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    ‘Discovering Your Roots’: Amanda Seyfried Discovers Homicide and Scandal in Her Household Historical past

    Willie MurphyBy Willie MurphyJanuary 8, 20254 Mins Read
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    Discovering Your Roots is again and delivering simply as many jaw-dropping revelations as ever. The Season 11 premiere, “Bigger than Life,” started with a genealogical research of actress Amanda Seyfried, which revealed that her father’s mysterious household historical past was full of some severe scandal.

    Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. revealed to the Emmy-winning actress that his crew traced her paternal heritage again 4 generations to a person named John Peter Ebert, who’d been born in Germany in 1844 and immigrated to america, the place he settled down in Allentown, Pennsylvania — only a few miles from the place Seyfried grew up. 

    After initially working as a baker’s apprentice after which as a baker for a public residence for the poor, he had his personal store by age 35 and shared 4 kids together with his spouse, whose title, maybe not coincidentally, was additionally Amanda. 

    As uplifting as his private success story was, although, there was a darkish twist within the lifetime of Seyfried’s third great-grandfather: He was shot thrice on the again steps of his store, shortly after shutting down the lights. 

    “Poor Amanda and people children… It’s bizarre. I don’t know him, however he’s household, and I’m similar to, ‘How dare they. Discover justice,’” Seyfried mentioned in response to that revelation. 

    As they have a tendency to do on this prized PBS unique, issues solely received extra sophisticated from there. The felony investigations of John Ebert’s homicide revealed he’d truly fathered an illegitimate son named Herbert, who quickly turned the prime suspect within the case. A newspaper clipping revealed that when the coroner requested Amanda Ebert why her husband left the poorhouse 25 years earlier than, she merely couldn’t say the reply to that query — presumably out of disgrace.

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    Later, Herbert Ebert emerged with an alibi, revealing that he solely realized of his true parentage due to the investigation and suspicion of him.  

    “Cleaning soap opera!” Seyfried exclaimed in response. “Oh, these poor folks.”

    Gates’ report then went on to indicate that the mom of Herbert was simply 15 years outdated when she gave delivery to him, which made the scandal much more unsettling, as she’d given the child up for adoption and began a brand new life together with her husband, who then came upon about her secret because of the protection. 

    “So, so twisted. To harbor that, to know you had this child out on the earth, horrible, onerous,” Seyfried mentioned. “It’s simply gotta really feel like a knife within the abdomen being twisted day by day.”

    Maybe making issues worse, all of the secrets and techniques that have been uncovered have been finally for naught, because the true assassin had nothing to do with Ebert’s household historical past. As an alternative, he was killed in an tried theft by a neighbor who had nothing to do together with his secret love youngster, his mom, or his new widow.

    For Seyfried, the story proved that he was “human” and made “selections” to guard his household, nevertheless flawed they may’ve been.

    Issues ended on a sunnier notice for the actress, although, as Gates revealed that they have been in a position to hint her parental lineage again all the way in which to the sixteenth century, even displaying an historical wedding ceremony certificates from her tenth great-grandfather and -mother.

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    “It makes me really feel very grounded, part of one thing,” she mentioned of studying her ancestral heritage within the city of Grein, Germany, praising the crew for giving her the “present” of all of this very private analysis and discoveries about her father’s household.

    She additionally realized that on her mom’s facet, her third great-grandfather Peter Friesell, was a soldier for the Union military through the Civil Struggle who survived a guerilla assault and saved his musical pursuits alive, even regardless of listening to loss.

    Seyfried additionally received emotional when seeing photos of her third great-grandparents who immigrated to the U.S. through a small ship, saying she was “grateful” for the danger they took in transporting seven kids throughout the seas to create a brand new life.

    Discovering Your Roots, Tuesdays, 8/7c, PBS





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