Tamron Gets Emotional as A Genealogist Traces Her Roots

[@hartubmoses6645]

Beautiful hairstyle Tamron, looking good!

[@coolkatco]

Love that Tamron decided to trace her roots based on the story told to her and being proud of the ancestors that persevered despite the struggles... It is her right to decide how far to explore the data...

[@Teesclips]

I appreciate Tamron's boundary she set about making a connection with distant relatives.

[@saraschneider6781]

From a public standpoint, yes, but I still wish she would have wanted that information given to her privately... But then again this white family probably would just be thrilled to be related to someone famous.

[@MonaeMalome-dq6ru]

❤ I can relate to how you feel.. I had someone to tell me she put my DNA in a DNA back, which caused me great distress❤

[@Mimi-ht6xr]

Many times white men made mixed children with black women. I found a few like this in my searches of very distant relatives. That’s how so many blacks have that 20-35% European blood especially this late. Also, blacks were slaveowners too so it could have been the other way around 😊

[@daughterofthemosthigh4556]

I am lucky enough to work to preserve all our history documents .It's an amazing job .History is so very important..

[@clarapeters6583]

I’ve wanted to do this but part of me keep saying no don’t do it. I love seeing when people find their roots. Another beautiful show @tamron

[@eileenwatt8283]

I took DNA from 51 of my oldest relatives and I was able to reunite people who didn't know who their parents were the persons in my family who is the parent.

[@fundifferent1]

i don't get why people are scared to do it.

[@NikkiaSings]

@@fundifferent1Perhaps, because NONE of these DNA companies can truly PROTECT your DNA information! Q: Do you KNOW what becomes of that swab after submission and/or What becomes of that biological information AFTER you get your DNA genealogy report?! 🤔

[@CCdarling98]

@@NikkiaSings if you’ve ever gotten a shot/done blood work, been admitted to the hospital, gotten a vaccine, been born or have given birth, these labs already been had your DNA 🙃🫠

[@fundifferent1]

@@NikkiaSings Ancestry makes it clear what they do with the swabs after. It's destryoed. Also what do you think they're going to do? Clone you? LOL and if they do who cares? You leave your DNA everywhere you go.

[@anndeecosita3586]

I’m a black American and proud of what my ancestors overcame. I know some white people who are distantly related to me through slavery. I don’t find it awkward at all. It is what it is. Most of my ancestors were in Virginia or North Carolina until the 1820s when they were forced by their owners into AL and MS. I saw my 3x great grandfather’s name on a ship manifest of slaves shipped from Virginia to the port of New Orleans. My mom’s family all hails from the same farming community and nothing there is “secret”about us being related to white people there. Actually on my dad’s side one of my white relatives gave me copies of the family records that list the slaves by name. They mentioned the US census not having enslaved black people listed until 1870 but owner families had their own private records. Plus I have seen my enslaved ancestors listed by name in the wills of our owners. These documents are at the county courthouse. Also if you were free during that time you would be listed by name in the federal census. Also some of my ancestors ran off and fought for the Union Army in the U.S. Colored Infantry. Later they filed for pensions and I paid for copies of their pension files which are full of depositions and other information. I know the names of some of my ancestors who were. born in Africa and Europe. The furthest I can go is about 1400s in Italy.

[@andyikeakor5451]

This is very interesting. Could you please give the name to the African ancestors

[@coriineo]

I’m curious to know the name of your African ancestors as well…

[@andyikeakor5451]

@@coriineo my ancestors are igbo

[@roka2031]

Wow...I think you are so lucky to have access to this information..I'm not from the US, I'm from the Caribbean, I only got info (from my mother)about 4 generations back on my Mothers' side... not much from my father's side..

[@keomalahamer108]

This is really amazing! I am intrigued.

[@sandranynj7118]

I love Genealogist History. I have some from my family, my mother easy, however Dad (being of black and some type of mixed race from a time when that was kept secret) is a little more difficult. I am going to keep searching.

[@broaj1453]

Wow. ☺️☺️☺️ This is what I am doing now as I do a family tree. I love to find my roots too.

[@patriciapatriciagray-thorp9574]

Tamron like all of us have the right to make decisions about disclosure. Why is it an issue????

[@NellieKAdaba]

Right

[@cathianedesravines3194]

Emotional ❤❤❤Love it!!!

[@cassandramcneal4127]

Finding your roots he's the truth

[@redlioness6293]

I have been researching for years and find my family's name in the US Census going back to 1820, on my mother's side. My father's family traced their roots back to the country, Ghana & plantation, Davis in SC, that came from.

[@cynthiascott7760]

I started researching my family tree and can't get pass 1890. I wish I could know more.

[@nzoCALIFApresents]

Fantastic Genealogy web series on KZbin: BlackProGen LIVE! Ep 101: The Count: A Deep Dive Into the 1870 and 1880 US Census *Stay encouraged as #yourStorymatters

[@anndeecosita3586]

You should try visiting the county courthouse where your family is from. I went there while on a trip to visit relatives. I found marriage records, land deeds, wills and other stuff. I also sent off to the state for copies of death certificates. They usually list the names of parents.

[@mareerogers364]

1844😂😂😂😂 daddy side 1780😂😂😂😂 mommy side

[@patriciapatriciagray-thorp9574]

Tamron ❤ love your show❤❤

[@CandyCoated96]

Awesome

[@catmejia6109]

❤❤❤❤Tamron, this was a great segment ❤❤❤❤

[@cathianedesravines3194]

I wish she can do minds too ❤

[@smallmeadow1]

Littlefield is my last name. There has been this distinction drawn between Littlefields entering the colonies in Massachusetts from Littlefields entering in Maryland with differing origins in adjacent southern English counties, Hampshire and Wiltshire. Supposedly, the southern Littlefields are descendants of the Maryland group. Record keeping prior to Henry VIII was poor in those areas of the country and I have never heard anyone connecting Hampshire and Wiltshire groups. I have seen some mention of a dna test study to try and discern that information, but I doubt it was done. Tamron, the history of slavery is painful to so many people. And I am truly sorry for that, but would be blessed to count you as family. The New England group has a long and interesting history too.

[@janiececaston6354]

I really need help finding my father family, from what I was told he had died in 1989 I’m back to starting over again I never met my father never seen him before I would really like the help

[@Theo1000ification]

Ancestry DNA is the best and it's on sale now. I found 2 siblings!

[@katherenewedic8076]

Why never no mention about the Buffalo soilders and their work

[@carrollarry4103]

Both of my dads parents was biracial and my moms mother and dad were black. I did a ancestry dna and found out that i am 48 percent European and 52 percent African American my dads mother father was an Italian man related to Al capone and my dads fathers dad was irish and Scottish this is just a snippet of my European dna. But i would love to know where my African heritage came from. All i know is that my mothers mom father was native American and my moms side of the family dna shows the native American. I would love to know my African heritage

[@gizzi1213]

Wait where is the rest of it??

[@AllThingsSoul]

They gave Tamron the opportunity to find out if she's connected to the White Dismutes family and she declined to go any further. She felt it would be awkward to say, "Your family once owned my family and then they turn on the TV and say, there's cousin Tamron."

[@patriciapatriciagray-thorp9574]

Wow....some of you are haters....why?

[@kollettebryant3432]

I went to Publix school with some Desmukes in Milwaukee WI.

[@anndeecosita3586]

In the South I usually see it spelled Dismuke.

[@allisonhope2396]

Maybe she's just not ready to deal with it. A lot of people like to talk until they end up in the same situation. God has a funny way of allowing people to experience the things we think we have the dibs on.

[@nelsonvega3444]

I want to do my genealogy too …I just discover from a cousin that we are of mix race …so I’ll like to find out what he is talking about …my cousin is already in his 80’s …

[@valeriew7153]

Make a family tree with everyone he remembers, parents, grands, uncles, aunts, their children and spouses. Places the were born and buried with approximate dates. Take good notes of everything he shares.. Have him tested on Ancestry ASAP and you do the same. Lots of Facebook pages to point you the right direction, good luck!

[@user-vi8ow9me3y]

WOW, WOW, WOW!!! It was chilling to me to see your response toward your white PART OF WHO YOU are!! LIKE IT OR NOT!!! Very interesting reaction!! you are entitled to to do what you did, no doubt, WOW WOW WOW!!! Shocking coming from someone educated as you are,

[@Menooy22]

Chilling that she didn't want to know about her family's slave owners? Are you mentally sick? And it's not part of who she is at all.

[@41yearoldnewdriver]

I am interested in genealogy for black Americans. The US census has been keeping records since the 1800s

[@Shonuff_nails]

ya

[@clarapeters6583]

❤️❤️❤️

[@vienicestyles]

Tamron Hall and her family are entitled to reparations!

[@user-zq4fv8sj6v]

Biden, a DEMOCRAT has REFUSED to even discuss reparations!

[@maame6224]

👏👏❤

[@ninakowalska992]

what happened to her father

[@eileenwatt8283]

It was the agrarian community at the time. The whole world were farming and laborers. Why didn't the genealogist explained that.

[@fundifferent1]

well, not the whole world, but in the south, and not everyone, but especially African Americans. They really only had two choices: farmers or laborer

[@JennHayden]

She did explain it. It just wasn't the entire conversation.

[@rmdavis7352]

My thought exactly

[@user-zq4fv8sj6v]

Didn’t fit today’s warped, leftist narrative..

[@mareerogers364]

You punked out!

[@shewr4664]

Tampon is super classy n beautiful wow!

[@timothylawson3262]

Tampon!!!!

[@rosahacketts1668]

Due to slavery many blacks weren't allowed to marry and many after the end of slavery continued not to. Sad.

[@anndeecosita3586]

Slaves did get married during slavery but they weren’t “legally” acknowledged because they were seen as property not people. Also these families were frequently separated from being sold off. However the tradition of jumping the broom as signifying a marriage commitment comes slavery times, and my family still does this as part of our wedding ceremonies. Most of my family immediately got their marriages formalized after Emancipation. I have found the records in the county courthouse in a book of Colored Marriages because the government listed them separately from white people.

[@read_the_comments]

@@anndeecosita3586Thank you for sharing this ❤

[@sandraspruill4831]

[@Mimi-ht6xr]

She assumes her ancestors were enslaved when she didn’t find slave records??? How about they may have been Amerindians as that region was Mexican at one point? 😳

[@calikeisha365]

Only 5% of Americans have native ancestry. I’m sure if she did it would’ve come up on the DNA test.

[@WordWoman111]

I caught that. Everyone wasn’t enslaved. I discovered free relatives in my tree.

[@DDWax]

We could have learned more if Tamron had stopped dominating the conversation. Why invite guests and not let them speak⁉️

[@tanyapeters5062]

I get it Tamron but don’t deny your past because it may make your husband feel uncomfortable. Esau in the Bible denied his heritage and your doing the same.

[@snirks8635]

I didn't hear her denying anything 🤔

[@uc3698]

@@snirks8635 She is refusing to know her white side, while married to a white man. Make it make sense. Hmmm🤔

[@deescott8312]

Is tamron pregnant

[@mareerogers364]

They couldn't marry legally.STOP IT!!!