Tamera Mowry-Housley Discovers Ancestor Was At First Thanksgiving | Finding Your Roots | PBS
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- Опубликовано: 12 апр 2023
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Tamera Mowry-Housley and Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., discover the religious trailblazers in her ancestry, including some who came to America on the Mayflower.
Tamera Mowry-Housley is an Emmy award-winning host, actress, producer, and entrepreneur who has captivated audiences for over 20 years. Tamera started her career in Hollywood alongside her sister, Tia, on the hit show Sister, Sister, which aired over 100 episodes from 1994-1999 and has gone on to see a cultural revival over the past few years since it was released on Netflix.
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Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. guides influential guests into their roots, uncovering deep secrets, hidden identities and lost ancestors. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides twenty-one influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of forgotten ancestors that transcend borders, illuminating an American root system fortified by its diversity. 
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I’m watching Season 3, episode 9 of “Sister, Sister” when Tia and Tamera were stuck out at sea in a boat. Tamera jokingly says to Tia “just pretend we’re on the Mayflower floating to Plymouth Rock.”
The irony!!!
How is that ironic?
It's ironic because on the Finding Your Roots Episode, Tamera found out that she descended from Pilgrims that were on the Mayflower.@@PlannedObsolescence
That's nuts!!! I love stuff like that 🤯
@@PlannedObsolescenceDid you finish this video???
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Her thanksgivings will NEVER be the same!!
Right?? I totally thought the same thing!
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Her Thanksgiving will now become a religion!
Wow. And I’m very glad that it was pointed out that she embodies the very perplexity of race in America. She is of those who began this country as we know it AND those enslaved by those same people. Wow.
Always knew she and her twin n lil bro was special ...could tell
It all came full circle 3 centuries later with her generation without them knowing. Something great is at work here. It must be.
When Prof Gates says Tamera's ancestors were "here at ground zero for white people," technically the Plymouth settlement was predated by 13 years by the Jamestown settlement.
I mean, not to be a downer, but this happens when a slaveholder nonconsensually violates their slaves to produce more baby slaves
Mexicans and Peruvians.... the most mixed people of America, but at the same time, the most American. USA and America are not the same thing.
She's so lucky to be able to know that about her family. Wow
You can do research if you know where to look.
Blessed, not lucky.
@@sr2291It can be pretty complicated for Black Americans though. I’ve done research for several Black friends and there isn’t a lot available before the early 1800’s. Black people had their identities stolen and erased.
@@anellawritesAfter being sold by other BIack people
@@anellawrites😂
William Brewster was my 12th Great Grandfather. He traveled on the Mayflower with my other pilgrim ancestors, John Howland, Thomas Rogers, Richard Warren, Mary Wentworth, Mary Winslow, and Edward Winslow. Plus a few others. They fall on both my paternal and maternal family tree. I just discovered this in the past few years, what a delight it is to discover history was such a huge part of me. Also exciting to find cousins such as Tamera. She also shares another cousin, who was in my senior class in high school, who is a descendent of W Brewster as well.
I'm also a dependent from William brewster through love brewster and also william Bradford
Descendent
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@@theskull8637 - Hello cousin! Patience Brewster is my 11th g grandmother-
Waw, that is amazing!
Isn’t angela davis another descendant of William brewster?
She is American before America was America!! How awesome! I bet Thanksgiving is a party at her house and has way more personal meaning to her family. This is so cool.
I would be embarrassed. Thanksgiving has been whitewashed by those who celebrate it, but these “settlers” abused, tortured and displaced Native Americans.
Based on hypothetical information; sure.. lol
America has been written in history since 1507.
Girl 😂😂 she’s the pilgrim people because America was already here 😂
@@MsTeedybooJealous much!
My husband and I both had ancestors on the Mayflower. We were together way before we were together. 😂😂
That’s sweet. My family too. We descend from Richard Warren.
I wish they would do a behind the scenes episode! I’m really interested to know how long it took them to research her ancestry 13 generations back like this! That’s 400 years of history! It must have taken them a lot of time and effort to do this!
It took me 1.5 years months to read 200 years of records to trace my tree 12 generations back.
My aunt did ours by hand/telephone/snail mail decades ago. We are Pilgrim descendants 17x over lol
How does the history show where she is biracial?
Once you find a connection to a historical person, the genealogy going back has already been done by historians.
It takes months and sometimes years. However, the Brewster and Mayflower descendants are will documented so that wouldn't take any time at all to locate.
This video needs to be shown on every TV station and passed around the internet. This is America.
Governor Ron DesRacist would not approve.
@@celestialnubian😂😂😂 so true!
@@celestialnubianwait how is he racist 🤡.
I'm also a Brewster descendant. William Brewster was my 10th great grandfather. Nice to have another cousin!
Hello Cousin.
30th cousins. Yeah we share 0.00000000000000000000000000000001% dna.
I'm also a descendant of the William and Mary Brewster, and it's always nice to see another cousin. 🙂
Me too, awesome
Me too on my Dad's side, five other passengers on my Mom's side!!
@@hruodvan7081 I have multiple passengers from my great grandparent - great to meet you!! My family is all in Canada now so we don't study about the Mayflower, we studied Canadian History. What surprised me was how she didn't know much about the Mayflower, it's taught in schools isn't it with other American History? Don't get me wrong, I had to learn it on my own for my family tree, so I'm happy for her, I was just surprised that's all.
One never knows 😉
You guys are so lucky to know this!!
I've always said Tamera is like....the princess of America. (She's so beautiful, graceful, Regal, classy, vulnerable, kind, empathetic, etc - everything a Disney princess would be) but this literally kinda makes her America's Princess - connected to both the oppressed and the oppressors, the rebels, the freedom seekers. She has that Dolly Parton factor - very likeable
couldn’t agree more. she is a light in this world.
Completely true. If Disney continues on the path of all these live actions, they'd be crazy to not cast Tamera as Princess Tiana.
What about Tia?
She is delightful. It’s about time people of color declare they are Mayflower descendants. We all share that rebellious spirit.
The USA is getting kicked out of America.
William Brewster is also an ancestor of Seth Macfarlane and his sister Rachael, Jordana Brewster, Paget Brewster, Katharine Hepburn, and Bing Crosby among others
It's crazy because Seth hates Christianity
She’s just one of those woman who keep getting better with age. Some times I forget that her and her sister are Hollywood royalty, because they are both so frekin funny.
Please, please it’s “she and her sister”.
Make up helps... Women need to quit acting like makeup is a part of their face permanently..
@@bmorg5190 you sound like you don’t like hearing other woman getting compliments.
My father is a decedent of William Brewster. His family always lived in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He was a member of Mayflower Society. Tamera and I are related
Very cool. She's a Mayflower descendant. So cool.
its sad really
@@supernatural5354 why?
This was the episode of Finding Your Roots that I was dying to watch. Tamera is still one of my favorite actresses 😍😍😍 I am so thrilled she got to find all this in order to be able to share with her children 💗💗💗
What episode and season is this please
@@Dayz_will Season 9 ep 10
Yeah, I was looking forward to watching it all season too. I remember from their reality show when they discussed how their dad prioritized love to their mom and was ostracized from his family. So things have come full circle for her and her siblings.
Even if I weren’t a fan of Tamera’s I would want to watch the full episode because this is *fascinating*.
I got to go to a taping of Sister Sister when I was like 10 and I got to give Tamera a hug, it was the BEST.
Only 105 passengers on the Mayflower. My reaction was the same as hers when I discovered Digory Preist and his wife are great grandparents of mine. Digory was one of the first to die. Great to see other descendants here and think about how are great grandparents embarked on that journey together.
Hello cousin.
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102 passengers were on the Mayflower and 52 (exactly 1/2) all died in the first year after they landed in 1620. It's absolutely incredible how many descendants are alive today from just those remaining settlers. I had 10 passengers that I have officially proven that were my direct grandparents that sailed on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth. I'm so thrilled for Tamara discovering new connections and details about her family's past.
Angela Davis has the same ancestor. I know that many people are descendants of William Brewster, but Angela Davis was also a guest on “Finding Your Roots”.
Allison Janney and Ashley Judd too.
I imagine Angela Davis was not too pleased about that at all.
Most of us are connected & related. We african American are taught as children...not surprised & has nothing with being pleased. Just want our roots that was stolen.
@@ifeifesi I don't think it's entirely fair to conflate those who _fled_ Europe to the New World for religious rights, and those who came from Europe for the purpose of imperialism into one. There may be some overlap but overall they're different intentions.
@realtalk6195 At the end of the day, they are the same. The intentions might have started differently, but the end result is the same.
Just WOW! She is the embodiment of American History! She is the beginning and the worst part of our history! She has definitely BRAGGED RIGHTS❤️
More American then apple pie and baseball. Shes nit the only mixed race person I know of with these roots . I have a friend who's a direct dependent of the mayflower, and a DAR. Fasansting .
The beginning is the worst part
Thats is CRAZY! Imagine hearing this story for years to find out your family was directly involved! Woah
Wow...the extremes of past to present and the trails of ancestry never cease to amaze! When I heard Brewster, I knew what was coming! Lol I've traced my roots to the Mayflower as well and to Jamestown and beyond....it's especially mind-blowing to realize these connections to history in our own families. Love her reaction!
Who is your Mayflower ancestor?
Haha, I heard “Scrooby” and knew what was coming :). Both my mom’s parents descended from colonists who arrived in Massachusetts in the 1630s during the Great Pilgrim Migration (1620-1640).
She is a true American ❤
that's very eurocentric myopic. Is Tamara of North American Native heritage as well, or of North American Atlantic Creoles(Iberian mixed race persons of African descent) & African lineage because North American Colonial and Antebellum African descendants ancestors were here since Colonial Carolina and Florida of the 1500s. Mayflower ancestry isn't the true definition of "American" since it was already called "America" (named after map maker Amerigo Vespucci in 1503) 117 years before the the pilgrims arrived-landing on indigenous people's settlements of thousands of years old.
that's very eurocentric myopic. Is Tamara of North American Native heritage as well, or of North American Atlantic Creoles(Iberian mixed race persons of African descent) & African lineage because North American Colonial and Antebellum African descendants ancestors were here since Colonial Carolina and Florida of the 1500s. Mayflower ancestry isn't the true definition of "American" since it was already called "America" (named after map maker Amerigo Vespucci in 1503) 117 years before the the pilgrims arrived-landing on indigenous people's settlements of thousands of years old.
This is by far my favorite of them all.
Happy for Tamara 🙂
her white family were the original colonisers
Hey cousin! He’s my 13th great grandfather as well!
I have something in common with her then. Stephen Hopkins is my 13th great grandfather and Catherine White is my 13th great grandmother. Both mayflower passengers. Stephen was a signatory and also present at the first Thanksgiving.
Oh she’s so sweet. Happy that she was able to know this information about her ancestors.
I've always loved Tamera's energy, she's so fun to watch! This is such mindblowing news!
Awww I’m related to her! Biracial as well. Def on the white side through Brewster. Love this show SO much.
I recently found that I'm also the 13x Great Granddaughter of William & Mary Brewster....it's INSANE!!
William Brewster and Mary Wentworth were my 14th Great grandparents.
I love Tamera's reaction. Her reaction is kind of reminding me of when she found out about her family history on the episode of the real. 😂 but wow this is emotional to find out more about where your family comes from but i think it's important to find out more about where we come from. Especially because one day Our kids are gonna want answers about where we come from.
I know the episode! And shoot - I’m a white woman and I tear up every time I hear Ms Barris say “That means your ancestors who were slaves survived and made it so you could be here at this moment.” That and seeing Tamera cry made me cry. You could tell she was just so moved by that.
That is so beautiful, that you had a relative at the First Thanksgiving, And said grace also. I love hearing these life past, in another lifetime.
Its so crazy and wonderful to be able to have an ancestor that made history and is represented in historical paintings our nation studies. I understand her complex feelings, but representing two sides of American history is such a full circle moment. This is probably one of the coolest reveals on finding your roots.
Best host ever for these.
She’s so beautiful.
Always, her and her twin sister.
I was guna say his name sounds incredibly familiar. It's crazy how the butterfly effect of history and lives can effect and touch different people, how life was created just to reach us now..
He was one of the more famous pilgrims
One of the best episodes ever, very interesting family ancestory but also love her reactions to the information.
This is amazing! And John Lithgow is descended from William Bradford, another famous Mayflower settler.
At 03:33 - this is why forgiveness between all is the step we cannot afford to skip when moving forward in unity between us. ❤
Forgiveness requires a proper apology and proper reparations.
The Bible says you are to forgive 70x7. You're supposed to forgive anyway, because holding a grudge hurts you.
A proper apology is required for forgiveness 😂😂😂 nobody finna forgive people who still does the same stuff😂😂 girl
@@amandadenney6482😂😂yea tots
Exactly❤❤❤
Wooo. That is got to be the coolest thing ever. When she sees that depiction now she knows that's her great grandpa. This blows my mind!!!
This actress is entitled to be listed as a descendant of the original settlers in America and they have a pin that she is entitled to wear as a member ,all because her ancestors were on the Mayflower .
This is absolutely amazing!!! Such an exciting and beautiful heritage!
If that really is a life like drawing of William then you can see the family resemblance because Tamara does look like him.
William Brewstser had children named Patience, Fear, Love, and Wrestling. Other descendants include President Zachary Taylor, VP Hannibal Hamlin, Nelson Rockefeller, Paget Brewster, Seth MacFarlane, Thomas Pynchon, Richard Gere, Sarah Palin, Kip Thorne, Julia Child, Bing Crosby, and Angela Davis, among many, many others.
Wrestling!
After 13 generations one can have a lot of descendants ( thousands probably ), especially since most of that time people raised large families.
And the actress Jordana Brewster.
Funny thing is, Tamera dated Seth MacFarlane 😂
@@yourstrulyinthehoodie You can date your cousin 13 times removed. 😅👀
So fun to see her reaction. I have 3 11th great grandfathers on the Mayflower along with my 11th great grandmother. Stephen and Elizabeth Hopkins and Frances Cooke and William Brewster. Fascinating to discover this just recently.
You have a cousin in the comments. Someone else mentioned being related to Hopkins
I’m INDIGENOUS NATIVE AMERICAN and my half sister married a HOPKINS. My niece is a HOPKINS..🤣🥰🙆🏻♀️ I’m 3/4 degree of my Federally Recognized Tribe. I use to tease her and call them JOHN SMITH and POCAHONTAS. 🤦🏻♀️
@@stephanieallangarman5598 Pocahontas married John Rolfe, not John Smith.
Recently found out I'm also descended from Stephen Hopkins on my father's side. It's a small world.
On my maternal grandmother's side I'm descended from Mary Uncas Atwell, so native American.
This has so changed my perspective about love of my country .
I grew up on Brewsters Road in Nottingham in England
I love her expression
I am a descendant of William White who died shortly after landing. His sons and widow made it. His widow, Susanna went on to be the first bride the next summer.
These lands have seen so much strife… it’s a relief to hear about a time (even a short one) when people of very different cultures celebrated life together. I used to be down on thanksgiving because of the violent history that came after; but in hindsight, considering the centuries injustice, the original pact between the natives and the settlers seems all the more valuable, and inspiring. I wish that we could celebrate Thanksgiving everyday (minus the clogged arteries lol).
Tamara is a living testament to the humanity that bridges our minor differences.
To where did it lead the Native Americans? 90% of them will die in the genocide that was the European colonization of humanity's reality. Thanksgiving is only the kiss of Judas. I feel sorry for the Natives trying to help the illegal European immigrants and getting killed and then haveing the Europeans rationalize the genocide as you do. No wonder many European Americans are afraid of immigration: not everyone immigrates as savagely as their ancestors did.
Native people feel very differently about the colonizers' idea of "Thanksgiving". We Natives call it a National Day of Mourning for everything we lost due to colonizer greed.
@@gnostic268 And I've met other Natives who love Thanksgiving because it's the one day of the year when everyone on their respective reservations has enough food to eat. There are nuances and differing opinions among every group.
Yes, together. And then, somebody got greedy. We know what happened afterwards.
@@iuile Just because you met somebody with a different opinion does not make their opinion any less valid or necessary to be heard. Whataboutism rejected.
I love Doctor Gates! I watch, every Tuesday night, here, in the Bahamas!
That’s just amazing… something that will never be forgotten again. ❤❤❤ I love when history just connects in the most meaningful ways.
Always great to see another Brewster descendent!
Welcome to the club Tamera, glad to have you!❤😊
when you grow up spiritual and loving thanksgiving and it all finally makes sense
Bless her and all her family ❤ she is what all people in the world should be looking at. That we are all one ❤❤❤❤❤ I pray for the day we can join together with NO HATE.
@myrakeefer5977 If you would like to help end the division in our society, It needs to begin with people accepting that not everything told to them (especially if it was written down by some white guy) is the truth and have their minds open to the real truth.
And just to clarify, this is not about 'HATE', as you put it. This is about an entire native nation trying to correct history as it's been told to us. The fact that you want to label it as HATE tells me that you've got a lot to learn. 😪
@@annieabbott4243 I meant hate needs to stop.
@@annieabbott4243 my parents taught me that everyone IS equal, my whole family is a patch work quilt of race, religion. I don't believe that that books tell our lives.
That is amazing, spending your whole life learning about these significant moments in a country's history and looking at depictions not even realizing you're the kin of one of the pictured people
This is amongst the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
This is sooo freaky AWESOME, LOVE that for Tamera! Family history is a AWESOME thing to look in to.
You can literally see her take this in...spiritually greatful for such a connection
What a linage!
This episode is heads and shoulders above anyone I have watched
I too am a descendant of the Pilgrims. To be specific - William Bradford - the governor of Plymouth colony, and Myles Standish, the Captain of security for the colony.
Crazy!!! Love this show 😊
This was my favorite episode of this show! Just amazing
That is insane! Wow. Must nd own indeed. How cool to be able to trace your roots to the first thanksgiving. Wow!
Wow. Back to the Mayflower.
This is one of the best genealogy stories yet.
She is precious. I love this show.
I get her comments of the complexity of biracialism due to our history. She is also the product of the best of American culture: she was conceived in love by an interracial couple. She and her sister are just beautiful.
My 11 times great grandfather, John Alden, and my great grandmother, Priscilla, Mullins, and her parents and brother were on the Mayflower. Priscilla‘s parents and brother died the first year. John and Priscilla were married soon after and they were to have 13 children and their first born Elizabeth was my 10th great grandmother. Their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts still stands and is a historical site. They say that 10% of the population in the US are descendants from the people who came here from England on the Mayflower.
This is just incredible! Wow that’s amazing! I’ll love to one day trace my family tree back that far one day in the future. Congratulations for her! That’s very cool and interesting to hear. Henry Gates is awesome!
Wow. The winter must be so brutal, when they arrived.
Whoa! Mind-blowing. Heartbreaking. Fascinating. I'm stunned.
So beautiful! You can celebrate the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth
I saw this on TV. What an amazing story. Study her family tree and learn about the past of this country.
I love this for her. She's such an amazing person❤
That's awesome for her to find out. My ancestor on the Mayflower was William Bradford.
Our too❤
✨Tamara's story is beyond jaw dropping, had to watch it twice. Feeling so fortunate to have found this chan, these stories are quite beyond remarkable. But this, I promise to say no more. Watch and get your Mind Blown ~🌬
Wow, my ancestors came over on the Mayflower, too.
WOW, her 13x great grandparents were on the Mayflower in the 1600s! That’s WILD, man!
Some people tell us to forget our history.
@@frankbutler9512We are inseparable from our ancestors. We wouldn’t be here without them.
I love this clip! I'd love to see the whole episode. I'm so glad Tamara appreciates this information about her roots.
Mind blown.
And to think the only people I know of in my family history are my great grandparents. I have no idea who came before them. It’s sad to me. I wish I knew more.
That’s cool. I recently found out William Brewster is my 12th great grandfather.
This by far was my favorite episode. So cool.
Crazy!!! Can’t wait to see the whole episode!!!
It’s a beautiful thing how people come together and it hasn’t stopped… we are all the same when we LOVE AS THE LORD would want us to…😉👍🏼❤️😉
Simply. Fascinating.
What an awesome story.
Most incredible history I've ever heard of
Wow!! That’s so special to have such a story attached to this beautiful country😍
Honestly it is a history so marvelous it is hard to believe. But, one thing is certain she and her sister would be 2 people that deserve it.
would love to see tia and taj's reactions too
This was fantastic!
Tamera is so beautiful, authentic and a great example ❤
Wow talk about a history and background! Its amazing
I descend from 6 pilgrims and 1 of the crew. Awesome discoveries for her and so many others.