Pharrell Makes a Harrowing Discovery About His Ancestors | Finding Your Roots | Ancestry®

Producer and Grammy winner Pharrell Williams reflects on the depth of his family ties to enslavement after reading an excerpt from an interview involving his ancestor on Finding Your Roots. Start Your Ancestry Family Tree: http://www.ancestry.com/s115773/t45174/rd.ashx Or dig deeper into your DNA: http://www.ancestry.com/s117645/t45957/rd.ashx Subscribe: http://bit.ly/AncestrySubscribe More Finding Your Roots: http://www.ancestry.com/s113057/t45058/rd.ashx About Ancestry: Bringing together science and self-discovery, Ancestry helps everyone, everywhere discover the story of what led to them. Our sophisticated engineering and technology harnesses family history and consumer genomics, combining billions of rich historical records and millions of family trees to over 10 million and counting to provide people with deeply meaningful insights about who they are and where they come from. We’ve pioneered and defined this category, developing new innovations and technologies that have reinvented how people make family history discoveries. And these discoveries can give everyone a greater sense of identity, relatedness, and their place in the world. Connect with Ancestry: Visit Ancestry’s Official Site: https://www.ancestry.com/ Like Ancestry on Facebook: http://bit.ly/AncestryFB Follow Ancestry on Twitter: http://bit.ly/AncestryTwitter Follow Ancestry on Instagram: http://bit.ly/AncestryIG Pharrell Reacts to Family History in Finding Your Roots | Ancestry https://www.youtube.com/user/AncestryCom 00:00 Introduction 0:25 Pharrell finds extraordinary family document 1:01 Pharrell reads his 3rd great-aunt’s written words 2:28 Pharrell 3rd great-grandfather’s tragic childhood 2:57 Pharrell’s emotional reaction