Amanda Seyfried Explores Her Father's Family Tree | Finding Your Roots | Ancestry®
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Actress Amanda Seyfried knew a lot about her mother's side of the family, but was keen to know more about her father's. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Finding Your Roots helps her travel back multiple generations as part of the January 7, 2025 premiere of Finding Your Roots on PBS.
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Her reaction to seeing such a long family tree and that 400 year old marriage certificate was so sweet. I just love this show!
Evry time I see her I think of her soaps
Wait, shouldn't that 400 year old marriage certificate written in German? From a RUclips clip Amanda Seyfried can barely pronounce the German words for cosmetic but somehow, she was able to read the German marriage certificate written 400 years ago with ease?
@@benleung6331 If you listen to the episode, Prof Gates said they translated it and gave her an English version to read.
@@waterandshovelgardening its funny the Certificate is older than USA
Wow, to think Amanda's father's ancestors lived in basically the same area for at least 400 years is incredible. To see the marriage certificate of her ancestors is a wonderful gift.
My grandmother's line I knew nothing about at all, my grandfather's lines were more well known and easier to track. But my grandmother, we knew zero about her line so I did her tree and with help from some good people I got a break through but what I did not expect was to go back to the medieval period for one of her lines but I did. So we are talking 1400's here. It was amazing to find such a degree of history for her lineage.
I recently managed to trace my Scottish great-grandparent’s ancestry way, way back beyond the 1850s when their ancestors sailed to the other side of the world where I live, right back to the Viking Kings of Norway & Denmark !! who ended up ruling not just the Scottish Highlands, but The Isle of Mann and Dublin Ireland - which I love because I can tell my Irish husband that my literal ancestors ruled the country 😂 I could trace my tree back beyond 1,000 years, which involved castles, estates & titles, and there are many portraits from throughout this lineage online, which was amazing. I was astonished!
I have been fortunate in that both my parents' lines settled in Wisconsin between 1835-1850 and stayed put. One great grandfather came in 1867. There were land and census records. I also have some from both lines that were colonial settlers out East that moved to Wisconsin during the same time period. Most think of immigrants as the "Tired, poor, etc. yearning to be free" but the vast majority of the first colonists were younger sons of younger sons of wealthy families. They had no hope of inheriting land so their options were the military, the Church, or emigration. They came with money so there are land deeds and wills which tells a lot about them. When you find one of those, they are called "gateway ancestors" because you open the gate to a wealth of knowledge. Through a few of them, I discovered I am related to 5 of the 6 wives of Henry 8th.
Discovering my Polish and Slovakian ancestors changed mine ❤
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Pozdrawiam ❤z Polski
I love the old writing in documents. Like Amanda, I think this writing is beautiful too.
But if she is reading the original document, does that mean she is able to read & translate the German?
@@SuzanneBlanchard She is supposed to be able to speak German according to an article I read online. Was curious after I watched this episode of Finding Your Roots.
As a child, I wanted to be famous JUST so I could be on this show and find out more about my mom's bio family
You can still find out a lot about your Mom's bio family as long as you have a starting point. Start with census records and the Find a Grave website. Next, look for your closest LDS church. Most have a genealogy room that non-Mormans can use for free and you can start from known info and discover more. There will be roadblocks and an occasional brick wall. I lose track when I get to non-English speaking places in Europe. I also lose track when I get to Ireland. On the other hand, I have been able to get back to 26 BC Wales on one of my Mom's lines and 1426 Scotland on one of my Dad's lines. I am tempted to hire a professional to look back along lines I have traced to Germany and Prussia.
I managed to find my biological grandfather after going my whole life with stories of who he might be. I know it bothered my father greatly, that he never knew who his father was. Unfortunately he past away without knowing. Ancestry is truly amazing.
Amanda definitely looks German. She is beautiful.
@gGc-r6b Haha! What??? Are you kidding? She looks nordic-German. Most typical Irish is red hair, green eyes, pale skin.
I also think she looks German
@@RonaldReaganRocks1we all have pale skin from the alpes and north up
Lustig, als Norddeutsche sehe ich das auch so 😉! She looks German.
@ I would go so far as to say that she is a gorgeous German.
So beautiful there is no way I can know my roots
I thought they would make a fun take on the fact that she participated in a movie where she had 3 possible dads 😂😂😂
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What an absolutely gorgeous woman.
dont care if she is an actress, i have not seen but one of them, the films, but god, she is so kind seeming, and sweet, seeming....
The Dutch in Pennsylvania was actually ""Duitsch"". Germans.
Were actually, but you are correct.
There are also Mennonites, Hutterites and Dukhobors.
@@kjirsten7600 German is from old Norse and Danish
Deutsch "doytch"
@@M.Đ-z4uWhat do you mean, the language? If so, then your statement is wrong. All Germanic languages originated from one people, and this people lived in northern Germany and southern Denmark. This group migrated north to Denmark, southern Sweden and southern Norway, as well as to what is now the Netherlands. There the individual languages developed. All of these languages originate from one Germanic people/Tribe.
Whoever they were, I’m sure they’re proud of those pictures of her on the surfboard.
I need get back to researching to my family history
I have my dads paternal and maternal trees figured out as well as my moms maternal side, which is German. But having difficulty with my moms paternal side. I do know that my German grandfather served in WWII and was a prisoner of war here in the US. Unfortunately, that’s all I know about his side, other than who his parents are. I wish I knew more.
Hey Josephine, if you know where your grandfather's parents came from, I could check to see if I can find any church records about them.
I’m smiling so hard for her right now.
It’s so great that she learned that her ancestor fought for Union in such a critical Civil War battle.
Oh shut it.
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My 9th great grandpa fought in the war of Jenkins’s Era 1739 and died in battle but his body wasn’t found and buried until 1819
we are all cousins!
True.
How do you know?
@@scottclawson9250 Cause My Family And My Friends Are Member Of My Cousins!
@scottclawson9250 Thanks to geneoligists we now know everyone is atlease 50th cousin
Not exactly…
My family on my moms side goes back to, in the United States, Elder John Strong in the 1600’s.
Ohhh he is one of my cousins also. Hey hey cousin
@ hi there…. I come down from his son Jedediah and wife Freedom. We lost the Strong name as our surname at Olive Jane Strong when she married George Parcher. My great grandmother was Minnie Parcher Heman.
One of my cousins researched our family and learned we had ancestors from Sweden living in Ulster County, New York as far back as the 1600's. I didn't even know I had Scandinavian ancestors, but subsequent DNA tests have confirmed it.
@ it’s fun.
I would love to have this for my family. In my dad side we do not know anything form his dad, my grandfather. Last time that my dad saw his dad was when he was 19 or something. Now he is 72. Is there a way I can find out about my dad’s ancestry?
I've been able to trace my dad's ancestry to the 1600's in Germany. My mom's family not so much in Austria-Hungry.
I couldn't trace my polish/hungarian/austrian roots past the late 1700s. My Welsh roots we could trace back to the reign of Osegood Cnute in the 1100s. I found it really hilarious because my father's father boasted about how English he was.
I know DNA is weird and the haplogroups aren't exact.
My markers by percentage, as of today are, 34 Germanic, 17 Norwegian, 17 Irish, 15 Scottish, 8 Welsh, 3 Swedish, 3 Eastern Europe and 2 French.
So I'm just European American.
If Amanda reads ...
Maybe interesting that this small village is not far away from Heidelberg, which is really nice to visit.
And if i look up Darsberg, there are still some "Ebert" living there
One of them, and now his daugther are known for horse breeding in Germany if i see correct.
Not so far way from me ..
But as an celebrity in Heidelberg i think you would need a good Camouflage :)
These types of shows are interesting. I've had my own genealogy mapped back to the 1500s in England. And, you know what? That's really cool. It's interesting to know and I'm glad I know it. However, how someone in my family line conducted themselves hundreds of years plays no role in determining who I am as a person. Actually, none of my ancestors, including my own grandparents, determines who I am as a person. I am who I choose to be. It's the same for every person alive today.
Pretty big typo at 0:26 . I thought they had the whole tree screwed up for a minute.
I missed it. What was it?
@@CC3193 They show Barbara with a birthdate of 1833, listed beneath her parents Luther and Arlene who were both born in 1915. Woops! Barbara's birthdate should have probably said 1933.
how much for a family tree
Oh Neckarsteinach! Nähe Heidelberg
Baden-Wertenburg!
That’s where my Dad’s family is from!
Württemberg
@@kathleenwoodbury7491that’s where my grandmother ancestors were from
I have a few ancestors from the same region!
The correctly name is Baden- Württemberg. Today it is a state of the federal republic of Germany.
It isn't actually rare to be able to go back to the 17th century. Once you are able to document back to your second greats or third greats, you can often connect into church records that go back centuries in several western cultures and places. And if you are lucky enough to descend from certain peoples in Africa and Asia, your work may have been carefully documented even further back in special genealogical records. Genealogists, historians, and archivists have spent decades preserving and digitizing these records. You only need to start where you are - your local public or genealogical library can help.
I want to try this but not sure if you have to be born in the US for this to find any family history or have family that have lived in the US.
People didn’t travel much in earlier times. They didn’t pick up and move thousands of miles away to start a new life. Emigration to the New World would be one exception, and pioneer families in America would be another, but by and large folks stayed pretty close to where they were raised, especially in Europe. So if someone traces their ancestry back to American Colonial times and pre-Colonial and ends somewhere in Europe, it’s a fair assumption that they and their people were there for a very long time close to where they were born.
I have traced several branches back 10 generations
It isn't as hard as they made it seem to be on the video.
@@CleytonStülpen very time consuming however
I’m with you… I’ve been able to push back 15-16 generations- to 1500’s
Hey Henry! Yes it is quite common, you only have to put in the work. It always puzzles me when he says stuff like this.
@@damilkkit can be - or these days it can be quite quick, if you have say, a French Canadian, or a Spaniard, or a South Korean. It could already be mostly done for you, you just have to verify the sources, which is also way easier than it used to be.
I look filme in toscana,,,famose ,,,,🌷
Living generation after generation in the same village was the norm in Europe until the 19th century. Existence was tied to the land you owned, even if just a small plot, you lived off the land. Land was not sold and bought like today. You inherited it, and then you kept it. Period. So everyone largely stayed in the same village, or married someone from the the next village at most. There is a modern myth that people have always migrated. But the overwhelming majority of humans in human history lived very close to where their ancestors had lived for 10s or even 100s of generations.
All of this completely changed in the 19th and 20th centuries with the industrial age.
400 years is good but very doable anywhere in Europe where World Wars didn’t destroy the paper records.
For royal families, I think historians can pretty much (in direct male lines) go back to the Merovingian times and the 6th century, 1400 years ago at least. , with the Capetitians and Habsburgs existing already in some form as lieutenants/governors/top civil servants and military commanders for the Frankish kings then. Interestingly, because the Merovingians and then Carolingians tried to regularly switch postings, Habsburgs were apparently originally from present day France (Bourgogne and quite possibly of older Gallo Roman nobility stock) and the Capetitians from present day Germany.
She has a great face.
She looks german, french or british.....Baden Württemberg makes sense....she looks like the original people there....I am originally from there....have lived im Stuttgart, Heidelberg and Schwetzingen
I wonder where my ancestors were in the 1600s
Proably in safed and in prague or germany
Start building your tree on Family tree. It's free. That's how I did mine. Asked my family questions even estimates were fine. It does a lot of the hard work for you. Then you can go really far back and see where a lot of them did come from.
@tiaryan1350 whi told you i dont? I know at least 7 genorations from sevrel sides
Some Jewish ancestors in my tree were in Prague back then and involved in the religious community, which still has beautiful synagogues today. I'd love to visit there and Safed. I've already been to where they were others were in Germany and only recently learned some other descendants are in Israel
@@MsBhappy safed is in israel
Probably in Europe, not Palestine
did you see that video when Amanda is exploring a D on a boat?
great video
500 years from now her descendents reading Amanda's occupation - 'Rain Forecaster'.
😂
must be related to Roger Ebert the late film critic in some way....
Is she related to the film critic, Roger Ebert, i wonder?
Almost certainly not, because Ebert (a surname derived from a shortened version of the first name Eberhard, which is sometimes translated into French and English as Everard) is a very common surname in Germany. In other words, when commoners' surnames were fixed in Germany (usually sometime between the very late Middle Ages and the 16th century), there would have been lots of unrelated men in lots of different places to whom their fathers' first name of Ebert would have been assigned as a surname.
All we can say is that both Amanda's and Roger's ancestors of that name probably came from Central, Eastern or not-too-Northern Germany, because further north or further west the name woud have been Evert, Everts etc. (actually not unlike Ewart in English), whereas further south it was more likely to be Eberhard or Eberhardt.
Come to think of it, this his fits the placenames for Amanda's oldest known E. ancestor who got married in 1618, and who lived in a place that neither then nor now belongs to Württemberg, but rather to the very central land of Hessen (at least since 1803; previously the small town was under the rule of the prince-bishop of Worms).
I wonder if there is a connection to famous German cartoonist Gerhard Seyfried.
I can go back to 1270
I have a cousin's.
Today Grein is part of the federal state of Hesse.
The correct name is Hessen
@@inotoni6148 Englisch: Hesse ;)
One of the few people? 🤔
In life for life u just have to go through the role
Sorry meant roll not role
I mean the names are Ebert and Eck, it doesn't get much more obvious they were germans.
Germans keep very accurate records. I think we are distant cousins. Seyfried appears on my ancestry relative records so you never know
nobody cares about what you just said. 🙄
@@gregoryrice2121 You could've just ignored her comment and moved on.
Of course...they had practice...
Yes and no. In the 19th century, the archives were so full that countless documents were thrown away. Court records were among them. Some of the files were saved by private individuals. But countless were lost.
Why does she pronounce her last name the way she does?
Turly true
Brine from darsburg. Baker man
It’s not that hard to find ancestors going back 10 generations if your family is from Western Europe
And some other cultures around the world where they cherish such documentation.
Not if they're Irish 😢
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If your roots are European, chasing them back to the early 17th century is actually not all that hard - unless you're so unlucky that registers burnt down.
We have a guy in our village who's really into that stuff and followed all the paper trails of every single farm - even those that don't exist anymore. All the ancestors from the village I can trace back to the Thirty Years' War - six lines. Of course they all married wives from outside of the village so as not to inbreed, and there hasn't been as much research done on the ones from outside.
The farm owners I can also trace back to the early 15th century, but they aren't (immediately) related to me - they would remarry if a husband or wife died, and the new husband or wife would be an equal heir. So it would happen every couple of generations or so that the farm's heir would marry, then die childless, his wife would remarry, and the new husband take the farm and name. Meaning I wouldn't be related to the former generations by blood, but by what they perceived as family.
I come from the streets!!
Modern day Germany, back then it was German/Germanic states
Oh, so you think you know a bit about German history ? Tell us, please...asking for a German friend.
And by the way, we were never called the "Germanic states".....get your education. Danke sehr.
@@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists no need to be rude, if im wrong then politely educate me, i dont wish to be ignorant but thats just what we were taught and the research ive done. please theres no need for the tone.
The term Germanic refers to the germanic languages (this includes German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish,.. ) or ancient germanic tribes.
The German state exist since the 1870s. Before, there where different German states. And before Napoleon, there was the Holy Roman Empire, which includes all German (not Germanic!) speaking regions (except of Switzerland) and a few non-German-speaking areas.
@@epona1525 thank you
@@epona1525 it's Danish languages,not German.German is a Roman spelling
Remember , One thing are paper sheets and other are the blood connections, I mean sometimes your dad is not your real dad, you know what I mean 😏.
These genealogy records were provided voluntarily. It was never disclosed when all this genealogy over hundreds of years was being collected that it would be gathered and sold as a corporation. Shame on you for using private family records.
People never stop acting
Doesn’t seem that uncommon. I can trace 4 lines back to the 1400s.
Amanda would have the right to emigrate to Germany again if she wanted to.
And? 1618 didn´t ring the bell? This is the beginning of the 30 years war in central Europe. BTW 400 years back is not really of a big deal; we can trace the family back to the beginning of th 14th century and very good families can trace their ancesters back to the 11th century.
Must be a german thing, my german family is dated back to around the same time
Yes, it's normal for German ancestors to be traceable to the late 16th century. Parish registers were introduced all over Germany in the middle of the 16th century, and while some have obviously been destroyed in subsequent wars, that will almost never cover the totality of your German ancestors - so as their number doubles with each generation you go back, you will almost invariably manage to follow at least some of the ever-increasing number of ancestral lines straight back to the earliest parish registers.
Third grade grandfather, pretty harsh
Few, millions of people can trace their ancestry back to 1595 and further. Tracing back that far ok but what did these people do for work? Basic things are missing
Mostly serfs
ALWAYS THE AMERICAN TAKE A GOOD SHOW AND TURN IT INTO CRAP
who in the blue blazes is amanda seyfried ? ... another american nobody
She's a great actress and you're a loser.
Calm down Bruce.
Württemberg? lol Amanda Seyfried ist einfach Schwabe
My DNA results show that 1% of my ancestry comes from Cameroon which is quite upsetting to me as I always felt that I was a pure Aryan.
pure Aryan? 😂😂😂
Some owner got naughty with his property !!!
If the other 99% is European it's probably just been put there maliciously after all guess who owns these companies
Cute as a button….not rly that smrt?
Who is Amanda Stirfried?