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Episode 41: Back to the Past
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Dan and Alex forgoe talking about movies to talk about history. About midway the weeping stops.
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The Story of World War II - Chapter
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The Story of World War II - Chapter
Listen to the audio reading of "The Story of World War II" by Robert Leckie.
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The Relevance of Native Americans
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Rosanne Barker has overcame the odds to become a professor of history. Hear about her current research on Native Americans in the 1950s and why it is relevant in today's society.
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Strategies For Using Autosomal DNA
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CeCe Moore and Shannon Christmas will discuss strategies for using autosomal DNA to resolve genealogical problems.
CeCe Moore is a professional genetic genealogist and writes the popular blog Your Genetic Genealogist, where she covers the developments in the field of DNA genealogy as an independent, unbiased authority. She is the Southern California Regional Coordinator for the International Society of Genetic Genealogy and the administrator of the organization’s DNA Newbie Mailing List. In 2012, CeCe was personally appointed by the CEO of 23andMe to serve as their lead Ancestry Ambassador, a volunteer position that enables her to promote the interests of the genealogy community.
Shannon Christmas is an experienced genealogist specializing in genetic, colonial American, and African-American genealogy in Virginia and the Carolinas. He serves as a 23andMe Ancestry Ambassador, an Ancestry.com Ace, administrator of The Captain Thomas Graves of Jamestown Autosomal DNA Project, and a co-administrator of The Hemings-Jefferson-Wayles-Eppes Autosomal DNA Project.
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Grandmother's New Basket
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Grandmother Mazina Comes to the Campfire with a Few New Basket from other countries and she shares ...join us for a bit of history and a good Grandmotherly story!
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The Story of World War II - Chapter
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The Story of World War II - Chapter
Listen to the audio reading of "The Story of World War II" by Robert Leckie.
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New York Huguenots with Tracy McNally
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Jane welcomes Tracy McNally, Executive Director of Historic Huguenot Street. Tracy will tell us about the first founders of New Paltz, New York, the Huguenots who were French Protestants. Find out their story of immigration from Europe, their history in New York and what you can find at Historic Huguenot Street--including historical records and activities.
Find Historic Huguenot Street at http://www.huguenotstreet.org/
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Black American Stories:Eyewitness:The Negro In Amer. History
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July 04, 2013
The Show: Black American Stories
Host: Jynsen R Henry, Director of Black American Stories
OUR MISSION:
To encourage African Americans/Black people to learn the history of their ancestry. To learn where they come from, who they were in America and who they were before taken to America. To find out what happen to them as a people, as a nation! This show is designed to expose the truth and give information on how the Black community can once again come together with it's self and it's country, America.
WWW.BLACKAMERICANSTORIES.COM
Topic:
Again we read from the book Eyewitness: The Negro In American History. A Living Documentary of the Afro-American Contribution to U.S. History written by William Loren Katz.
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Salem Poor at Bunker Hill, Negroes of Philadelphia Stage a "Kneel In" and Start Their Own Chruch, Halting the Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, The Amazing Benjamin Banneker, Andrew jackson Appeals to Black New Orleans
Black American Stores, to know your history, is to know who you are and where your going! www.blackamericanstories.com
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Got Proof! Genealogical Journey Through Documentation
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Rebroadcast
Got Proof! My Genealogical Journey Through the Use of Documentation, Lieutenant Commander Michael Nolden Henderson, USN retired, captures the attention of genealogists, historians, and others interested in the complex social structure that developed during the French and Spanish colonial periods in Louisiana. He explores the forbidden relationships from which evolved the unique Creole culture. Revealing original documents from as far back as the 1770s, Henderson uses his own experiences as a family history researcher, as well as the insight of noted scholars, to reveal the methods, standards, and techniques used to prove his ancestry.
Lieutenant Commander Michael Nolden Henderson, United States Navy retired, is a family history researcher who began his genealogy journey almost thirty years ago. He is a native of Algiers, Louisiana, and a graduate of Xavier University. In 2010, he became the first African American in the state of Georgia inducted into the National Society Sons of the American Revolution (SAR). He later became president of the Button Gwinnett Chapter, Georgia Society SAR, and continues his research of colonial Louisiana.
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