MyHeritage DNA Featured on the Steve Harvey Show

Thanks to MyHeritage DNA, one of Steve Harvey’s friends, his personal stylist WIll Phoenix, learned a lot about his past - including the story behind his last name!
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[@EC-dg6ti]

This myheritage guy is awesome. Notice how he says "people who were enslaved" not "slaves". Because they were PEOPLE, not slaves.

[@kardon4996]

💯%

[@gastonhitw720]

who enslaved the africans and sold them to the europeans? ha

[@williamwallace4080]

But they were slaves, just like millions of other PEOPLE in history.

[@ilfurlano1228]

they were what? slaves.

[@turbokid8719]

@@williamwallace4080true

[@Msniquestarpg]

There's so much information out there to learn about if people would just take the time. I've written about my family and made it into books to pass on to future generations of my family.

[@angelapaz7727]

Love the interpretation of their last name Phoenix. Beautiful story

[@shaynanichelle8621]

Everyone should do these! Mine gave me many surprises! And Phoenix is a very cool last name 😎!

[@deirdresilbourne663]

MyHeritage is brilliant. I have almost 22,000 DNA matches. It's so interesting to meet distant cousins and know where you come from ☺️

[@kimbachapman9856]

This is awesome I know a lot about my family history but this would make it more clear!!

[@JamesWilliams-eu5mn]

It was worth it for me. So many ethnicities I had no idea about

[@PerrisDGold]

Love this.

[@EMChantalG]

Whaouh, l love this.

[@thekoderius265]

Amazing

[@danmacalpinbruce2555]

Steve is a great show well worth watching

[@marshaverduzco2859]

Fascinating.

[@Biobele]

Great grand dad needed a name, he worked at Phoenix Guano, a few of his boys already called him Phoenix so it stuck nothing much

[@nickgrigoriou1643]

The word Phoenix arrived from Greek φοῖνιξ (phoinīx), which indeed was a mythological creature that would arise again out of it's own ashes.

[@kout31]

Greeks got their knowledge from the Egyptians anyway.

[@Jenjen-qc5eq]

@@kout31 Exactly, Greek mythology has its roots in the East, same Gods different names. UK

[@AdultThirdCultureKid1971]

This is amazing. :-)

[@nananazimam2060]

Amaizing

[@niaimani9026]

He should check out the land records in Georgia. Considering that his grandparents lived on the same street/area he could possibly find out who his GG Grandparents were. Land records can trace how real property was given, shared buy family and brought and sold. It may even trace an enslaver that could be more info also. To me this is where he might find out where and why the disconnection may have occured. BTW...Bottom line...We are all African....that's why Africa is known as the Motherland.

[@Ecrowder51]

Both of my sisters went to Accra Ghana and took a DNA test and found out my mothers blood traced back to Senegal.

[@muratkalmaz7615]

cool

[@Jenjen-qc5eq]

We are from the same tribe. UK

[@mariapereira5500]

Phoenix what a fantastic name!!

[@MA-yh2ko]

His wife's ancestry looks even more interesting

[@cookiedho]

Why...?

[@vildehansen4427]

How do you Even know that..nothing was said about her side ...

[@blaiseragon8142]

@@cookiedho she's a bit white

[@getprettyfit1997]

That was beautiful.

[@lindahobbs6298]

Hi Mr Harvey, love watching you. So funny and I might say not bad to look at. Wish I was 40 years younger.😇 I remembered when I was to be married, (1965) a blood test was required to be drawn on both parties before you could get marriage license. My husband was about your size, and fainted, it was like a sequoia fell. 😁 I’m not sure, but I think in regards to Rh+. Anyway I believe it should be legal requirement to have a DNA before marriage. So many marriages, divorces, children without parents. Not knowing who they are, plus unknown siblings. Just this old lady’s idea to help mankind’s little problem that’s in the making. A little late about ten years or so. God bless you and your family. .

[@ashleyadkins464]

I'm 82 percent African 47 percent Nigerian

[@abigaildogbey1782]

Nigerian is an African too...lol

[@ChunkyPuffsRaichu]

Nice! Nigerian roots run deep in a lot of africans.

[@Derellrassy87]

@@abigaildogbey1782 stupid he said out of the 82 percent African blood 47 of it is from Nigeria....so he he 18 percent non black and 82 percent African and 47 percent from Nigeria e.t.c offcourse Nigeria is African that's why he got 82 percent

[@InspiredByEbonyLove]

Wow! Why am I just discovering that you all have a channel? lol. I have several DNA kits uploaded to your website. I love genealogy!

[@vastyllita]

♡

[@jtorie1]

The owner of the mill is likely where he got his British ancestry from.

[@aine7173]

But where did he get his irish ancestry from?

[@mbd501]

@@aine7173 He probably got his British and Irish from slaveowners. Southern white people had come from all over the British Isles, including Scotland and Ireland, as well as England.

[@Jordanj126]

If I was him I would further the investigation of his grandparents. There’s a strong possibility his people might have owned that company. There is also a possibility his ancestor could have been his name given by his slave owner. I would definitely research more

[@SARFamily1776]

As a genealogist I love this

[@willmwenda]

east africa kenyan wow!!

[@jage5256]

The majority of us from Africa came from the countries that we have genetic makeup from. Native Americans (my grandma on Dad's side) married black men that we're freed (my grand dads dad was German and his mom was Black from Chad ) mom's side (slaves from Virginia ) her great grandmother her dad was Scottish and mom slave from Senegal ) she had grandmom who married grandpa ( his dad was Irish and mom was freed Chad space woman ) she had my mom and mom had me. We are all related from slave owner's name changes or took names from the owners and here we are. Be proud of u and your family. Getting past all that remains this: those dear men who didn't make it slave ships and we're tossed in the Atlantic ocean eaten by sharks aren't here. The ones that walked off the boats worked the fields from sunup to sundown with one meal for lunch ( a buscuit some veg maybe a piece of meat ) are all our ancestors. We Are All Family. Amen🤗

[@abigaildogbey1782]

All blacks= one family

[@steveboy7302]

Yeah your probably not native

[@blllllllllllllllllllrlrlrl7059]

@@abigaildogbey1782 so not true, and ridiculous.

[@lorettei3936]

Hi, how did find out that your ancestor was from Senegal? Unfortunately, not many people in the Diaspora are able to pinpoint those details re nationality/ethnic group (some people say "tribe" . How I wish it was more, but no one could see into the future and even so there were so many who were taken as children and would not have been able to articulate that information...🙁

[@williamwallace4080]

The slavers were also your ancestors...

[@Rissadej]

I have a friend with the same laST name from Savannah. Ga

[@TiMalice2009]

His Euro / West African breakdown is similar to mine.

[@TKEGOODIES]

Same

[@desireemonroe9910]

I am 69% African and 31% European

[@maestrosavage1359]

Same.. I also got 1.2% Asian (Nepal) like him.

[@bev-leejohnson4549]

WOW

[@ralphcanfield9555]

Wow

[@ceciliem1811]

Phoenix, is a honorable name! Most last names were named after their professions! His last names should Be FINE!! 😊😅😀

[@ronniehall3825]

SAV!!

[@SmartMoneyBro]

This info is too important for a 3 min segment on a show like this.

[@kamenge]

100 percent African here

[@geneticnomad8720]

Did you do the dna test?

[@dominiqueblagojevic9447]

My mom is eastern European and she got a sliver of Nigeria

[@Probity100]

Kenya 🇰🇪

[@bonitahobbs2097]

STEVE HAS AMAZING STRENGTHS REGARDING MAKING OTHER PEOPLES DREAMS COME TRUE! 🙆🏽‍♀️🙆🏽‍♀️👦🏽

[@joyuyoke4999]

Kenya is a very small percent .he probably got from an immigrant not from enslaved people because they came from the west .he's majority is Nigeria

[@Quataija]

I'm 41% African

[@charmainekgomotsomokwana5625]

I think I'm 100% African

[@isaac10000]

Cool

[@nillyk5671]

But I wonder what their original last names were. I don't know how last names of names are composed in West Africa but I wonder what name his tribe went by.

[@Canduts2020]

Sad part is where am from there was no documentation to go back to. My grandmother was an orphan n her heritage is still a puzzle

[@velvelineugbomah782]

I would love to get my DNA to see were IAM from my middle name is west Africa n I never tell anyone all ofmy middle name

[@tonymajesty6270]

Ugbomah is a Nigerian name

[@olyvoyl9382]

I am glad he did not take the name guano.

[@Jenjen-qc5eq]

The Phoenix represents re-birth.

[@ismaelpenaloza7148]

Just keep on go to Africa for vacation and learn more about your people then what you see on tv the all continents of Africa was colonized so it s normal to find the colonizations DAN in any African in the all world 🌎 so don’t be surprised .

[@RomeosRoom]

Any relation to Simon Phoenix? 🤔😁

[@drrd4127]

As soon as I looked at him, I thought he's a bit European. I lived in a African community in Australia when I was a student. Most African Americans don't look 100 percent African of any nationality, creed or ethnicity.

[@juliuservings3444]

Alot of people forgot the Bronze Age were everyone with color was ruling Including the Euro-Asia areas too before the Renaissance Period

[@ochosiariwo2050]

Phoenix is greek

[@wanzueni]

liberia ghana routes

[@karenmushat7761]

A slave master