NYMONROE-L Archives

Archiver > NYMONROE > 1999-05 > 0926090505


From: "John Buck, Jr." <>
Subject: Re: Ancestors -The Family Search
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 11:21:45 -0400


Greg:

Congratulations, and Best Wishes !! I am delighted for you, and know that your
excitement must be continually growing !! Thanks for sharing your good news
with the other members of this list.

"Spacher, Gregory" wrote:

> Ancestors - The Family Search. Genealogy Dreams do come true!
>
> Remember the PBS series Ancestors that aired a few years ago? Well, if you
> haven't heard, they are doing a new 13 part series called Ancestors - The
> Family Search, They will look at individual types of records (Census,
> Church, Immigration etc.) and were looking for stories on how people used
> those records to find their ancestors. Well, the Catholic church records in
> Rochester vary from having little information other than names and dates
> (the Irish Catholic churches) to a wealth of information (such as the place
> of origin listed in many German Catholic records at St. Joseph's and St
> Boniface). I made a huge breakthrough in my research using St. Joseph's
> records, I found the village in Lorraine where my family immigrated from and
> by using the French church records, traced my family back to when my 6th
> great grandfather immigrated to Moselle from Tyrol Austria. The search
> culminated with a trip to France last year to meet my French cousin's!
> To make a very long story short, PBS is going to use my experience for the
> episode on Church records. They will come to Rochester in June to do some
> filming, and are even considering sending me back to France to recreate the
> reunion I had their last year. (They will already be in London and Paris for
> other segments at the time they would ask me to go.) I'm so excited I had to
> share this with all my friends!
> PBS said they learned allot from the Ancestor series - that they needed to
> tell more of a story, and not just teach genealogy. I'm glad that my
> personal story can be told, and what it means to genealogical research in
> Monroe County!
>
> Greg Spacher
>

--
John Buck, Jr.
U.S. Mail Address: 1779 Middlehurst Road
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
44118-1647
Phone: 216-932-9059

Internet Address':



To subscribe to the Roots-L BUCK surname mailing list, just
send the command "subscribe" to:
.

Researching:

In Illinois: BUCK/SUTER/HAYES/HARFORD/LANDRITH[LANDRETH]/VANCIL
PAGE/DEAN
In Tennessee: BUCK/RICHARDSON/GOOLSBY
In Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut: BUCK/SPOONER/GROVESTEEN
In Ohio: CURRY/HARFORD

and...

In Wisconsin: SMITH/OLSON/KITTELESN/GROVESTEEN/SPOONER/BRAMAN/HILLIKER
In New York : SMITH/DOWNS/GROVESTEEN/SPOONER/BRAMAN/SOOTS/FRANCIS/HILLIKER
In Norway [Suldal, Sand, Telemark}: KITTELSEN/KJETILSON/TENGESDAL/SVINBILL

This thread: