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Family History Show: Who Do You Think You Are?

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There were a couple seasons of the American version on NBC until they dropped it. The TLC channel will premiere it on July 23 with Kelly Clarkson.

Exclusive First Look: TLC Gives Who Do You Think You Are? New Life - Today's News: Our Take | TVGuide.com

Eight of Hollywood's biggest celebs are delving into their family history to find out where they came from on TLC's Who Do You Think You Are?

Originally broadcast on NBC, Who Do You Think You Are? has been given new life by TLC with eight new episodes. Each hour, a different celebrity takes a globe-spanning journey to uncover mysteries about his or her ancestry.

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Kicking off the series on July 23 is Kelly Clarkson, followed by Christina Applegate (July 30), Chelsea Handler (Aug. 6) and then Zooey Deschanel (Aug. 13). Additional participants include Chris O'Donnell, Jim Parsons, Cindy Crawford and Trisha Yearwood.

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Digital family trees: This little isle | The Economist

A new website celebrates connections between Britons

TRACING family trees is a popular British pastime. Television programmes show celebrities rummaging through old census documents. Websites help amateur sleuths track down distant relatives. A new project launched on August 26th provides another twist to the obsession.

?Kindred Britain? is a website launched by Nicholas Jenkins, an English professor at Stanford University in California. The project grew out of Professor Jenkins?s research into both his own background and that of W.H. Auden, a 20th-century poet. The website now holds entries on nearly 30,000 Britons. Visitors to the website trace relations between different people using clear infographics and interactive tools. Admirals, bankers, poets, painters, lawyers and politicians are all in the mix. Unlike traditional family trees, these include bigamists, same-sex couples and illegitimate children.

The project is an intriguing example of the ?digital humanities?. Scholars are starting to interact with coders and website designers to make their research more accessible and data publicly available.

Certain affinities appear in the data. Poets are often related to each other whereas novelists tend to be linked by marriage. T.S. Eliot, a 20th-century American-born poet, is a distant cousin of the British bards Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley (a link presumably unknown to Eliot). In contrast links between Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, perhaps the two most famous 19th-century novelists, are through several generations of marriages. As characters in novels are more meritocratic, so too are novelists.

Other connections are more unexpected. Gwyneth Paltrow (pictured), an American actress, is linked by marriage to A.C. Swinburne, a Victorian poet who dabbled in sadomasochistic verses. David Cameron, the prime minister, is distantly connected to Harold Pinter, a dramatist who once said that voting for Margaret Thatcher in 1979 was ?the most shameful act of my life?. Kevin Bacon, a famously well-connected American actor, is related to the 16th-century philosopher Francis Bacon.

And yet despite its novelty, ?Kindred Britain? touches on an older notion. Even within the sprawl of data, a handful of families are shown to have shaped British culture and history. The number of prime ministers related to each other may not be surprising. But the links between different walks of life are illuminating, for both literary critics and celebrity-spotters alike.

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Danny Trejo overwhelmed by discovery about his ancestry that 'could've changed his life'


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While Danny Trejo is well known for his on-screen roles, the actor knew very little of his own family's history.

Thanks to an appearance on PBS’s Finding Your Roots, the Spy Kids actor has finally been able to understand a little more about his heritage.

In a tear-jerking moment, Trejo revealed that the recent revelations about his past ‘could have changed his life'.

“I’m just overwhelmed. You have to understand, growing up, I had three alternatives. I could either be a laborer or a gangster or an informant," the actor explained.

"To learn this, I honestly believe that I think this history could’ve changed my whole family’s life."

The Californian-born actor was raised in the Echo Park neighbourhood of Los Angles by his Mexican American parents.

However, the home was far from a loving one with Trejo being subject to intense physical abuse from his father, who also banned his mother from the family home.

Isolated from his mother and with few roles around him, the Spy Kids actor soon fell into a life of gang crime aided by his uncle Gilbert.

“My uncle Gilbert, who was for lack of a better word a drug dealer, he never complained so I kind of gravitated towards that," Trejo told host Henry Louis Gates during the episode.

His past soon caught up with and Trejo battled with heroin addiction, fuelled by the robberies he committed as a gang member.

After a stint in prison, the actor would get sober and even caught the eye of a casting director during visit to a Hollywood set.

The unlikely incident launched Trejo’s career, with the actor trying to put his difficult past behind him.

Now 78-years-old, he has discovered that his father’s family moved to the US in 1918 with his great grandfather, Cirilo Garay, eventually settling in San Antonio and owning a grocery store.

The biggest shock though was from his mother’s side, who became wealthy ranch owners in San José del Cabo, after emigrating from Mexico in 1904.

His maternal great grandfather owned an estimated 4,337 acres and was a ‘serious landowner’.

Upon hearing the news, Trejo couldn’t believe that his family had such an incredible back story.

“It’s just amazing. I’ve got history!“ he exclaimed with excitement.

Ironically, Trejo has been a huge fan of the area and hadn't realised the connection to his own heritage. He even holidayed regularly in the area.

“Just knowing when I went down to Cabo San Lucas, my family owned some of that land,” he said tearfully.

"I think it's shined a light on who I am on, where I come from and who I come from...I'm really proud of the whole deal."

The actor was clearly touched by the news and has vowed to continue the research after the show.

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Danny Trejo overwhelmed by discovery about his ancestry that 'could've changed his life'

Spy Kids actor Danny Trejo had known little about his heritage before appearing on the PBS special.
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