New PBS Series, “Faces of America” to air this year

THIRTEEN, Kunhardt McGee Productions and Inkwell Films, in Production on New PBS Series, Faces of America

Presented and written by Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ‘Faces of America’ takes the quest begun in ‘African American Lives’ and ‘African American Lives 2’ to a new level to provide an understanding of American identity and history.

June 30, 2009

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–America is a nation of immigrants, and the richly diverse racial, ethnic, cultural and religious heritage that truly defines the American experience is the focus of Faces of America, a new four-part PBS series from the producers of African American Lives (2006), Oprah’s Roots (2007), African American Lives 2 (2008), and most recently Looking for Lincoln (2009).

“We hope to show how immigration of peoples from around the globe so profoundly has reshaped what it means to be ‘an American’ and continues to affect how we talk about identity throughout our society today.”

Since 2006, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr has been helping people find long-buried details of their recent and distant ancestries by restoring the branches of their individual family trees and then analyzing their DNA. Faces of Americaexpands the role of DNA science to take the exploration of identity to an entirely new level. The series will film the sequencing of the full human genome for two of the series’ participants – a scientific and filmic first – to reveal detailed information about their ancestral make up.

Rare genealogy and history book recommendation

…would like to share with you something that I think might be one of the greatest idea ever, I found this little online family history bookstore and they sell rare books on family history and genealogy.  The great thing about this company is that, not only do they send you the book you ordered, but they also give you that same book for free on a searchable CD-ROM.  I have had a great experience with them so far, and I thought that I should share this with you. 

The bookstore, Ancestral Books are located in Waxhaw, North Carolina.  Please visit their website at: www.ancestralbooks.com.