- What I'm looking at here is a document
that has been created
from a conversation with my granny.
Porrick Pearse used to visit my granny's mam and have lunch.
Porrick Pearse,
Porrick Pearse used to visit for lunch?
Sure he did.
(Clare laughing)
(water bubbling)
Hi, my name is Clare,
and welcome back to my YouTube channel.
If you've been around here for a hot minute,
you'll know that I've done two DNA test videos
in this channel already.
One was where I took the DNA test in the first place.
And I did a second video where I contacted my DNA matches.
So if you don't know,
the website that I used was MyHeritage.
MyHeritage allows you to see your DNA matches
and send them messages.
I sent the messages,
got a few people on Zoom to have a chat.
And unfortunately, we never managed to figure
out exactly how we were related.
So MyHeritage has reached out to me
and asked me to work with them on a sponsored videos.
Thank you to MyHeritage for sponsoring this video.
But as part of that, I got a full subscription
to all of the MyHeritage features.
We're gonna go through what you can do here,
and we're gonna see if we can't figure out my family tree.
So before we get into it, please like this video,
subscribe to the channel if you're new.
And also, check out my merch.
Where do we begin?
They have these really cool features
where you can colorize a black and white photo,
or you can animate a photo. Now, I'm not gonna lie to you,
I'm terrified at the photo animation.
So in preparation for this video,
I got in touch with some of my family.
But the most important thing that happened
is not only did my dad
send on my grandparents' weddings certificate,
which is incredibly helpful,
thank you dad,
because it has parents' names on it.
He also actually sent me a picture of his parents
on their wedding day.
And so I'm going to put this into the colorizer,
and see if we can't get a colored version of it.
You know, parents are great when you ask parents for stuff,
'cause my dad was like,
"Oh, you just ask their names.
Here's their dates of birth,
their, dates they died,
where they were married.
Here's their birth certificate. Here is a picture of them."
(Clare chuckling)
This is such helpful information.
I love how marriage certificates,
it used to say "condition."
Bachelor and spinster, that's so funny.
Oh, my grandparents got married on my birthday.
It's kinda cool.
Both of their fathers were called Patrick.
That's such an absolute.
You're from Ireland, aren't you, Job?
(Clare laughing)
Both of your parents are going for a drink.
So look, there's loads of people there in my family tree.
Oh look, I get a little crown beside my name,
'cause I'm the queen.
We're going to colorize the photo,
is what we're going to do now,
and it's going to be amazing.
Oh my God, that is so good.
That's so cool.
Okay, I'm gonna send that to my dad.
- [Father] Ah, isn't that lovely, Clare?
- Do you like it?
- [Father] Yeah.
Ah, yeah. Yeah.
Makes a new picture, isn't it, Clare?
- Doesn't it?
It's like such a small thing, but it like,
totally changes it.
- [Father] But that's lovely, Clare.
You're very good and very kind to do that now.
That's lovely.
- I'm glad you like it, dad.
Now, we're gonna go the scariest one.
We'll take my favorite photo of the two of us.
I'm very scared.
I'm very scared. I'm very scared.
It looks really silly,
but,
that little smile is a killer.
That's a really cool feature.
Down, gets you right in the heartstrings.
That's mad, she looks so much like my brother there.
(Clare chuckling)
Okay.
When I die,
I want my kids just watch back my YouTube videos.
(Clare gasping)
You have record matches, click to view historical records
that match this person.
Oh my God. Scary.
My family tree record says,
"There was 14 children, 13 siblings."
And look at this, here listed are the siblings,
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
That is her. That's the match.
(Clare gasping)
Okay, so if I confirm match, what happens?
Now I have a whole, huge side of a family tree added.
I would love if there was like a big, mad family reunion,
and they were like,
"Clare, you really were the...
You pieced it all together."
And I'd be like, "Yeah, I did."
Oh look, I have more smart matches.
♪ Hell yes ♪
(Clare gasping)
My mom always told me I was related to Dara Calleary.
Mayo TD, I'll have you know, I was like,
"How come he never acknowledges me in public then?
(Clare laughing)
If I'm related to him."
I've even been to a wedding of a friend,
who is related to him.
And he went, he got invited to her wedding
'cause they were related to each other,
and I was like, "I'm also related to him.
I wonder, am I related to my friend?"
Yes, that's a real story. That's how I (indistinct).
I now have the details.
Here's where I wanna spill the tea, okay?
On my family.
My granddad's ma,
my grandad's mom had a sister,
who's my grandma had an auntie,
nice and complicated,
named Clare.
See 'Leary? Clare, like the county, hell yeah.
She also went on to marry Etha Calleary,
Alfie Calleary, Alfie?
Surprisingly British sounding name.
I'm gonna need a pen to figure out
how me and Dara are related.
My granddad's auntie
was married to Dara Calleary's granddad.
I cannot figure that out.
I actually didn't think a family tree
would be this exciting, but this is quite exciting, right?
So when I was growing up,
I grew up in a small town in North Mayo,
and there was a big house at the end,
my estate where we lived.
And mom swore blind that our families live in that house.
And I didn't believe her for a second.
Look, there's an Irish Times article on it.
Oh, the seven bedroom Georgian house on 5.5 acres
is owned by Bridget Lady Wrath Cavern,
widow of the well-known Northern Ireland politician
Sir Phelim O'Neill.
Oh please tell me I'm not related to Phelim O'Neill.
'Cause my first boyfriend was an O'Neill.
Another thing that my mom always told me
when I was growing up
was that my granddad was
the director of military intelligence
for the Irish army.
And it's actually here, it's in the Irish Independent.
That was really illuminating.
I feel like I learned an awful lot.
Most importantly,
I learned not to doubt the things that my ma told me.
She actually wasn't lying.
So you're watching a YouTuber whose grandfather
was the director of military intelligence
in the Irish defense forces,
or the Irish army, I'm not 100% sure, to be honest.
And who is a far cousin of Dara Calleary TD,
thank you very much.
(Clare laughing)
And who might be related
to the first boyfriend she ever had.
(Clare laughing)
But hopefully not. I can't take much more of this.
As long as I'm not related to my husband,
that's all that matters.
Maybe we should have got that checked out
before we got married.
But anyway, whatever.
I think we're gonna need to do another video actually
where we investigate Alex's family
and then we investigate mine,
and we double-check that we're not related
before we procreate.
Double-check that we're not cousins.
What time is it? I've been at this for like three hours.
I didn't expect to get so into that,
but it's actually really addictive.
And it turns out that yeah,
you don't need to have a huge knowledge of your family tree
to get this started
'cause I didn't really know what I was doing.
And I now have a sizable portion of it built,
and I've discovered somebody that I never heard of before
who is related to me,
and we married our family trees together
and it's looking well, she's looking well.
So that is just...
That's the whole thing is interesting,
and it's good crack.
And at the very least, I got to colorize some photos
for my dad and make a video of my mother move,
which was weird as an experience, but I really liked it.
And it made me happy cry.
Thank you to MyHeritage for sponsoring this video
and for giving me a subscription to all these features.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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and I'll see you in the next one.
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