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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...
Curated Video
FitzGerald Dynasty Family Tree | Irish Genealogy
FitzGerald Dynasty Family Tree | Irish Genealogy
Curated Video
Clan MacDonald Family Tree | Scottish Genealogy
Clan MacDonald Family Tree | Scottish Genealogy
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
How to Research Your Genealogy & Family Tree
Researching genealogy takes a little enterprise and the skills of a master sleuth.
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...
Great Big Story
The Largest Handwritten Family Tree in the World
The Ganges River is a highly revered site by Hindus and an iconic, historical epicenter in India. As hundreds of thousands of people visit the Ganges each year, there is a dedicated group of priests, better known as pandits, working...
World Science Festival
A DNA Test Reveals A Surprise in One Family Tree
Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore has convinced dozens of her family members to take a look at the stories their DNA tells. See the surprising ancestral connection she found between her brother-in-law and a very famous American in this clip...
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...
Cerebellum
It's About Time: Historic Time - Decades, Centuries And Eras
Historic Time expands the concept of time into the larger units of years, decades, centuries, and eras. The video explains the meaning of generations and ancestors and illustrates where the viewer fits into the family history - this is...
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.