Top 10 Funniest Moments on Finding Your Roots

Finding the funny in your roots. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most unexpectedly hilarious revelations and comments made on the genealogy documentary series “Finding Your Roots.” Our countdown includes Nathan Lane, Ava DuVernay, Terry Gross, and more! Have YOU made any unexpectedly hilarious revelations in your ancestral line? Share them with us in the comments below!

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[rebeccabennett]

I really enjoy watching finding your roots the host is brilliant

[dawnvickerstaff]

I am an American from the West Coast. I live in Britain, just a few miles away from where my Mayflower ancestor was born. Talk about full circle. I did not know this when I moved here.

[atozmom]

I was stunned and excited to find out I'm only 1/8th German and 3/8ths Scottish/English. I always thought I was 1/2 German. I was so excited when I told my kids. My two sons' response was a glib, "So you're still white."

[vaispelu]

i am dominican and related to John Lithgow whose dad was born there and related to my maternal grandmother 😊

[bethfrancis]

There is a family legend that my 2x great grandfather got rich in the early oil boom days (1860's) but later became paranoid everyone was after his money. The story goes that he converted his assets to gold and buried it in the backyard. No one knew what happened to him or his fortune. Several cousins have combed the old homestead with metal detectors with no luck. A couple years ago I discovered that 1) Abram was placed by court order in an insane asylum where he died (gives some credit to the story of him going nuts and hiding gold) and 2) He moved to the city shortly after he made his fortune (they were looking in the wrong place). Some one many still have a small fortune in gold buried in the backyard.

[davidslife]

That was entertaining and cute! Thanks, makes me feel warm and fuzzy about my own family confusion.

[wikidleigh]

I recently discovered, from my uncle on my mother's side, that my family started a whiskey company in Scotland. It was right after returning from a vacation in Scotland, so I wish I had known beforehand. I did not go to the Highlands where it is located. Maybe next time.

[mesquitegirl]

I had a great aunt that did a lot of ancestry for her mother and it’s been so cool to hear and see who I’m related to. I’ve got a lot of royalty connections and some very famous people that part of my ancestry, which is so cool.

[kathrynblack]

Hardly the funniest but very interesting.

[jessgunn]

I discovered that my 2xGreatgrandmother married her a younger man! When she was 26 she married her first husband who was 20 when he passed away she married again at 45 to a 31 year Old and when he passed away she married again when she was 63 to a guy of 28! I guess she was the cougar of her day lmao, PS she buried the third husband too but get no ideas she didn't do them in lol

[roberthand]

George Washington is my second cousin, seven times removed.

[jordansantos]

Imagine in Jimmy Kimmel’s episode he discovered that he was in fact distant cousins with Matt Damon in some way, now THAT would have been something

[tinaanderson]

My 6 times great grandfather friends with Benjamin Franklin.

[trinaq]

Richard Kind's Wizard of Oz comparison was hilarious, even if he did slightly muddle up the details. He's a naturally very funny guy, and he also made me bawl as Bing Bong.

[themadwomanskitchen]

9:15 according to my grandmother, her parents were even more closely related, first cousins once removed.

[latishalarimore]

Nd out that the rumor of some native american ancestors was true but not the tribe we suspected. Living in Texas we thought it might br a tribe from here ex. Comanche, karankawa but it was the Powhatan tribe 10 generations back.

[susans]

Discovered through Ancestry that my Dad who is 90, is half Persian. (Mostly). Born in Los Angeles in 1935. Supposedly all English and Scottish. I hate not knowing the details of this mystery. Obviously the man dad thought was his father was not, which we always suspected based on looks. Grandma took the secret to her grave before the DNA tests were available.

[SageOftheSubway]

4:36 - Meanwhile, Navin R. Johnson: “You mean I’m gonna STAY this color??!!”

[lorib]

I am the 4th cousin of Dwight D Eisenhower.

[robinsmith]

I found out 20 years after our marriage that my husband and I shared 3rd great grandparents at least or probably more.