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Tag: Television
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Mickey Mouse Club: You remember the Mouseketeers. Who is beside you in that class picture?
Mickey Mouse Club premiered 71 years ago today. Use school yearbooks and Ancestry’s collection to name the unfamiliar faces in your old class photos.
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The Muppet Show at 50: Which Ancestor Was Your Miss Piggy?
The Muppet Show at 50: The Muppet Show meets genealogy. Find the Miss Piggy, Beaker, and Sam the Eagle in your family tree and start writing ancestor sketches.
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Star Trek Day: Keep a Research Log Your Future Self Can Actually Use
Star Trek Day turns 60. Learn how to keep a genealogy research log like a captain’s log, including why the searches that found nothing matter most.
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Finding Your Roots – Regular People Are Not On The Show For Several Reasons. And What Your Genealogical Society Can Do About It.
Finding Your Roots – Regular People. Stop Asking PBS to Put Regular People on Finding Your Roots. Celebrities not regular people, the Season 10 casting call, the PBS funding math, and what your society can do about it.
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Alex Haley and Roots Gave Genealogy to Everyone. Genealogy Never Properly Thanked Him.
Alex Haley and Roots: the Roots effect is real: how Alex Haley’s Roots and resulting mini-series opened genealogy to everyone, what the critics got right, and why he deserves credit.
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Your Candid Camera: A Family Photo Preservation Plan
Your Candid Camera: Boxes of unlabeled family photos? Here’s a step-by-step plan to sort, scan, and preserve them, plus why this can’t wait another year.
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Chicago Fire Genealogy: Rebuild an Ancestor’s Paper Trail After a Disaster
Chicago Fire Genealogy: Records burned in the 1871 fire, but evidence survived. Use newspapers, the Sam Fink index, directories, and church registers to rebuild.
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Ancestry Fall Sale 2026 Is Live: 50% OFF Eligible 6-Month and 1-Year Memberships and 65% OFF Eligible AncestryDNA Kits
Ancestry Fall Sale 2026 is live: 50% OFF eligible 6-month memberships and 65% OFF eligible AncestryDNA kits through Oct. 20 at 10 a.m. EDT
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Mom Doubled Her Coupons. Now It’s Your Turn (Kindle 3x Rewards Edition)
Mom Doubled Her Coupons. Now It’s Your Turn (Kindle 3x Rewards Edition) 3x Kindle Points on Kindle books October 6 and 7, 2026, during Prime Big Deal Days.