Viewers Like You: Megan Robertson's Search for Her Great-Grandfather's Roots
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Megan Robertson embarks on a poignant quest to demystify the lineage of her great-grandfather, Green Church, who was believed to have been adopted early in his life. Originating from a longstanding curiosity fueled by fragmented family lore, Megan's journey leads her to the discovery that instead of an adoptive family, Green was actually raised by his grandparents alongside his brother Rufus Church in North Carolina.
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Just streamed the entire episode on my local PBS station. PLEASE do more of these. Not to downplay celebrities, but these are people who have been looking for these answers for a long time.
We LOVED this episode! It’s great to see non-celebrities on the show. These women were wonderfully thoughtful and interesting. Please do more show like this.
My favourite episode to date. Much prefer “ordinary” people to celebrities.
this is fantastic. thank you for listening to the viewers and including some of us in this.
I love this show! Ten episodes is too short a season! 😢
I think she might be my distant cousin. My maternal grandpa was James Lawrence Church, also from the Ashe, NC area.
I agree to more of these Finding your Roots like regular people I would like to say for myself, I have been trying to trace my Roots on my Granddad and Grandmother side in which I only know a little. Some people seem to tell me about my last name all the time
how do other viewers get involved in this
They did a casting call early last year. They may do that again for S11.
Green. Green? Why on earth would you call your baby Green? How very odd.
Megan's ancestor's story and the possibility that Caroline had two children before marrying and moving to Virginia rings true. This happened to my maternal grandmother. She had three children by my maternal grandfather but he deserted her during the Great Depression. She went on to have two children with another man but he gave her an ultimatum. She could have a life with him and their two kids but she had to leave the older ones.
Unfortunately it led to her having a nervous breakdown and no one won.
I think this woman may be a distant cousin of mine. I also descend from Halseys, and it's my understanding that all the Halseys in the US descend from Thomas Halsey, one of the founders of Southampton, New York.
Who here was wondering if they would match any of the celebrities who been on the show?
My dad had an Uncle Green in Oklahoma. I guess he was an awesome football player. I always wondered if it was a nickname, but maybe not..
It is nice to see non celebrities on the show. The show has a lot of celebrities and all from one side of the political aisle.
My Maternal Grandparents came from Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s. We were always told that we weren't Jewish, but one day in the late 1990s, I ran into a man from there, who told me that Vlchek was a very Jewish name, where he comes from. How could I find out the truth of this ? We were also always told that on my father's side, there was a native American connection, but from some of the details, I find this eronious. So many quesitons, how to find them out.
I would suggest a DNA test to see if you have Jewish DNA in your family tree. The same goes for your possible Indigenous roots.
Very common for European Jews to hide their true identities,even from family members.
Dr. Gates is there anyway you could help me learn about my maternal family before 1900.
My family is always no less than six living generations. Currently my grandson has a living great great grandmother who will be 100 next year (Dollie Foster Upworks She’s googable).
Just like me. My great great grandmother was born 1900 and died in 1992 when I was 10. I knew her.
But from her mother on I don’t know my maternal story and neither side Nigerian Paternal or Soulaan American talk much about our history.
My great great grandmothers mother’s name is Savanna Brooks although I may not be spelling it right. My assumption is Texas because all the women up to my mother’s generation came from Texas. I assume she had to be born at least 1864… 16 years before the grandmother I knew until I was 10 was born in 1900.
I found something online Brooks family history… Hays Texas and scoured it for Savanna but would she have been listed as a black woman? Her daughter was still a Sharecropper, so could it be that Savanna Brooks was enslaved and Brooks was a plantation surname?
I know my family has a painful past and being the daughter of Sharecropper’s Dollie became instrumental it what became known today as the COGIC church and I personally feel the discussion of details from the past were hidden away through faith of the future forevermore if you get me.
I think about it often and just don’t know how to get further back than the women I’ve known beginning in 1900
We need another casting call.
Can anybody just pay for the research results but just not be on tv? Lol