DearREADERS,
Ol’ Myrt here is always talking up GeneaWebinars, but that’s just one piece of the online genealogy education pie available to family historians. Here's a smattering of TV, internet radio, podcasts and YouTube channels to inspire your research.
Ol’ Myrt here is always talking up GeneaWebinars, but that’s just one piece of the online genealogy education pie available to family historians. Here's a smattering of TV, internet radio, podcasts and YouTube channels to inspire your research.
TELEVISION
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Source: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/about/
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Source: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/about/
"The
basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from is at the core of the
new 10-part PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the 12th
series from Professor Gates, the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at
Harvard University and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and
African American Research. Filmed on location across the United States, the
series premieres nationally Sundays, March 25 – May 20 at 8 pm ET on PBS (check local
listings).
Continuing
on the quest begun in his previous projects, African
American Lives (2006), African American Lives 2 (2008) and Faces of America(2010), Gates finds new ways to, as he says, “get into the DNA of American
culture.”
Who
Do You Think You Are?
Source: http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are
Source: http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are
Now
in it's third prime time season for US viewers, NBC's Who Do You Think You
Are? has finally figured out that it's better to have the celebrity
following the leads rather than just having the compiled genealogy handed to
him on a silver platter. I like that. Friday's episode is a new one featuring
Emmy award winning Helen Hunt, who played Jamie Buchman on "Mad About You"
for seven seasons.
INTERNET RADIO
- ArmChair Genealogy – Weekly. Produced by Anita Willis.
- GeneaBloggers
Radio
- Weekly. Produced by Thomas MacEntee.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mysociety - My
Society
- Weekly. Produced by the Federation of Genealogical Societies.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mysociety - Nurturing Our Roots with Antoinette Harrell
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/search/nurturing-our-roots/ - Research at the
National Archives and Beyond. Weekly.
Produced by Bernice Bennett
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bernicebennett - Tracing Your Family Roots - weekly FPA cable broadcast, with hosts Arline Sachs, Sallyann Amdur Sack, Ph.D. and Charles S. Mason, Jr. CG. View episodes online, and suggest your local public television pick up on the broadcasts.
- Find additional archived shows in the genealogy category here:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/search/genealogy
PODCASTS – download them
through iTunes to any .mp3 player.
- African Roots Podcast - weekly. Featuring Angela Walton-Raji.
- Genealogy Gems – weekly. Featuring Lisa Louise Cooke.
- The Genealogy Guys Podcast – Weekly. Featuring Drew Smith and George Morgan.
- The National Archives Podcast Series – Weekly.
YouTube VIDEO
CHANNELS
- 23 and Me YouTube Channel
- Ancestry.com YouTube Channel
- Beginning Genealogist YouTube Channel with Angela Walton-Raji
- Elyse90505 featuring Elyse Doerflinger
- FamilySearch YouTube Channel
- Family Tree Magazine You Tube Channel
- Genealogy Gems YouTube Channel with Lisa Louise Cooke.
- Genealogy Guy – Robert Ragan
- Legacy Family Tree
- MyHeritage YouTube Channel
- National Archives (US)
- National Genealogical Society
- Olive Tree Genealogy with Lorine McGinnis Schulze
- Find more by searching for the word “genealogy”. See: www.youtube.com/results?search_query=genealogy
With so much content being provided at a variety of locations, it's high time we got our own "GENEALOGY" media channel. I wonder if Oprah is listening?
Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)
DearMYRTLE,
Your friend in genealogy.
What a great idea! With all of the topics around--why not have a Family Roots Channel on Cable? There are amazing family histories by the millions and a team of researchers would truly make such a show more than a hit! So to whom does one make the pitch? :)
ReplyDeleteFantastic Idea, but when would I get any work done, I would have it on all the time. Sure would be better than the current state of television and all it's so called "reality tv" shows. We would give new meaning to reality tv.
ReplyDeleteThanks for gathering all that media information. Where's the shows "Randy's Genealogy Cave" or "Genealogy Island"? Oh, they haven't invented that yet...
ReplyDeleteWe do - but how would I find the time to get any work done? I'd be too busy enjoying podcasts, radio and webinars :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for this post, is right on point,someone really need to make this a reality:)
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