This is a slightly different type of video, but I would like to start incorporating this style into the series. What do you think?

@jasong428

Жыл бұрын

I thought it was great - keep it up.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

@@jasong428 awesome, thanks so much for the feedback!

@Recoveringred

Жыл бұрын

This was a great. Educational and comprehensive but still artistic and fun to watch.

@davidlogan5073

Жыл бұрын

I am a big fan of genealogy and your style. My own Scots Irish ancestors made the trip here during the potato famine from County Antrim through Charleston. Keep up the great work! If you could use research help I am sure you would get volunteers from genealogists.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

@@Recoveringred oh great, glad you enjoyed it! Really appreciate your input!!

Hello from Ireland 🇮🇪 I used to live in Washington county Virginia 😀

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

That's a beautiful county! Did it remind you much of Ireland?

@andreas6029

Жыл бұрын

@@MountainRootsyes in some aspects like the music and how friendly and welcoming people are ,and the landscape is luscious green just like the emerald island.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

@@andreas6029 yes, folks are very friendly & the mountains green! Are you originally from Ireland? I'd love to explore there someday!

@andreas6029

Жыл бұрын

@@MountainRoots originally from Portugal , in ireland for 6 years now. It's totally worth to visit , hospitality and scenery is unbelievable.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

@@andreas6029 you get around! World traveler?

I really liked this video, the scenery was beautiful. My parents grew up in Elliott County in Kentucky back in the 20’s and 30’s, our Dad was a musician and played the guitar but excelled at the fiddle. Our Mom was one of 14 children and learned from her Mother how to cook, bake, and can all her own food. That’s a rich tradition that’s lost on today’s youth.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the feedback & sharing your family's story! These people, their skills & their stories are definitely something worth learning about!

How about a video on the Appalacian mountain music, how they brought it here with them and handed it down thru the generations? That would be great. 😊

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Sounds like a great episode idea 😁

My family has lived in Yancey County North Carolina since the 1700s. I take pride in being called “Hill Billy.” We are the most self reliant, industrious, and independent folks in all of America.

I enjoyed this video very much. I love hearing how our ancestors and people of the past lived, worked and provided for themselves and their families. I find it fascinating how they made what they needed with their own two hands. Another great job!

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Always amazes when I read and explore how life was long ago.

Next episode in this series: Early Appalachians-How They LOVED. I am looking forward to it!!!! HAHAHAHA 😀😃😄😊

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Clever 😉

West Virginia Appalachian here (from Grant county). I absolutely ❤ this series and your efforts.

@ericzirk8422

Жыл бұрын

I suspect I’m a German Appalachian because of my last name, but on my moms side “Turner” most likely English.

This is the kind of presentation of history that I would have loved to watch as a child. I found myself wishing that there was a lot more. Well done, sir!

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! I'm planning more like this for the series in coming months 😁

Crazy all of the trades people had!! People today wouldn’t know how to survive on those trades alone. Kind of sad that so much of that is now forgotten. Loved this video and all of the history told!! Great visuals and music too!! Keep up the fantastic work!!

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

It's true, they had to be very skilled in many areas just to survive...but that was probably a pretty good impetus to their learning & ability. Thanks for watching!

English family, started out in Appalachian Virginia, then moved on and became one of the first to settle the Missouri Ozarks. Love my folk and the mountains we come from 👏🏻

Loved this. A great piece of history, we always need to remember where we came from. Thank You so Much.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

This is my contribution to preserving the history- but together with folks like you watching and sharing the videos- we'll be able to share it with even more people. So thanks for watching!

It is nothing short of Amazing how these people survived in those mountains. God Bless them all....

@drobertsone

Жыл бұрын

Not survived, thrived.

This was really enjoyable. Yes, I would like to see more of them.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Would you mind telling me if more content like this is something you'd enjoy seeing on a regular even weekly or bi-weeky basis? Or less frequently, like once a month?

@davidsradioroom9678

Жыл бұрын

@@MountainRoots I vould love to see something like this weekly! 😀😀

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

@@davidsradioroom9678 okay great, thank you!

BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE AND MOUNTAINS SO BEAUTIFUL I WAS RAISED IN CANTON NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH ❤️

My mother's family helped settle Lee County VA. She was born on Black Water Mountain in a log cabin. Lawson, Goins, Fisher, & Gibson just a few families.

Really enjoyed this from Australian

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

So glad! Thanks for watching!!

I just need to hear My Ole Kentucky Home now :)

born and raised in welch, back in the "new york of appalachia" days, great documentary, different view than usual. like to see more. Back then, you started doing chores when you were 6, cutting grass, emptying the coal buckets, and graduating to higher learning. I could shoot the nuts off a squirrel at 100 yards.

I like the tour videos more. You are a true professional. Very nice work.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate the feedback. Would you mind telling me if this is still something you'd be likely to click on to watch if I produced them from time to time? Or are you more likely to skip over it in the future if you were to see another title or video thumbnail similar to it? Thanks again for your input!

@michaelslaughter54

Жыл бұрын

@@MountainRoots I would probably watch more.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelslaughter54 okay thanks! Just trying to get feedback if this is something people really want to watch. Appreciate ya!

A good resource for early Appalachia is the book Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer. In his section on the cultural norms of the Scots Irish, he references an account of a minister from New England who traveled through Appalachia in the late 1820's. That minister wrote that in the backwoods of the Appalachians many of the Scots Irish settlers lived much like the Native American tribes around them, including in how they dressed, with some of the male Scots Irish settlers even attending church meetings wearing only Native breechcloth and moccasins.

@MountainRoots

2 ай бұрын

Excellent recommendation, thank you!

Enjoyed this. I’m from Pikeville, Ky and love my Appalachian heritage

I would like to see a portrayal of the Mulungeon people of Hawkins County, Tn. and Lee County, Va.

These were people more intimately connected to their own bare-bones humanity than most of us today can ever hope to be. We are so augmented these days, by automobiles and cell phones especially.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

That is a very true statement. I've personally tried to learn and regain as much of the old knowledge and skills as possible on my homestead. Seems like it could take multiple lifetimes!

Most informative, thank you💚Long live the Appalachians👍

Great video to show how these people survived, adapted, and thrived in the area.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, glad you liked it!

I enjoyed this video I only wish it was longer. I love history like this being born and raised in the mountains of west virginia

Great addition to the story of Appalachia. Thank you for sharing with us. 🙏🏻

For about 90 miles north of Maine's northern border is an administrative region of the province of Quebec that's called "Chaudière-Appalaches". The name is a reference to the river that flow north through the region into the St Lawrence just across from Quebec City, the Chaudière River (or "bucket river" if you will) and to the mountains and hills that form the landscape of the southern central portion of Quebec, les Appalaches, or the Appalachian mountains. Your videos kinda hit "home away from home", I love your content and the light you bring upon your homeland. Best of luck to you going forward.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Fascinating! Thanks so much for sharing this with us, really appreciate it. And thanks for watching, glad you enjoy the episodes!

I really liked this vid my family has been in the hills of WV coal mining for centuries my last name is mcpeak I'm scots Irish we need our stills lol after risking your life in the mines all-day you gotta unwind them old-timers we're tough I grew up in the 80s lived in the mtns my whole life I remember my mommy putting stitches in us if we needed them the hospital was over hr away

Holy carp am I really first? I dig your channel! Thank you for all of this lover-ly Appalachian content!

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Indeed you are! Glad you like it 😊

Fantastic.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Hard scrabble life. Was the same here on Hilton Head before the bridge connected the island to the mainland. Descendants of slaves, living isolated lives, did what they could with what they had. A flatland version of the Appalachians!

Reminds me of growing up in Duffield, Blackwater,Big Stone Gap, great job, love your voice, makes me home sick

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!

I think this video was awesome! The history of the life in the Southern Appalachian mountains is fascinating. This video is really well put together…. As usual 👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Really appreciate that! Thanks so much for watching!

Born and raised in southern West Virginia. Mama’s family from Peach Orchard (near Louisa), KY and Mineral, VA. Love all your videos.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching!

@chris2fur401

Жыл бұрын

I’m from Pikeville, Ky. I work in Mingo County often

Love it.

This fellow Appalachian says to make more like this. I’m and east KY native (Martin, in Floyd Co.), now living in the Ozarks.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Tell me what you think about the similarities/differences between the Ozarks and Appalachia.

@EchoJulez

Жыл бұрын

@@MountainRoots there are a lot of similarities. Hard work, salt if the earth folks wanting to raise a family. Strangers who’re willing to help out another person. One thing we’re severely lacking though is access to Ale-8 One. If you ever make your way out to SW MO, I’d sure appreciate a 6-pack of the original - in glass bottles. Keep up the good working telling the stories of Appalachia. Too many misconceptions of who we truly are.

I really want to see WV , thank you for the guide stones 🏠

Brilliant video and beautifully filmed.

your a great presenter thank you

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I liked it, thank you!

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad, thanks for watching!

Great job

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

😊

Absolutely love your videos dude. I'm from the Midwestern United States and am extremely fascinated and endeared by Appalchia. Just wish the videos were a bit longer.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your feedback, really appreciate it!

Good job ! Thanks for sharing.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated, thanks for watching!

Overall you do a great job, keep up the good work!

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Please keep producing good content! Really enjoyed it. Thanks 😊

Great episode

Amen… 🛐🥰🙌🏼🙏🏼🦅✝️🌲🦅🇺🇸 we are like the coat of many colors, jack of all trades! My dad for sure!!! 🥰🙌🏼❤️🙏🏼✝️🇺🇸🦅🌲🤣my momma made rock n rye many a times! I’ll make it sometimes! My daddy sawmilled all his life and if he was layed off or lost a job, he would galax make princess pine wreaths, reg. Wreaths, pick beans and cabbage, whatever he had to do! He and mom raised 5 girls! Thank you for this video 🥰🙌🏼❤️

Enjoyed this video. Love hearing of the history of the Appalachian peoples and the region. Keep it up!!!

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, will do!

Love this great job on the video and history of the beautiful mountains thank you

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that, and thank you for watching & taking time to comment!

I’m from west Georgia & me & my family love the mountains & spent our vacations there every year instead of beaches so I have some very wonderful & whimsical memories of family camping & vacation trips in different parts of the Appalachian & blue ridge mountains, playing in creeks, visiting the little mountain towns & hiking trails amongst the mountains with my papa who along the way would tell us little stories & history of the people & Indians who had lived there for hundred of years before so I’ve always had a deep respect & love for the place & people. This was a very well put together little documentary, I enjoyed it very much. Thanks!

I may be close to trying the hardest! Ha . Rebuilding my wife’s 1865 homestead and feeling pain every day, well makes me respect the life they fought so hard to have. . I now try to repeat.!🤞 Love all your videos and this style is good too!👍

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

There are so many varied skills to learn and at least become proficient in much less master to live the way most of our ancestors did. I applaud your efforts, and thanks for watching!

More like this, very interesting. May I suggest a video on Appalachian longrifles and builders.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Yes, love the suggestion(s)! Be sure to watch my most recent 2 part seires on "Who Are The Appalachian People"!

Really enjoyed watching this one. I like how you touched a little on the Native Americans and learning a little about the original Appalachians! Great history here! I myself am learning about those old herbal medicines!! Are you still learning black smithing?

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Sure am...it's a long term learning endeavor 😉

Don’t know if you read it but James Webb, Senator from VA, wrote a book “Born Fightn” about the history of the Scots Irish and their migration down the Appalachian Mtn s

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Always appreciate book recommendations, thank you!

Where in the world is that beautiful park where you did your video. I love Appalachia and would like to experience that interesting area.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Most of that was shot near the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia, Mabry Mill. Thanks for watching!

Love it

Wonderful 💒🇺🇸🙏😇

Fantastic work. Love the history!

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😊

I don't know if you saw the comments from a gentleman by the name of Peter Franklin on a earlier video. He believes our English heritage has been intentionally omitted from history. It does make sense. I have a Ancestry account. I was always told I was "Irish and Cherokee." Like many of us here. But my parent's family 📛 are Lane, Green, Lester, and Lockhart. Three English and one Scotch Irish. And there are two Cherokees in my family tree that I've been able to partly trace to 1500. But no common DNA. I also have French, German, and Swedish ancestry. It makes me think Mr Franklin knows what he's talking about.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps so? It does give one pause.

@BeadstringingGenie

Жыл бұрын

I don't know if it was intentional, but I do have early SW VA families that were of English origin at least on the surname lines. They didn't come directly from England but had spent an unknown number of generations in other parts of VA. Also have English "great migration" folks that went from New England to NC then up to VA and KY. But again, over enough generations that I'm not sure they would be considered of English origin.

Hey you should go to War wv after the flood in Warriormine

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Several have asked, and I'm trying to work it in. Thanks for reaching out!

Like it? Hell No I absolutely love this stuff man!

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Hey I appreciate the feedback! Thanks for watching!!

@RedneckHillbilly-ho9md

Жыл бұрын

I do really enjoy these videos of our past and it was very interesting to hear you talk about Chief Logan being in West Virginia when my area in Central PA is well known for him living here too with many things named after him and the other well known Native American Chief Kishacoquillas, any history known of him being in West Virginia?

thank God for western sevelazation thank God I am syrian when French came to syria they build churches schools hospital parliament every thing

Thank you for touching on the Native American peoples. They are the OG'S of North America and without them, I really do not think European peoples would have even made it without their assistance.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

Did any Scandinavians become a part of the Applachian society?

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

There is a small population of people of Scandinavian descent in Appalachia, but they are a minority group compared to the majority of people who are of English, Irish, and Scottish descent. The first Scandinavian immigrants to the United States in the 18/19th centuries settled in the upper Midwest, but some may have also settled in other parts of the country, including the East Coast.

“You can call me Hillbilly.” “You can call me a mountain man.” “You can call me Appalachia.” “Appalachia is who I am.” ❤️

Just curious, How many were escaped indentured servents escaping there hell of cruel servitude.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

Many, from around the globe in fact 😔

@embreyd4e686

Жыл бұрын

Indentured service wasnt a bad thing the majority of the time. It was like a job, not slavery. Hell, they probably lived better and had more freedom than the average wage slave does these days. Plus, in my ancestors case it was the only way to pay for the trip, and he was given our first piece of land when he had fulfilled his duty. Not to mention a good way to learn a trade and skills to help you make a way in the new world. Im sure it was the same way for a lot of them.

@MountainRoots

Жыл бұрын

@EmbreyD4E if I'm reading the comment correctly, I think it was meant to convey that people were escaping their hells by becoming indentured servants. At least that's how I understood it.