew up not seeing it happen in real life.Probably did not have the curiosity to know why too. The third generation trumps,"eats" the first after all. Little red riding hood shows it..!

[@pinz2022]

Great God. Our Greek ancestors came here in the late 1890's because they were Orthodox Christians driven out by the Muslim Turk Ottoman Occupiers. It's really as simple as that.

[@olbiomoiros]

pinz2022 I fell so bad about mikrasiates because Greeks like Athenians, would not accept them, even though they were Greek and they called them “Turks “ even though they were not

[@BarbaPamino]

Liv L he said 1890s not 1980s. Mainland Greece revolted successfully in the 1820s, but the Greeks of Turkey were a significant part of the world Greek population and they remained under Ottoman rule until 1920 when Turkey expelled just about every Greek in the region. Greeks from Anatolia (Turkey) didn't have homes in mainland Greece and many moved strait to the US during the railroad building era when US companies were searching for workers.

[@saintjustx1]

Quiet a stretch most of the migration came form the peloponesos wchich was part of independent Greece since 1830! The great waves of Asia minor Greeks from nowaday Turkey are from the 1920, triggered by the foolish greek invasion of Smyrne.

[@Yp3ri0n]

Are you a fucking malakas ? what tha fuc are you talking about ? Greeks revolt in 1821 and were free since . Greeks were free, and a lot more free than any American was or will ever be! Greeks sacrificed their freedom and migrate to America due to poverty of that period ! you spread false info you dumb f

[@millieejay127]

Sad

[@iliasparaskevopoulos5044]

very touching for us all, thanks

[@charleskerry845]

Very interesting .we Greeks should not forget our history, and how hard our ancestors fought for Freedom and country.

[@a.m.1401]

Charles Kerry and how hard some greek countries are still fighting to get back their freedom like north cyprus the second north korea

[@charleskerry845]

I know, because my family ancestry is Greek Cypriot .

[@caribeandreams4231]

Greetings from greek born in Germany

[@charleskerry845]

Actually I was born in Sudan Khartoum Africa ,there was a Greek community in Khartoum (My Grandfather had a Hotel and Cabaret there he was from Cyprus ),my other Grand Parents lived on the Island of Lesbos, Greece . We left in the 60's( I was 2 years old ) due to political unrest in that country that threaten our lives and ended up in United States Astoria NY .Greeks may be all over the world and become citizens of that country, but never forget there heritage,culture , family (that's part of there identity). .

[@eljeffe3120]

Just so they could live in the US and betray us. The Yankee citizen oath makes you swear to only pledge allegiance to the US flag and NOBODY else.

[@poniris]

Very glad to be greek !

[@marja812]

the way they pronounce greek names is so funny :3

[@chubbieminami3274]

In the 70s, I went to a small private school in NY called St. Andrews Academy and there were many Greeks and we had to learn French and Greek. Now I know why there is a big Greek community. The elementary school was at a big mansion. Good memories.

[@warden420]

I found out that I was not just of Latino and Spanish descent but im also 59% full Greek. From my mom side.

[@waxandwayne]

If you've lived your life with the overwhelming desire to open a diner.... you might have Greek in your background. that and a strong affinity for lemons, mirrors, candles and anything made of marble.

[@davidsalazar5289]

waxandwane 😀

[@deanpapadopoulos3314]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@iliasparaskevopoulos5044]

its just so amazing to see yourself as a part of something bigger, the continuation of the deeds of a living person to whom you are the extension. seeing their faces is like seeing people having understood a higher pholosophical meaning, seeing life without the constraint of time

[@deanpapadopoulos3314]

Beautifully expressed.

[@skubytube]

David was hilarious ! I love this show .. love seeing others discover who they are and where they come from. Makes me smile

[@olbiomoiros]

Hai from Cyprus.

[@daltonschnelle3466]

Even though i’m only 1/8th greek, i’m very in touch with my greek heritage

[@mrpatriot8279]

I always seem to live in areas where the Greek community scattered. My late mother was Greek from Corinth but my father half German and his other half having been in America since the 16-1700s with Iroquois ancestry. The only place I met other ethnic Greeks was the Greek Orthodox church. All my mother's sisters married non-Greeks but my Aunt Grace, who was like the Greeks on My Big Fat Greek Wedding, believed Greeks should marry Greeks. We lived in California so whenever we visited our Greek relatives in upstate New York we always got a dose of Greek culture at our Aunt Grace's house. I did my DNA on ancestry and I can trace my non-Greek half to the 16-1700s , even my German ancestors who came in the 1870s. I traced them in Germany as far as the 1700s. With my Greek half I can't go far. My Yia Yia was from Corinth but when I talked to my cousin there he said our family was originally from Sparta. My Papou was born in Constantinople but moved to Orestiada outside Edirne but they were forced out by the Turks and reestablished a town called Nea Orestiada. I teach Roman-Greek history and I'm organizing a course on how Islam destroyed classical civilization. In my Arizona small town I only meet people who are half or one quarter Greek. When we went to the Greek festival in Tucson I was delighted to meet full blooded Greeks. The Turks had planned to ethnically cleanse the Greeks from Greece and replace them with Muslims from Egypt. I taught in Istanbul and I saw all the old buildings with Greek writing but no Greeks. The Devshirme was terrible. I wonder what part my Greek ancestors took part in the Greek Revolution?

[@vasilis5365]

Through your story I understand that you ancestors as well was important

[@raquelviula9468]

😢😮 27:26 😮

[@serasara2787]

when you look back in history you ended up lots of sad heartbreaking stories ,shame of mankind

[@ions3876]

Caucasus was a Hellenic (Greek) region. Guess it's intriguing for the show but not so decent for those you suppose to help by your research.. right? Good show though

[@Eurafrican]

Very interesting to learn about modern Greek history. What the Nazis did throughout the way is usually confined to the holocaust in mass recent memory... All of their atrocities, like the ones they fuelled in Greece, should be remembered. I love this show! It's so empowering and positive.

[@art.f7973]

Euro-African the nazis was not germans as many thinks germans was used like soldiers German people and German country is two distinct

[@caribeandreams4231]

She is American with greek roots. She does not have a greek mind

[@kachi2782]

@@art.f7973 Same with the french revolution, it was all orchestrated by the ones who control us today.

[@kachi2782]

The greatest civilization in the history of the world ? Greece . Which took everything it knew from Egypt, which took everything it knew from the Kingdom of Sumer. Come on, and you call yourself a genealogist ! What a joke this man is ! Even China and India are far older, far greater and far more important in the history of the world. And how many people on the planet have greek DNA today, even just in the western world ? I mean Just Genghis Khan alone (one single man) has his DNA in 16 Million people today. That's just one man. None of the Greek rulers can claim that ! Now don't get me wring, Greece was an extremely important civilization, but first of all, this civilization is long gone and second of all it is not the greatest civilization in the history of the world. And have a black guy say that is even more hilarious since the ancient Greeks considered black people as sub-humans and i mean so sub-humans that they didn't even want to use them as slaves (and god knows Greeks had zero problem with slavery and owning other people, but they considered black people to not even be good enough to be slaves). And in the ancient greek Mythology there was one and only one god which was Black Erebus, and he was the god of Darkness so basically an evil god, and he was the son of Khaos (his father the God of chaos) and Nyx his mother the goddess of the shadowy goddess of Night. And Erebus siblings were Hypnos the God of sleep and Thanatos the God of death, so not exactly the most beloved gods in the mythology, and only Erebus was Black, not even his evil siblings or parents were, he just turned out black because he was one of the worst gods of all. And if you go to Greece even today you will quickly understand what Greeks still think of black people today. Most black people living in greece today report that they are still treated as sub-humans. And one thing is certain 99% of greek family would never accept a Black person as a son or daughter in law, especially as a son in law. So to have a black guy calling greece the greatest civilization in the world is so tragic. It is like a victim of concentration camps in Poland during world war two, calling Germany the greatest civilization in the world or a survivor from Unit 731 calling Japan the greatest civilization in the world or a survivor from Nagasaki and Hiroshima calling america the greatest civilization in the world, except none of the victims i mentioned would ever do that, but a Black person actually called greece the greatest civilization in the world. I don't know if it is Stockholm syndrome or lack of education. Either way this is rather odd coming from someone supposed to be a scholar !

[@ululug6381]

@@kachi2782 Your quote : "they didn't even want to use them as slaves (and god knows Greeks had zero problem with slavery and owning other people, but they considered black people to not even be good enough to be slaves)." - Would it be better for you if they enslaved blacks and continued to abuse them instead? Slavery was in almost all countries ESPECIALLY rife in Africa and all middle east itself and judging by your logic Black people from Africa can't be proud of their own country as it would be "so tragic". You then Praise Genghis Khan for pillaging and raping many people as a great achievement that Greece can't claim.... Do you applaud rape and destruction? Did you want Greeks to rape the entire world to claim the DNA of 16 Million people today?.... That's just disgusting and Greeks don't want that disgusting title you praise and preach about like it's some great achievement.... P.S I'm black, my mothers Black and my fathers white and Greek but YOU are a racist for telling me not to be proud to be Greek and also I have been to Greece many times and nobody has treated me like what you imagined. Also my extended Greek family feed me, welcome me without a second thought AND EVEN THEY BRAG about having black cousins like it's a good thing. You talk out of your ass with zero experience and knowledge.

[@joecoe4416]

George seems so excited to be there.

[@Commandelicious]

This is great. I done the same with my family, but it's super easy in Germany. But then you find "And Uncle Bernard came back from America to fight for the nazis and died" and that's just a bummer ...

[@harrypotter9050]

people with Greek roots should be proud of it , because what build this civilization is ancient Greek mathematicians philosophers political system ............... even many cities are named Greek names not only in USA but around the world.

[@costasp100]

To all the Hellenes. Don't forget Cyprus! The struggle goes on. We are here to uphold the Hellenic values and tradtions.

[@georgemina4931]

THANK YOU MATE

[@Greg-cf4mm]

@Saitan Asker what is, japanese?

[@promn2627]

@ForMyPeople GR ur stupid or what?

[@mirianansotegi9590]

There will never be harmony and togetherness if we choose to believe that we live within a struggle. Peace and love. We are all one.

[@MyMojo13]

...even at 12.5% Greek - Greek at heart n soul!!!!!!!

[@eljeffe3120]

Its My MoJo That is pathetic. Wow, that is worse than the girl who thinks she is 25% black.

[@michaeldukes4108]

Aero Snake ... Who the hell are you to say who can and cannot be proud of their heritage?

[@promn2627]

@@michaeldukes4108 the blood cell counter 😊

[@moongirl-7584]

in about 1/8th greek, I didnt know ANY of the greek side of my family until just earlier THIS MONTH. I was not raised greek but I wish that I was I am ashamed for not knowing the language and not ever having been to the greek village I am from :(

[@logastra]

Finally Greek genealogy from three unique Hellenes and their family history. Been searching my family-history since 1977. On my Vasilakos side;haven't found a direct familial link to the Mani area? On the Maltezos side;heard from Family-Lore;they were from Malta?

[@cdb88]

Omg!! I'm related to Sedaris through the Denison's!!!

[@deanpapadopoulos3314]

Thank you. This was beautiful.

[@berchekas]

Fantastic!!!

[@morganetches3749]

It's a little simplistic to says the Klephts were bandits to the Ottomans and heroes to the Greeks. Prior to the Greek War of Independence, many Klepht bands had no particular allegiance to anyone. Some of them may have been Robin Hoods, but many of them would have no scruples about robbing other Greeks, so many Greeks would not look at all Klephts as heroes. The rehabilitation of the klephts is kind of part of the creation of the Greek national myth

[@gunner-pm7jh]

also greek weddings are way the best hehe ;)

[@ΕΜπα]

Great show, marvellous job!

[@gazmendsubrahimi8360]

lastime I checked the Caucasus was Europe... well -partly.

[@devlin7575]

In the later 2000s I was attending an embassy party in Athens and was stood with a friend of mine, a Turkish gentleman married to a Greek lady. All of a sudden this highly educated, well mannered and very funny man ‘exploded’ and had the #2 at the Turkish embassy by the collar. He was absolutely furious. As he was a water polo player it took three of us to get him off the man, and two of us were ex-military. To make things even better once we’d separated them, and gotten him to stop struggling, one of the Turkish embassy security staff came tried to hit him from behind with a full bottle of wine (a professional soldier!). Very fortunately the ladies of the Turkish embassy ‘blocked him’. What had set my friend off? He had just overheard a senior Turkish embassy official (a long serving member of their Foreign Affairs Ministry) say something along the lines of “We are working to take back these colonies …. These colonial types are a joke.” But what had tipped him over was this senior official saying “Their women are sluts but that will change when we come back”. My friend explained later that his sisters had faced increasing, then serious ‘bullying’ from government people in Istanbul (not Ankara) for not wearing headscarves but also this official had just been talking to my friend’s wife … self explanatory his reactions I believe. A senior diplomat stationed in a sensitive Mission in the late 2000s talking like this at an inter embassy social event? … I checked the diplomats name a few years later and he survived (and apparently thrived following) Erdogan’s political witch-hunt and the accompanying killings you don’t hear enough about. As my Turkish friend put it to me then, this was (is?) the pervasive institutional thinking towards Greece and Bulgaria. I was an Adviser when Syria kicked off and the opinions in the media in Turkey at the time … peas in a pod with Putin in 2022. Edit: I should have mentioned Cyprus …. lol at the nonsense they have thrown at them now from Ankara over the oil and gas field explorations that are going on.

[@Agelos100789]

Yeah this story sounds like bullshit but even if it's not Turkey is facing economic collapse so I think the world's fine

[@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt]

Unfortunately those people in the east of Greece thinks likewise.

[@patriciafeeney]

hi iam tryin to get in contact with the television programme finding your roots. how do i email or apply for the show thanks tish

[@Konstantinos_Phocis]

23:11 That is Neochori village in Samos island actually... Anyways, congrats for your great job!

[@antegeia6517]

"Apidia" lol ...the way he pronounces it 😂

[@srfrg9707]

My family is from Chio island too.

[@ksenos69]

Chios, Χίος

[@a.m.1401]

ksenos69 euharisto

[@pantelispantelis1820]

@@ksenos69 discord.gg/zsaNNJn

[@gogogeedus]

Long live Greece!

[@mnm2156]

no wonder, her grandmother was just that courageous...❤ i'd be proud too 😊

[@gunner-pm7jh]

proud to be greek too ^_^

[@LadyNightOwl63]

gunner6084 .

[@gunner-pm7jh]

:/ ?

[@pantelispantelis1820]

@@gunner-pm7jh discord.gg/zsaNNJn

[@dazzh3834]

Vassiliki - the pronunciation by the presenter/host LOL driving me nuts. the emphasis is on the LAST syllable

[@otheracc5831]

yes same!! i felt the need to correct him out loud every single time he said it

[@Georged811]

Tina Fay's face shows that she couldn't care less about her family going through major events of the 1821 War like the Chios Massacre, or about her ancestor being a decorated war veteran. On the other hand, she was over the moon when she was told that she had a fairly prominent English-American ancestor on her father's side. Talk about a chip on her shoulder. This huge inferiority complex towards WASPs really made me dislike her. George Stephanopoulos seems more relaxed and seemed to actually care about his family's history, even though he only seems to grasp half of it in and in a typically American way. As a lawyer who often had to dig into Greek archives for Greek-American clients, I've got to hand it to the show's team - they really did do a good job finding information on everyone, even though they could find even more if they tried. Henry Louis Gates makes a point of mentioning that Greece doesn't have records going back centuries all the way to Plato because of the Ottomans and the Nazis and whatever. WTF? No country in Europe has records going back further than the Middle Ages. Southern Greece does have records going back to 1821, and Venetian-held territories have records going back to the 1200s. Nowadays even Ottoman records going back to the 16th century are being digitized and translated, providing easy access to information on more Greek regions.

[@ΑνΕμ]

She has written in her autobiography that she disliked some aspects of Greek community, being a little intrusive animated behaviour.

[@sakisathan9176]

Caucasians does not mean Turks. The Greeks lived in the Caucasus before the Slavic people. Caucasian blood means Pontic Greek, known by the name Lazz. Now, about the Asian blood: Asia Minor, by the coast of today's Turkey, was Greek for thousands of years. The Ionian Greeks lived there, and the area was not called Asia but Ionia. They were of Indo-European descent. Homer was an Ionian Greek. The DNA tests are taken from today's geography and reflect the populations known today.

[@vasilykatuma5689]

IRELAND ONLY, ΓΕΝΙΤΣΑΡΟΙ!!!!!

[@belescli]

Henri Louis Gates, Jr. is a class.

[@iliasparaskevopoulos5044]

i would actually like to present my families history as has been researched by my father in case it enriches the viewers experience. My fathers gandfather escaped the genocide living at a mountainous village in the Black Sea region now called Tohuz or Nine coz the myth has it a woman gave birth to nine children. 1 thousand people lived there and 9 hundred were burned in the school. my best friend comes from that village and his family escaped far earlier taking a boat and roaming around Greece to settle anew. so cool coincidence. My fathers grandfather fought with the Ottoman army against the Bulgarians, his brother got killed at 19 years of age in the hug of his and he was a prisoner in Bulgaria from the age of 20 till 30. He escaped, travelled to Kavala took a wife from there and settled in west Macedonia. From my mothers line the only thing i know is that the village where her father came was full of blobd blue- eyed people reminiscent of Slavic heritage coz during the Byzantine years hyge amounts of slavic population pured on. As for my mothers mother see looks like an arab. Ibrahim Pasa the egyptian guy ordered to fight the Revolution and is mentioned in the documentary may had men raping and stuff which may connect to my family coz my grandmothers village is a few kilometers away from Ibrahim;s landing site

[@insatiablecuriosity2555]

very interesting...thanks for sharing this.

[@rosesarikaya5633]

Also Pasha is not a last name, it is a title.

[@stergiosp6881]

Anastasoul-A for crying out loud, not lu

[@withgoddess7164]

Well it's 2022 Tina...lots of opportunity to do something really important

[@poxer1]

To say that there were tensions between the greeks and the otomans is extremely incorrect. But the movie is interesting. Great research. That is a lot of hard work and great findings. Thank you!

[@angelikif7990]

That 4% self hatred. Thank you David. That is epic.

[@sunworship5080]

Lol, yeah I loved that comment

[@konstantinospapadopoulos7735]

But Caucasus is not Turkic. Turkic is Central Asian DNA, but Turks from Turkey have now mixed DNA. Native Caucasian is Armenian, Georgian etc..

[@Agelos100789]

Greeks, Armenians and Jews held influential positions in Ottoman governments, commercial enterprises, the military and there were varying degrees of freedom given for religion too.

[@carlys8439]

Great episode! Make on on Macedonian Americans please :)

[@iraklishatziefstratiou3125]

==Hellene

[@ksenos69]

Interesting! Is there a similar documentation about people from Africa, African-Americans?

[@anjabakker1615]

Thank you

[@mrpatriot8279]

My ancestry DNA test showed 8% West Asian but I assumed it was Anatolian and or Syria- NOT Turkish!

[@michaeldukes4108]

Mr patriot ... Anatolia is modern-day Turkey, so 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@TartarusPyro]

17:33 ehmm wtf are you talking about? but before that we had a 100% hellenized byzantine empire by 5 October 610 - 29 May 1453 greek fire(Υγρόν Πυρ) helped for that tbh ^^ and before that my greek ancestors had been in this place for thousands of years. At the same time as your ancestors were running around in the Asian meadows.people dont rly know what happened between this two countries and trust me its sad

[@mnm2156]

amazing, how we're all fruit? 😂 🍊🍎😉

[@CitrianSnailBY]

Interestingly, George Robert Stephanopoulos looks very much like my late Father, Eliyahu Kedem (who was an israeli Jewish, with Kurdish roots in northern Iraq = well, *also* a part of the ottoman empire...).

[@unjigalimonsito9768]

47:35 George is 98% european. I guess Conan's claim that he is 98% irish can also be true lol.

[@baileynewton8463]

Why don't they show the percentage for the others

[@antegeia6517]

Greeks have ancient middle eastern dna too ....its not only the Turks that brought it to Greece ...this dna originates almost 6000 years ago when farmers from middle east migrated to Europe...all europeans have this middle eastern dna too...besides the original Turks were not middle eastern but central asian lol

[@art.f7973]

vag sam turks comes from central asia not Anatolia

[@antegeia6517]

Art .f i talked about the "original" Turks that came from central Asia , from countries like the modern day Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan for examble ....

[@antegeia6517]

Art .f the Otttoman Turks were heavilly mixed with the local Anatolians when they conquered Minor Asia , these mixed Turks then conquered Greece too and started migrating to Greece , so they brought their middle eastern ( Anatolian ) DNA along with them ... but its not true to say that Greeks originate from these people ( the mixed Anatolian/Turks ) because Greeks had very similar DNA with the Anatolians already since thousand years ago

[@antegeia6517]

Art .f in other words it wasnt the fact that we were conquered by the "Turks" that made us very similar to the Anatolians , lol we already were similar to them even before the mixed "Turks" conquered us

[@antegeia6517]

Art .f καταλαβες τιποτα η χειροτερα τα εκανα ? Χαχα

[@giannispapaslampros2624]

Κανένας από Ελλάδα ;

[@jeb284]

ben the man :)

[@malbung]

greek state...

[@Asdfhjkl998]

One things you forget when greek independence start they mascara 350000 Muslim then all this sad story start ………by the way genetically I am greek and Sirbian and google full of muslim Genocide by greek ,sirb ( Bosnia )and Russian even 1980 s Bulgarians do that ,All this hate start by 1825 ( any why they have think if they rules by English probably they cannot speak Greek like Irish and probably they are not orthodox anymore because in Anglican mentality they are heritage )

[@Asdfhjkl998]

And you say creek become independent there king came from Germany and many Greek generals imported from England France do you use greek nation To kick out the Muslims to Arabia like in Spain what the Christian united Crusader do to Jew and Muslim …….

[@markuschan7588]

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[@kapi5705]

Haven’t heard of Chios… 😒 She’s not that Greek

[@marcoandrei5000]

Being back ‘who do you think you are’. This is not remotely as good as that show.

[@andia6865]

Patriots? If anyone invades and kills in your home, you just want to survive or take revenge. My greek grandfather´s both fought against turks, but not because they were patriots. Ask any iraky, any afgani, any vietnamese and so on, the list is long. Also Stefanopoulos was how old in 1976? 9? He is born in 1961... Such mistakes, unprofessional. Look it up, it´s around 11 Minutes 30. First they tell the story, then next frame is his family tree starting with him. With his bithday next to his name

[@pmparda]

Do you know what patriot means? It's etymology?

[@andia6865]

@@pmparda I am greek so yes sir

[@pmparda]

@@andia6865Αλήθεια? Και δε ξερεις ότι αυτό που περιεγραψες βασικά σημαίνει "πατριωτης"?

[@andia6865]

@@pmparda ne ke oxi. then prepi na agapas tin hora pou ziz jia na min thelis na sou klepsoun tin basi tis sois sou. Katalabenis pos to enoo?

[@Blade-Thing]

I thought her ancestors might have some connection to fearie.

[@margotmcpherson5967]

making fun of your grandmother for a laugh is pretty pathetic

[@jeffjeffries3469]

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[@alexmkd3560]

greek at the airport: - Name? - Fuckos Suckiris. - Sex? - Three to five times a week. - No, no, I mean: male or female? - Yes... male, female, sometimes goat. - Holly cow! - Yes... cow, dog, even sheep. - But isn't that hostile? - Horse style, doggy style, any style! - Oh, dear! - No, no... deer run to fast!

[@john13arva]

alex mkd says the gipsy from Vardarska, half of you are albanian other half Bulgarian, no history nothing so you decided in 1990 to take macedonia as name hahha, before you were called vardarska as part of Yugoslavia, no one in Balkan regognize you as a county or ethnic people, you are just gipsies

[@andrem1403]

@@john13arva Depends to MyHeritage the third country with Greek dna is Vardaska www.myheritage.com/ethnicities/greek/ethnicity-worldwide-distribution

[@ThePythonfan]

wTF THe ending is soooo rubbish. I know we are part of the EU but calling greeks and greek civilisation "european" and "white" in the modern american meaning is such bullshit man. Our culture has integrated ppl from 3 different continents who were and always had been 'greek' and has extended to 3 different continents. OUr dna is not "white" or "european" or "african" or "asian". It's always been a mixture of everything because we are right in the middle of 3 different continents and our ancestors came from all these sides. The fact that someone is "middle eastern" in backround dna doesn't mean they are turkish or have turkish dna. Not to mention that turkish ppl are not middle eastern lol wtf. This is such misinformation and half information in every possible way it makes me cringe.

[@ThePythonfan]

@Kostas T indoeuropean is a language not a race first of all. But even that shows you that Greeks are not “white” and don’t get me wrong I’m not saying we are black lmao nor there’s anything wrong if we were. But see, Americans and British consider as Whites people of north and Central European descent, mainly Nordic, Germanic, Saxon... middle eastern is not white to them .. anything else is just a variation or other category Which is insane because race is a social construct, Greeks are literally from all over the Mediterranean including North Africa and west Asia and more recently has Slavic Arabic European and Middle eastern mixes If you take a stroll in anyofnkur cities you’ll see such diverse people still being considered as real Greeks you’ll see middle eastern looking Greeks and Slavic. Looking Greeks and European looking geeeks. To us we are just Greeks but going to US they’d get categorized and in many cases they do. My point is irrelevant to racial background though it’s about ethnic background and that is most definitely how most westerners present it to be

[@bacioglobal2200]

Original Greek culture and contemporary Greek culture are light years apart.

[@lefkeev332]

Bacio Global Obviously you don't know my history, do don't give opinions about my culture,

[@bacioglobal2200]

Actually, you should examine the original Greek culture with contemporary Greek culture and you can start with the language then religion. You will find vast differences. Be objective instead of thinking like a nationalist twat. Contemporary Greeks are living off of fumes. Let's face it; Greece has not contributed to western culture or society since c. 479-404 BC.

[@calliopibertos4020]

Bacio Global You are quite wrong, there are immeasurable similarities in the culture that have remained unchanged!

[@kabamaru_Iga_No]

@@bacioglobal2200 As the great poet Elytis said, "there is only one Greek language and it is undivided since the ancient times". Greeks have always been speaking Greek. Naturally, many words have changed form and meaning threw those thousands of years. As far as the culture, most of the Christian customs originate from ancient Greek customs, such as the fasting, sacrament, koliva (the sweet boiled wheat we make at funerals), the preparation of the epitafios and the procession that follows, the roasting of the lambs on Easter. Many others unrelated to Christianity, which are till now tradition, like breaking pots in holy Saturday, the Anastenaria (dancing on burning coals), the jumping of the flames on 23rd of June , the Greek carnival, where dozens of different ancient pagan rituals take place in several towns and villages and so many other traditions. Let's face it. You no NOTHING about Greece and Greeks. And that comment of yours turned from arrogant to be plain stupid. Aristotle, Archimedes, Euclid, Caratheodory, G. Papanikolaou and many other Great Greeks who lived after 404 BC would agree.

[@deanpapadopoulos3314]

You’re right but no one wants to hear it.

[@invinciblecucumber]

I don't agree, cause when you meet American tourists, they will tell you their whole life story in a matter of minutes...😒

[@miralabualjadail4206]

Tina Fey looks Middle eastern.

[@lh2823]

The Ancient Greeks copied *SO MUCH* from the Ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamia. This is never acknowledged in the West

[@zoeapostolidou3964]

That's actually not true, ancient Egypt interacted with Mesopotamia and later on with Greeks. We gave each other things, no one "copied" or "stole" anything, please

[@lh2823]

@@zoeapostolidou3964 No one is disagreeing there may have been some degree of cultural exchange in all directions. I'm not denying that on one level or another, at all. I'm just saying that Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia are FAR FAR older Civilizations than Ancient Greece. Here's an Example: Did you know that the Ancient Greek god Zeus is a complete copy and facsimile of the Ancient Mesopotamian God Mardok on almost every level? Mesopotamia is a Far older civilization than Ancient Greece therefore logic dictates that Greece copied Mesopotamia. The only reason Greece gets credit over Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia is because of Western Bias . I grew up in Canada and went to UofT, minored in Philosophy, took many classics courses, and aside from one Mythology course never learnt anything on the Mesopotamians and nothing on the Ancient Egyptians

[@zoeapostolidou3964]

@@lh2823 What you continuously fail to comprehend is that no one copied anything from anyone. All cultures that descend from Proto-Indo-European tribes (and all cultures that interacted with these tribes) share common traits. Zeus is not a copy of Marduk and it's actually a bit dumb to even make that comment - comparison (but please do give me examples how Zeus and Marduk are the same being - but please don't give me generalisations that fit every single Father God figure aka Sky Gods - Kings of the Gods). Also, the whole "this one is older than this one so of course that one copied everything from this one" doesn't stand, I'm sorry. It's a oversimplification as well as a generalisation that just does not work. The two were almost contemporaries with the first forms of Zeus being created in the Minoan and Mycenean age. Ancient Greece gets credit "over" ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia simply because ancient Greece held more influence over western societies than Egypt and Mesopotamia did. Is that hard to comprehend? Also, I'm sorry but the ancient Greeks are not to blame for your faulty educational system (also, I assume your classic studies had to do with ancient Greek and Latin writings and achievements as these are the foundations for western societies). In Greece we learn about other civilisations. But fret not, even if your educational system is bad that doesn't mean you can't educate yourself - fun fact: your lack of knowledge is not always someone else's fault, you're also to blame.

[@pmparda]

@@lh2823 Or they didn't copy them and they simply have common ancestral culture. To think that they had nothing as a community and they just decided to copy another, is idiotic! Culture, traditions, religion... all of them are born with the community, they change and adapt with them. They could have been inspired, sure. But "copy" implies they had nothing and took what was already there. That's not possible unless they just appeared one day and decided to copy another civilization instead of bothering creating their own.

[@rosesarikaya5633]

Ibrahim Pasha was executed by Sultan Suleiman partially because of his cruelty. In today's terms it would be called war crimes and he was originally from Greece and power hungry..

[@ΑνΕμ]

Rose Sarikaya from a greek: just so you know this is not Ibrahim Pasha of 1500s, Grand Vesir of Suleyman Sultan, but Gen. Ibrahim Pasha, son of Muhammad Ali, who was governor of Egypt in 1800s , of Albanian decent.

[@OziNasio]

He was the ruler of Greece and his kingdom was is in Ioannina Epirus, he was ethnic Albanian and the sultan cut his head off because he wanted to break away from the Ottoman Empire

[@christinechristine2328]

Rose Sarikaya You are wrong. I have majored in History currently working as a teacher. What's your source?

[@cassandravalasi9514]

I think you are confusing him with Ali Pasha. He was Albanian and power hungry and very cruel and tried to rebel against the Sultan and make a kingdom of his own.The Turks eventually murdered him. He was not Greek but his palace was at Ioannina, which is a city of the contemporary Greek state, then Ottoman empire. Ibrahim Pasha on the other head was a general from Egypt, which I think was part of the Ottoman Empire at the time, and was ORDERED by the Turkish Sultan to shatter the greek revolution by all means, which meant at the time mass slaughters of the civilian population so that they terrorise them and force them to stop revolution. If you knew Greek history and the history of the nations belonging to the Ottoman empire you would see how common that tactic of terrorising population by mass slaughters was for many centuries of the Ottoman occupation.

[@saidnassr9963]

Well spreading hate against Turks in this program is so disgusting. To any prospective offender: I am not a Turk just that you know

[@vdenise]

reality and truth hurts , know your past to avoid same mistakes in the future, avoid been aggressive when you did so much wrong and harm, owning admitting of your mistakes and seeking forgiveness , you wont see this happening from them

[@saidnassr9963]

Dear!!! I am not a Turk, so don't address it to me :) Thank you

[@vdenise]

@@saidnassr9963 you made the comment ..... dear!! also at the end i state '' them'' obviously i address them not you who defended them

[@saidnassr9963]

I can defend whoever I want! You don't have to preach under my comment

[@vdenise]

@@saidnassr9963 and you don't have to defend, so as you chose to defend I chose to reply :) there are always 2 sides of a coin

[@arzuelasi764]

Waow this episode is specially full of love for Turks. There is no history that is objective.

[@ninadiamant8937]

When someone massacres a whole island (considered part of their own empire btw), don't expect love.

[@90210sleekkeels]

👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿

[@malbung]

turkey !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@melthibscom]

This reminds me of how I used to tell people that I was part Greek even though I was in a very predominantly Acadian area (like 97%, though I’m just guessing). I even taught them words in « Greek » 😂 I was around 7-8 years old. I don’t think my friends really believed me, but we were all entertained. Unrelated story aside, I enjoy watching these shows. I have always been interested in genealogy. It’s so fascinating to learn about people who you have never met, but are the very reasons why you’re here. I, in a very amateur way, drew my family tree by researching in French Canadian repertories. I only have the names and some significant dates (birth, death, weddings). I wish I know some of their stories.