Emmy Winner Jason Sudeikis visits the mine where his forefather worked!
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My 2X and 3X great-grandfathers were coal miners in Mahanoy City, so this was really enlightening. Also, gave me another avenue for research, so thank you.
My family also went to there- the step father, the great grandmother and my grandpas younger brother went. My grandpa stayed in Lithuania and went toCanada when he was in his 20‘s
My grandfather was a coal miner.The mine he was at the longest was the Barney Mine near Cordova Alabama. It where My Dad was born in 1923. When my Dad was older he worked the mules and the horses in the mine for a while. He didn't much like being in the mines.
The nuns that taught us in Boston would say that the strong men from Lithuania went to Pennsylvania to work in the mines and the weaklings stayed in Boston. Nice ladies.
Good grief
His great grandfather on his mother’s side became famous because he managed to sneak a picture of death by electric chair for a newspaper. Photographs were not allowed in the execution chamber. He passed himself off as a writer to witness the execution, slyly maneuvering a mini camera on his leg to process the picture of a female criminal being electrocuted. His name was Tom Howard. This would be a great blurb to see on video, as well.
WOW i am familiar with that story but had no idea that that guy was related to Sudeikis, too!
@@virg0_lem0nadelook on Jason’s wiki page and he’s mentioned
I'll bet next time he hears Loretta Lynn's song Coal Miner's Daughter he'll listen a little differently.
This is where I grew up (this general area). If you are looking for more info about what it was like in the mines and mine towns, watch The Molly Maguires (1970). As a kid/teen I reenacted where it was filmed at the living history museum.
My grandfather was a miner in Belgium. Wish I knew more.
Thank you so much for using the word “forefather” lol
Haha well originally the title said "grandfather" but they changed it when they realized they were incorrect, this guy was actually a generation or two earlier
It's crazy to me how in some parts of our history our innovation just blooms, we invent things and then invent better versions immediately. Then you look at how damn long it took us to stop using FIRE as a main light source. It actually seems embarrassing smh.
Makes me happy my mother's side were farmers and dad's side office workers and creative types. The dad didn't even live much more than a year, with all those kids, trying to better their lives...sad.
My mother's side were farm labourers, but come the Industrial Revolution, there wasn't enough work for farm hands. They packed up, left their beautiful country village, and moved to a polluted mining town so my great great grandfather could work down a mine. He only lived a few more years. It must have been awful for the entire family.
Cant imagine what that would have been like, thankfully I'm sure the ones that perished probably never knew what happened 😢
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S5 E9 22 September 2016
bro who is he paying, it seems like he's doing all the work lmao why is HE the one searching through the database, why isn't this all presented to him? Finding Your Roots is soooo much better in this regard.
Stanislav is very Russian name
It's a Slavic name in general, and with many variations.
Remember that Lithuania and Poland were a dual monarchy for centuries, though Polish culture and language tended to be more dominant. So it's possible that it came from the Polish 'Stanisław' and the name was popularised far earlier than the expansion of the Russian Empire :)
Yet another form of slavery?
I wouldn't say this. They weren't forced to work in the mines. Plus they were paid, even though it must have been a ridiculously low wage.
@Liz Large Another version of importing large numbers of unskilled workers with little or no local language skills. Perfect for industrial exploitation. These boys and men were literally used as expendable means of production - not just here in PA, but every coal mining region at that time. The profits passing to the mine owners were obscene in relation to the treatment and conditions for their workers. /Today's economic models of Globalisation continue to use this imported labour strategy around the world with great success.
@@SaintSeja and if you consider what was happening in Lithuania under Russian control - that wage was so much more than what they had back home. And many Lithuanians were decently educated and the churches were smuggling books which meant they also had knowledge of the English language due to the USA and the UK being the countries that continued printing books in the Lithuanian language. ( there are films about the book smugglers in the late 1800´s early 1900´s
I wouldn’t say they were unskilled. They had to have had some skills to mine.
@@gemmaluescher-verseckas1243 I kind of extrapolated from this video. (Don't have the direct knowledge of the region that you do. I read your interesting comment about restrictions on books in Lithuanian language, and the churches' role in smuggling them in. So many more stories to hear!) I listened to the part about the mines sending recruiters to this part of the world, seeking to enlist strong, healthy appearing boys and men. I felt if that was the primary requisite, then this labor force would mostly learn on the job. I'd also seen a post down the thread from @PhotoKaz - who writes that their nuns in Boston referred to "the strong men from Lithuania".
As soon as I first heard his name, my money was that he's either Greek or Lithuanian...