Og is too excited! He can't wait until next week to share another video from Jamboree 2009. In this video, Matthew Poe talks with Paula Hinkel, conference co-chair, about the 2009 Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree. For more information, visit: http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/...
For New Roots Tuesday this week, Og has two great new videos to share.Check out this user-submitted video (did you know you can submit your own video via RootsTube??), about how you can have an adventure in the cemetery. And you can learn some pretty cool facts, too...
This week Og is featuring the seventh By Her Roots episode by Alannah Ryane. In this edition, she visits the Fortress of Louisbourg to investigate the Private Peter Martin record she found there...
This is a very busy New Roots Tuesday and Og is excited! First, we've been busy celebrating the first birthday of the Unclaimed Persons group! Did you know the group solved 83 cases in their first year?!...
Happy New Roots Tuesday! Og is kicking off this week's new lineup with the first half of a tutorial series from Eric Basir (Photo Grafix). In this series, he teaches us about fixing faded photos and photo color...
Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings recently published a blog post about the new genealogy videos on RootsTelevision.com...
This is a busy week for New Roots Tuesday! Og is really excited to feature another new episode in RootsTelevision.com's own series, Down Under...
This week, Og is thrilled to feature two new interviews from NERGC. In the first, Dick Eastman talks with Dr. Donna Walcovy about her work restoring and preserving tombstones and cemeteries. She also reveals some secrets for cleaning and protecting different types of stones...
This week's New Roots Tuesday installment starts our collection of videos from the New England Regional Genealogical Conference, which took place last month in Manchester, NH...
This week for New Roots Tuesday, Og is thrilled to present two new videos: A Better Way to Cite Online SourcesEvery genealogist and family historian from beginner to professional will at some time confront the issue of source citations. This video shows how citing online sources can be easier...
A little while ago, Og posted about how interesting it was to see how widespread our viewers are. Well, Og just heard from a viewer in Poland!Miroslaw Boruta from Cracow, Poland says:Hi People,I love RT, so I hope you'll add a new sign on your viewers' map...
OK, RootsTelevision.com viewers! Do you remember Brad Jencks, the teenage winner of our Wild Roots contest in 2007? Well, he just won a national scholarship award...
New Roots Tuesday this week brings a really useful how-to video for using Google Scholar for your genealogy research. And if you like that one, check out another tutorial for using Google Picasa to share and identify your genealogy photos...
This week New Roots Tuesday is all about cemeteries...
Og is thrilled, no Og is ecstatic, that RootsTelevision.com is bringing back the Down Under series! This series takes us to cemeteries where we explore interesting tombstones and research the lives of those that passed, honoring and celebrating those that came before us.Tomorrow is the big day...
This week, Og is featuring the last interview from this year's Who Do You Think You Are? Live! 2009. In this video, Dick Eastman talks with Richard Gray of Deceased Online, the first central database of statutory burial and cremation registers for the UK and Republic of Ireland...
The story of how Chris Haley discovered his roots reached to Scotland last month is being featured in USA Today! Click to read the article: DNA testing: 'Roots' author Haley rooted in Scotland, tooOgRootsTelevision.com
This week, Og is featuring another interview from Who Do You Think You Are? Live! In this one, Dick Eastman talks with Raymond Evans of ScotlandsPeople, the official source of genealogy information in Scotland...
Og is excited to have another interview from WDYTYA? Live this week. In this video, Nick Francis tells Dick Eastman about Ancestral Atlas, a really cool online community that allows people to create and share ancestry-based maps...
In this week's New Roots Tuesday, Og is excited to share another interview from the recent Who Do You Think You Are? Live! event in London. This one is with Ian Tester of FindMyPast.com. Dick Eastman chatted with Ian about the 1911 Census that was recently released in England and Wales...
Og thinks it's pretty amazing to see how interest in RootsTelevision.com and genealogy is so widespread! Here's a map showing where our recent viewers are located. Looks like we need to work on pulling viewers in from South America!
We've had some very positive reactions as a result of RootsTelevision's videos now being available in full screen, and Og just wanted to share them with you!Dick Eastman shared this comment from one his readers: Darn it! There goes the week-end...
Og is winding down coverage from AFFHO with a very interesting interview with Dan Poffenberger. Dan tells Dick Eastman about his unusual family tree. Click to watch the video: Dan Poffenberger and Family Stories...
It was an exciting time this past week at WDYTYA? Live! Chris Haley, nephew of the late Alex Haley (author of Roots) and Director of the Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland at the Maryland State Archives, discovered he has ancestors in Scotland! Here’s the story...
This week Og has two more interviews from the Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations (AFFHO)'s Congress that took place in New Zealand in January. Graham LangtonDick Eastman interviews Graham Langton of Archives New Zealand...
Our friends at Lowcountry Africana just announced plans to digitize and publish online more than 25,000 historic documents of interest to researchers of African American genealogy and history. Wow...
Og wants to know if you've entered to win an autographed copy of the just released, "In Search of Our Roots" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.!? Have you...
RootsTeelvision got a really nice e-mail from a fan, and Og just had to share it:Saw the link at www.ancestry.com for your web site. Once here, watched An Adoption Story and it brought tears to my eyes just watching it. My mother got me started doing genealogy and I got my daughter going...
This week on New Roots Tuesday, Og is excited to share two more videos from the Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations Congress. This week, it's all about digitizing newspapers...
This week, Og continues with coverage from the AFFHO conference that took place last month...
This week starts a series of videos from the Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations (AFFHO) Congress 2009, which took place from January 16-20 in Auckland, New Zealand...
Og is thrilled to announce that you have an opportunity to win an autographed copy of the just released, "In Search of Our Roots" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.!In the book, Gates recreates the quest to uncover the family trees of African-American celebrities, including Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones,...
In honor of Black History Month, Og is featuring interviews with Chris Haley, nephew of "Roots" author Alex Haley, and Rick Kittles, co-founder of the DNA testing company African Ancestry...
Og has a few really cool videos featured this week, and he's starting to get excited for Who Do You Think You Are? Live! starting in just a few weeks...
Og is really excited. Many of our RootsTelevision fans have been showing their support by adding our banners and links to their sites. Well, we have some brand new and really cool new graphics...
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