"I'm Blown Away!" Mario Lopez Moved By Ancestor's Immigration Story | Finding Your Roots | Ancestry®
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
- Actor and television host Mario Lopez uncovers new details about his grandfather’s immigration from Mexico in the 1950s on PBS’ Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. visitancestry.com/3S30iEY
Subscribe: bit.ly/AncestrySubscribe
About Ancestry: Start your family history journey today with Ancestry®. With our massive collection of historical records, access to family trees, and DNA technology, we’re here to help you discover your personal history.
Visit Ancestry’s Official Site: www.ancestry.com
Follow Ancestry on TikTok: bit.ly/AncestryTikTok
Follow Ancestry on Instagram: bit.ly/AncestryIG
Like Ancestry on Facebook: bit.ly/AncestryFB
Follow Ancestry on Twitter: bit.ly/AncestryTwitter
00:00 Introduction
0:55 Mario Lopez surprised by grandfather’s immigration story
2:39 How Mario Lopez’s grandfather became a US citizen 
Наука
Learning about your family’s experience can be fulfilling in many ways, and we’re here to help! Get started with your own tree with Ancestry® now: visitancestry.com/3S30iEY
Your app should be free why pay for it
@Phanuel I am ready to join
So basically his grandfather illegally entered the country.
Hi sir I want to Help my husband to find his allegedly son from his past relationship.. according to him she was pregnant probably 4mos when her mother took her away from him since then no Communication at all I hope u Will Help US
@@trevoroneill8131why aren't you giving me free stuff? You should be
Thanks to parents and grandparents etc who did all they could to make life better for their children/grandchildren.
Well said!
For sure! And may we strive to do the same for our children and grandchildren as well.
@@Misterdonp Legally or illegally, doesn’t matter.
And yet yall Americans tell other immigrants to go back to their country!!
Yall ancestor did the Same thing!!
@@turuus5215it really does depends on your intentions. Illegals coming in today just want handouts. The ones before the caravan actually did it for their children not themselves.
Didnt expect his family to be from Sinaloa lol thats pretty cool 🇲🇽 beautiful state
i think of how my ancestors came from ireland and scotland and how difficult it must have been for them. my heart thanks them.❤️🌸
Thank you for sharing with us! We hope you have a great day.
My late husband's came over in 1903 from the Netherlands; they were fortunate that a former friend from there now sponsored Oma and Opa. They settled in the Great Black Swamp of Northwest Ohio, an excellent area for growing vegetables- many many "truck" gardens in that area.
And yet yall Americans tell immigrants to go back to their country!!
You all forget how yall reach there.
@@peachmelba9333 does the great black swamp still exist in NW ohio?
@@heavenismydomicile3280 greatly drained out but there are traces still in many of the park and wildlife areas.
Wow. This is so moving. My husband and I migrated our family here in Australia two years ago. I guess I should document our journey for our future descendants to look back on! 😍
Thanks for watching! We are glad to hear that this video has inspired you to document your life journey for future generations.
yeah but you are white and Australian....being Mexican is much more complicated to migrate.
@@yomommastupidcool
They'll probably curse your decision. 🤣
@@yomommastupidOh cry me a river. Us Mexicans are not some helpless pathetic creatures. Have some pride in yourself.
Mexicans have always been in this country even before most of it was stolen from Spain and Mexico and have native blood indigenous to North America ✊🏾
Facts.
Spaniards aren't native to the America's only native indigenous Mexicans are. Spain are colonizers like the French and British don't separate them from their European counterparts.
💯
Did you really write stolen from Spain and Mexico? Spain stole it from Native Americans. Native Americans aren’t even indigenous to North America.
I feel like America needs more Asians rather than Hispanics, though. Having some portion of native blood makes you special? No.
Spain and Portugal got Central and South America. That’s enough for y’all. Give North America to other people.
Mario Lopez family is from Sinaloa, Mexico. A very beautiful state, incredible looking women, the food is unbelievable.
Incredible violence, too.
Lol right was gonna say that
Just like most all major U.S. cities.
@@williamwilson6499 the USA is more violent than whole of Mexico...cartel activity is very local in Mexico and they are more present outside Mexico...Cartels are everywhere also in the USA
Yesssssir
My great grand father traveled about 12 miles and settled in Texas around 1900. But the region he lived never changed, was part of Mexico, then became the United States. Because of the Mexican revolution, he sold his diary farm and moved across the new border between Texas and Mexico
Doctor Gates is one of my heroes! I have tremendous respect for all he has accomplished in his life and for the great service he has done for human-kind.
Even when he crying and acting crazy when he got arrested and he found out he was white? 😆
MY GREAT GREAT GRAND MOTHER , CAME TO NC. FROM LUMBARK TX. I OFTEN WONDER HOW SHE GOT TO THE EAST COAST. SHE CAME BY SHIP. WAS SOLD TO DUNLAP. SHE WAS Indigenous. I ONLY WISH I COULD KNOW HER NAME, BEFORE IT WAS CHANGED TO DUNLAP
He looks like his grandfather. Wonderful story. 💖
Hi Anita, thanks for watching. We are glad to see that you enjoyed this video.
What story? It's his grandpa! That's it! Our Hispanic ancestors were born in small ranches and villages with no hospitals and little record keeping. I actually thought for a second that they found something interesting.
@@Zert_McGert
Hispanics - European, Caucasians from Spain
Mestizo's - Mixed indigenous Indians with Spanish.
Indigenous Indians - People who are decedents from the Maya and Aztec and didn't mix.
@@D33Lux Hispanic is not a race. Hispanic is based off the influence of the spanish culture of Spain as well as the spanish language, spanish surnames and the catholic religion celebration holidays. I'm a mestizo which my parents are from El Salvador and I'm 100% hispanic and I'm 100% latino as well.
California will always be Mexican 🇲🇽🇲🇽 since 1821🇲🇽🇲🇽
more than 130 millions of red necks are not agree whit you.
Absolutely just look around 👊🏼👊🏼🇲🇽💪🏼
THIS
IS
MEXICO !!
Utha, New Mexico, CA, Nevada, Texas, Arizona ones upon at time were part of México.
@@cguide2598 too bad the Mexicans didn't even live there because they got whooped by Comanche and Kiowa. They even got whooped in northern Mexico. 😆 Valen verga!
California was only part of Mexico for only 1 generation (26 years). California was part of Spain for more than 200 years. My greatgrandfather was from Spain.
I’ve been told that I look like Mario Lopez and once you said Hanford, CA that is where my mom and her side of the family resided and still do to this day. L🤣L! How funny is that, I wonder if we share any DNA. It IS a very small town.
You do look like you’re related.
Most likely! You should definitely do a dna test and see if he comes up in your database.
@@kita3256 Right, he should do a DNA and let us know!💕
Did you do a DNA test? At least try and contact Mario Lopez and tell him your story, I'm sure he would be interested. If I were you I would do it.
Aweee, he looks so much like his granpa 💖
I could’ve sworn he was actually a 700+ year old vampire because the man never ages!!!
It's too bad it wasn't mentioned , that his grandfather was deported during "Operation Wetback". The workers that has toiled during WW2 were suddenly no longer welcome. My father was deported during that time . he also later re-entered in 1957, and that's when I was born in San Diego, california.
Was it not with the bracero program?
but who is the wet back the pilgram European or the Mexican who is in Mexico already look at an old map..
THE RAZA THAT WAS BORN IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE IT WAS CALLED THE UNITED STATES BEFORE THE THEFT AND AFTER THE THEFT OF NORTH AMERICA, YES NORTH AMERICA WERE REPATRIATED TO MEXICO, HOW? IF YOU WEREN'T OPERATION WHITE TRASH YOU WERE SENT TO ANOTHER COUNTRY.
@@Thumpiez probably the Mexican who got whooped by native Americans and then begged the USA for protection even after the USA whooped the Mexicans in a war.
Not even the Americans of Mexican descent wanted the bracers. 😆
I’ve been doing my family tree for up to 4 years now and I’ve made some astonishing discoveries on my maternal side. I’ve traced my mum’s side of the family back to nobility and royalty. I found out that my 14 times great grand aunt was Jane Seymour, who married Henry VIII. Edward VI is my 1st cousin 15x removed and I’m a 22nd Great Grandson of Edward III through my 15th Great Grandmother Margery Wentworth. I’ve been so excited to discover these things and I couldn’t thank you enough for giving me the answers that I’ve needed to trace my family. Love your show, really inspiring ❤
Discovered this show a couple of years ago and got.hooked on my family tree.
While my first reaction was to see how far could I go back -some branches were already online- I have been more interested in expanding the families of 19th century ancestors that I already knew existed.
I had heard stories about my 3x-great grandmother and found her baptism record from 1846.
Also have been trying to trace my last name all the way to Spain but currently stuck in 1718.
And what my grandma thought were French ancestors turned out to be Portuguese.
He played an immigrant on an episode of the Golden Girls. He was an awesome actor even then.
He is best known as, AC Slater in saved by the bell. A sitcom of the 90s.
& a coward for apologizing to the eieio community in 2019 for using common sense on candace owens podcast
Never thought I’d live to see the day that someone had to explain who AC Slater was lmao
Dr Gates is class 1 !!! So captivating and engaging.
That was a beautiful moment for me to watch.
We're so glad you enjoyed it, Sandy. ❤️
This is awesome!
Vámonos a la cacho Mario” California is the youngest son of Mexico founded in 1850!❤love it
Dear white people, (I am writing this and I am white too), we also immigrated to the United States and our ancestors stories are also usually filled with hardship and crap. Don't hold it against people that you forgot or were never told the stories of your ancestors. In our past almost all of us were considered garbage. The family lineages that don't know of this were hated by their peers.
I mourn the stories we will never hear.
What you just wrote is powerful and more folks need to hear and understand this. It would change a lot in the souls of white folks . God bless you.
Exactly, unless you were royalty, you were poor as a church mouse and treated as garbage, no matter your skin colour. White, black, Asian, Latino, any race was not free, unless they had a lot of money or title. It seems loads of people forget this. Evil comes from elites, not common people.
In behalf of all Mexicans. Thank you! At least you know this.
Except, when white people populated this country, most were given free land to farm.
They came voluntarily, unlike black people.
As well, Mexican people lived in the Southwest and were ousted when the land became U.S. territory.
Haciendas became ranches.
So yeah, it is a different experience.
@@Cua-tanet the Mexicans were ousted when they got whooped by Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache indios. They begged the USA for protection even after Mexico got whooped by the USA in a war!
Man, thanks for doing this
Mario Lopez has been a person I admired since I first saw him in Save by the Bell. Since then I have seen him many times at functions of the sport I love boxing, I like this positivisms and his great Mexican Heritage
I was born in Mexico but raised in the U.S. for many years people asked how I was a citizen if I was born in Mexico. I asked my mom.
Apparently my moms uncle had applied for his citizenship. He was able to get his brothers citizenship. One of his younger brother was my grandpa. I think he got his citizenship around the 60’s. My mothers side of the family would work 6 months in the fields of California and go back to Mexico for 6 months yearly.
It’s amazing to know the hard work that led me and many people to be here in the U.S & to know the back story
Great report,,,
Wow, even his ancestors are very good looking! Now I know where Mario got his handsome face from. Immigrants are hard working people, we come to America to work. Luciano López Burgos seemed like a great man, that’s one hell of an ancestor he’s got there.
America extends from Canada to Argentina
@@arturoangelsanchez only losers say that. The rest of world, including Canada, refers to the USA as America.
Came to the United States to work. America is a continent, North America, South America.
I think those farm workers should have been given visa's, its not like they were doing anything wrong.
@@D33Lux too bad Mexico treats migrants from Central America like garbage.
. What about Alaska?
I love this series ❤Mario’s place of origin is similar to mine
We're so glad to hear that you're a fan of the show, Yesenia. Thanks for dropping by! 😊
Had to find out Mario’s heritage because he is a beautiful man
It's ironic to migrate to the country that was once yours.
If not for real white people seized some land, settled in and civilized the society, America would be a third world country no one migrates to.
@@cansouDude, California was part of Mexico until 1847. You don’t need to be a genius to figure out why so many californian cities, mountains and rivers have names in spanish. Go learn some history.
@CanSoU bruh stop please. wheres your red neck STOP buttom?.
@CanSoU and hits different. how you compare alaska one of the most cold and lonely please to california and texas the most wealth states of USA.
Im from Durango mex my great grandfather was a Frenchman left from the French n Mexican war
I have Lopez from Sinaloa but apparently not related to this guy.
However, mine came from Durango around the 1860s.
Church records from Durango are much easier to work with than Sinaloa.
So moving💜
I’d love to find out more about my heritage, I know I’m Albanian on my fathers side and my mother’s side has French in there. But I’d love to learn about my ancestors who immigrated here and what they went through
wow thats amazing. I would love for someone to help me with my story
Amazing story ❤
We're so glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing! ❤️
Luciano had a beautiful handwriting
Mario Lopez baby 🎉! 🇲🇽👏💪
I am Mexican American. My dad came to America legally with a tourist from Mexico. He fell in love with America and never returned. Now both my parents are now U.S citizens.
Mexico is also in the American continent.
@@adrianaangelcoria1248 something that nobody ever seems to understand😂making the United States seem like if it’s all of North America
It’s crazy how all these stores are about overcoming what colonizers put in place.
@CanSoU this again?
@CanSoU white people. Clear now?
@CanSoU then who is african Americans? Please enlighten me.
@@bottlecap8372 the Buffalo soldier..the white mans slaves..
@BunnyHop Go and stuff that liberal, public school, non-sense down the crapper. Even through DNA testing Native American shows up different from Asian, just like African and Caucasians do. Everyone didn't descend from Asia or Africa regardless of what some dummy, privately funded, paleontologist kook tells you. There were people already in the America's since the dawn of time. Amazing how people don't know about the Olmecs, who built huge civilizations thousands of years before the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. How horse fossils were found in North America, they were here long before the last ice age which was 10-12 thousand years ago. Go research LiDar, they're finding thousands of new village sites in the Yucatan and in the Amazon's. The people of the sun were here long before the Conquistadores, or this land migration theoretical non-sense from Asia and Africa. I find it funny how people are now saying Vikings were the first to be in the America's. If they were the first, why did they have to travel by boat, while the Indigenous Natives were already living here in cities with Temples dating over 2,600 years B.C. Keep changing the story, to amuse yourselves.
Different generations but you can make similarities between Mario and his grandfather.
Wow he has his grandfathers eyes!
they must be related ;)
Its a shocking fact that 43% of the US today was once Mexican territory. People must understand that we never left...the Anglos settled here.
Orale, look at it closely Mario! 🤗 Lopez got Sinloa Connections.....Saludos para so Slater...
Too cool!
that was beautiful
Such a handsome and seems very humble and nice
Sadly Mario Lopez is the type of person you wouldn't trust him. If you have daughters, make sure they stay away from him or their lives will get ruined.
I am ver y proud of my ancestor I am originally from Dominican Republic and my grandfather was a historian and wrote a book about one side of our ancestors that were black and my grandfather was really white but he was very proud of them because they fought for the independence of our country against the invasion we had for 22 years from Haiti and also when I was living in Spain I found the origin of my mother’s father that not one knew and more people were looking from what part of Spain were our ancestors and maybe because I grew up with this people I developed the interest to know more about where I come from
Thanks for sharing this insight into your own family history journey with us. It sounds like you have made some incredible discoveries to date and we want to wish you every continued success. 😊
Chapo is from Sinaloa too
Kind of proud? Dude be extremely proud beyond words
GREAT HISTORY!......MARIO LOPEZ BE PROUD!
What's so incredible, that's everyone's story
okay, you tell me how transformative this is but how can i do this?! i volunteer to do your show :)
You have to be famous or have money to have this transformative experience.
Where can I see the full episode
Hi oscar, thank you for the question. You can watch full episodes of Finding Your Roots on your local PBS station or by heading over to www.pbs.org/show/finding-your-roots/
Residence status should have been given to them immediately, considering they were working and helping the economy. They were punished for working, which is insane!
That was a real man. He would smack you for this victim mentality 100%. He sought a better life in a better place. For a reason. And worked his butt off to get it done and support 8 kids. He isn’t a victim, he’s a true man and went for “the American dream.”
Fact. I hate how all these punks today want to cry like women and seek pity. It's embarrassing.
Props dude VIVA LA RAZA!!!
His family is from Culiacán? Very cool
I’ve known for years that he’s Sinaloense
He looks Asian and the state of Sinaloa Mexico has a huge Chinese population mix …..Mario doesn’t look Spanish or European at all.
@@gueromex3056 he got those chinky eyes from his indio blood
Now I know why Mario Lopez looks like my family burgos face
I have a 3x-great grandmother Ynes Burgos (d. 1891) from Sinaloa, her parents were Francisco and Lucia but do not know anything about any other Burgos.
I would have liked to see his genetic report.
Bendiciones
❤
El Ranchito is now part of the urban core of the city of Culiacan.
Hanford, California! WOOP WOOP!!!
Imo. A person born between Alaska to the Patagonia, is American. North, Central, South. Native Americans to be correct. Sadly our history has been lost in translation for centuries.
Mario should of known about the history of Mexican and Mexican Americans in US since the beginning.
he was returned to Mexico, meaning Watsonville
And this type of perilous journeys are still being taken in present day. Only today it might be more hostile and brutal.
Bruh the biggest state that still has a lot of indigenous people is Arizona some how I'm always seeing and hearing people not talk in English and Spanish but in their native language
2:08 "...by what was known as a 'voluntary departure.'" Remember that phrase and concept. Of course, it'll be awhile before it becomes useful.
I really like these videos, greetings from Spain
Learning about the horrible things your ancestor did huh?
This man is a vampire that doesn't age much like Jared Leto and Paul rudd.
Just a reminder that this amazing country is a land full of immigrants and their stories.
Hey Henry, How do I get you to do mine?
I would love to find out about my roots some day I don't know much about my family history or tree im curious to know where my people came from originally
If you're ancestors are originally from North America, the Olmecs
If you're from South America, the Inca.
That's as far back historically as most people know today.
@@D33Lux bro idk who you are but you are right my ancestors are the olmecs holy moly donuts
Mario paisano. Hermano, mexicano.
When we do not forget from where our ancesters came from, than we might build a better future for our children and for the coming generations too…. Even the First Nations came from some where many, many thousands of years ago….and once upon a time the ancesters of all human that live today migrated from Africa to different parts of the world ….
look into Braceros era.
Two generations to go from an immigrant to a tv star, that is why so many of us in Latin America wants to travel to US
@CanSoU why you dont make detroit great again, or kansas or ohio, or those 175,000 homeless that are in LA or those 52,000 who are living in NEW YORK, 75,000 in BOSTON?. make america great again cuz AMERICA....FCK YEAH.
@CanSoU you should see MEXICO as a HERMANO, dont as the enemy we literally would help USA if some china or russia war happens.
Mario talks to stars.
I on the other hand, would see stars if I talked back to my mother. But, I digress.
Que guapo es este hombre! Y que injusto es esto. Ver gente con armas obligando a otros seres humanos. Me hierve la sangre…
Creo que es la historia de Mario lopez, mas bien de su abuelo como imigro de Mexico hacia usa despues de haber sido detenido varias veces. Mario participo en Save by the bell y otros shows. Hoy en dia tiene su propio show.
Este hombre Mario Lopez no es una persona que quisieras en tu vida. El tiene historia con asaltos sexuales con mujeres y mujeriego aunque estaba comprometido. Una senora del trabajo me llamo 'Mario Lopez' porque mi nombre es Mario. Yo lo tome como insulto, y le conteste, ' Yo soy mejor que Mario Lopez.'
Mario looks like his Grandma!
From Culiacan, Sinaloa like El Chapo.
Family established in Tijuana 1914 then crossed to SD legally 1925
Oh my Mario looks so much like his grandfather!!!
He certainly does, Elwood! We hope you enjoyed this episode!
"...came to America"?
He came to North America(U.S.A) from North America(Mexico).
dang our relatives got removed from our motherland :C
I’m sorry but that opening line about his paternal grandpa coming to America from Mexico is all wrong. Mexico is America, North America to be exact. His grandparents have Native/Indigenous American DNA. Look at Mario, he looks pretty indigenous to me. Most so called Mexicans are a mixture of Native American and Euro DNA, some African to an extent. Don’t forget the over 90-100% Native Americans that also reside in “Mexico”. We need to stop with this Mexico bs and call it what it really is. Native Americans .
Mestizo
Spain was controlled by the Muslims for hundreds of years making many Spanish part Arab as well making them much tanner than your Englishman of the time and the reason many Hispanics today have native blood is because the Spanish sent mostly men to the new world who took native wives while the English sent whole families
He looks indigenous to YOU, but I still see some traits in his phenotype. So he’s pretty much a mestizo, not an indigenous person.
You are 100% correct even if it angers people
He's a vampire
López looks and maybe is at least 75% indigenous……
I agree.
It looks like these are also opportunities to kind of tell a different kind of history. If it’s good for the goose is good for the gander. What did Mexico and has Mexico done to other Latin American migrants in their country?
Where tf did they take such good pics of his grandfather
Almost the entire westcoast from Oregon down to Cali to texas was all Mexico
My parents came from England and Ireland. They had to have all kinds of paperwork, vaccinations etc and landed at Ellis island.
Who gives a sh$t
@@koiue.g8709 anyone who cares about their family and ancestry. Why does it bother you so much?
Ellis island wS a hellhole for lots of noneite immigrants like the Siciliano the whiter you were the easier it was to get in by other whites known fact, southwestern us was and will always be brown , if your brown you have been around!😅
I hope one day my offspring is able to look at my documents and look all I did for them to hape a better future
I am stealing Mario’s dimples ❤️
True
How does Mario look the same as when he was on saved by the bell.
interesting......
If there was Thirteen United Colonies back then, California, Arizona, Utah, Texas, and New Mexico are supposed to be Called ' ? I Don't Know what you Think 😕
Mexicans didn't come here, they were already here on Turtle island or Anahuac in nahuat before the Euros came to steal the landl. I bet that most Mexicans have native blood not only from tribes from the area of Mexico but from tribes as far north as Alaska and everywhere in between. That would explain why we all look so much alike wouldn't it?
We are all immigrants or immigrant decent we all want to be more than others but in reality we all are immigrants, and the land and the whole universe belongs to God we should live respectfully and appreciative of what we have in love and understanding with each other.