Ancestors in the Attic is a popular Canadian genealogy show featured on History Television.

I did some checking around and I suggest you write directly to them by using the contact form on their website: History Television

The other question was “how do I get on the Ancestry show?” I assuming they were asking about the NBC show “Who Do You Think You Are?”  Again I suggest contacting the network (NBC). This show is featuring reruns at the moment and is coming up to a second season.  You may need to be a Hollywood star to get on this one

If any of my readers have other suggestions regarding how one gets to star in a Genealogy TV show, please leave a comment below.

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Update: Ancestors in the Attic has been discontinued.

(a special thanks to John Reid for the update).

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Related:

Canada’s Ancestors in the Attic (with a mention of the other shows that are running).

I got sidetracked with the slideshow and enjoyed seeing my Headliner Blog

ImageChef.com I Am Awesome

The Big Question for my gg-grandfather, James Kerr

Another narcissistic one - To My Kids….someday, perhaps?

Thanks Randy for the SNGF!

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More fun:

How to make a Genealogy Newspaper with your Twitter feed!

Read All About it!

Drowning in information overload?

Alltop featured a great idea on how to make a newspaper on your favourite topic on Paper.li

Basically what you do is integrate your twitter feed for any hashtag into a newspaper.

These are the steps:

1.  Add the Alltop Genealogy feed to your twitter stream using Twitterfeed (instructions here).  This step is optional but does give more genealogy content.

2. Create an account on Paper.li.

3.  Choose the Create a Newspaper option in the upper right.

4.  Choose the hashtag you wish to make a newspaper from.  In this case I chose #genealogy.

5. You then allow Paper.li to connect to your Twitter profile.

6.  Voila!  Your Genealogy Newspaper is created.

I notice my #Genealogy Daily Newspaper  included the hashtag #family history and a few others.  Not sure how it is picking that up.

And I also notice it has Google ads on the page which I assume are revenue for Paper.li. That’s okay.  They put a lot of work into bringing us newspapers with one click.

My new Genealogy Daily newspaper can be accessed here.

The newspaper updates every 24 hours (Daily!)

This Genealogy Newspaper might even beat out my Google Reader as my preferred way to read news as a method to handle the information overload.

All I need to do is add more genealogy RSS feeds to my twitter account (and thus promote more Genealogy Blogs

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UPDATE: Genealogy newspapers I’ve either created or seen on Twitter

• Joan Miller Daily Newspaper as shared by my  @Luxegen profile + 958 followed people on Twitter

• #Genealogy Daily created with the #genealogy hashtag

• @TamuraJones Genealogists list of 500 contributors.  I took the liberty of creating a newspaper with Tamura Jones excellent list of Genealogists.

• MoultieCreeks version

What a fun way to read the genealogy news

Please comment below with your genealogy newspaper link

CROSSING BORDERS

Immigration and Migration

2010 Conference

Saskatchewan Genealogical Society and

Manitoba Genealogical Society

St. Gerard’s Parish Complex

125 3^rd Ave

Yorkton, Saskatchewan

September 17-19, 2010

If you are planning on coming and have not registered … deadline for the Early Bird Registration is September 1, 2010 Brochure and information available on our website http://www.saskgenealogy.ca

Yorkton Area Tour Friday, September 17 from 1:00 -  5:00 pm The following sites have been arranged:

• Orkney School and Church – Orkney District
• Western Development Museum
• St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church

• Dick Eastman – The Organized Genealogist & Conservation: Keeping UP with Technology
  
• Lyn Meehan - Records Interrogation 101 – Squeezing Records Until They Talk
• Thomas MacEntree - Social Networking for Genealogists & Become a Genealogy Blogger

Saturday, October 16, 2010
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
(Doors open @ 8:00 AM)
Deerfoot Inn Hotel
11500 – 35 St. SE, Calgary, AB, Canada
Dinner (Optional)
Big Rock Grill
5555 – 76 Ave. SE, 6:00 PM
Speaker: Dick Eastman
Topic: “Putting the Genes in Genealogy“

For more information, logon to FamilyRoots
http://www.afhs.ab.ca/familyroots/

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Calgary is only a one day drive away from Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Montana, Idaho and Washington.  Come join us for this event!

Autograph Books from the 1940s

Memories of carefree school days in the one room school.  Friendships.  Games.  The stories started flowing as Mom and I looked at the autograph books.

Three books and over a hundred different poems.   The students would collect an autograph from all of their friends, family and even the school teacher.

Poem at the start of every autograph book

Inscribed in front and dated December 25, 1945 was this classic little poem.:

We ought to smile

We ought to laugh

But in this book

We autograph!

Forget you no I never will

And this one dated December 26, 1942.

Dear Sis

Forget you! No I never will

As Long as I can whistle

I might forget to yell

When I sit on a thistle

Your brother

Gerald (age 6 1/2)

To be a Friend you don't need money

My grandmother wrote the following in Mom’s book December 25, 1942.

To be a friend you don’t need money

Just a disposition sunny

Just the will to help another

Get along someway or other

Just the wish to give and lend

Will make you someone’s friend

Mother

Roses are red Violets are blue

Here is a twist on a classic written by an admirer.

Roses are Red,

Violets are Blue

I pity the Man,

That Marries You!

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What Autograph poems and funny sayings do you remember? Please leave your comments below.

Listen to a podcast.

Amy Coffin of We Tree Blog has challenged us to listen to a genealogy podcast.

A podcast is “radio on the internet” that you can download and listen to any time.

The two genealogy podcasts I listen to on a regular basis are The Genealogy Gems Podcast and The Genealogy Guys.  I’ve decided to expand my horizons and see what is out there in the genealogy podcast world.

Here is a list of regularly updated Genealogy Podcasts:

• The Genealogy Gems Podcast

• The Genealogy Guys Podcast

• The Family Tree Magazine Podcast

• Irish Roots Cafe Podcast

• Family History: Genealogy Made Easy

Elyse Doerflinger of Elyse’s Genealogy Blog has written an excellent article on “Podcasts: Download Your Genealogy” in the August/September 2010 issue Internet Genealogy Magazine.  She mentions several other podcasts you might want to check out.

This well-loved pretty little pitcher belonged to my IRVINE grandparents in Saskatchewan.  I don’t know where they got it.  The picture on the side shows two people on camels with a third camel beside them.  There are palm trees on the side.

Click on the picture a couple of times to see the enlargement of the mark.  I believe it says “Slovakia” and Czech and has the number 39.  I can’t quite make out the word that starts with M.   I assume it may be the company or area where the pitcher was made.  There is also a D and another mark at 5 o’clock that could be the artist’s mark.

Does anyone know the history of these pitchers?

This pitcher now resides at the home of one of my cousins.

Click two times to enlarge

I was poking around Footnote and came across a whole batch of historic comics!  If you enjoy the Sunday comics (or daily comics) then you might want to check these out.

• Grumps

• Original Katzenjammer Kids

• Blondie

• Dick Tracey

• Peanuts

• Smilin Jack

• Robin Malone

• Advice to Chillun

• Alley Oop

• Lil Abner

• and more

I had no idea Footnote held historic comic archives but it makes sense since they have newspaper archives.

What fun!  (it is so easy to get me sidetracked

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P.S. There is a cool animation on the newspaper archive page.