TED Talks
TED: How Black queer culture shaped history | Channing Gerard Joseph
Names like Bayard Rustin, Frances Thompson and William Dorsey Swann have been largely erased from US history, but they and other Black queer leaders played central roles in monumental movements like emancipation, civil rights and LGBTQ+...
TED Talks
Yaniv Erlich: How we're building the world's largest family tree
Computational geneticist Yaniv Erlich helped build the world's largest family tree -- comprising 13 million people and going back more than 500 years. He shares fascinating patterns that emerged from the work -- about our love lives, our...
TED Talks
AJ Jacobs: The world's largest family reunion ... we're all invited!
You may not know it yet, but AJ Jacobs is probably your cousin (many, many times removed). Using genealogy websites, he's been following the unexpected links that make us all, however distantly, related. His goal: to throw the world's...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry?
Two sisters take the same DNA test. The results show that one sister is 10% French, the other 0%. Both sisters share the same two parents, and therefore the same set of ancestors. So how can one be 10% more French than the other? Tests...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
David L. Green - Researching Our Family History
David L. Green is an Associate Professor of Materials Science, Chemical, and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He received his B.S. from Boston University, an M.S. from the University of Maryland, and his Ph.D. from...
Kult America
Death, Heritage, and Poland
Last September I received a phone call informing that my estranged father had passed away. At his funeral in Chicago a family member presented me an old photo album, but she was unsure of who it once belonged to, though they suspected...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Explores: Irish Genealogy
Learn more about how people trace their Irish history and how Irish people have made an impact on the culture of Chicago.
Kult America
Finding My Lost Polish Family
Growing up in America I always identified myself as “Half Polish”, this was a normal part of my identity as my Great Grandmother sent packages containing my childhood clothing to relatives in Poland. When she passed away the contact...
Curated Video
DA: Arrest in Golden State case due to DNA and 'dogged' police work
The Sacramento County District Attorney says the arrest made in the Golden State Killer case was largely in thanks to "geneaology and very dogged detective work."
Anne Marie Schubert says they were able to find a suspect in...
Curated Video
Officials: DNA Was Key in Calif. Killer Case
The Sacramento County District Attorney says the arrest made in the Golden State Killer case was largely in thanks to "genealogy and very dogged detective work."
Anne Marie Schubert says they were able to find a suspect in...
Crash Course
Why Human Ancestry Matters: Crash Course Big History #205
Genetic variation makes for stronger species, but for a mammalian species, humans are disturbingly closely related. Help your class explore human ancestry and genealogy using the 15th video in a 16-part series. It describes how we became...
University of Utah
University of Utah: Learning Center: learn.genetics: Molecular Genealogy
Watch this seven-part video series, and find out how people are researching their ancestry using a combination of genetic and traditional genealogy.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: African American Lives 2
From the companion website of a PBS broadcast that profiles the family roots of twelve Americans of African descent, we learn what the science of DNA can tell us about family history that photos, letters, diaries, and other records cannot.