This week we’re celebrating St Patrick’s Day. Spend a few minutes with Crista as she shows you how to trace your Irish ancestors.
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One Caucasian couple discovers the deep secrets that genetics can hide when their baby is born with African American features. FAMILY TREE is the thought-provoking book by Barbara Delinsky that explores race and family.
It’s finally arrived, 1940 Census Day! Join Crista Cowan, Anne Mitchell and Juliana Smith as they introduce us to the 1940 US Census experience on Ancestry.com and also conduct some live look ups as well.
Paradise or Oblivion *This is NOT the “major motion picture” that The Venus Project is working towards but rather is a short documentary to introduce the aims and proposals to new people. This is a free online documentary created by The Venus Project. Original music by Carly Paradis (www.carlyparadis.com from her album “They Have Been Watching”. MEGA THANKS TO THE LINGUISTIC TEAM INTERNATIONAL (LTI) FOR THE GREAT JOB ON THE SUBTITLES! This documentary details the root causes of the systemic value disorders and detrimental symptoms caused by our current established system. This video presentation advocates a new socio-economic system, which is updated to present-day knowledge, featuring the life-long work of Social Engineer, Futurist, Inventor and Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco, which he calls a Resource-Based Economy. The film details the need to outgrow the dated and inefficient methods of politics, law, business, or any other “establishment” notions of human affairs, and use the methods of science, combined with high technology, to provide for the needs of all the world’s people. It is not based on the opinions of the political and financial elite or on illusionary so-called democracies, but on maintaining a dynamic equilibrium with the planet that could ultimately provide abundance for all people. Paradise or Oblivion, by The Venus Project, introduces the viewer to a more appropriate value system that would be required to enable this caring and holistic approach to …
The Legacy System is coming in Game Update 1.2, and with it, a new dimension to The Old Republic™ experience. Like the Skywalkers, you’ll build your own family tree in the Star Wars™ galaxy, linking your characters on the same server together. Your achievements will open up new species options, new abilities for all the characters in your Legacy, and that’s only the beginning…
Start your free family tree today at www.mundia.com - Use Mundia’s free family tree builder to build your family tree and trace your family history. It’s fun and free!
“Nobody can do me, like you do.” (Patti) Make a (video) for your Family, and post-up! (Kevin I)
In collaboration with the PBS 10-part series, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gate Jr., WXXI has partnered with The Monroe County Library System (MCLS) and the Rochester Genealogical Society (RGS) to create a short video piece that spotlights the genealogical resources available, while sharing Rochester native Marlene Capes-Bettin’s journey to find her husband’s family roots. The video will air on WXXI-TV/HD, throughout the series ten-week broadcast schedule (3/25-5/20/12). This is the longer version of the video piece posted at wxxi.org Corporate funding for FINDING YOUR ROOTS with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is provided by The Coca-Cola Company, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald’s, and American Express.
(Premieres March 25, 2012) This 10-part series, with the renowned cultural critic and Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., delves into the genealogy and genetics of famous Americans, combining history and science in a fascinating exploration of race, family and identity in today’s America. Professor Gates shakes loose captivating stories and surprises in the family trees of Kevin Bacon, Robert Downey, Jr., Branford Marsalis, John Legend, Martha Stewart, Barbara Walters and Rick Warren, among many others.
Australian filmmaker Mark Shea tries to trace his Irish ancestors (O’Shea) by meeting up with Cork local Brian O’Shea. Brian informs me of how DNA tests can now determine where your ancestors came from in Ireland. Mark’s great, great Grandfather left Ireland as a 16 year old just after the potato famine. He first went to America and then on to Australia. Music - .www.myspace.com