News from the St. Louis Genealogical Society - German Special Interest Group. ----- Original Message ----- From: PATRICIA VON ZUR MUEHLEN To: Ah-Me!, MSN Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 11:50 PM Subject: G-SIG NEWS FLASH!!!! PBS to Air "Germans in America" * * * * * * Hello G-SIG participants, The following memo was just received from GAHS President, Lansing Hecker: We are grateful to him for informing us about this broadcast. Hermann Eisele G-SIG Associate Leader ===================== Dear Friends, For those of you who have not heard the news, the "Germans in America" four-part television mini-series will debut Sunday, 06 April at 12:00 noon on KETC-TV (Channel 9). The series recounts the saga of German emigration to the United States using gripping stories about naive settlers and successful farmers, about devout free-thinkers and political refugees, about the heyday of the German-language press in America, and about the founders of industrial dynasties in the new homeland. The four parts of the documentary are Program 1: Into the Promised Land Program 2: The Price of Freedom Program 3: Little Germanies Program 4: A People Disappears "Into the Promised Land" relates the story of the Muenks family, who left their home near Düsseldorf some 150 years ago for America's "German" belt, settling in Loose Creek, Missouri. More information is available at the following links: The Goethe Institute: http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/en1544734.htm KETC-TV: http://www.ketc.org/whatson/whatson_TVschedule.asp?keywordPBS=Germans+in+America&channel=756 Enjoy your heritage with about 60 million other Americans who will have a chance to see it, too. Best regards, Lansing Hecker Honorary Consul Federal Republic of Germany =========================== G-SIG is a cooperative effort of the St. Louis Genealogical Society and the German American Heritage Society of St. Louis. For G-SIG members who may be unfamiliar with our sponsoring organizations, we encourage you to learn more about them by visiting their Web sites: GAHS: www.gahs-stlouis.org StLGS: www.stlgs.org =========================== Sent by: Patricia Konert von zur Muehlen G-SIG volunteer