Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 4:07 pm
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| Zenon wrote: | | Arlene Vic wrote: |
Who will be on this Friday? It look like it will be rerun. I hope not. |
This is correct, NBC changed WDYTYA episode schedule:
The updated schedule is as follows:
- April 9th ? Sarah Jessica Parker (Repeat)
- April 16th ? No episode
- April 23rd ? Susan Sarandon
- April 30th ? Spike Lee
But there is also a very good news, official statement: The American NBC version of "Who Do You Think You Are?" has been renewed for the 2010-11 season! |
I am glad NBC will renew for next season. Do you know who will be on next season?
Spike Lee did have gret show and I enjoy this program.
And also your Polish Orgin is great too.
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BobKPO Top Contributor
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Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 10:53 pm
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I admit it's an interesting show, and I've watched them all, but it shows people nothing about how to go about researching your own ancestors!
Hopefully, it will get viewers interested in looking into doing it for their own family. But I wish they'd do a few minutes on each show about where to start looking - rather than "Brought to you by Ancestry.com" and leaving the impression that all you need to do is pay their subscription fee - and you too will find your 7th century royal ancestors!...
Bob K.
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sheep17PO Top Contributor & Patron
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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 3:50 pm
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I agree with you BobK. Recently I've had two people ask why it's taking so long
for me to find my family? They have both simply reached Ancestry, put in their
name, and within ten minutes had "their whole family tree" back to 13th century
France, and 10th century England.
Wonder whose family they adopted?
Leonore
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 12:45 pm
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| sheep17 wrote: | I agree with you BobK. Recently I've had two people ask why it's taking so long
for me to find my family? They have both simply reached Ancestry, put in their
name, and within ten minutes had "their whole family tree" back to 13th century
France, and 10th century England.
Wonder whose family they adopted?
Leonore |
Well, next time show these people who didn't experienced the joy as well as hardship of genealogy search by themselves the official research statistics from the first season of the WDYTYA series (source: http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/2010/05/01/WDYTYARecapSpikeLeeEpisode.aspx):
* 6,300 hours of research went into the series
* An average of more than 425 hours of research went into each show
* Researchers did preliminary work on more than 20 trees, then whittled that down to 7 due to the celebrities schedules
* A core team of 30 genealogists worked on the episodes, aided by scads of others who visited archives, did record lookups and more.
* Places the crew researched around the world that didnt make it into the show include Germany, England, Ukraine, Russia, Ireland, Korea and Canada
* Repositories visited included the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Massachusetts Historical Society and other state archives, local courthouses, public libraries, churches in New York City and France, and synagogues in Ukraine.
* Filming all seven episodes took 9.5 months
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:38 am
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I just received a message informing that the "Who Do You Think You Are?" show received such a great reception that NBC is airing four of the most popular episodes again starting this Friday night (August 13).
The four repeated episodes will show family stories and journeys of: Lisa Kudrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Emmit Smith, Brooke Shields.
I especially encourage you to watch Lisa Kudrow episode this Friday. She travels to Belarus and Poland to learn the heartbreaking truth about what happened there during the Holocaust and uncover a 60-year-old mystery for her father.
I also invite you to our Forefathers Traces Tours blog to see recently added pictures from the tours I had with my guests this year so far, click here: http://blog.polishorigins.com .
You don't have to be a celebrity to experience your own "Who Do You Think You Are?" family story journey to Poland with PolishOrigins.com! We still have openings for 2010 Tours in October, November and December.
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
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Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 6:15 am
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I came across an article about one of future "Who Do You Think You Are?" episodes in Australian SBS channel. The article is entitled "'It was harrowing': Szubanski's TV family search opens old wounds." and it describes experience of uncovering family history of well-known in Australia actress Magda Szubanski realized for one of the next Australian WDYTYA series episodes.
Magda Szubanski was born in Liverpool, England; her father came from a well-off Polish family and her mother was Scottish. She immigrated to Australia in 1966 with her brother, sister, and parents. Below there are a few paragraphs from this article:
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"The experience, Szubanski says, has "filled in pieces of the puzzle. And it has, to be honest, brought to greater consciousness some of the demons that have haunted me through my life. It's really full-on and I'm still sort of processing all of it." .
(...)Szubanski speaks of her family's history with pride but perhaps a touch of sorrow. "When I first spoke to you, I was still numb and shocked; the Irish experience was Angela's Ashes, maybe worse, and that was harrowing, to be honest.
"I felt for them and what they'd been through but, my God, we're survivors."
Spurred on by the experience, Szubanski does not consider her family history a closed chapter. It is, she says, a work in progress.
"There is a suggestion of Polish nobility and if there's a castle there, I'll find one," she says, laughing. "It fills in huge pieces of the jigsaw puzzle because I really do think we are the end product of the experiences of our ancestors, even if they're not said or known. It affects you.""
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The whole article can be found here: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/it-was-harrowing-szubanskis-tv-family-search-opens-old-wounds-20101124-186z7.html
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
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NancyMPolishOrigins Matka Chrzestna
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Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 10:02 pm
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Zenon, those links are blocked for me - something about geographical locations ... but I do hope that there will be more episodes next year. Great series!
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
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Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 4:22 am
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I also can't watch videos neither on the Australian SBS nor on the American NBC websites from Poland  . It seems they restricted it to the countries where the series are broadcast.
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
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Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:19 am
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This Friday (Feb 11) evening Tim McGraw the country music superstar uncovers his father's heritage among the Founding Fathers. More: http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/tims-journey-begins/1287041/ .
Only yesterday I came across another TV show "Searching For..." which premiers in Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) this Monday, February 14 at 9/8c. As we can read on the show website: http://www.oprah.com/own-searching-for/Searching-For--OWN-TV :
"Searching For... is a documentary series that follows the real-life work of Pam Slaton, a professional investigative genealogist, stay-at-home mom and New Jersey housewife.
Viewers can expect an intensely personal ride when cameras follow Pam and her clients through each step as they track down lost loved ones. Each searcher's story is different, and the results are unpredictable and emotionally charged. Whether Pam's clients find a joyous reunion, painful rejection or tragic loss, they all walk away with the closure they were desperate to find."
I thought that you living in the USA might be interested in this...
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:39 am
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Today, Friday Feb 18, at 8/7c on NBC Rosie O'Donnell travels from Jersey City to Ireland on an emotional ride to discover her mother's roots.
By this occasion I invite you to our Forefathers Traces Tours Blog where Louis, who doesn't consider himself as celebrity, travels from Vermont to Poland and meets family as well as finds his gggrandfathers original house built in 1827  Click here to read about and see pictures of Louie, his Polish family and the house: http://blog.polishorigins.com/ or here: Sitting Down In My GGGrandfather’s House.
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
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