It's a television show.
And not just any TV show...
It's the TV show that makes me cry every single week.
Lisa Kudrow produces this amazing show which profiles a different celebrity each week and takes them on a journey to find their ancestry. They start with a close relative, usually their parents, get some information and then team up with Ancestry.com to take a journey across the country (and sometimes across the world) to find their past.This show is completely captivating! It airs on Friday nights on NBC in the first primetime hour.
But, if you have missed the past three weeks and you have Comcast (with On Demand) you can cath up easily. Go to On Demand > Television Entertainment > NBC > Who Do You Think You Are and click on the episode you want to watch. The pilot episode with Sarah Jessica Parker is a good place to start since it is truly astonishing what she finds out.
This makes me think of my own ancestors, which I have been researching for the past 2 or 3 years. I started working on their lines while still in Utah and was led to Herkimer County, NY where the Folts family lived. I documented my journey here and included a follow-up here. I ended up finding an entire branch of family whom had been lost. I felt such kinship to the Foltses and now, since we have moved here, I am only a six hour drive from there. I plan on setting aside a weekend and traveling there to try and collect artifacts from their lives...headstones, certificates and maybe photos from the Historical Society.
If you want to learn more about your family I encourage you to visit a Family History Center. These centers are located all over the world, cost nothing and are staffed with experts who can help you out. They are run by the LDS Church, but you do not need to be a church member to go, in fact, over 50% of the users of these facilities are not members of the LDS church. Ancestry.com is also a great resource, but costs $$$ to subscribe. However, if you want to save money you can visit a Family History Center and they have free access to Ancestry.com.
Find a Family History Center near you by clicking here.
Have you seen this show yet?
5 comments:
I CRY TOO!!!
Love it.
No, but I've been meaning to watch it and keep forgetting, darn it. I'll have to catch up. I've heard great things.
I just saw it for the first time last night and cried too! It's such a great uplifting show, and so interesting at the same time. I'll have to check out the Sarah Jessica Parker episode since I'm hooked now.
I LOVE this show! I anticipated the start and have loved it from the very beginning! I have to catch Lisa Kudrow's episode some time today, but I was told to have tissues ready. I'll be prepared. I have had many promptings to begin my search for my biological family/origins, and this show has certainly sparked some motivation!
Sadly, ancestry.com is no longer available for free at Family History Centers, but you can find it for free at many public libraries.
Family History Centers do have access to the world's largest microfilm collection of genealogy, however, and you may order and view these films at the Centers. For example, view films from medieval church records in Poland, civil war registries from the US, African American records from the Freedman's Bank, birth records from Scotland, etc.
You have an amazing blog.
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