POPSUGAR: What excited you about the prospect of learning about your ancestors?
Sarah Hyland: For the first Christmas that Wells and I spent together, my father-in-law gave all his kids and their significant others Ancestry kits, and I've always been interested in the background of my family. When Ancestry reached out and said, "Do you want to play a game of who knows their family better?" Wells and I are very competitive people, so we said, "Hell yeah." I think it's really important to know where you came from and fun to see traits that were passed down to you hundreds of years later.
My favorite learning was that my second great uncle on my maternal side of the family rode on top of a freight train to Galveston, TX, where he saved [...] people from the 1900 floods. If I saw that in a movie, I'd be like, "OK, yeah, he did that. Because that's so believable." But it actually did happen; there was a newspaper clipping about it and everything. Sometimes life is stranger than fiction, and even better than TV.
