Jimmy Kimmel Can't Believe His Family Came To NYC With Just $10 | Finding Your Roots | Ancestry®

Jimmy Kimmel gets emotional learning how his family immigrated from Italy with only a few dollars to build a new life in the United States. Watch the latest episode of PBS’s Finding Your Roots to see just how impactful learning your family history can be. visitancestry.com/3NqX8tP
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[@collnss]

$10 in 1903 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $345.60 today, however that is still a meager amount to start over with a family in a new country.

[@HVS-gk7oo]

$350 in life savings is worth nothing in the western world today. At best it will cover your rent for two weeks.

[@alessandromartina4437]

it was, but sometimes there were intermediary who would find you a job and a home -your life would become theirs in a sort of bondage but at least you could have something to start

[@HRM.H]

10 dollars was enough to make it through a month without work.

[@francissantos7448]

Thank you for doing the calculation. When I immigrated I had to buy a chicken sandwich and pay a hotel room because I missed the flight connection . That was 2 weeks pay from the job I left. I was a Geologist in a private company then. BUT in 2 weeks I had a union steelworker job and things never went bad after that.

[@user-zq4fv8sj6v]

😂😂😂 Kimmel’s WHITE PRIVILEGE is disgusting!! 😂😂😂

[@imocchidoro]

'Finding Your Roots' is my favorite show. I feel for all the guests.

[@AncestryUS]

Hi imocchidoro, and thanks for stopping by! We are delighted to hear you are enjoying the show. Thanks for sharing!

[@eddosimonetti2314]

I couldnt help to crack a tear when jimmy broke down. Very good episode.

[@Jiren0420]

So rare to see Jimmy like this, definitely touch your heart

[@coll4455]

What a beautiful moment realizing the names of his children where after his father and siblings who passed. God I totally understand this

[@jop7672]

He's precious - love Kimmel and my heart today swells for him

[@AncestryUS]

Hi Jo, thanks for watching! We are happy to see that you enjoyed this video.

[@mysaudilifearchive]

"They are in your bloodstream" - so Powerful!

[@BBefore-mn1jz]

Seeing the sweetness in both of them is moving

[@paolodicarli4220]

One of my dad’s uncles migrated from Italy to the US after WWII but at least he spoke English. How lucky I feel now. Those people were really brave and desperate to move with nearly nothing.

[@jo-annmaruszak9885]

My mother came to the United States as a ten year child …alone … on a boat from what is now Slovakia. Her mother was already here. (My mother came here alone to meet a mother she probably didn’t even remember. She had been living with her grandmother.) Her mother married a man who had escaped from Russia with his son. All the family is gone now and I wish I knew so much more. My mother never talked about the hardships she must have faced. And now I am wishing I knew the history of how this all came about.

[@vickie30]

Our ancestors paid the price and paved the way for all of us..They came by the thousands and fought for our country when the time came..

[@voice_from_pizza]

I never met my maternal grandmother because she passed away before I was born. But I inherited her family name - as my middle name - and it makes me tear up all the time just wondering who she really was.

[@judit1783]

How very Italian to adapt to a new country (Americanize the names) but never forget family.

[@Sicilia928]

Sicilians tend to name sons after grandfathers. My dad was named Ignazio after his grandfather. My grandparents had two sons before my dad was born. One died at birth, the other at two after sticking his finger in a cage in which my great-grandfather had caught a rat. Both were named Ignazio. They gave the name until it stuck!

[@ladyraven3418]

My Bisnonno emigrated from Messina, Sicilia to Boston, MA. He Americanized his name, but I doubt he forgot who he was.

[@amateur_football9751]

Italians, like many latins, are very sentimental people, Kimmel reaction is not surprising to me at all

[@rinohorizonte]

My great great father emigrated from Sicily to Argentina on 1897.Named all his kids with his parents, brothers and sisters names. Because back at this times it was so expensive, so difficult and so far for him meet them again . He knew, sadly, never had the chance to reach Italy . Passed away at 94 years old crying his siblings and parents names, whose probably was all already dead.. He never returned to Italy and never saw his family again.

[@JGnuff]

as someone with ancestors/family members that did things like found the Royal Australian Navy, partake in the Rye House plot, found Sudsbury Mass., Invented the rechargeable Lithium ion battery (Rest in Peace J. B. Goodenough), all the way back to Robert De Bruce being my direct 25th Great Grandfather and even farther to the Domesday book, and previous to that the Battle of Hastings when we invaded England with William the Conqueror......I love history, and more specifically genealogy. Our paths are our own, but they were provided for and encouraged to happen because of those that came before. Knowledge and memory of those people, and the debt that we all owe to them - is one of the many reasons they deserve to be remembered.

[@Herculesbiggercousin]

Nice to see a more sincere side of Jimmy. I’m not a huge fan of his talk show host persona but this was touching.

[@patriciamoffitt9543]

I agree

[@chadfisher611]

In show biz he’s rumored to be a great guy and loyal. Most of his crew and writers have been there for many years,some for decades.

[@at_brunch3852]

This was entirely beautiful. 🇨🇦 the resemblance in the photo of the two of them 😍. This is one of my favs. TY.

[@AncestryUS]

Hi Gloria, and thanks for your recent comment! We are thrilled to hear you have enjoyed this episode. We hope you continue to enjoy the rest of the season also. Thanks for sharing!

[@vickie30]

My grandfather came in1900 with potatoes in his pocket and a grapevine from italy..

[@jmac8219]

Ancestry dna made me find some things I wish I never got to know about but at the same time I’m glad I did it in 2015

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Ooh what’d you find out?? I just sent off my ancestry dna sample and I’m excited and trepidatious about what I might find…

[@tbthom7691]

Ooooh tell me more!!!

[@jmac8219]

I made it to see what was my ethnicity but it years down the road it connected me to someone who ended up being my real father I was like who is this person! He made his not to long ago and it connected us I didn’t know of him until ancestry dna made a connection that’s said my relation with him was parent child haha i grew up always thinking I came from only one stock of people but through him I had relatives in places I never thought of having nothing to wild before the connection i kept hitting a brick wall couldn’t find nothing, also if I never bought it I wouldn’t never find my sperm doner lol

[@tbthom7691]

@@jmac8219 did he know about you?

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[@powerWithinUs4055]

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[@meccame29]

Jimmy is such a sensitive man. Always crying. I love it. I love when he gets emotional.

[@_Jennie.]

Little did they know their descendent would become one of the most well known people!

[@AncestryUS]

Jimmy is definitely making his ancestors proud!

[@Anti-HyperLink]

I really wanna research people's family trees. I'm doing mine, but I'd love to help other people do theirs. As a job.

[@kjw79]

I know how you feel. It’s so rewarding, I’d love to do that as well!

[@BrianBaylor]

You can do it! After diving deep into my own tree, I’m trying to branch out and help others with their research, too. There are plenty of people out there who would love the assistance! You’ve got this 🤗

[@sallyintucson]

I made a tree for a friend’s grandchildren and found out we were distantly related. Almost all the children from the two families intermarried. My ancestors moved to Maine and his moved to Alabama. The likelihood that we would have met in another state almost 40 years ago would be very, very tiny.

[@JBond-zf4dj]

You may want to look into the DNA side of it as well, that really helps confirm connections, since you can't always be sure if someone has been adopted or cheated on down the line.

[@powerWithinUs4055]

You’ve already started. Use conference calls with four or five wannabes. Nice thing about zooming, everybody participates, nobody shrinking in the back if the room. After first few, plan something like a book report, each week someone presents. So many great references to share. You’ve already started.

[@borja1000]

I spend hours watching this show. It illustrates the true spirit of America.

[@Tsukonin]

Actually, back then, most people didn't speak Italian as their first language in Italy as they had their own languages in each region. Italian - originating as a Florentine dialect of the Tuscan language in the Middle Ages - was mostly spoken by the elites and city dwellers (bilingual) and was the language of high culture like literature, theater, opera etc... Tuscan and Sicilian/Neapolitan were rival literary languages in medieval times but Tuscan took over centuries ago in the peninsula and surrounding areas: for instance in the county of Nice, now part of France, the native spoke Nissart (a Occitan provençal dialect) but the high culture of books, music and plays were mostly in Italian. So most people in 19th century and early 20th century Italy were like people from Nice, so speakers of other romance languages like Sicilian, Lombard, Venetian etc. So it italian was their second language, with various amounts of fluency, from no fluency at all to full bilingual. Those who probably had a harder time were speakers Albanian, Greek, Germanic and Slavic languages. Of course, there was a lot of code-switching and local italian dialect appeared in each region, highly inflluenced by each local languages. And in return, all those languages have undergone a process of italianization. Nowadays, very few people speak their ancestral languages in Italy although they do have some basic understanding of it and those who still speak them have a clear italian influence while speaking them usually.

[@emmittwalsh2637]

Great story of discovery of your blood roots. Life must go on. Vichenzo was a star. Honor him, Jimmy.

[@catbishop206]

Beautiful.

[@taylorsmall2280]

I clicked subscribe because I love the host. Fantastic voice ! ❤

[@AncestryUS]

Amazing, welcome to our channel Taylor! 🎉

[@raquelaguillon5336]

Beautiful ❤

[@123benny4]

I was just in Italy and towards the end of the trip, I went to Ischia.

[@nygreek743]

Ischia was once Greek, along with Sicily. Ischia translates to “shade” like under a tree.

[@IlGattonero13]

Sicily, along with its surrounding islands, was invaded and populated by various cultures over the years - the Greeks, Arabs, Normans, etc. Any Italian place names ending in “-poli” (e.g., Napoli) were Greek at one time. And “Ischia” is pronounced with the accent on the first syllable, Dr. Gates!

[@kikiprimavera9203]

I’m from Romania and we pronounce the name with the accent on first syllable 👍🏻😊

[@ladyraven3418]

I just love that he pronounced it properly. I was impressed. LOL

[@IlGattonero13]

@@ladyraven3418 Only he *mispronounced* it.

[@frankbasile3662]

Only parts of Sicily along the coast was greek,a very long time ago before that the tree main tribes of Siculia ,Elimi,Siculi,Sicani,..Morte Prima Di Disonore,NyItalian743

[@vickie30]

My italian family was from a small town in Naples..

[@lizabethcortes8479]

I love this show.

[@AncestryUS]

Things we love to hear! 🙌

[@francissantos7448]

My ancestors crossed from Taiwan to the next big island on the horizon, Luzon, maybe 3000 years ago.

[@virginiacook2724]

I thought he came from under a rock!

[@iamarkhamknight]

when was this? Jimmy looks young

[@lauraswan8647]

I wish i see the complete show

[@kenfu9334]

touching

[@EducatedWalrus]

Crazy how they keep records of boat passengers from way back 1903 and are still available now

[@lisachaput2952]

Ancestry has them back as far as the 1700's in places.

[@knightrider9694]

$10 in 1903 was roughly $350

[@mirandolina46]

I always follow this series when I get the chance. It's just a pity that they didn't get the correct pronunciation of Ischia (accent on the first I) or Casamicciola (again accent on the first i)

[@manfredneilmann4305]

I totally agree with you on the pronunciation issue!

[@galgal8333]

Aiiiiiiih these videos should be longer...

[@Hamzakhan-dt3gv]

Interesting

[@rebelmouth9349]

Probably going to leave NYC with $10 too, thanks to the writers strike 🤣

[@giovanniviscardi4455]

Riposa in pace , vicenzo, ricorda sempre da dove vieni

[@mermaidmoon2254]

It's not " Ischìa ", it's " 'Ischia " :), but the story really touches your heart.

[@patriciamoffitt9543]

I was wondering when JC was going to take it seriously and let his emotions pour out.

[@orangelikeamango]

even i cried and it's not even my ancestors

[@AncestryUS]

Thanks for sharing, Camila. Learning about ones family roots can be an emotional journey, so thank you for sharing your reaction!

[@jimdellavecchia4594]

Is this the same guy from "The Man Show??????"

[@telluwide5553]

Steerage in 1905 sounds a lot like modern air travel today.....

[@fanbatcher]

In fact, his ancestors probably didn’t speak Italian but rather Sicilian or Neopolitan which are actually distinct languages

[@alessandromartina4437]

They spoke a dialect similar to Neopolitan being Ischia very close to Naples

[@sidiqahassankhil7718]

Ten dollar in that time was ten thousand dollars

[@loulousan49]

I am a great fan of this show! ❤

[@AncestryUS]

Hi Luisa, and thanks for stopping by! We are delighted to hear you are enjoying the show, as much as we do! Thank you for sharing!

[@jackfrost1548]

Hello there, Im from the Philippines and my family is looking for our ancestor in japan, our great grandpa came here in the Philippines during the 1900s when he was a child with the japanese soldiers to retrieve their weapons, sadly he was left behind never returned to his home, his last name was Mori, and that was the only thing we know bout him, we dont know his japanese name or his exact birthday or where exactly is his home town or his parents in japan, is it possible trace his family back with the dna test?

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[@ianmlclm7044]

I like how solemn and almost ASMR the way you produce it is...BUT... I think sometimes there should be more silence, humility and time to process the thought... because genealogy is like the Today's News, you never know what you will find there, heroes or criminals, most probably both. Thank you!

[@ChristinaTrani]

Wish they had the pronounciation of the island of Ischia correct and also the history....The earthquake of 1883 happened on JULY 28th.

[@lauramaniscalco7742]

I don't understand because this narrator doesn't make the slightest effort to discover the correct pronunciation of Ischia or Casamicciola: It doesn't have to be difficult: just go to Wikipedia

[@SOLOHeyman]

Which streaming services provide PBS/Finding Your Roots?

[@worldtraveler134]

Public television in NY its 13 check your area in some cases pbs will offer this program online

[@KimberlyGreen]

PBS Passport is the streaming service where the episodes are after no longer on the general PBS site.

[@AncestryUS]

Hi there! You can watch episodes of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. here www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots

[@tc2334]

Wow. $10 and boppity-boopy

[@unbeastable957]

10 dollars back in those days wa a lot

[@wavesey6721]

Whos cutting onions? stop it

[@carlfrye1566]

He found records so I assume they entered legally?

[@tammykolu1242]

yeah must be hard for a millionare to understand

[@metalmonkee2896]

I wonder if any of his ancestors did blackface too?

[@MonteChan]

Too bad that Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Damon are not even distantly related to each other!

[@esmeraldapooner751]

Well, he is super rich now, $10. 00 is most likely what he spent on a cup of coffee; so, it was worth the investment.

[@gerifletcher2574]

There’s no way I would leave this country unless I would’ve had a man that I was in love with. I would never go over to some foreign country and just think I’m going to chill out and think everything‘s gonna be OK it’s never gonna happen no if I had a man that you had feelings, mutual feelings how different ball game there

[@AncestryUS]

Have any of your family members made an incredible journey? Share it with us below!

[@jjeter7828]

If it's great-grandfather wouldn't have moved he probably wouldn't be in a position that he's in right now or even I dare to say he probably wouldn't even exist right now who knows.. but his grand his great-grandfather did what he felt that was best how can you be upset about that..

[@marysweeney7370]

Two ancestors of interest. The first, my great-grandfather, Pat, left Co. Limerick, Ireland for Philadelphia in 1900 at 21 years of age accompanied by his brother. They met their first cousin who was already in the city. The men got jobs at Baldwin Locomotive Works. Pat's brother died when a boiler exploded at the Works not a few months later. Pat's youngest brother, Tom, was only three when he left Ireland. Pat's youngest daughters went to Ireland in the 1960s and met Tom who cried to see them having no memory of his brother. Pat's father, Dan, was a respected gent who was an Irish patriot and his earliest involvement we know of is in 1886 when he supported the Plan of Campaign when tenants withheld their rent moneys from landlords. The second ancestor of insterst is my g-g-grandfather from Germany who emigrated to Schuylkill Co. Pennsylvania to work in the coal mines. He and his brother set sail from Germany in 1855 arriving in Schuylkill Co. and married two German sisters. I'm not sure of the precise reasons they left Germany. I do undertstand that companies from the U.S. advertised for workers and they may have been near coal mining activities in Germany, although my research into German Lutheran church records shows a history of farming and carpentry. I've written up some narrative histories of my ancestors to share with family members and keep their memories alive.

[@ryan-m]

my great-grandmother got arrested for a day while coming from ireland in 1925. the reason for the arrest was to “call her uncle” to drive her home or something

[@sharoncumiskey4738]

My ancestor (John Done) came to Plymouth in 1629 on The Handmaid. He was the first “gentleman” as listed in records.

[@persuasivebarrier2419]

Do you guys research adopted people?

[@juanvaldez5422]

Does Jimmy cry or do black face in this ? Just wondering, it’s what he does best and I’m not watching this bullshxt

[@cmm4456]

😂😂

[@sidiqahassankhil7718]

Don’t cry once it’s too late ant send you would’ve been here where you are know

[@anisezettecarey2448]

Jimmy Is Handsome I HOPE HE KNOWS THIS

[@jjeter7828]

His Great Grandfather look half Black and half White .

[@bellepierre24]

Do travel the world so as to not view people in such a narrow & myopic lens.

[@IlGattonero13]

Some Southern Europeans have a small percentage of North African DNA.

[@kikiprimavera9203]

Sicily is geographically situated in close proximity to Tunisia ( North Africa). Also the weather is another factor, Mediterranean Sea is there and sunscreen was not available at that time.

[@jjeter7828]

@@bellepierre24 oh I wasn't trying to be offensive. If you took that way sorry.

[@jjeter7828]

@@kikiprimavera9203 Good old "melanin" 🤗😎

[@chrisk5651]

Kimmel doesn’t sound like an Italian name.

[@ntl5983]

Who said it was?... his italian comes from his mom's side (surnames Iacono and Potenza). He identifies as Italian American because he grew up in that culture with his maternal aunts and uncles and cousins.

[@rridderbusch518]

Kimmel is a German name. "Kimmelweis" is a German bread.

[@kRomani-gh4ws]

@@ntl5983 why even bother to reply to that statement apparently they don't know women marry and take the husbands name

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

German. Kummel

[@paulhoskin5353]

"...to move your family to another country, *on a boat*....is such a tumultuous thing to do" says Jimmy to a descendant of the Atlantic slave trade.

[@alessandromartina4437]

just because there were people who got it worst doesnt mean that something isnt bad! as matter of fact maybe you dont know that many Italians replace black in cotton plantations and were pratically bound to their employers. In fact, they had paid for their trip and even if they didnt like the working conditions they had to stay there for their life. The alternative was going to jail for not paying their debt to them!

[@Furienna]

Also, it is made clear in this video that the conditions on the ships that brought Italians to the US weren't much better those on slave ships.

[@anthonywilliam7182]

Black Americans have never fled despite the deterrence of generational wealth and inheritance.

[@NotLeftarded1]

I would love to see Justin Trudeau on this show so everyone could see his ancestor James deberty Trudeau. Also to hear about their plantation at Trudeau landing.

[@NotLeftarded1]

He also had an ancestor named Charles who was the mayor of New Orleans once upon a time. He was so nice he increased the size of town hall so town councillors wouldn't have to hear the sounds of slaves being whipped in the courtyard.

[@kie330]

I think jimmy is spanish.. Mamamia..

[@rridderbusch518]

But Kimmel is a German name.

[@ranger053]

Lightweight

[@mariafarnum2997]

I will like to find my grandfather Thomas m on sale st Lucy barbados

[@Davebee]

Jimmy kimmell is woke.

[@RedLgb-df9ob]

Kimmel is no Italian. One qtr. Isnt italian.

[@gailfrederick5531]

Jimmy Kimmel is half Italian from his Mother. Half German from his Father. I am his cousin. I should know!

[@RedLgb-df9ob]

@@gailfrederick5531 He's not FBI and neither are you.I am....and he should keep his political opinions to himself

[@RedLgb-df9ob]

@@gailfrederick5531 and I'd bet if he's ancestors are from Naples he's more Greek than Italian.

[@dagmarvandoren9364]

His real name was kummel.....most of ancestry. Is black or jewish....or mixed...so I don't watch anymore.....its ok. We all have a place....i am Prussian Saxon...than. they start with. Are you a neesi? Etc....same old, story......alles liebe. Ins FRIEDEN

[@gwildordipkin6504]

I can't believe he gets paid millions now to not be funny.

[@AFloridaSon]

👍

[@persuasivebarrier2419]

Make me laugh, gatekeeper.

[@hustledude]

Not a fan of Kimmel at all 👎

[@usmcpound]

Oh, It's Black-face Jimmy!

[@DrinkinZima]

Family came from Italy 1910 with $100 dollars.

[@ArtHistoryProfessor]

I thought Jimmy Kimmel was Jewish on both sides of his family. Wow.

[@robertjames5168]

I thought Jimmy came from Kangeroos! What happened Jimmy, ashamed of your real name?