The second Show in the Series!

Last week on "Who Do You Think You Are?", Emmitt Smith explored his family history. His perspective was a bit different, considering religion and the Bible, as a starting point of his lineage.

He traveled to the deep south, and the east coast looking for answers. Many questions he had regarding his family history could not be answered due to the sad history of the slave trade. Unfortunately, the slaves of Africa were not valued as humans worthy of a honored history and background to be perserved in writing.

Emmitt's trip ended on a somber note when visiting the town in Africa where his ancestors were placed on the slave ships. The slave trade is still operating and often children have to bare the burdens of this lifestyle to better the lives of their families.

Genealogy teaches us much about ourselves and the cultures of our ancestors, and it can even teach us of present day cultures.

Who Do You Think You Are?

http://www.nbc.com/Primetime/Who_Do_You_Think_You_Are/index.shtml

Did you catch the new NBC television series, "Who Do You Think You Are?".....Finally a primetime slot for genealogy and history. On the surfice this show is great for learning history and deep down, it can be a tool used to motivate us in our own family research.

In the first show we saw Sarah Jessica Parker travel the the United States finding graves, documents and other historical landmarks that helped her figure out who her ancestors were and what their lives might have been like. Not all of us have the resources to travel the nation and get our hands on these resources and information but we can still utilize tools that will get us closer to our own personal family history.

I can't wait to see future episodes of this new show! Hopefully it will inspire all of us to appreciate our personal family history.