History Detectives" "Did Your Family Make Its Mark On History?" Is your family history connected to a significant moment in America's history? Let "History Detectives" in on the story! If your genealogy research has turned up clues that your ancestors played a key role in a history-making event, "History Detectives" wants to help you piece the puzzle together. You and the ghosts of ancestors past could appear on PBS' hit series this summer! Submit your family's genealogy mystery online. History Detectives needs more ideas for the third season. They should have strong historical thread, and still waiting to be solved - a documented subject isn't mysterious at all. But an old house, family heirloom, or local legend might contain a fascinating conundrum from our nation's past. Tell us about your mystery, and please include the key facts you already know, and what you hope to learn by investigation. www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/submit/index.html ************************************************************************* History Detectives tackle these new cases in the third episode of the 2004 season. In California, a photograph collector owns four small images of women taken in Chicago in the 1890s. On the back of one are the woman's personal details and comments about her inheritance, leading their owner to believe these aren't just ordinary portraits but advertisements for mail order brides. Could he be right? History Detectives visits California and Chicago to investigate the Victorian marriage industry and discovers a shocking story of late nineteenth century extortion and corruption. www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/case/203_index.html ************************************************************************* History Detectives tackle these new cases in the second episode of the 2004 season. A San Francisco archive has discovered a set of watercolor paintings of what appears to be a prison camp. Piecing them together shows they were painted on the back of a Japanese-American internment notice from 1942. What is the story behind these paintings? Who was the artist? And what was his or her fate? History Detectives travels to the West Coast to solve the puzzle, uncovering the dramatic story of one of the 120,000 Americans citizens who spent years behind barbed wire, guilty only of being of Japanese descent. www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/case/202_index.html Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com <mailto:sallypavia2001@yahoo.com> "Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors." .. Carl Sagan List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com <mailto:GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com> Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"