hi everybody I am Jerry Raza genie
vlogger and on today's vlog I will be
discussing how Joe Rogan is related to
Gerard Way and Mikey way from My
Chemical Romance on a recent Joe Rogan
podcast he had Kevin Smith as a guest
and Kevin Smith ended up asking Joe if
he was related to Gerard Way Joe Rogan
confirmed that this was true but they
didn't really talk much about it beyond
that but being that I'm a genealogist I
was super curious about how were they
related and so I wanted to see if I
could figure it out
starting out with what we know from the
podcast Joe Rogan has a grandmother
named Josie and she is an aunt or more
than likely a great aunt to Gerard Way
and Mikey way so from there I created a
research plan and being that Joe Rogan's
grandmother was most likely born before
1940 were most likely going to be able
to find her in the census records and
hopefully we'll be able to find a Josie
or Josephine who's the sister of one of
Gerard Way and my keyways grandparents
the best place to start I figured was
with the way family and to look at
Gerard and my keyways grandparents and
the first grandparent I looked at was
the most known grandparent of the way
brothers and that was Ellen Ellie rush
now my understanding is that the song
helena is actually about their
grandmother Ellen M so if that's the
connection that would actually be pretty
cool a quick Google search of Elena
actually leads to her obituary and in
that obituary it actually gives us her
maiden name of Spade own SPAD oh and e
it also gives us an approximate birth
date around 1929 so from there it was
pretty easy to find her we just needed
to look for an Ellen uh Spade own born
about 1929 being that we had the
obituary we obviously had the death date
and with the death date you can actually
look in these social security indexes
and sometimes
we'll list the names of the parents and
luckily Ellen a popped right up and we
got the name of her parents Savino
spayed own and Jenny and is iottie
so now I had well more than enough to
try to find her in the census the name
of her parents her birthday and her main
name and in a search boom she quickly
popped up with the 1930 census and in
that census not only did it list her and
her parents but it listed a whole bunch
of other siblings Savino was actually
listed as Samuel jenny was listed as
genève which is interesting that Samuel
using English but genève using the
italian-style name and then it listed a
bunch of children Lucia
Josephine Sandra John Frank Geraldine
and Helen and there we had a Helen Spade
own who's likely Ellen on living with a
Josephine who is likely Jo's grandmother
Josie and through a little further work
I was able to confirm that this was
Joe's grandmother Josephine and boom
there it is Joe Rogan is related to
Mikey way and Gerard Way because they
all share the same great-grandparents
savino's Pedone and Jenny and is yachty
now for anyone who's ever been into coin
collecting the Spade own name may
actually sound very familiar to you and
the reason for that is that Eleanor and
Josephine's brothers Frank and John are
well known within the coin collecting
community and they're actually books you
can find by Frank G Spode own about rare
coins but I decided I wanted to dive a
little bit further and find out a bit
more about the family so I started to
look more into Savino Savino was born in
1893 in Melfi Italy - Giovanni speedom
and Lucia
Vitelli at the age of 19 Savino
travelled to the United States and went
to go live with his uncle
Vincent Vitelli who was living in
Berkeley Heights New Jersey
savino's uncle Vincenzo
who had actually gone by Vincent and
James in the US had arrived about 1901
after Savino arrives in 1912 and moves
to Berkeley Heights he eventually moves
to Newark before 1913 when his sister
Marietta who also went by Mary she
arrives in the US and goes to live with
her brother
Savino in Newark their other brother
Francesco who also went by Frank arrives
in 1920 seven years after Mary and eight
years after Savino in 1931 Savino
started to take the steps to become an
American citizen by putting in his
declaration of intention this document
is absolutely amazing when it comes to
genealogy because it gives so much
information you get the birth date the
birth place the name of the spouse the
spouses birth date the spouses
birthplace gives you the name of the
children their birth dates where they're
residing but even better is sometimes
these documents such as in this case
give us a picture
two years after submitting his
declaration of intention in May of 1933
he then submitted his petition which is
the next step in the process and then on
September 11th 1933 Savino sped own
signed his oath of allegiance and
officially became an American citizen
now unfortunately for savino's brother
Frank it didn't go as well in his
attempt to become an American citizen
Frank submitted his declaration of
intention in 1938 but unfortunately he
was submitting right before the
beginning of World War two and when he
put in his petition in 1945 he was not
able to gain his citizenship and the
reason they list is character not
established Frank was denied in June of
1945 so a big question with this is did
his Italian ancestry play a part in the
fact that he wasn't able to become an
American citizen now this could actually
be because during World War Two and
afterwards many Italian Americans were
looked at suspiciously and sometimes
even considered alien enemies and during
World War Two there were many who were
in turn just like the Japanese
internment camps thank you so much for
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