If you don’t know the show “Finding Your Roots” you really should look into it. The show is hosted by Henry Gates and the invite celebrities to come on and have their entire traceable ancestry revealed after PBS experts dig up everything they can find.
The show is often filled with tears and surprises, but this was one of the biggest. Henry Gates said he actually called Joe and told him what was learned so he wouldn’t have to hear it on the show for the first time. Something they never do.
Gates informed Manganiello that the man the family believed to be the actor’s paternal grandfather really wasn’t.
“My grandfather was a Black man of mixed race,” said Manganiello, who is white. “That was fascinating.”
As a result, Gates told him, “You are zero percent genetically related to anyone named Manganiello in the world.”
Another mystery from his mother’s side was solved, too.
Manganiello’s maternal great-grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian genocide during World War I in which her husband and seven of her children were killed. She was shot, but played dead and escaped with an eighth child, who later drowned while they traversed the Euphrates River.
What an insane story!!!!