Top 10 Shocking Revelations on Who Do You Think You Are

It's amazing what you can learn from investigating your family tree. For this list, WatchMojoUK counts down the Top 10 Shocking Revelations on "Who Do You Think You Are?", featuring appearances from celebrities like Jack Whitehall, Patrick Stewart, Danny Dyer, and many more!

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The Most Shocking Revelations on Long Lost Family

[lincliff]

The Patrick Stewart discovery of his father's PTSD is heartbreaking. There was very little understanding of shellshock in those days and many people who fought for their country bore this horrible condition for the rest of their lives. Very sad.

[mirrlamp]

The Danny Dyer episode was the best ever in my opinion. He met an aristocratic cousin and until the English Civil War, both families were equal but after the conflict Dyers family fell so low, descendents ended up in the workhouse.

[auntyeat]

took a dna test to surprise my father with our Italian family tree. turns out i wasnt Italian so before i told him, i bought my father a test... just to make sure we are still related ;) turns out he wasnt Italian either! on to his Oh No Grandma what did you do ;) turns out my grandmother had a couple of affairs. her oldest boy was from her husband, second was from an unknown man (my uncle doesnt want to know who) and my father's biological father was the landlord who lived upstairs! great episode!

[LvndrHppE]

I had a college professor who told us that every English person could trace their family back to royalty. I don’t know if that’s true, but it feels true every time I watch the British version of Who Do You Think You Are

[Paulious]

I think my favourite of all 'shocks' was Patsy Kensit.
Having found an ancestor who was a clergyman, she went to his old church and then asked "so was he buried in the grounds?" as in the cemetery outside.
The answer was "sort of, yes but he's not buried outside", it's then revealed that she's been stood on top of his grave!!

[TXRBL]

As a Marine with PTSD who’s father also suffered as a WWII veteran, I feel for Sir Patrick. To quote General Lee, “It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”

[kathe.o.]

Why care about the illegitimate behavior of kings. Fifteen times removed etc. It was Lady Judi Dench ancestry that explains her Shakespearean link. LOVE it!

[cappyjones]

Found out my "cousin" is really my half sister and I have 2 more siblings in my mother's country of birth that she abandoned before moving away and never spoke of. Ancestry DNA told all her secrets! Not "all" really, I'm sure I'll find out she was born a dolphin or something if I keep looking 😩

[VampiraVonGhoulscout]

"Boris is related to the bad King George"
...
Welp. That explains a lot.

[xgford]

2:26 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition 😂 2:26

[robinsmith]

My most exciting discovery was my 4th great grandfather who was captured by some Mohawk that took him to Canada and sold him to the British. He was taken at the raid on Royalton Vermont and his story is published on the internet if you search for the raid and the name George Avery. Another account was written for Zadock P Steele.

[hannahrobin]

Really feel for Patrick Stewart. The same happened in my family. Shellshock, alcoholism, anger, and it is still affecting my family today.

[elizabethmayberry]

I discovered my ancestors was one of the few POW imprisoned after the Battle of Dunbar that survived his imprisonment. He was transported on the Unity in 1650 and was sold into service at a the Saugus Mass ironworks. He gained his freedom, married and made a good life for himself.

[CountessCulhame]

Judi Dench's story was the coolest. Like, what a coincidence!

[tonyscupham-bilton]

I've been researching my family tree for over 40 years, and I still get surprised by what I find. One of the first things I discovered was that my father was related to Charles Darwin. Then I found my mother was descended from King Edward III. In the last 5 years I've discovered that my mother has several step- and half- siblings (not sure how many, we're still finding them - 5 at the last count). Her grandfather's cousin was knighted for services to the law profession in India. One of her own cousins became a singer in the US and had his own radio show in the 1930s. I wonder if any of my family's descendants will be surprised by what the find out about us.

[janepilson]

I traced my ancestry back to royalty and found out I am related to Princess Leiea from Star Wars.

[kathyastrom]

In researching my family, I found that my second great grandmother (1) had divorced twice in the turn of the last century, (2) tried to run with her daughters to Canada when she lost custody of them to her first ex, (3) IMO bribed that ex to gain custody of both her daughters and her sons, (4) ran a barbershop across the street from the Chicago stockyards, (5) after divorce #2, moved to Montana’s gold mining country to first be a single woman homesteader and then run a restaurant while husband #3 ran a hotel, (6) moved with new hubs to Oklahoma where they became full-time Spiritualists—he was a “divine healer” while she was a trance medium ($1/reading) and pastor of a Spiritualist church operated out of their home. She was arrested for illegal fortune telling in 1920 and her unsuccessful appeal, on the grounds of infringement of her First Amendment right to freedom of religion, was reported across the country. I’m finishing researching her life now in preparation to write a book.

[richhughes]

So Boris is related to King George the 2nd. So he's likely related to mad King George 3rd as well . This makes sense.

[Foxytrot-sxvd]

I traced my roots and I am related to my dog, distantly, through the Werewolves of London gene lineage.