Josh Duhamel uncovers his English connections... | Who Do You Think You Are? (U.S.)

Actor Josh Duhamel travels to England to investigate the extraordinary life of his twelve times great-grandfather and uncovers a shocking, dark twist of interrogation and torture that rocks his belief system to the core.

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[mcmc]

Just so everyone are other places in the U.K than London

[Jos-zv]

Americans with English ancestry which is the highest number will always just say American. Whereas others will say Irish, Italian, Germany and even Scottish. It’s the same problem with British culture, because it’s become common around the world, people forget about the origin to the point where they won’t even call it culture. Look at all the sports, literature, language, theatre, industry and fashion that Britain have given to the world and some still have the cheek to say it’s not culture.

[MaryBradley-ss]

There's nothing wrong in being English I am one and very proud to be British also. And have Irish from my Dad who came from Southern Ireland.

[peachyllama]

He has more British % than me and I am English

[kido]

Feels like Irish, Italian Americans etc kept hold of their heritage more so than British Americans, of which there must be a hell of a lot. I say this as a Brit so could be totally wrong.

[davidadams]

54 year old Brit here, literally no idea who Josh is (YouTube algorithm), but (weirdly for me) he comes across as instantly likeable.

[stephanieyee]

Wow, this is a really interesting story. Josh seemed to be very surprised that his ancestors were people of substance.

[deadeyes]

London is the least British place in Britain

[paul]

What a lucky man to realise his European roots and English at that. That tiny little island has given the world so much. Greetings from Germany.

[ianport]

If it's the Cramner family the Church of England knows then...
...blimey.

[xandra]

It says 36% Great Britain and 9% Ireland, Scotland and Wales. How does this make any sense when Scotland and Wales are in Great Britain. Is the Great Britain part supposed to say England?!? Really bizarre if Ancestry doesn’t know basic knowledge.

[tgl]

By the look of his Ancestry DNA test results, these results seem to be from a few years ago...The ethnicity results have changed an awful lot since then...

[cambs]

How does it work if you're part Western European and then part British. Seeing as the British are made up of German/French/Scandinavian and Celtic.

[carolynekershaw]

'Ancestry' DNA looks at a database of present day DNA rather than 'historic DNA'

[mummymonkey]

We have 16, 384, 12 times great grandparents.

[B-A-L]

Wow, an American with English heritage! Who would have thought it!

[scrabt]

Each time I see or hear College of Arms I know something REALLY special is about to happen 😉

[Englishman]

Wait so English people are actually real?! 😮

[angharadswansea]

How did he pronounce his own surname? DooMell ? Now we know how to say it.

[robertnairn]

there is a small place in Bedfordshire spelled Sharpenhoe.