Brian : I believe it is Edie Falco not Eddie Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Brian Gilchrist" <gilchrists@idirect.com> To: <ontario@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 9:32 AM Subject: [ONTARIO] Family History on NBC and PBS televison > The poular series (Who do you think you are?) returns to NBC beginning > Friday Feb. 3, at 8:00 p.m. local time. As usual a variety of people with > public profiles have agreeed to have their ancestry and family history > investigated: Martin Rob Lowe, Helen Hunt, Reba McEntire, Blair Underwood, > Eddie Falco, Rashida Jones, Jerone Bettis, Paula Deen, Jason Sudeikis and > Martin Sheen ... > > PBS will be offering another season of "Finding your Roots with Henry > Louis Gates, Jr." beginning Sunday March 25, at 8:00 pm and the line-up > includes: Barbara Walters, Robert Downey Jr., Martha Stewart, John Legend, > Branford Marsalis, Rick Warren, and Kevni Bacon. > > The great thing about both these shows is that they show that not all > family history and genealogy can done done by searching computer > datatbases - rather that is only part of the process. The popularity of > these episodes is also due in part to the viewer not only learns about new > resources to use in thier own searching but there is also the "wow factor" > in being shown Archives, Libraries and research facilities around the > world that hold the irreplacebale documents of human history. > > Let me suggest something to consider: Many of us belong to "book clubs" - > so why not invite a couple of genealogy buddies over for dinner and what > it as a group and discuss the results over dessert after the end of the > show ... > > So get the dinner dishes done, put the answeing machine on, sit down with > a beverage of choice and enjoy! > J. Brian Gilchrist > > *********** > Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: > http://www.geneabloggers.com/ten-people-genealogists-follow-twitter/ > > Search Ontario Genealogy & Resources at > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ONTARIO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thanks Jack ... thanks, and also one of the lines should read: "watch it as a group"... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Hope" <willjohn@ca.inter.net> To: <ontario@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 9:48 AM Subject: Re: [ONTARIO] Family History on NBC and PBS televison > Brian : > I believe it is Edie Falco not Eddie > Jack > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J. Brian Gilchrist" <gilchrists@idirect.com> > To: <ontario@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 9:32 AM > Subject: [ONTARIO] Family History on NBC and PBS televison > > >> The poular series (Who do you think you are?) returns to NBC beginning >> Friday Feb. 3, at 8:00 p.m. local time. As usual a variety of people with >> public profiles have agreeed to have their ancestry and family history >> investigated: Martin Rob Lowe, Helen Hunt, Reba McEntire, Blair >> Underwood, >> Eddie Falco, Rashida Jones, Jerone Bettis, Paula Deen, Jason Sudeikis and >> Martin Sheen ... >> >> PBS will be offering another season of "Finding your Roots with Henry >> Louis Gates, Jr." beginning Sunday March 25, at 8:00 pm and the line-up >> includes: Barbara Walters, Robert Downey Jr., Martha Stewart, John >> Legend, >> Branford Marsalis, Rick Warren, and Kevni Bacon. >> >> The great thing about both these shows is that they show that not all >> family history and genealogy can done done by searching computer >> datatbases - rather that is only part of the process. The popularity of >> these episodes is also due in part to the viewer not only learns about >> new >> resources to use in thier own searching but there is also the "wow >> factor" >> in being shown Archives, Libraries and research facilities around the >> world that hold the irreplacebale documents of human history. >> >> Let me suggest something to consider: Many of us belong to "book clubs" - >> so why not invite a couple of genealogy buddies over for dinner and what >> it as a group and discuss the results over dessert after the end of the >> show ... >> >> So get the dinner dishes done, put the answeing machine on, sit down with >> a beverage of choice and enjoy! >> J. Brian Gilchrist >> >> *********** >> Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: >> http://www.geneabloggers.com/ten-people-genealogists-follow-twitter/ >> >> Search Ontario Genealogy & Resources at >> http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ONTARIO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > *********** > Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: > http://www.geneabloggers.com/ten-people-genealogists-follow-twitter/ > > Search Ontario Genealogy & Resources at > http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ONTARIO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >