Just when you thought there was nothing on TV but reruns, along comes some good news for genealogists.
The popular genealogy-related TV series “Who do You Think You Are” has been renewed by TLC and will return on July 23 at 9 p.m. with the first of six episodes, “Genealogy Insider” blog has announced.
The show is built around the (unseen) staff helping celebrities do their genealogies, often with surprising results. The new episodes will feature Valerie Bertinelli, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Lauren Graham, Kelsey Grammer, Cynthia Nixon and Rachel McAdams. The episodes will run on the show’s website www.tlc.com after they air.
Additionally, TLC has obtained 10 of the episodes from the days when the show ran on NBC.
That’s not all. “Finding Your Roots,” the PBS genealogy show hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., will return Sept. 23, the blog reports.
Also, PBS’ “Genealogy Roadshow,” which helps people investigate family stories, has announced it’s seeking people and their stories to profile for a new season.
Events: Hats off to the Huber Breaker Preservation Society. The hard-working group did not succeed in having the old coal works preserved, but it is continuing work on a memorial park near the site of the breaker in Ashley. The park honors those who worked at the coal mining site over the years. To learn how to contribute, go to www.huberbreaker.org.
The men and boys who perished in the 1869 Avondale mine disaster in Plymouth Township will be remembered at a Sept. 6 ceremony in Scranton, the Genealogical Research Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania has announced. Sixty-one of the 110 victims were buried in Scranton’s Washburn Cemetery. The ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. at the 1915 Washburn St. burial ground. The tragedy was the single greatest loss of life in the area’s anthracite coal mining history.
Meanwhile, a ceremony is being planned for the Plymouth Township site itself, news reports say. The site has been cleaned up and a gate has been installed at the old mine entrance to enable visitors to the memorial garden to look safely into the tunnel.
Don’t forget the Irish Research Roundtable at the offices of the Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society on Saturday 1-3 p.m. Reservations are required. Call 570 829-1765. The research library is on the grounds of the Hanover Green Cemetery, Main Road, Hanover Township.
News Notes: Yet another Catholic church faces the wrecking ball. St. Mary’s of the Annunciation, in Kingston, is slated for demolition, the Diocese of Scranton recently announced. Efforts to find a new use for the closed house of worship failed. Diocesan policy is to have records of a closed church transferred to the one with which it has merged, in this case to St. Ignatius, also of Kingston.
While the long-awaited full reopening of the Ellis Island immigration museum has still not been announced, genealogists should remember that the online records search facility is still operational. Go to www.ellisisland.org. The site, in New York Harbor, was badly damaged in Hurricane Sandy of 2012 and is open on a limited basis only.
Ancestry.com will retire five of its services as of Sept. 5, the site has announced. They are MyFamily.com, MyCanvas, Genealogy,com, Mundia.com and Y-DNA and mitochondrial DNA testing. Subscribers will be notified about refunds and content retrieval.
Also, Ancestry.com was disrupted early last week by what the site called a denial of service attack, but it said that no user data was compromised.
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