Ed O'Neill Discovers Coal Mining and Civil War Struggles in Family History | Finding Your Roots
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The Great Potato Famine forced Ed O’Neill's ancestors to come to the United States, where coal mining and The Civil War would shape their lives forever.
Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Ed O’Neill attended Ohio University in Athens, and Youngstown State University. Signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers, O’Neill was cut in training camp and worked as a social studies teacher before becoming an actor. He has appeared in a number of movies, including “The Bone Collector,” “Little Giants,” “Dutch,” “Wayne’s World” series and several films for Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter David Mamet: “The Spanish Prisoner,” “Spartan” and the indie film “Redbelt.” He has also voiced many notable characters such as Mr. Litwak in Disney’s “Wreck-It Ralph” and “Ralph Breaks the Internet” and the Hank the septopus in Pixar’s “Finding Dory”.
Best known for his role as Al Bundy on the FOX Network’s long-running sitcom “Married... with Children,” O’Neill’s television credits include the reincarnation of Sgt. Joe Friday on Dick Wolf's remake of “Dragnet,” the recurring role of Baker (D-PA), a potential vice presidential candidate, on the NBC drama “The West Wing,” the role of Detective Michael Mooney on David Milch’s CBS series “Big Apple,” and that of a retired cop on HBO’s “John from Cincinnati,” from the creator/producer of “NYPD Blue” and “Deadwood.” O’Neill also had stints on Broadway, starring in the productions “Lakeboat” and “Keep Your Pantheon.” Ed O’Neill starred as the patriarch Jay Pritchett on the hit show “Modern Family.” The role garnered him three Emmy® nominations for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series.
O’Neill recently wrapped “The Sterling Affairs” for FX where he portrayed the infamous businessman Donald Sterling.
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Renowned scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. guides influential guests into their roots, uncovering deep secrets, hidden identities and lost ancestors. Using genealogical detective work and cutting-edge DNA analysis, Gates guides influential guests deep into the branches of their family trees, revealing surprising stories of forgotten ancestors that transcend borders, illuminating an American root system fortified by its diversity. - Zábava
This is amazing. Ed is considered my 2nd cousin. We’re related through the Quinlan family. Sadly, I don’t know much about the history through my maternal lineage. But thank you!
My grandfather went to the mines at 12 and was there till 22 then Army WW1
Like me Ed is Youngstown Ohio bread and born and my Welsh family has almost the same story my great grandfather was a miner in Wales and was a miner in Ohio after moving to the States with his wife and three oldest children,( my grandfather was one of the four more born here ) and my grandfather worked as a pipefitter at the U.S. Steel works as did my Uncle's and I was a steel worker my self at what was at the time called Youngstown Steel Door .
Yall might be related
We could also be related cause I have a great grandmother her Maiden Name was Jones and I see your Last name is Jones
I’m from Youngstown too!
It did NOT “become known as the great potato famine”, it’s known as an Gorta Mór or The Great Hunger. The blight only affected the subjugated Irish, the English plantations and estates had a bumper harvest, food exports continued as the Irish natives suffered. There was no “famine”. It’s insulting to the memory of our dead and banished to call it so.
I had heard that poorer people had access to a line of potato that yielded harvest fast but was possessed of less heartiness, subject to botanical pathogens. The potatoes (as I understand) were less nutritionally beneficial and composed of more water and less vitamins than other strains of tuber. That along with the predatory grasp of the british, sealed the fate of many
@@flopimusI've grown one of the varieties of potato grown during the "famine" called Lumpers and can confirm they are a horrible watery lumpy potato
Thank you for taking me to school on this
That's still a famine. Famine doesn't necessarily imply a natural scarcity of food, it can be caused by governmental policy as well. The famines that happen in Africa today aren't because there isn't enough food, it's because of government policy and conflict. Government policy killed millions through famine in China and the Soviet Union in the 20th century. Most notable famines are caused by humans, not by nature alone.
@@jenna_gia Right. The initial comment was confusing 😅
Doing my family history, many of my relatives were killed in those mines.My Uncle drove a truck, and my father was a breaker boy, picking out the slate.Both started working at 9 years old. My Grandfather was also a coal miner.
17 or 19 is not a boy in the 1860s. We get to be kids for a lot longer... Sounds like a family to be proud of.
It doesn't mean you can't have compassion for them. It sounds like Ed is proud.
@@AdrianeErin for sure! They had rough lives.
Legally not a boy, but physically, scientifically, still basically a boy. Doesn't matter the era.
My dad's paternal side were coalminers in Lancashire and it was common for 17 year old boys to be working in the coalpits for several years already. My gt-grandfather had 2 uncles age 13 and 11 listed as coalminers in a 1851 census. His own father probably started working in the mines by the age of 10 a couple years later.. Some boys started even younger 6 or 7 they would be sitting in a cold pitch black small cramped area for 12 or more hours with no source of light waiting for the sound of an approaching wagon full of coal pushed by kids not much older..imagine how terrified these kids must have been. We have it so soft compared to our ancestors. @@rivkabornstein
in the 1860s males had to be 21 years old to marry without parental consent. girls 18..
I had an uncle in Ohio who took a job working in a coal mine. After his first day his boss came to him with some paperwork and told him, you now qualify for "Black Lung Insurance" my uncle told him "You can keep this job."
Having 7 children and having to escape to a new world, to survive, they had to be tough. It’s amazing they were able to find any information in his family. The Language barrier alone would have been a challenge.
I imagine they spoke english before coming to America.
Not necessarily. Would depend what part of Ireland they came from. The Primary School system which forced everyone to get their education in English was only established in 1831.
You could be correct as some Irish still spoke Celtic in that time
@@chrisphillips348it's called Irish or Gaelige not Celtic..Celtic is not a language
@@softanna27 oh, thanks
Perhaps Bridget went to work in the hospital in an attempt to know whether her sons were okay… and to tend the wounds of other mothers’ sons.
That's the first thing I thought...as a mother myself. I would have to do something.
Can confirm.
Went into a mine in the UK.
Portions of the mine were set up to replicate the Victorian era and we got to experience it for about 30 mins. Wild.
Ed O’Neil was in the film ‘Cruising’ with Al Pacino. Awesome performance!!
You’re going to take the floating ball test 😂😂😂
He was also AL Bundy in married with children and he plays on Mondern family
He was also in “The Dogs of War” with Christopher Walken.
You’re born, you struggle, you move away, you struggle, you die.
And you bring more lives into the world to struggle 😅
Really important point here--"brother killed brother" wasn't a metaphor or an exaggeration. That is the reality of not only The Civil War in America, but of wars like that before and since then. If that comes back to the US, it will be the reality and it won't go how anyone thinks.
great clip-except the music is so much louder than the dialogue.
Always 😂
I want to get famous for the sole purpose of having Dr. Gates do my family genealogy.
I’m from Louisville. I wonder where the hospital was located. I’m sure I can go to the library.
To ed as a former wv coal miner i have in a shaft mine welcome brother
The mix is off between the narration and the background music. Makes it difficult to hear.
He actually has a daughter named Claire?
a lot of this is happening in gaza right now, it's not just history
Yes.. I have uncles from my grandmother side who fought in the confederate side... One died of a gangrena of a cannon shot
He has daughter named Claire?
At least your ancestors weren’t traitorous confederates. You should be very proud. I know I would be.
They were not traitors, they simply did what their hearts told them to. Nobody had an actual right to the land but the natives but here we are. Humans don't own this earth.
My Uncle Jessie, used to raz my Aunt Cass, that if her Dad,
and brothers would have brought home all those freed slaves.
The conditions in the mines would have gone way up!
She said, when they were free, they'ld work for just a day,
and then run off to parts unknown.
She'ld say, they fall asleep driving a bus now. How much coal do
you think they would have ever shoveled then, in 16 hours?? lol!
How you gettin there? you're goin through war places...
He's still Al Bundy to me in the best way.
From the English's genocidal act to American civil war. What a journey
Americans love to call their country Paradise and the best country in the world. What about the coal mines?
Thye used 10 year olds in the breakers.
Peg!!
Is it possible that Ed had a child with a girlfriend in 1968 ?
Sounds like a wealthy family. 17 is 25 now
Poor guy has TDS.
19 isn’t a boy.
19 back then is 35 now 😂
well at least she didnt have to suffer through watching married with children
Host leads answers "I would never want to go". Don't do that, please. It's distasteful
Wow, those Irish had so much white privilege .
You need to study tour history more.......
The Irish were enslaved for the most part
Compared to black people? Absolutely they did -they could live where they wanted, obtain citizenship, vote, own property, serve on a jury and testify in court. Blacks could do none of those things. And "Lil Dave1964" ought to stop parroting the myth of Irish slaves -they were no "Irish slaves" (interested readers may wish to Google the "Irish Slaves Myth).
I can't take anyone from Harvard seriously. After giving George W Bush a masters degree, then putting up a plaque of your first native American female professor,,, named Elizabeth Warren. I'd think better of the show if the host graduate from ITT tech
What is wrong with the native American professor? I small jealousy 😢
We judge people based on what they do. If you have specific criticism of the host, we'll hear it. He shouldn't be judged for what W or Warren did.