Kate Winslet gets EMOTIONAL finding out her ancestor was in prison!
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Published 2023-02-08
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All Comments (21)
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We really should be so grateful to our ancestors. Some of them suffered incredible hardship and pain. One of my ancestors was a shepherd in Southern Italy, during the time that Napoleon had decided to conquer Italy and was making his way from the South to the North. Napoleon destroyed everything he could and left a wake of destruction. When he was 12 years old, he went to take the sheep to pasture and when he went back he saw smoke in the village and knew that everyone had died. He then never went back to the village (nothing was left) and on foot, at 12 years of age (!!!), he walked from the Avellino area to Rome, where he eventually found work as a mason and eventually became a master mason. I descend from him.
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Her ancestors would be so proud of Kate and the amazing talented gorgeous person she turned out to be
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I tell you, it was a really nice time I had doing this! BBC! Kate!! Thank you!
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What a horrible story, but not uncommon back then. We are so blessed we have no idea.
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History and genealogy always put my troubles into perspective.
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Kate is such a beautiful Lady inside out.
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I'm a simple man - I see Kate Winslet and I push play.
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She's so sweet.
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What a very sad story! That poor woman lost her baby then her husband. I wonder how she must have survived afterwards!
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Love that she says the word FLIPPIN lol rather than cussing on camera when she is upset, very cute ;D
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A very sad story. Much props to the people who organised all this info for her before she arrived :)
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Ahh bless Kate Winslet 👌
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“I owe my soul to the Company Store”… quite the racket
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How sad that people from any country are forced to live in servitude. Especially under the circumstances described here. It never ceases to surprise me how human beings can treat other human beings because they think they can. There is still a special place in hell for these people.
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Hi I am Russian , and I am wathcing from Russia. So sad story. "Who Do you think you are?" team you make great job! Thanx
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In Mexico, in the early 1900’s and before that, people got paid with items from the store in the Hacienda, the owner controled all aspects of life AND people were not allowed to own land. That slowly changed after the mexican revolution in 1910…. Thank God
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I don't think a lot of people realize exacly how extremely poor Sweden was, not that long ago.
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I’m from Sweden and my great great grandfather was one of them who went to America…
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Got shivers down my spine watching this. Eventually their souls were free.
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😢Emperor & Empress , King & Queen # Remarkable moment in human history
