San Francisco FULL EPISODE | Genealogy Roadshow Season 1 | PBS America

[@monicacall7532]

I wish that this show were still on PBS. It would be the perfect show to go hand in hand with “Finding Your Roots”.

[@Cportfinest912]

Omg! so it’s no longer on tv? I literally just found this on KZbin two days ago. I can’t stop watching it 😩

[@garycarpenter2980]

It's not on TV anymore.... bummer ✖️ but I've enjoyed it but I don't know nothing about both sides of my family (Lee and Carpenter) but I do know that on my grandma's side I'm related to General Lee and Jefferson Davis

[@shirleyhicks6110]

Hi my name is Shirley Gail Hicks and I am the only one in my family alive so I have no one about my Cherokee history. So if you can help me I would be so very grateful.

[@aspenglo6]

i agree with you

[@lindadeal3344]

​@@Cportfinest912 I wish it was still a part of PBS!

[@vrj40]

PBS please bring this wonderful show back to your network. It would be a great show to pair with Henry Gates programs.

[@24carrotgold8]

I too am a 4th generation San Franciscan. My Irish maternal great grandmother married Captain Carroll who fought in the Fire Department 🚒 1906 fire 🔥

[@judistutz]

This show has that "Who Do You Think You Are" discovery element but for regular people instead of celebrities.

[@shirleyhicks6110]

I do agree with so much.

[@LollieVox]

Yes & I like stories about anyone, not just celebrities.

[@littleredhen]

The young lady who story of Irish roots among the earthquake victims, looking at the photograph she looks so much like her great-grandmother! 💖

[@cchaffincc]

The walking stick story brought tears to my eyes. How cool that he has it!

[@ericademitry5490]

Me too, very poignant and touching!

[@nikkinaugle607]

Pbs bring this show back its amazing

[@gilson618]

I remember submitting an application to be a guest for season 3. Although not selected, I was hoping to be a future guest to learn more of my family history... and then they canceled the show. I wish they would bring it back

[@christineleneghan7661]

I end up crying every episode! I love these stories.

[@FeatnikSF]

I enjoy genealogy, live in San Francisco and worked for the local PBS station for many years. For those reasons I decided to watch this episode. Imagine my surprise when Casey Robbins appeared asking about her biological father’s connection to Ben Franklin. I’ve known her mother for decades!

[@marjane4344]

I am a native San Fransican my Grandmother Ruth survived the 1906 quake and fire. Her father was one of the special police appointed after the quake His name was Charles Mahnke.

[@tinalafever1756]

I wish I could do something like this. So many unanswered questions about my families ancestry. No one ever talked about our ancestors.

[@feliciagaffney1998]

It is easy to do a lot of your own genealogical research these days. I enjoy helping people with their genealogy.

[@shirleyhicks6110]

Tina Lafever I understand I have done some research but now I am stuck. It would be great if they would bring the show back and come to Colorado.

[@marjane4344]

I have found many relatives by findagrave

[@patriciajrs46]

I truly agree with this. I wish I could afford a genealogy research assistant.

[@MeMeDaVinci]

What a wonderful show. I can only imagine the overhead it took to uncover the stories for just common people; if it were celebrities it would still be going.

[@AdamLopez-x9i]

Yes, please bring this show back PBS

[@nmikloiche]

It’s really wonderful to hear all the interesting stories from our past - how all our shared stories have heroes and villains, and they may be one in the same depending on who is telling the story. We all have a piece and a place in our American story and we should only want to add to this rich and complex history.

[@geneannd2861]

This shows that even ordinary people can have very interesting stories.

[@JohnaL790]

Through The years with the O'Keefe family the story about their grandparents meeting could have easily been mistaken as "Barn" when they were saying "bar". First time watching this program I sure will watch it again!

[@kathyastrom1315]

I can relate to those who get family stories shot down after research proves otherwise. One of the few stores we had about my dad’s mother’s side was that a 6th great granduncle was Alexander Hamilton. My aunt told me that when I was a little kid in the early 1970s and had no idea who Hamilton was. Well, after starting my own family research, I found out that I do have a 6th great granduncle named Alexander Hamilton! Problem is, mine was born 20 years after the famous one and in Pennsylvania, not the Caribbean. That was a big disappointment to my dad and uncle, since they had heard that story a lot longer than I had.

[@staceymassey9456]

I agree with you Monica we do need more of this show

[@wildadventures4173]

My 5th great grandfather James Reed, of the Donner/ Reed party. Sutters Fort of Sacramento. I have the diary 's passed down generations to me of their journey across ❤.

[@mycatsnameiskaren8253]

Wow! You should have it made into a series. We need some good content!

[@pakedermsfavs9080]

The mom in the back of the young lady in black . She is more invested in the story . The faces she is making would totally be me 😂😮😊

[@jessicamartinez3613]

Now I am looking for her! lol

[@MrIAMTHESIR]

I'm so glad to have discovered this

[@nanaof7preciousgrands115]

Can we GET MORE !!! If so where we can we watch ? We got hooked on WHO DO U THINK U ARE. . They shut it down Currently watching FINDING MY ROOTS and hooked And now I see a few episodes on YT and someone said these are the only episodes we can watch Come on now bring all the ancestry shows PLEASE

[@TheCarriecarrie41]

that trail was Supposed to run cold Big Ups to Big Jim Chin❤

[@BlueSaphire70]

This series was so cool. It deals with regular people's stories which makes it so interesting!

[@amybly6191]

I love this show

[@kathryndeloria1834]

Joshua can say the word genealogy faster than I’ve ever heard it .

[@omarra6781]

I am also related to Ben Franklin via the Folgers. I'm related to the Folgers, Starbucks, Coffins and I think one other family from Nantucket. Their whaling ship the Essex was "stove in" by a whale which inspired the story of Moby Dick. A character in Moby Dick inspired the name Starbucks for the coffee company. Also via the Folgers I'm related to Abigail Folger of Charles Manson's Helter Skelter killings. I've also spent half my life in Boise, Idaho. *EDIT: I wrote this out before they got to the part of the video about Moby Dick. I was too excited to keep quiet. LOL

[@sharonloomis5264]

I like the info about the San Francisco mint building. Designed to float? Why not do that today?😮

[@cynthiacarr2093]

Wow! Wonderful Show!👏🏾👏🏾💯😁

[@Littlething41]

Anyone notice at 29:48 there's an Edward Starbuck listed above Peter Folger? Quite the coincidence as both names are linked to famous coffee today.. 😃

[@sailingsam3815]

Wonderful stories

[@TheSouthernLady777]

That last story... wow.

[@LisaNunlist]

Arnold was a brilliant general before his betrayal. A point of pride to fight under him.

[@SandraNelson063]

That walking stick has museum value in it. It is simply priceless to the family, but it is just an old carved up stick.

[@blazefairchild465]

The lady related to Ben Franklin said her mothers family immigrated from Europe , so she couldn’t trace her family there. Many Churches had family information going back to when the Church was built.

[@omarra6781]

It's a shame there's no way to reach her as I'm related to the same people she is as I mentioned above. I might be able to help fill in some gaps.

[@JillShaw]

There will have been plenty of stables in San Francisco at that time And so the part about the ancestors staying in what someone called a barn Can still be perfectly true People frequently bunked In barns in those days. It makes sense that every available remaining dwelling was utilized.

[@quickchris10]

Yeah the saloon might have even had a stable, so in bad weather you could put your horse in there.

[@lockejessup]

So many leaps of logic presented in that part. Not only are you correct, but it is also plausible they knew each other before the earthquake or met after the immediate aftermath, also due to a close community.

[@patmcginnis2504]

Although I am Canadian, my grandmother was born in Michigan. Through her I am related to James Madison and also to people who came over on the Mayflower. I would love to know more.

[@carolynbrown1105]

If the show was still on pbs my whole San Fran family would’ve been in the episode in sanfran

[@heritagehuntress9553]

This was such an excellent series. I can understand why it was so short-lived-- the time investment in research must have been phenomenal, especially considering how many different families they had to research for every single episode! Honestly, I'm surprised it ever made it to production in the first place. But oh how I wish it was still on! What a dream come true to get your family mystery professionally researched.

[@deniserichardson630]

I’d like to find out about my grandfather’s stories of him knowing Poncho Via !! He constantly talked about him . He was his hero . I don’t know much about the man myself but sure would like to find out the connection they had !

[@FigaroHey]

It would be more interesting if you were related to Pancho Villa, though.

[@mary-ellendurkin163]

That was beautiful

[@kristen92431]

Peter Folger is my 8x ggf, too!

[@LollieVox]

What I want to know why the guy lost the court case of the debt owed to him!

[@heritagehuntress9553]

I was wondering that too! Gotta be a story there.

[@ThailandTom]

Yeay, Benjamin Franklin was my 23rd Cousin 10 times removed :-) I'm from Sweden with most my ancestors in the Scandinavian and North European area, so quite nice to have Benjamin Franklin on my tree. (Just like loads of the American Presidents)

[@lynettefaithfull9444]

Gosh can't belive how she was smiling and joking about her grandfather's Murder

[@barblm21]

I have been told that we are related to Abraham Lincoln via his marriage to his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. I wish I knew more, we are from Irish descendants that came over during the potato famine. That’s about all I know but very proud nonetheless ❤

[@neatofication]

Awwww the guy that cried

[@charlenesterken2604]

My mom always said we were related to people on the mayflower Stephen hopkins

[@TankDogg-bm7es]

So is the Genealogy Roadshow back, or is this an old episode?

[@kathrynblack9152]

It's an old episode.

[@maryricketts7337]

Get told a story about your 10th great grandparent and act surprised saying “Oh, I didn’t know that!” 🤦‍♀️

[@deannadohm9035]

I would love to be able to do this. I would love to be able to pass down my genealogy to my son and future generations. However I am a single mom and have no way of being able to do this.

[@PlatinumIrishrose]

Check into your County for a Geneology Society. There are usually people who can help you with that and belonging with the club is usually around 20.00 a year! Plus look on line. Good luck.

[@deannadohm9035]

@@PlatinumIrishrose I would but I don't live in the state I was born and raised in.

[@jeanfrancis8121]

There's a lot you can do online now. Most libraries have Ancestry and such for free.

[@kathyastrom1315]

@@jeanfrancis8121 Definitely! People should take advantage of that free resource if your library has it. They might also have someone who can give you a tutorial on how to get started. That, or there are lots of videos here on YT to guide you on getting started.

[@jessicamartinez3613]

Ancestry.com has a promotion that gives you 2 free weeks right now.

[@msblackloveful]

I was i would have known they csme to San Francisco i would of went. I have lots of questions about my grandmother and grandfather side of the family

[@onepaint2002]

Do you give the records and pictures you find for the people to them after the show?

[@AutonyB]

are they still doing the show

[@PattiPayne-h3n]

Is there any way I can get the newspaper articles on Clinton Edson?

[@michellejaggard9657]

What does the term like 10 times removed mean?

[@FeatnikSF]

It means ten generations later.

[@Mathchickey]

How does someone go 3 YEARS without getting paid? Wouldn't someone leave and go work for someone else? Something fishy there.

[@janetschmitt6760]

The pronunciation of Vivek's last name is rawma swamie.

[@evagrowney734]

I'd also like to know the location of Diamond Jim's father's Irish pub on the lower east side? Where in Ireland was he from? Is it true that Mary Sullivan moved to Demerest New Jersey where she raised her son from DJ , who is my grandfather? He supposedly was adopted by an Italian man Cattelona, and later married my Italian grandmother Belusci. ...who may also be related to the Belucci family?

[@evagrowney734]

On the Growney side, I have a famous Irish born Priest, who while recuperating lived in California. He is known to write a series of primers to keep Gaeli alive in the underground during English oppression around 1he late . The Growney"s are from Westmeadth. It is an unusual Iris lh name...making us all related...some are the famous bull-riders..John Growney in California. Washington he a descendant of the priest or was he from the other Growney's of Ireland ? Eva

[@evagrowney734]

And...Im 72....no children...but would love to pass down the truth to all mt nieces and nephews..Eva

[@GamerplayerWT]

Joshua Taylor has GOT to be related to Will Wheaton (Wesley Crusher). He looks soooo much like him.

[@valeriehandmadewithheart]

I would have loved to be on this show! I have some stories that would be very intriguing to investigate. I have some pretty interesting historical ancestors with some actual proof. My daughter even has a few more illustrious ancestors through her father. I don't know much about other parts of my family. I don't even know my entire genetic make-up. I wish I could afford the really good genetic testing that does your genetic breakdown and medical genetic markers. I wish I had six hundred dollars for it. Oh well❤

[@eileenwatt8283]

It's not , $600 dollars in the USA. It's 120 and it goes on sale during holidays. That's 23andme company.

[@carolynbrown1105]

my granny 's story could be told she is in assisted living and i lost now 4 on that side

[@philipbutler6608]

I am related to two Famous Revolutionary Period Leaders who may have met both were considered traitors one a double traitor.

[@debrajohnson1140]

Peter Folger and Mary Morrel are my 8th great grandparents and I am Ben Franklin’s first cousin 8 times removed. My ancestors were also whalers who migrated to the Outer Banks of NC.

[@tracieplsn]

Funny I just came across this. I made that same connection yesterday, then this episode showed up in my feed, only he’s my first cousin 10x removed, and they are my 10th great grandparents. Strange that we’re 2 generations apart. I’m descended from Bathsheba (Folger) Pope, Abiah Lee Franklin’s sister.

[@juneaborealis8658]

I traced my family back to the 1300s pretty interesting

[@evagrowney734]

My great grandfather is allegedly was Diamond Jim Brady...James Buchanan Brady, born 1856 on lower east side NYC where his Father ran a saloon. He had at least one brother. He had 2 loves in his life one being Lillian Russell...but he never married. Philanthropist, financiers, telegraph messenger railroad parts manufacturer...with his early jobs in the halls of Broadway as an usher, and sweeping trains. Supposedly he was the first person on his block to own a car. Supposedly there is a brownstone marked as his home in NYC. He owned thoroughbreds on a farm in Brooklyn and the Jersey shore. He' buried in Brooklyn. My mother looks just like him. Can you find out the truth about his dissenters? Supposedly he got his or Lillian's maid, Mary Sullivan, pregnant. He had a relationship with a famous boxer named Sullivan. Thanks, Eva Growney

[@patriciajrs46]

That her great grandfather was Delaney Rogers was just - - - popping. We probably are Not related. But my given surname at birth was Rogers. I didn't expect anyone in California to possibly be related to that family. I don't know why, I just didn't. Also that Delaney's father, I think, was in the Civil War, Union side, and mustered out of Chattanooga, Tn is amazing. My Rogers's are from TN, Blount and Sevier county, as far ad I know. This is very interesting to me.

[@sophiee.h]

27 March 2009

[@justingronas3025]

John w Lamberts factory was in Ohio city, Ohio. The factory is gone its just a little village in nw Ohio. There is a historical marker near the original factory location.

[@DoIReallyHaveTo]

15:20 «that's the real American dream»? - did he really just say «hey, your family, during many MANY generations (even today) is subject to racism, discrimination, hate, persecution, interrogations,... but against all odds, you are all still here, and that's the American dream!?

[@mycatsnameiskaren8253]

Wow, I never knew about the Chinese Immigrating Act. That's wild!

[@kathyastrom1315]

If I could afford it, I would hire a professional genealogist to find my 2nd great grandmother’s marriage record to her second husband, as well as their divorce record. I have tried really hard but struck out in both states they would have married and the most probable location they would have divorced. The lack of documentation on either end of their marriage is leading me to suspect that they never officially married but only said that they had. She did officially remarry two years before “Husband” #2 died, so if they were married but never divorced, she would have been a bigamist. I would like to have a professional either find the records, or also come up empty, to verify my suspicions or at least not negate them. Also, if a pro could find that second husband before they got together, that would be great. He had a common name and lived in NYC before moving to Chicago, and I cannot track him down at all before 1900.

[@philipbutler6608]

AncestryDNA and you can find cousins often people claimed marriages to cover up illegitimacy. My Great Grandfather had two children less than a year apart by different women and he died before the second legitimate one was born. So I found out who he was by cousin matches.

[@Uncle_Steve71]

I am wanting to find out what happened to my great uncle.

[@carolynbrown1105]

my grandpa's great gandfather was a judge

[@LollieVox]

Does the woman whose relative fought in the American revolutionary War, get to join the daughters of the American Revolution?

[@justingronas3025]

I'm a direct descendant of Mary the queen of Scott's

[@OkieJammer2736]

💙💜💚

[@dlow8423]

I wish I can afford to do this. I would love to find out the truth about both sides of my family. I'm supposedly royalty on both sides [ mom & dad ] and on my dad's side, I'm supposedly related to William Shakespeare.

[@lanaharris4181]

In the San Francisco episode, a young woman ;looks for how her gg grandparents met. Who is that blonde woman mugging to the camera during the interview.

[@patriciajrs46]

The only reason Ford got the credit is because he payented what he knew. I'm not saying how he got it, or getting into anything ethical. That her great grandfathet actually invented the first gas automobile is quite interssting.

[@cynthiacarter514]

👍

[@eranakahukiwa3588]

What I can't get over is who gives whites the right to tell ppl of colour to get out of America, knowing full well the grandparents / great grandparents migrated to America for some reason.

[@donnablosser7982]

Great show! The lady behind the San Francisco earthquake descendant looks like she's hearing voices or possibly on some interesting meds. Everyone else is calm and paying attention. She was very distracting and even the host looked at her at one point.

[@geraldineconnell2328]

I had to watch it twice. I didn't see what you were talking about. She blinks a lot, maybe dry contact lenses. Maybe a little nervous.

[@evanmcc2000]

Good ol Edsons. Know some and seems the blood lost and criminal continues. Not that far from the father. Lol

[@lanaharris4181]

How do I get on "The Genealogy Roadshow" I think My great, great grandmother was an identity thief and can;t find any way to prove it. I was raised in Utah, The CHurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormons are HUGE on geneology.She doesn't show up by her name that I know, in the traveling company records, I lack the resources to find her..

[@christineelsbury5479]

My Ancestry is FRANKLIN

[@FigaroHey]

So one person comes from gangsters and outlaws, another from people who chose the losing side in two major wars... I guess you need to be up for embarrassment when you go on this show.

[@victoriamilonas1942]

I think what killed the interest in this show is the amount of filler/happy horseshit the whole show is larded with.

[@kimtalley8190]

I wish this show was on instead of Finding Your Roots, since this one focuses on all races. I used to love FYR, the the presenter changed the focus to only your connection to slavery. It's sad, like when Oprah turned her focus from all to only black matters, that's when she lost her audience and credibility. I'm interested in all lives and histories, not for persecution of the living or their ancestor, but for the fascination of the living person's history.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

The first lady was annoying

[@vickyabramowitz2885]

I agree. She smiled all the time even when she was told about the bad things that happened to her ancestors.

[@amymahoney3513]

​@@vickyabramowitz2885 // 🤦🏼‍♀️ How was she supposed to react on camera 📸 cry, throw a tantrum, ect..?? 🤔😒

[@ladonnaradney3466]

I think that she was probably self-conscious about finding out that her family stories were lies

[@amymahoney3513]

@@ladonnaradney3466 // 🥰 probably

[@Marcel_Audubon]

@@amymahoney3513 she could start by wiping the sappy frozen smile off her face while her direct ancestor's murder was being described in detail. Her credibility was creaky from the beginning when she tried to get people to believe the bathhouse her family ran was "like a resort" ... a bathhouse in that era is where people went periodically to wash themselves because they didn't have running water. Her family weren't serving massages and avocado toast to the elite by an infinity pool, they were doing laundry and handing out towels and locker keys to the unwashed masses.

[@PiggyFuktoy]

Regarding the Chinese Exclusion Act … in the walls of my first house, an 1885 Italianate Victorian in Oakland, was found a front page of The Morning Call, the leading SF newspaper of the day, headlined “The Chinese Win They Can Come In And Stay”