The following news release was received from Heather Erickson at Ancestry.com:
World’s Largest Family History Web Site Continues Sponsorship of Critically Acclaimed TV Series That Takes a Personal Look at Celebrity Family Histories
PROVO, Utah, August 25, 2010 – Ancestry.com is pleased to announce it has extended its relationship with NBC for the [...]
The home where Alex Haley spent his boyhood summers was officially opened today as a museum, and interpretive center. Haley is buried on the grounds of the Henning, Tennessee home.
Author Alex Haley, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Roots: The Saga of an American Family sparked a surge of interest in genealogy in the 1970s, is [...]
Obama’s family tree has been discussed on the Internet since he became U.S. senator from Illinois in 2005, but attention has usually been paid to his connection to Charlemagne, to other presidents such as George W. Bush, and to celebrities such as Brad Pitt.
Among all those relatives is Jonathan Singletary Dunham, born in 1639.
He is [...]
Following is an excerpt from a fascinating article dealing with various “famous folks” wills. Ancestry.co.uk is posting 6 million English & Welsh wills running from 1861 to 1941. If you do a Google News search, you’ll come up with all kinds of articles about this. However, this exceprt is from the best one I could [...]
Just a reminder - NBC is planning to rerun four episodes of the Who Do You Think You Are? series starting on Friday, August 13 at 8/7c (that’s 7 mountain-time also).
The episodes will feature
Lisa Kudrow
Sarah Jessica Parker
Emmitt Smith
Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields - full episode - online until Sept 18, 2010
So don’t forget to tune-in to [...]
According to Genie.com, Chelsea Clinton and Angelina Jolie are 12th cousins. These things are kinda’ fun, but with a bit of research you’d be amazed the folks that have have cousinships of this degree or better. But with Chelsea’s wedding and all, this is the time to get acquainted with her distant relatives!
The following was received from Tom Champoux, Marketing Director for the New England Historic Genealogical Society:
The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in Boston announced on Wednesday that staff genealogists had uncovered a unique and fascinating aspect to the genealogy of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen discussed the findings during the monologue of her [...]
The “Who Do You Think You Are?” schedule has been extended by one week. The season finale, an episode focusing on Spike Lee, will be shown on April 30 (previously scheduled for April 24).
The updated schedule follows:
April 2nd – Brooke Shields
April 9th – Sarah Jessica Parker (Repeat)
April 16th – No episode
April 23rd – Susan Sarandon
April [...]
At 8 p.m. ET, “Who Do You Think You Are?” (1.8/6 in 18-49, 7.2 million viewers overall) is up in its second week by 13 percent in 18-49 (1.8 vs. 1.6) and 4 percent in total viewers (7.153 million vs. 6.909 million), pending updates. This is NBC’s highest 18-49 rating in the time period [...]
The ratings are out for Friday night. “Who Do You Think You Are?”, featuring Emmitt Smith did well, but was still edged out by Ghost Whisperer.
Friday, March 12 - 8pm/7 C&M
CBS: “Ghost Whisperer” (7.85 million viewers, 4.9/9 households)
NBC: “Who Do You Think You Are?” (7.15 million, 4.5/8)
ABC: “Supernanny” (4.9 million, 3.2/6)
FOX: “House” rerun (3.1 million, [...]
UPDATE: Well, Patty and I just finished watching the Emmitt Smith segment of WDYTYA? I’m a bit overwhelmed… The program was about as moving as anything I’ve ever watched, fiction and non-fiction alike. Even Megan Smolenyak had a part in the show, introducing Emmitt to his DNA and African roots. Amazing…
You don’t want [...]
For the first time in my life, I found out what a limitation being deaf can be… I’ve normally found ways of working around the issue, but not today…
I was invited by someone at NBC Universal to be involved in a conference call (along with many others I’m sure) with Lisa Kudrow and [...]
I see that NBC has a website posted their new “Who Do You Think You Are? series which premieres on March 5. If this doesn’t get you excited about the upcoming series, nothing will.
It includes a terrific video promoting the program. I think you’ll like it. And yes, the video is preceded by [...]
At last - we have a firm date and details from NBC about the American version of “Who Do You Think You Are?” The program will be part of what NBC calls their “post-Winter Olympics primetime schedule.” Although the series was announced as upcoming in 2008 and 2009, it looks like it’s actually going to [...]
An interesting article was posted in the Washington Post site yesterday. The article deals with files on soldiers, celebrities, and non-celebrities alike that are easily available through the Freedom of Information Act. The info came from the GovernmentAttic.org website initially. Two major files are dealt with in the article:
The VIP List:The National Personnel Records Center [...]
