Tamera Mowry-Housley Discovers Ancestor Was At First Thanksgiving | Finding Your Roots | PBS

I’m watching Season 3, episode 9 of “Sister, Sister” when Tia and Tamera were stuck out at sea in a boat. Tamera jokingly says to Tia “just pretend we’re on the Mayflower floating to Plymouth Rock.” The irony!!!

Wow. And I’m very glad that it was pointed out that she embodies the very perplexity of race in America. She is of those who began this country as we know it AND those enslaved by those same people. Wow.

Her thanksgivings will NEVER be the same!!

She's so lucky to be able to know that about her family. Wow

She is American before America was America!! How awesome! I bet Thanksgiving is a party at her house and has way more personal meaning to her family. This is so cool.

William Brewster was my 12th Great Grandfather. He traveled on the Mayflower with my other pilgrim ancestors, John Howland, Thomas Rogers, Richard Warren, Mary Wentworth, Mary Winslow, and Edward Winslow. Plus a few others. They fall on both my paternal and maternal family tree. I just discovered this in the past few years, what a delight it is to discover history was such a huge part of me. Also exciting to find cousins such as Tamera. She also shares another cousin, who was in my senior class in high school, who is a descendent of W Brewster as well.

I've always said Tamera is like....the princess of America. (She's so beautiful, graceful, Regal, classy, vulnerable, kind, empathetic, etc - everything a Disney princess would be) but this literally kinda makes her America's Princess - connected to both the oppressed and the oppressors, the rebels, the freedom seekers. She has that Dolly Parton factor - very likeable

My husband and I both had ancestors on the Mayflower. We were together way before we were together. 😂😂

I wish they would do a behind the scenes episode! I’m really interested to know how long it took them to research her ancestry 13 generations back like this! That’s 400 years of history! It must have taken them a lot of time and effort to do this!

She’s just one of those woman who keep getting better with age. Some times I forget that her and her sister are Hollywood royalty, because they are both so frekin funny.

This video needs to be shown on every TV station and passed around the internet. This is America.

I'm also a Brewster descendant. William Brewster was my 10th great grandfather. Nice to have another cousin!

I'm also a descendant of the William and Mary Brewster, and it's always nice to see another cousin. 🙂

William Brewster is also an ancestor of Seth Macfarlane and his sister Rachael, Jordana Brewster, Paget Brewster, Katharine Hepburn, and Bing Crosby among others

I got to go to a taping of Sister Sister when I was like 10 and I got to give Tamera a hug, it was the BEST.

This was the episode of Finding Your Roots that I was dying to watch. Tamera is still one of my favorite actresses 😍😍😍 I am so thrilled she got to find all this in order to be able to share with her children 💗💗💗

Even if I weren’t a fan of Tamera’s I would want to watch the full episode because this is *fascinating*.

Only 105 passengers on the Mayflower. My reaction was the same as hers when I discovered Digory Preist and his wife are great grandparents of mine. Digory was one of the first to die. Great to see other descendants here and think about how are great grandparents embarked on that journey together.

Wow...the extremes of past to present and the trails of ancestry never cease to amaze! When I heard Brewster, I knew what was coming! Lol I've traced my roots to the Mayflower as well and to Jamestown and beyond....it's especially mind-blowing to realize these connections to history in our own families. Love her reaction!

My father is a decedent of William Brewster. His family always lived in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He was a member of Mayflower Society. Tamera and I are related