Zooey Deschanel Finds a Connection to an Important Cause | Who Do You Think You Are?

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In this episode recap, Zooey Deschanel traces her lineage back to times of prejudice and violence, finding her ancestors in the heat of battle and standing up for human rights. | For more, visit www.tlc.com/tv-shows/who-do-yo...
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  • @susannamarker2582
    @susannamarker25822 жыл бұрын

    I can't believe the picture of Zooey's granny when she was young. Beautiful girl.

  • @AndySaenz
    @AndySaenz8 жыл бұрын

    WOW, it's amazing to see how her family played a key role in the abolitionist movement in the 1850s! I want to trace my ancestry like this and see what I find.

  • @rudd-dq6ns
    @rudd-dq6ns8 жыл бұрын

    This made me love her even more x I think she's amazing and to see that it was in her blood to be amazing I think she should be so proud of her heritage xoxo

  • @Celticcross688
    @Celticcross6883 жыл бұрын

    Granny was a stunner!

  • @rosey525
    @rosey5256 жыл бұрын

    That's crazy how much Zooey looks like her 3x great grandmother

  • @capie44

    @capie44

    3 жыл бұрын

    History repeats itself :-)>

  • @corycg1956

    @corycg1956

    3 жыл бұрын

    My 13th Great Grandfather was Eleazius Farnsworth I had seen pictures of the castle he lived in over in England I don’t have to go far back at all to England on my Dad’s side of the family my Great Great Grandfather Thomas was English.

  • @Jme.Online
    @Jme.Online3 жыл бұрын

    I shed some tears. Heros indeed.

  • @Lalalalala...
    @Lalalalala...7 жыл бұрын

    am I the only one who thinks she looks a lot like her grandma?

  • @Lalalalala...

    @Lalalalala...

    7 жыл бұрын

    she looks more like her grandma than she looks like her mom or sis

  • @rglucia
    @rglucia4 жыл бұрын

    Omg this made me cry so much. To think that these black families fought to stay together with their children, wife, husband. They fought for basic human right, freedom. So sad that at one point on history owning another human being was completely LEGAL is embarrassing and sad.

  • @johnemerson1363

    @johnemerson1363

    3 жыл бұрын

    The worst part is that humans have enslaved each other ever since two tribes fought each other and the winner enslaved the loser. We have gotten past that I hope, but there are still places in the 21st century where slavery is real.

  • @marykopydlowski4654
    @marykopydlowski465411 ай бұрын

    Wow what a story, and our lives are forever changed. My mom was from Mississippi then from England. No idea about that family. My dads family came from Dublin, Ireland. I heard two stories about the great great grandparents. Life isso interesting. Thanks for sharing

  • @FacheChanteDeux
    @FacheChanteDeux2 жыл бұрын

    It is so nice to see an actress with their original face, especially because she looks like her family.

  • @lauryrodriguez7229
    @lauryrodriguez72298 жыл бұрын

    Her and Sarah seem to have the same nose. Awesome family genes

  • @bluetopguitar1104
    @bluetopguitar11042 жыл бұрын

    A hero and a great person and great woman. Wow.

  • @faithhope4886
    @faithhope48863 жыл бұрын

    Amazing your family saved peoples lives & got slaves emancipated, this is the best genealogy legacy ever! How great are these people! I would like to see more stories like this. Praise God ✝️

  • @iDelta77
    @iDelta77 Жыл бұрын

    She should be very very proud to have such a strong legacy! Righteousness is worthed! standing for your fellow men is worthed!

  • @chynnhowe
    @chynnhowe6 жыл бұрын

    It’s crazy because her Jess character is just her!! They dress exactly the same!

  • @spectralv709
    @spectralv7097 жыл бұрын

    Zooey is 57% oatmeal

  • @joshjohnson2600

    @joshjohnson2600

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha

  • @francisdedumo3323

    @francisdedumo3323

    3 жыл бұрын

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • @sandyg.3454
    @sandyg.34546 жыл бұрын

    Bravo Sarah!

  • @corycg1956
    @corycg19563 жыл бұрын

    I was able to go all the way back to the year 1065 on my moms side of the family.

  • @NDBit
    @NDBit6 жыл бұрын

    Emily is so gorgeous. I wish this had been the both of them together

  • @tigeress699
    @tigeress6992 ай бұрын

    Zooey looks like her grandma!

  • @danielstevens58
    @danielstevens589 жыл бұрын

    I just love her

  • @daenja84

    @daenja84

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Daniel Stevens me too

  • @LarryNathanielPhoto
    @LarryNathanielPhoto6 жыл бұрын

    Zooey looks so much like her sister it is unbelievable.

  • @nycgingercat
    @nycgingercat2 жыл бұрын

    Got goosebumps from this one. Prospect Park in Brooklyn has a Quaker Cemetery in it and I never fully appreciated what their role was in history.

  • @jcr-studios
    @jcr-studios3 жыл бұрын

    A beautiful + inspiring story. But am I the only one who was half expecting her DNA to reveal that Katy Perry is her long lost twin? 😆 I mean, they look SO much alike!

  • @jantellfowler5883
    @jantellfowler58832 жыл бұрын

    Awesome

  • @brianellinger6622
    @brianellinger66223 жыл бұрын

    She said heeeey.... .......those are natural responses.

  • @ParisVan-Del
    @ParisVan-Del4 жыл бұрын

    Interesting that this event involved a Gorsuch.🤔

  • @gentleeyes

    @gentleeyes

    3 жыл бұрын

    I had the same thought.

  • @sfjessy1

    @sfjessy1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Very curious indeed

  • @theajohnston761
    @theajohnston7613 жыл бұрын

    Brave people!

  • @cherrycarlyle6749
    @cherrycarlyle67495 жыл бұрын

    this is very fascinating. I'm sure I'm from the Quakers, and attempting to prove it. My background is from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to Lancashire, UK.

  • @quickie3
    @quickie38 жыл бұрын

    The eyes of your Gran-gran Mother are just beautiful ,I' bet She could see the devil coming from a mile.

  • @veronicatisa
    @veronicatisa4 жыл бұрын

    Ok wow she even looks a lot like her 4x great gran wow

  • @bobapbob5812
    @bobapbob58127 жыл бұрын

    Edward Gorsuch. Wonder if he is related to the Supreme Court nominee?

  • @SuperFosterMom

    @SuperFosterMom

    7 жыл бұрын

    Bob ap Bob yep he is.

  • @123rudyc
    @123rudyc4 жыл бұрын

    Damnit TLC! Show me the location of the pixie girl garden.

  • @veronicatisa
    @veronicatisa4 жыл бұрын

    She looks so much like her gran holy shit

  • @haileyparrish2670
    @haileyparrish267010 жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @bigjohn697791
    @bigjohn6977914 жыл бұрын

    Interesting to see that there’s a Guildford in the US

  • @Lalalalala...
    @Lalalalala...7 жыл бұрын

    her grandma also kinda looks like Catherine Zeta Jones

  • @polloloci21
    @polloloci213 жыл бұрын

    She’s so cute.

  • @ThePbird1
    @ThePbird14 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in Santa Monica from 1939 to the 1960s Orr is a familiar name. Was there a market or business with that name?

  • @RWebster325
    @RWebster3253 жыл бұрын

    Why wasn't she curious before her grandmother passed?

  • @xXCrazy1oO
    @xXCrazy1oO3 жыл бұрын

    wats crazy is that her grandmother literally looked like a white version of harriet tubman lol

  • @karlalphelps9909
    @karlalphelps99092 жыл бұрын

    my mom had abolitionists in her mothers side of the family as well as her dads side to its so interesting to learn both sides also were for the union and conferdate sides to

  • @jenniferglover9905
    @jenniferglover99054 жыл бұрын

    This shortened version misses the part where it tells how the man parker shot was cousin to the man who shot Lincoln! And his death was the catalist that made him so angry that he shot the president.

  • @pc4764

    @pc4764

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's the story I was looking for. I told it to my civics class years ago and want to hand the story off to another teacher who is teaching civics. My favorite of these stories. My ancestors were also Quaker abolitionists in the same general area. It's great to have the kids see someone tell a story like this that they recognize and like. My students loved it.

  • @claudrebille178
    @claudrebille1784 жыл бұрын

    U might b related to Coco channel Chene oak tree in FRENCH

  • @joshjohnson2600
    @joshjohnson26004 жыл бұрын

    I thought it was funnier when Chelsea Handler found out her grandpa was a Nazi or when Don Cheadle found out his ancestors were slaves to Native Americans.

  • @Ashley-bm9gc
    @Ashley-bm9gc3 жыл бұрын

    3:23 sounds like whats happening nowadays....

  • @littlegothgirl8869

    @littlegothgirl8869

    3 жыл бұрын

    Right! Same thing I thought.

  • @karlalphelps9909
    @karlalphelps99092 жыл бұрын

    also had relatives who lived in boarder states as well not all of the south was for slavery either.i learned that quit a bit

  • @davidroosa4561
    @davidroosa45613 жыл бұрын

    Gorsuch, Gorsuch................... where have i heard that name

  • @AlexS-oj8qf
    @AlexS-oj8qf4 жыл бұрын

    3:52 *triggered*

  • @hmmmhmmm6917
    @hmmmhmmm69178 жыл бұрын

    911

  • @SavageRabbit666
    @SavageRabbit66610 жыл бұрын

    wait if her ancestor lived with a free slave ? then does she have black ancestry, like the love child of a fre slave and the powel woman ?

  • @bugsy7731

    @bugsy7731

    9 жыл бұрын

    No no i think she rented a house for many years to a free slave.

  • @MsL8dyhawke

    @MsL8dyhawke

    9 жыл бұрын

    ***** Not all slaves were of African descent in early US history to begin with. Many Europeans came across as slaves and/or indentured servants themselves. Yes, the indentured servants worked off their passage. Captured American Indians were kept as slaves as well. The Puritan culture of early US resulted in many slaves -regardless off their origin- freed well before the American Civil War (between North and South). Not sure of the specifics on the Deschanel relationship (slaver or not).

  • @SuperFosterMom

    @SuperFosterMom

    7 жыл бұрын

    dyrerabbitt no, the Irish were not slaves. You need to cut that racist bullshit out

  • @thomas1162

    @thomas1162

    6 жыл бұрын

    uhjl lol, you want a monopoly on slaves, the Irish were slaves and the fact you wont admit it is itself racist, blacks weren't the first slaves and yhey weren't the last, you cut it out bud

  • @annek1226

    @annek1226

    3 жыл бұрын

    uhjl Yes they were in a lot of cases! You need to study your history!

  • @q1w2e3r4t5y6i8
    @q1w2e3r4t5y6i89 жыл бұрын

    I wonder what Deschanel means in French.

  • @BlueTulipe

    @BlueTulipe

    9 жыл бұрын

    abdulmohsen almilli Nothing actually :)

  • @caciquepadilla

    @caciquepadilla

    7 жыл бұрын

    well the word chanel means an advertisement on a poster. so deschanel would literally the poster.

  • @jay1jayf

    @jay1jayf

    6 жыл бұрын

    abdulmohsen almilli Chanel like the man made rivers.

  • @bobapbob5812
    @bobapbob58124 жыл бұрын

    Edmund Gorsuch. Any relation to Trump's Supreme Court nominee?

  • @wwbdwwbd
    @wwbdwwbd7 жыл бұрын

    She's a thinking men's crumpet.

  • @perdidoatlantic
    @perdidoatlantic6 жыл бұрын

    Pres. Nixon was a Quaker. Very liberal. 😆

  • @RE-bg9ds
    @RE-bg9ds4 жыл бұрын

    I hate to break it to you so we but the anti-slavery party was Republicans a lot of Quakers helped start the Republican Party with Abraham Lincoln

  • @xoxolifeslightxoxo340

    @xoxolifeslightxoxo340

    4 жыл бұрын

    I thought it was interesting that in the beginning she said her grandmother was very liberal. My understanding was that most Quakers were very conservative, and helped the Republican party fight against slavery.

  • @RE-bg9ds

    @RE-bg9ds

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@xoxolifeslightxoxo340 yep

  • @r.ridderbusch7303

    @r.ridderbusch7303

    4 жыл бұрын

    ...and Democrats started out as Dixie-crats. The terms have reversed, you see.

  • @RE-bg9ds

    @RE-bg9ds

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@r.ridderbusch7303 they were Democrats 1st

  • @jaybanz1228
    @jaybanz12288 жыл бұрын

    Demolished in the late 19th century really zoey I think you read that wrong

  • @phaedrahalcyon1622

    @phaedrahalcyon1622

    8 жыл бұрын

    No, she read it correctly. The picture says it was demolished in 1898, that would be called "late 19th century". The 1800's are referred to as the 19th century, the 1900's as the 20th century, us in the 2000's live in the 21st century and so on.

  • @jaybanz1228

    @jaybanz1228

    8 жыл бұрын

    +PhaedraHalcyon I think someone hacked me. Because I've never even watched this video

  • @BrendadirkCramplescrunch

    @BrendadirkCramplescrunch

    7 жыл бұрын

    lol someone hacked you... right

  • @jr.rivera7824

    @jr.rivera7824

    7 жыл бұрын

    The late 1800's IS the 19th century

  • @chadweirick
    @chadweirick2 жыл бұрын

    I wish she would find a connection to a decent barber who would tell her to knock it off with the bangs. She hasn’t ever been able to pull it off and it has only gotten worse.

  • @capie44
    @capie444 жыл бұрын

    Being older than Political-correctness, I've gotten sick and tired of all this pro-women & pro-Black bull that I've had shoved down my throat for that past 5 decades -- in the name of "civil" and "equal" rights, of course, you see.

  • @pc4764

    @pc4764

    3 жыл бұрын

    Being older than "political-correctness" myself, I've never understood why being politically correct is so hard. Treat people with respect. Don't hurt or offend people. I find it a good way to live. Not a struggle at all. In fact, it seems much harder to hold those hard feelings toward others. I hope you heal.

  • @capie44

    @capie44

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pc4764 : Kudos to you! (You're the first to admit that we are older than P C. Thank you.) The politically-correct are out to gather (the gullible) forces for "you're a victim of [insert here] for votes!" If there is not some reason spoken -- even in some corner of obscurity -- then, like 1933, the politcally motivated behind political correctness (the politicians, not the sheeple), we'll be repeating history. Plus, I don't go to bars. I don't drink. So I need a place to vent off bullshit like this video. Agh. :) Thanks for responding :)

  • @christiandoodles

    @christiandoodles

    3 жыл бұрын

    @pc , sometimes being politically correct makes you tell lies and half stories

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