Top 10 Funniest Moments on Finding Your Roots

[@MsMojo]

Have YOU made any unexpectedly hilarious revelations in your ancestral line? Let us know below, and check out our video of the Top 20 Most Awkward Moments on Finding Your Roots - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIurY4ejrLOqfq8

[@rebeccabennett8188]

I really enjoy watching finding your roots the host is brilliant

[@dawnvickerstaff]

I am an American from the West Coast. I live in Britain, just a few miles away from where my Mayflower ancestor was born. Talk about full circle. I did not know this when I moved here.

[@BebeesHuman]

Hi! the Elder William Brewster is one of my ancestors.William Bradford is an ancestor o Barack Obama. Brewster and Bradford were in prison in England together before they left England.

[@atozmom5]

I was stunned and excited to find out I'm only 1/8th German and 3/8ths Scottish/English. I always thought I was 1/2 German. I was so excited when I told my kids. My two sons' response was a glib, "So you're still white."

[@bethfrancis5935]

There is a family legend that my 2x great grandfather got rich in the early oil boom days (1860's) but later became paranoid everyone was after his money. The story goes that he converted his assets to gold and buried it in the backyard. No one knew what happened to him or his fortune. Several cousins have combed the old homestead with metal detectors with no luck. A couple years ago I discovered that 1) Abram was placed by court order in an insane asylum where he died (gives some credit to the story of him going nuts and hiding gold) and 2) He moved to the city shortly after he made his fortune (they were looking in the wrong place). Some one many still have a small fortune in gold buried in the backyard.

[@roberthand6436]

George Washington is my second cousin, seven times removed.

[@kathrynblack9152]

Hardly the funniest but very interesting.

[@wikidleigh]

I recently discovered, from my uncle on my mother's side, that my family started a whiskey company in Scotland. It was right after returning from a vacation in Scotland, so I wish I had known beforehand. I did not go to the Highlands where it is located. Maybe next time.

[@davidslife989]

That was entertaining and cute! Thanks, makes me feel warm and fuzzy about my own family confusion.

[@mesquitegirl2013]

I had a great aunt that did a lot of ancestry for her mother and it’s been so cool to hear and see who I’m related to. I’ve got a lot of royalty connections and some very famous people that part of my ancestry, which is so cool.

[@jessgunn6639]

I discovered that my 2xGreatgrandmother married her a younger man! When she was 26 she married her first husband who was 20 when he passed away she married again at 45 to a 31 year Old and when he passed away she married again when she was 63 to a guy of 28! I guess she was the cougar of her day lmao, PS she buried the third husband too but get no ideas she didn't do them in lol

[@jordansantos7226]

Imagine in Jimmy Kimmel’s episode he discovered that he was in fact distant cousins with Matt Damon in some way, now THAT would have been something

[@susans1788]

Discovered through Ancestry that my Dad who is 90, is half Persian. (Mostly). Born in Los Angeles in 1935. Supposedly all English and Scottish. I hate not knowing the details of this mystery. Obviously the man dad thought was his father was not, which we always suspected based on looks. Grandma took the secret to her grave before the DNA tests were available.

[@vaispelu]

i am dominican and related to John Lithgow whose dad was born there and related to my maternal grandmother 😊

[@BebeesHuman]

Hi! Fourteen generations back, John Lithgow and I have an ancestor in common. Hope you're dong good! I'm in the USA.

[@trinaq]

Richard Kind's Wizard of Oz comparison was hilarious, even if he did slightly muddle up the details. He's a naturally very funny guy, and he also made me bawl as Bing Bong.

[@tinaanderson7283]

My 6 times great grandfather friends with Benjamin Franklin.

[@watsonsmith4126]

Neat

[@latishalarimore7156]

Nd out that the rumor of some native american ancestors was true but not the tribe we suspected. Living in Texas we thought it might br a tribe from here ex. Comanche, karankawa but it was the Powhatan tribe 10 generations back.

[@themadwomanskitchen9732]

9:15 according to my grandmother, her parents were even more closely related, first cousins once removed.

[@lorib4516]

I am the 4th cousin of Dwight D Eisenhower.

[@watsonsmith4126]

That's so cool 😎😎

[@SageOftheSubway]

4:36 - Meanwhile, Navin R. Johnson: “You mean I’m gonna STAY this color??!!”

[@mesquitegirl2013]

I love this show

[@robinsmith5442]

I found out 20 years after our marriage that my husband and I shared 3rd great grandparents at least or probably more.

[@VintageBeauty1313]

In the 2005 movie “The Libertine” Johnny Depp played John Wilmot the 2nd Earl of Rochester, one of my ancestors

[@kriscynical]

The interesting bits of my lineage come from my dad's side. One of my "however many greats" grandfather, Henry Bergh, founded the ASPCA in 1866. By contrast, another distant grandfather was hung for horse thieving. lol My family has a history of being a pain in the ass to certain people in completely different ways, apparently. By stealing horses or getting on their case for mistreating them (Henry had a beef with PT Barnum because of his circus animals, for example).

[@susanking9033]

DNA is crazy. My full sister and I did ancestry she came up 50% Scottish and I was 16%. She was 5% England/northern Europe I'm 57%

[@michelericca6728]

That is quite common. Unless we're an identical twin or triple , then we receive different DNA from our parents then our siblings.

[@Josh-g1h9n]

A list of finding your roots of celebrity relationships would be cool

[@marinakaye8284]

I come from a long line of peasants on my father's side, and servants on my mother's. lol. Funny 'cause it's true.

[@samuelcollantes1175]

Happy wednesday afternoon, Phoebe, take care and God bless you greetings. Greetings from Colombia to you as well

[@novied5871]

I have ancestors that came over here to America on a ship ( of course). The name: The FriendShip.

[@watsonsmith4126]

That's a really funny name for a seafaring ship 😂😂

[@brandonthailand2062]

George HW Bush is my 10th cousin. Common ancestor from early 1500s.

[@watsonsmith4126]

That's awesome

[@eileenmurphy2019]

Family legend said that my maternal grandmother had an aunt who was Jewish, an actress and married David Belasco’s brother. While going through my mom’s notes after she passed away I found a note reading: Maria Davis ….Sam Belasco? Well David did not have a brother Sam. However Maria was married to George ‘Abe’ Belasco, a theatre frontman and related to David. Maria supposedly a big deal on the London stage in her day. My mom’s (remaining) brother was shocked to learn that he had Jewish ancestry. I remember sending emails to the remaining aunts and David. He was literally shocked, Jewish, were Jewish? He’d never heard the rumor, always assuming he was pure Irish. It seems his mother kept it quiet not because Maria was Jewish but because back at that time acting was a scandalous profession.

[@freqeist]

I`m English and my descendants on my grandads mothers side come from France their surnamr was Bourdon they left France in December 1792 because they were Aristocrats and feared for their lives and then in January 1793 Louis XVI was executed Britain accepted Aristocratic people but were told their title meant nothing so my ancestor went from being a titled person to a Black cab driver in London

[@SkittyGirl300]

From what I'm able to find is that my ancestors were more of a serious group of people.

[@Theintrovertednow]

I recently discovered im distantly related to daniel boone billy the kid and florence nightingale

[@seantlewis376]

Unfortunately, I am not enough of a celebrity to appear on this show, so most of what I have are family stories. With that, I have not much knowledge more than four generations back, and that is a little questionable.

[@imhere653]

Seantlewis- That's impressive. The majority of my friends cannot say what ethnicity they are. Even for the current generation. Blows my mind.

[@seantlewis376]

@@imhere653 My grandmother knew the family stories, had photos going back to the mid 1800s, and portraits of people before that. Again, family stories. I'd like to look into the accuracy of her stories.

[@kkpenney444]

So most of these are not even funny?

[@AlexRising_]

To you.

[@fernandocolunga9177]

I agree

[@nancybemak6646]

I was going to post something pretty similar.

[@susanmccarter1237]

I was thinking the same thing. Not funny at all

[@aimeepotts2137]

Yeah, these are all touching, but I feel betrayed.

[@linusholm3806]

My wish list: Top 10 disney junior shows Top 10 unimportant pokemon episodes (no catching new pokemon, no evolving, no gym/pokemon leage battle, no meating new rivle, etc) Top 10 underrated animated disney series Best disney movie per decade Top 10 disney reprise songs (deleted included) Top 10 disney villains that deserved a villain song Top 10 disney couples with a tough start (Both movies and tv-series) Top 10 what have I done moment excluding disney and pixar Top 10 disney movie ideas (by you) 👍😉

[@mikhail5428]

*I wish to find my roots, as far as knowing any I know I'm descendant from African("Black"), Spanish(Europe-"White"), Native South American and probably Asian, I can pass as most races except of course "Black" or Chinese'*

[@alia7368]

Who Do You Think You Are, UK version had far more humourous moments than this list incapsulates. And that's saying something because these are dry parts.

[@hanksmith1582]

ohhh, the vocal fry, Phoebe.....not a professional sound!

[@lotusflower2411]

Informative but not really very funny 🤷‍♀️

[@cheesewheelz8030]

Boo ur lame

[@BebeesHuman]

Do to having three medical DNA tests (not commercial) I found out what my mitochondrial DNA haplogroup is. It is from the Saami (Laplander) people.They are the aboriginal people of Scandinavia, who are migratory reindeer herders. They also have reservations there. I was so surprised because i know that is the tribe and people of Santa Claus. That explains why he dresses the way he does and his mode of transportation. 🎅🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🛷🎄