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Zenon
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Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 7:43 am Post subject:

Today is another Friday with genealogy journey. In today's episode of WDYTYA Lionel Richie unravels the ancestral mystery of his beloved grandmother, a music teacher. Click here for preview of the episode: http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/preview-lionel-richie/1303550 .

And we just started new four-parts Forefathers Traces Tours story described by Basia from Sydney, Australia. Click here for the first part: 1. An Aussie trying to find her Polish roots. posted today in our FTT Blog. Next chapters will be published on the next three Fridays of March.

Zenon
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:00 am Post subject:

After two Fridays with repeated episodes this evening with have premiere episode with Steve Buscemi, as usual at 8/7c on NBC.

Watch a preview here: http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/from-the-country-of-brooklyn/1314873/ .

And in our Forefathers Traces Tours Blog you can read another research story by Basia from Sydney, Australia entitled: An Aussie trying to find her Polish Roots.. This adventure of uncovering Basia's family is presented in four parts with part one starting here: http://blog.polishorigins.com/2011/03/04/1-an-aussie-trying-to-find-her-polish-roots/ .

Zenon
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Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:25 am Post subject:

Gwyneth Paltrow or once in the family's past Paltrowicz. Yes, this singer and actress roots reach Polish territory. According to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwyneth_paltrow Gwyneth's paternal great-grandfather surname was spelled "Paltrowicz" and he was a rabbi in Nowogród, Poland.

I don't know script of today's episode but I just learned from yesterday's Fred Hoffman GenDobry Newsletter (which archives you can find here: http://polishroots.org/GenDobry/tabid/60/Default.aspx ) that this episode screenplay was produced with a great input of Jewish Records Indexing–Poland http://www.jri-poland.org.

Abstract from GenDobry:
"The coming episode of the documentary series features Academy Award-winner Paltrow, the U.S. born daughter of producer Bruce Paltrow (St. Elsewhere, The White Shadow). Her roots go back to a long line of rabbis named Paltrowicz from northeastern Poland and the towns of Suwałki, Łomża, and nearby shtetls."

This episode starts as usual this Friday evening at 7/8c. But don't worry if you don't have time then. Thanks to today's technology you can watch this one, and all other full episodes, online whenever you want and as many times as you want. Full episodes broadcast so far in season 2 can be found here: http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/ (only for users connecting from the US territory).

By this occasion I remind you: 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. There are still openings for Forefathers Traces Tours to Poland in the second half of 2011. See current (as of April 1) FTT availability calendar: http://polishorigins.com/document/calendar . See also FTT Blog.

Zenon
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:36 am Post subject:

Season of WDYTYA came to an end last Friday with the last episode describing Ashley Judd journey into her past.

However, if live in the US you can watch all the episodes, including some of the deleted and bonus scenes, online on NBC website: http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/ .

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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2011 2:36 pm Post subject:

I thought that was one of the best episodes of all of them. You could tell she was very excited in what she discovered.

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