America Ferrera goes back to her great grandfather in Honduras

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3 ай бұрын

Actress America Ferrera looks into the ancestry of a father she barely knew and discovers a great grandfather who led revolts and left an enduring mark on Honduran history.
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@lovingmayberry307 3 ай бұрын

America is a gem. 🫶

@alexexum6084 3 ай бұрын

I adore her. She’s so adorable.

@deniseharris9320 3 ай бұрын

She is so sweet!!! OMG, these people letting people touch original old documents all willy-nilly is causing me so much anxiety.

@traebee333 3 ай бұрын

She's touching it SO hard too and running her finger along the ink . Why would she need to do that? Ugh..

@exdus235 3 ай бұрын

Yup, anxiety is exactly what I experience as well. Why the archivist allows hands touching documents is beyond me. 😡 Aghhg

@allieF714 3 ай бұрын

Ye, love her but touching the documents and with no gloves at least, panic attack! Also I passed out when I saw her bending the documents. So not her fault, the historian she be more educated in preserving this valuable documents.

@maiNmusica 3 ай бұрын

I read somewhere that it is common practise to handle old documents with clean hands rather than gloves. I'm sure the historian knows what she's doing

@deniseharris9320 3 ай бұрын

@maiNmusica you're not supposed to run your fingers over the pages at all. You use a paper marker with a straight line to follow down the page. The pages are also supposed to be supported on stiff special made poster board, so the entire page it kept flat.

@mariadelmardiaz3585 3 ай бұрын

7:24 This is José "Pepe" Figueres Ferrer, Costa Rica's former president. This picture is from Richard Nixon's visit to Costa Rica in 1955 when they visited a banana plantation.

@jrpacer6355 3 ай бұрын

Thank you

@scharles3744 3 ай бұрын

I love that her name is America. What a great story. Excellent content.

@user-oj7bn5fq4m 3 ай бұрын

I remember seeing this and America finds out she descends from a prominent Spanish Honduran family that consisted of Honduran presidents and land owners dating back to the 16th century. It’s weird because the majority of us Central Americans can never get that far in genealogy unless we are from the rich 1%, which America is from. I’ve noticed every Central American celebrity (very few, as well) descend from these prominent families. Unfortunately I guess it makes sense since they would have the money to immigrate anywhere (legally).

@amiquigonzales7917 3 ай бұрын

This is oh so true... and not to forget that they've got the brains for that too, which are inherited, they are in the genes. So that's why it runs in the family.

@user-oj7bn5fq4m 3 ай бұрын

@@amiquigonzales7917Yeah regular families never had access to education. For example In El Salvador if you were poor, most likely your family would be poor forever. Most towns never had teachers or schools. My great grandpa owned a bunch of land but couldn’t read and write, he stayed in his rural town until his death. I wonder if education could’ve taken him very far because he was a smart man when it came to his lands.

@celsaflores7529 3 ай бұрын

There is such a thing as public schools for the poor people, even in very small towns.

@amiquigonzales7917 3 ай бұрын

@@celsaflores7529 N O W, back in the old days, say 150 years ago, probably not. To start with, there were not enough trained teachers in our countries in the cities back then , let alone remote rural areas.

@user-oj7bn5fq4m 3 ай бұрын

@@celsaflores7529my town in Chalate, El Salvador only had a school that consisted of one teacher who taught several children who’s parents wanted them to learn instead of helping on the farmland. Eventually it transformed into a school that went up to grade 3. My grandpa repeated grade 3 for three years as he wanted to stay in school. My grandma only went to school until grade 3. If they wanted to continue they would’ve had to walk to the next town at 7am in the morning, but they both had to help their families with the farm. School was inaccessible to many back in those days before the wars and during the wars.

@alejandrajarabo3354 3 ай бұрын

A "labrador" is the owner of the land and administrates the property. This is different from a "jornalero" that works the land but doesn't own it. If you use United States a s a reference you might think that owning land is unimportant but that land-ownership had to be approved directly by the colonial government in Spanish colonies. Only a land owner could afford to pay for education. Having 15 children at the time assured that some of them would survive to help the family business.

@amiquigonzales7917 3 ай бұрын

Of course, as usual in Latin America, if you go into politics and were a supporter since the beginning of the political party that at the end won, you have a nice huge political career in front of you. And we all know well what our politicians are capable of ...

@alejandrajarabo3354 3 ай бұрын

@@amiquigonzales7917 I am talking about a practice from old colonial times. In the US owning land was kind of easy, you just had to claim it. Because the Encomienda system was so tightly held, there was a very big control over who owned any piece of land. Being a "labrador" was not a small thing, even if he was working the land with his family.

@celsaflores7529 3 ай бұрын

A “labrador”, refers to a person who works the land, mainly agriculture. It is not a land owner…which then, would be a “terrateniente”. Look it up in the dictionary and will see you are mistaken.

@alejandrajarabo3354 3 ай бұрын

I know how the current understanding of the term. On census-documents form the XVII and XVIII centuries in Spanish territories, owners of smaller portions of land (minifundios), that live in that land and work on them are referred to as "labradores", the status is different from owners of bigger extensions of land (latifundios), that are called terratenientes.

@estefimedinaj 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for providing the context of these words to the time period! Very helpful and provides more insight as to how Gregorio was able to access education.

@cougarwomanmoorhead-dougla1772 2 ай бұрын

This is the song that gets me through hard times with my health issues. Thank you for the reminder 🙂

@nilsanarvaez7947 3 ай бұрын

Love her! ❤

@barbaravyse660 3 ай бұрын

I’m finding it hard to find records from Ireland. I was able to trace the Vyse family back to 1340 England. And I don’t have enough info to start searching my mom’s Mexican relatives.

@clair233 3 ай бұрын

Try the Catholic churches of where your Irish family were originally from.

@amiquigonzales7917 3 ай бұрын

@@clair233 The Church keeps all those records for centuries, and in the old days in small rural areas the priest was the only one who could read and write, while the rest of the populations was illetrate.

@littleminna 3 ай бұрын

Love this program. Got me trying to make my own tree. Unfortunately I didn't get far on my mom's side for the same reason. It is nearly impossible to find records from Nicaragua. It is also such a country, with a history of political instability. It is a shame. Mom told me about her mother being orphaned at age of 8. Her mother got beaten to death by her drunk boyfriend. My grandma and her two sisters were split up and sent to live with different families. They never sent her to school, she became their maid. Also my grandma was told that her grandfather was from Spain. I have not been able to verify that either. It would have been nice to find out more. But these countries are just not good a record keeping like other countries, unfortunately.

@alexandracruz5243 3 ай бұрын

You could try a DNA Test from Myheritage or Ancestry to find out if your grandfather was actually Spanish. If that's the case, you should get communities or genetic groups from Spain.

@littleminna 3 ай бұрын

@alexandracruz5243 Hi. Thanks. I've actually done that. I'm 10% Spanish, my mom has a higher percentage 22% in fact. But I think it is a bit general, many Latin Americans have Spanish ancestry in them, right?

@user-oj7bn5fq4m 3 ай бұрын

@@littleminnamy heritage is pretty bad with dna. If you did your test with them I’d suggest doing ancestry or 23andMe instead.

@alexandracruz5243 3 ай бұрын

@@littleminna What company did you use?

@alexandracruz5243 3 ай бұрын

@@user-oj7bn5fq4m The genetic groups in Myheritage are really accurate and they have more matches in Europe. That's the important for her case. The percentage aren't an estimation and the genetic genealogist don't use them for family research.