Martin Sheen discovers the CRAZIEST genealogical coincidence!
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2023
- Hollywood legend Martin Sheen explores his Spanish ancestry and discovers a crazy coincidence...
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When I lived in a rented apartment on just some street in Amsterdam, I found out that my great grandparents had lived in the apartment next to me. 90 years before.
That's crazy 😮
Jeetje!
Ongelofelijk.
Martin Sheen should make a movie about this! It'd be awesome.
One of my favorite coincidence in our family tree is that James Woodson, the first doctor in the Virginia colony, was killed in one of Chief Opechancanough's raids - both men are my relatives. James Woodson my great grandfather and Chief Opechancanough a great uncle. Chief Powhatan was Opechancanough's brother and is my 10th great grandfather. This is on my father's father's side of the family. They had no idea that in the 1890's their grandchildren would marry eachother.
Hope you didn't have to spell that too many times! I thought Chautauqua was bad,!
I would guess that Antonia was probably quite an attractive woman, who was pursued out of spite but was able to rebuild her family years later and marry. Not an easy task in those days.
Probably Antonia had those big amazing blue yes !!!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic hearing his Spanish accent coming out while reading the names of his ancestors.
With all due respect to him and his heritage: i'm doubtful that Sheen has ever extensively spoken Spanish in his life.
Him playing up an accent while reading the names is probably just for show.
He is an actor after all and most of them love to create "moments" or intrigue.
@@Bale4Bond he changed his name from Estevez to Sheen, and he does naturally speak fluent Spanish.
@@TruthSayer2007 I am aware of the name change. The only thing in question for me is the actual closeness to his (supposed) native language.
@@Bale4Bond he doesn't speak Spanish, at least not to any degree of fluency. There are a few interviews with him here on youtube conducted by spanish speaking journalists and he either uses an earpiece translator or the interviewer switches to English.
He does not have an Spanish accent. As a native speaker, I can say he sounds like any other american trying to speak Latin Spanish. It is very sad he can't pronounce well his surname. It is Estevez not Esteves.
Genealogy is so cool. I grew up thinking my dads side was German through and through. Turns out we are actually Ukrainian Mennonites who spoke a certain “German” dialect but we’re from the Chortitza Colonies. My family left before WW2, but those who stayed behind were eventually deported to Siberia, Kazakhstan. Crazy to think if they hadn’t left I wouldnt be Canadian today.
Origninally german though right? I thought Catharine the great invited the Mennonites to russia.
Doesn't everyone in America believe he is somehow a bit German? ... it's a prestigious thing as far as I know...
@@KrlKngMrtssn And Irish
The way my Mennonite family describes it (also from the Ukraine before moving to Canada) they spoke a form of Old German. My grand- and great-grand parents could still speak it.
my dad is dutch menonite background!
What a tangled web we weave.
It is nice to see that Martin Sheen (Ramón Estevez) likes, and really takes the time, to look for his family roots. Half Galician and half Irish, his heart is where his ancestors came from. He doens't feel embarrased of his Celtic roots. Well done, Moncho!
Half irish and half spanish.
@@PepicoHellines no he said it right: half Galician (autonomous part near Portugal) and half Irish
@@ingridwatsup9671 Sorry, Galicia is Spain..., both are correct...
Ethnically speaking Martin Sheen is a Galician, Galicians are a distinct ethnic group of the Iberian peninsula. It is therefore more accurate, more precise to point out Galicia. Especially if you take into account, that it is a very distinct place, with a strong identity, culture.
@@PepicoHellinesHis Spanish half is Galician through and through.
Martin: Now, I understand Charly!!! 😅
Charlie got it from his great great great great paternal grandfather, no doubt ......
Wow. That is amazing!
Another amazing coincidence I found in my family was a marriage record from St Michael Penkivel in Cornwall, there is, on the left side of the page, my 5th great grandparents marriage entry from my father's side of the family, and only several years later did I realise that on the right side of the page is also my 5th great grandparents marriage entry, but on my mother's side! Incredible!
Cornwall’s like that!
My favorite coincidence that I’ve discovered while working on my family history was finding out that the ambush by Native Americans that killed my 9th great grandfather Charles Frost in 1697 Maine also killed a 10th great grandaunt Phoebe Littlefield Heard. But, those two were not from close-linked families-they were just neighbors! Charles was on my great-grandmother’s father’s side (that family moved from Maine to New York then to Chicago), and Phoebe was on her mother’s side (that family moved from Maine to Canada to Chicago) . The two were not connected on my tree until my great-grandmother’s parents married in Chicago nearly 200 years later. I found that link fascinating, which is why I said that it was my favorite coincidence.
How interesting!
We're all related.
Have you seen the DNA connection of all US Presidents.
"ALL OF THEM" (including Barak Obama) are cousins to various degrees,
EXCEPT "one." I believe that is Van Buren.
Americans (the originals, who descend from the beginning of the nation)
are all cousins now.
😮❤
@@cadredeux1047 Yes, Robert Frost was descended from Charles Frost. Charles’s son John was my 8th great grandfather and Robert Frost’s 4th great grandfather, making him my 5th cousin 4 times removed. John Frost was a survivor of that ambush, along with another of Charles’s sons, Phoebe’s husband, and a few other neighbors. Ambush Rock is still there, from what I’ve seen online.
I’ve been on vacation to Maine twice, but not since I discovered the family history there. I do want to return to that area, as well as head up to New Brunswick, Canada, where the Littlefields that I am descended from moved to from Maine. I would love to spend a day or two at the provincial archives doing research. I’ve already bern working with someone there to track down the military records of two 5th great granduncles who fought in the War of 1812 and one of whom might have fought at Waterloo. I have him transferred to England in November 1814, so he was in Europe at the right time, so it’s still a viable possibility.
Wife and I discovered that our ancestors probably knew each other at the court of Charles I.
@@cadredeux1047 I’m descended from Phoebe’s sister Deliverance. I was researching some of my Frost distant cousins who had joined the Shakers in Alfred, ME in the early 1800s and reached out to the librarian at the Shaker Village Museum there. When I mentioned the Frost name, his immediate question was “Kittery Frosts or York Frosts?” I just love it when I talk to long-time residents of the area with that level of local knowledge!
Mr Martin Sheen is a good dude.
I had the privilege to meet him on a set in Portland when I was a young man. he had a sharpie in his right hand so I offered to shake his hand with my left, and he said, " No, if im going to get to meet you then I want to shake your hand right" as if he was as pleased to meet me. lol made me feel pretty good that he took a second to talk with me casually and so friendly. Im almost 50 now. he looks just as good as he did 35.
He did that because his left arm is shorter than his right. He is still self-conscious about it.
There’s a story about him giving a kid a ride home from filming when doing Gettysburg.
When people lived in relatively small cities and towns generation after generation, connections like this were not unusual or amazing. They were commonplace.
As recently as the early 1900s my father's father married a young women, she and their child died during child birth, 6 years later he married her sister, who was my grandmother. People did live in very small communities born, lived their whole lives and died in the same place. Very usual to marry and reproduce in the same family circles. My fathers family we have traced back to the early 1600s, and their are several loops of intermarriage, usually 2nd, third and fourth cousins..
Exactly, you're right.
My own parents are distant cousins. They share a common great grandmother...the city was small. But many people married from the neighboring towns, and settled in that city. Had fun looking over old 500+years old records online...
The Scottish Clan wars is a prime example of how the past can deliver a strange twist in the present.
@@elliecobb2734😅
I love Martin Sheen. ❤
Love God better
Lol
Martin, you and your offspring made the most wonderful movie "The Way" - which you said yourself was the best film you had made. Then you learn this genealogical connection. Seems like you came home !! 😊. Blessings on you and your family !
p.s. I walked the Camino de Santiago too and the places were familiar to me. When people look through my vid library to watch a movie, they invariably choose "The Way" without hint from myself either.
It is such a small world: a cousin of mine discovered he and his wife are cousins, 6x removed, or something like that. My sister was contacted by a man who turns out to be related to us on both side of our family! He knew about the maternal link and was looking to verify the paternal link.
the world isnt small but eruope is : P
My college friend and post college housemate and I are 7th cousins on her dad side and 4th cousins on her moms side. That’s from my dads side. On my Chinese/Vietnamese moms side a 1st cousin kids are, of course, 1st cousins once removed but thru our American born dads about 6th to 8th cousins.
It is fun to see that he is been shown the names of his ancestors at the same library where I used to study when I was a teen ager! And, at the end , he is talking in the same garden where I took my wedding photos when I was thirty something!
My dear God this is fascinating. Bravo Antonia!
The weirdest thing my family noticed when going through our family records and trees was that at one point my fathers side of the family had been in charge of a small village in northern Sweden, whilst at the same time my mothers side was living there, poor as dirt. This was 200 years or so before i was born.
A few more oddities is the 3 burned witches, followed by a catholic arch-bishop in the same line, and the fact that we have found exactly zero nobles, with thousands of names on the tree. That's statistically unlikely :P
That is such an amazing story. It actually gave me goose bumps.
Tener antepasados españoles para este actor debe ser un honor y un orgullo, al igual que ellos estarían orgullosos por una persona honrada y famosa por dedicarse a la interpretación
Muy amable
Fascinating. Antonia Pereira must have been extraordinary, and some of her extraordinariness seems to still run in the family blood as the current generations of Estévezes have shown by having achieved amazing things.
I have an idea for a movie based on this story. And Martin sheen could play his own great great great great grandfather.
What this tells me is of the importance to offer the benefit of the doubt, the unearned empathy, whenever possible - because you just never know if who you're opposing may have been, or will be, family
That is mental. Saw something similar about an English celebrity who discovered she had some Irish roots, with ancestors on different sides with very different stories, one very dark and one ancestor to be very proud of.
The Irish part had to be the proud part 😊☘️🇮🇪
His honour Don Diego was a bit of a player! 😉
Or he took what he wanted and it was called an "affair". Which is more likely. during that time...?
Even in Latin America say, one hundred years ago, to have a mistress in spite of the strong Catholic culture was considered "average" and a distinction of a kind of rich kind of powerful man, yeah, he would do as he pleases, he has the power and the money. Because six kids is more than just an affair, so probably Mrs. Suàrez just closed her eyes since she was the wife, consecrated as such in Church "what God united man cannot separate". Antonia was undoubtessly young, beautiful and the "official" Mistress of Don Diego. Those were the days ...
My moms friend, after high school met a guy, got married had 2 kids. Their second kid was a hermaphrodite. Turns out they share DNA. After some tracing, their ancestors both came from the same town and same family in Germany…crazy!
That's why you need to do your family tree!
Wow! That is incredible!
Me alegra mucho que el Señor Martín haya encontrado a sus antepasados en Coruña (España) en las imágenes sé le ve muy emocionado, le felicito por ello.Un saludo desde España.🇪🇦🍀👏👏👏
I have two successive sets of great grand fathers from the same family who married their first cousins. Makes genealogy on that line a circular reference experience.
Lol. My dad's joke is "Our family tree is a power pole." But, actually, that's not true on my dad's side of the family, as my grandparents (his parents) came from different communities and I've never seen a link between them. (Although my grandmother had two sisters that married two brothers.)
On my mother's side of the family, however, we're descended from the three founding families in a certain area. You'll get dizzy how much you go in a circle there. Lol.
El Archivo de A Coruña!! He pasado muchos veranos en A Coruña, me encanta éste vídeo, además a mí también me apasiona indagar sobre mis antepasados. Qué genial que Martin Sheen esté interesado en sus raíces europeas, estoy viendo todos sus vídeos.
Por otro lado, hace poco he visto la serie nueva de Poldark que se desarrolla en Cornualles entre 1780 y 1800 y creo que Galicia, A Coruña en concreto, se parecería tanto en aquella época, por el clima, los paisajes, la forma de construir... Cuánta historia tiene Europa, cuántos matices...
Si exactamente, soy Britanico y cuando conoci a Galicia me llamo la atencion en cuanto se parecia al oeste del Reino Unido, y mas que nada a Cornualles, hasta el ambiente Celta, el paisaje y las construcciones. Hasta que creo que hubo gente hace muchos siglos atras en el pasado que se huyo de Cornualles para Bretaña en Francia y algunos llegaron hasta Galicia, creo que hay un pueblo, Bretoña que se llama asi por esto.
@@aldozilli1293 Es que Irlanda también tuvo un emblematico (y mitico) rey gallego, Breogán, que se dice era un caudillo celta en tiempos romanos. De hecho algunos incluso le atribuyen la construccion de la Torre de Hercules.
En siglos posteriores escrivas irlandeses relataron las hazañas de este rey en Lebor Gabála Érenn (Libro de las Conquistas Irlandesas) que por lo visto fundo una comunidad hispana en aquellas tierras y se situa estos acontecimientos en el norte de Irlanda y luego más concreamente en el area de Brega, en Irlanda.
@@aldozilli1293 Interesante! Gracias por la información ❤
The craziest thing I discovered in my family tree is that William Seward, who was Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State is my third cousin, while Abraham Lincoln is my eighth cousin.
What an exciting discovery
Very cool! He purchased Alaska from Russia for the U.S.for 2 cents an acre!
Antonia named her daughter Liberata - "Liberated, Freed"
This is what makes time beautiful...
Martin Sheen…a true hero
Lol how?
My favorite story was my ancestor was killed by my wife's ancestor. It was a couple hundred years ago, so no hard feelings.
Martiń is a legend.bless you sir!
Amazing!
Very cool!
Galicians and Asturians in Northern Spain are mostly of keltic descend, kind of first cousins to the Irish. I love their bagpipes and cider! Hard working people, many of them migrated to Cuba, where I am from.Lots of old families connections.
Also parts of Portugal 🇵🇹. The name Portugal coms from port de Gaul. Which is a Celtic goddess. Also the celts that left for Ireland came from Spain 🇪🇸. And all coming from Austria 🇦🇹 before that
He could make a movie out of this historyline.
A movie in general called Family tree would be cool. One searching his roots and such...
4:09 Hey! I have ancestors from Gomesende, Galicia! :D
nobody cooler than Martin Sheen
Wow, facts will be facts, this is all good info for Martin Sheen.
I’m a fan if yours Mr sheen glad you see clear of your family history.
I grew up knowing my paternal family history 250 years back.. we actually even have family reunions, have met my 3rd, 4th , 5th degree cousins . Funny enough , I have friends and classmates I’ve known for a while who as it turns out were relatives
Como dice la canción: "Hay un Gallego en la Luna..." :D interesante árbol genealógico...
Talk about overcoming..😊
At the beggining it's written 4th seal, 20 maravedís (an old coin of Spain) 1748 written with letters. Also the seal says Fernando VI king of Spain.
And that dude is an "historian of the spanish court system" and he doesn't notice the mistake in the name Palayo? 😂 it's Pelayo, it's a very famous name because of the hero Don Pelayo.
Everybody should do their family tree. I helped myself with an uncle who's now 87 years old and then I went to the church where I found my great great grandfather born and written down in 1821. I also prevented a possible marriage accidently because two of my relatives dated without knowing they were related (in Serbian tradition you can''t touch anything up to 9th generation). 🙂
Thats very sensible
Oh come on loo. That's 9th generation lol. Surely that's not that bad right
I haven't found any coincidences in my family tree, just a lot of interesting stories. I only found one case where relatives married (something like 2nd cousins once removed) which surprised me because I am descended from 5 of the founders of Hartford, CT (1650) and would expect more because of the remoteness and small population. Bragging rights are fun, but the stories are much more fascinating.
Crazy that this man resided in Swansea and still does time from time
I’ve been researching Hispanic Genealogy for more than 40 years and this is my favorite story🤪
Cool I need my great great grandfather …. I feel uncomfortable… they move to Malaysia from India and I need if get discovery about it .. I would find far blood cousins
Hello Ms. Butts. From Mrs. Betts.
Research Jean Bethencourt family. 1000 years of Norman Hispanic History.
Did you know that Latinos are Native American, Spanish, and or Portuguese mixed. Martin Sheen just has Spanish. I have connections to the Spanish/Portuguese royalty from 1000 years ago.
If we go 1000 years back, basically everyone descends from royals.
It's anecdotic, of course, but hardly surprising if you consider a tiny village like Parderrubias.
My favourite coincidence in my family tree is that I’m descended from everyone who fought at the battle of Hastings, on both sides, who has living descendants
And so is everyone else in Britain or of British ancestry
😅
No. Because not everybody in Britain had ancestors who fought at Hastings and not everybody has Norman ancestors.
So funny the place birth of the Martin sheen's relatives : Parderrubias. On English ; blonde twin wonem .. It's possible that has another one meaning. It possible that's referring about a red hair because on Galicia and Portuguese lenguage rubio/ruivo it's meaning : light red or, by extension, maybe make reference to a local cow race called "rubia gallega" (until recently times Galicia it there was so many cows than human dweller) because these kind if cows has the fur hair as a red color.
So Parderrubias it's possible that means on English : a pair of cows.
That would be funny but in this case, the name of the town comes from Latin "Pera rubeas" which means "red rocks". Makes more sense that a town's name is based on a feature of the location than the possibility of two blonde women living there or cows.
Now thats "WINNING!"
If ever a movie was made about this family tree, the late Alan Rickman could play the powerful granpappy.
Love all the Sheens
And I'm watching this on June 24th 👀
Wow....
How interesting history is this.
Great name Antonia gave her daughter Liberata. Amazing story!
That's a movie right there.
The world is so small !!~
Northern Spain looks gorgeous
OMG my dad was from La coruña 😍
Cool
Ramon Estévez ,great actor Spaniard
It means the families lived in a small community.
Martin Sheen, un Gallego muy famoso
“When you’ve got families like Joe Estévez in them, you can’t lose”
Antonia not Antonio 😄
On my husband's family history his 4th Great grandfather Rezin Reed and 4th Great grandmother Elizabeth Fordyce had his 3rd Great grandfather William out of wedlock. On his birth certificate Elizabeth gave William her maiden name. A few months after he was born his parents married but they never changed William's last name to his father's last name of Reed. If they would have changed his name, then my husband's last name would be Reed rather than Fordyce. One decision had a direct effect on all of their descendants. Pretty amazing. On my side of the family my 9th Great Grandfather Henry Adams is the Great great grandfather of 2nd President John Adams and 3rd Great grandfather to the 6th President John Quincy Adams. Which makes President John Adams and President John Quincy Adams my very distant relatives.
I am related to John Ralph , husband of Pochahontus and his ssecond wife..
Martin Sheen is a great actor, as is his son Charlie.
Sheen, Estavez same thing 🎉
Family coincidence 🤔 my mom & dad were the same age but my father's parents were old enough to be the parents, possibly even grandparents, of my mom's parents. My mom's father was born in 1920 & her mother in 1925. My dad's father was born in 1879 (died 1981) his first child was born in 1899 the youngest of his 12 kids was born in 1957. He was also the commanding officer in the Army for my maternal grandfather's Father in WWI & 3 of my father's brothers later served under my maternal grandfather father in WWII, Korea & Vietnam.1 in each
family historys are intersting. I found out my great great great grandfatehr (maybe one more great its hard to tell they all have the same first name)on my fathers side, worked once 300km far awa from his home villigae on a farm, as a helper. Also on that farm a great great.. grandmother on my mothers side worked there. Both around same age. And that women had a child 5 month after he left, unknown father. ok could be anyone. but on that farm just the farmer his wife and 2or 3 children lived, all kids under 12... that child is not my ancestor, that women had a men and more kids 2-3 years later wich lead down to me. and that kid has no more record. but after all it took 200 years till my dad and mum meet. both lived in diffrent citys still 100km apart. And around 20 years back or so , my dad moved to that area in germany where my ancestors of my mothers side came from and his ancestor once was.
Having the same first name run through generations is quite common. On my father's side we traced back to 1820. There was always a William a James or a William James each generation. Funnily my grandson (Italian) was called Giacomo (Italian for James) without my daughter knowing anything about her British ancestry
@@lesleywall4186 similar names I had on mums tree side too. All those come male names from Germany from 16 to early 19 hundreds. Wilhelms, Friedrichs, Daniels, Heinrichs etc.
Women's names where abit more diverse, but there are still commen names like Dorothea or Katharina. Just the Generation of my parents got more diverse names and just my generation started with unusual names. Since the 1970. Still my name is a variation of maria just like my grandma.
As a boy I would have get names from both grandfather's...
Not so difficult in a little place in a country where people don't move so much; en España seguro que es más habitual de lo que se puede imaginar.
I have to go to northern Spain for my family’s history.
I hear him and still think of President Jed Bartlett
😮😊
Just remember one thing: the family tree is accurate to the extent that each of our grandmothers was faithful to their husbands. That's why it's always good to check it with DNA...
😀 Oh my...
Somehow I knew that name Carmen would come up.
Is this where we find the origins of Charlie's tiger blood?
Now we know where the Tiger Blood originates from.
😂😂😂😂
I wonder if they had any idea?😮
Look up Oh Chateau! Theres a family with ancestry back 1000 years
My half siblings name is John Michael. I was fathered when my dad was on his service in Germany. He didn't know about me. I am a transexual woman. When I choosed my female name, I named myself Johanna (Joan) Michaela. John Michael & Joan Michaela, without knowing of each other.
Very cool!
Strangers are just relatives you haven't met yet. If you go back 30 generations we're all related because we can't all have a different set of billions of great great great....grandparents.
Oh do tell your 20th great grandparents I interested to know
@@lisanevins3605 Like everyone, I have just over a million 20th grandparents, who would have made up about 0.3% of the human population at the time that they lived. By 30 generations the number is higher than the total population at the time, therefore the reason we're all related.
Spaniars used and continue to use two surnames. Why do they cut them off in here?? Thats important info!
Funny. Tui (Galicia, North of Spain) is separated from Portugal by a bridge (over Minho River). People from both communitys (Tui, Spanish side, and Valença, Portuguese side of the border) are connected from centuries and the name Antónia Pereira is tipicaly a Portuguese name, the way we write the way we spell. Funny
Portuguese and Galician are the same people.
My grandfather was born in Portugal
@@joserodrigues46 spanish and portuguese are the same people
@@f.v.guardiola8911 you are wrong saying "Spanish" because Spain has several nations. We and Galicians share the same ethnic origin, and we may be closer to people from Zamora, Badajoz or Huelva, but not with the other regions of Spain.
How can you tell the difference between Portuguese and Galician names or surnames? What you have said is pure non sense.
Some how that seems so karmic 🙏 what a wonderful discovery 👌
Heh...he sure put a posiitive spin on it.
Did you know Martín Sheen wa born quite near from where I work, in Galicia? And he stayed at my workplace once, too bad I was in my free days!
We're all related no matter the distance.
I'm a Martinez from Galicia and Varela also from Galicia, so maybe Martin and I are related😂
There is Galicia in Spain and one in Poland and Ukraine Border. However for me there's no connection.
@David Thompson Yes, and I found it curious when I first heard of it. Galitzia is a region which is half Polish and half Uktrainian, and many aspects of their culture and customs, and the fact that they also are Catholics, put them and us, the Spanish Galicians, almost like brothers. Two nations 3.000 kilometres apart.
Por qué está en inglés? Odia su raíces Martín shen?
I have Martinez on two sides of family