ANCESTORS

SCIENCE
Life as Our Ancestors Lived It
By Paul Ekman, Contributor
Founder of Paul Ekman Group
Dr. Paul Ekman is a well-known psychologist and co-discoverer of micro expressions. He was named one of the 100 most influential
RELIGION
Why Mormons do Genealogy?
By Mette Ivie Harrison, Contributor
Mormon in progress
When I was a child, my parents would frequently make the cross-country drive from New Jersey to Utah in the summer to visit
WORLDPOST
Meet 3-million-year-old Lucy - she'll tell you a lot about modern African heritage
By The Conversation Africa, Contributor
The Conversation Africa is a news and analysis website which i...
SCIENCE
How Did That Pesky Virus End Up in Our DNA?
By Elena E. Giorgi, Contributor
Scientist. Writer. Photographer.
I found this possibility intriguing both from a scientific point of view as well as a sci-fi point of view: there are plenty of books out there on zombies and aliens, but what about ancient viruses that thawed from the ice thanks to global warming?
PARENTING
Polish WWII Survivor Shares Insights With Son About Life, Change, And Endurance | #TalkToMe
By Greg Archer, Contributor
Author, Multimedia Journalist, Editor, Public Speaker, Humoris...
Our family's histories live on through us. We can all learn from the past. These lessons have the ability to fuel -- and to heal -- our futures.
RELIGION
Do Science and Religion Conflict? Yes - And It Matters
By Connor Wood, Contributor
I'm a postdoc who studies religion, ritual, cognition, and evo...
In his book The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker argues that ours is a remarkably peaceful era. He may be right
POST 50
We Know Little About Most People Who've Ever Lived. But Our Grandkids Will Know Insane Amounts About Us.
By LifePosts, Contributor
Capture the stories of the most important people and moments i...
It's difficult to know how this will play out, but it's almost certainly going to affect the way future generations -- and probably current generations -- view their lives and role in history. It will still be the case 500 years hence that almost all of the people who ever lived are dead, but it will probably not be the case that almost all of them are forgotten.
ENTERTAINMENT
Exclusive Video: Molly Ringwald Mines Her Family History on #WDYTYA
By Megan Smolenyak, Contributor
genealogical adventurer and storyteller
If you had an ancestor known simply as "the Swede," wouldn't you want to know more about him?
WELLNESS
New Study Says Monogamy Came About Because Our Ancestors Feared STIs
By Teen Vogue, Contributor
Teen Vogue
Researchers at the University of Waterloo suggest that prehistoric people were just as worried about STIs as we are now, leading to more desire for monogamous relationships.
ENTERTAINMENT
Sneak Peek: Scott Foley's Revolutionary and Bewitching 'Who Do You Think You Are?' Journey
By Megan Smolenyak, Contributor
genealogical adventurer and storyteller
Actor, director and screenwriter Scott Foley takes his turn under the Who Do You Think You Are? microscope to explore family
ENTERTAINMENT
Aisha Tyler Isn't Afraid to Dig Deep on Season Premiere of 'Who Do You Think You Are?'
By Megan Smolenyak, Contributor
genealogical adventurer and storyteller
Your mother's side of the family is very accomplished and complex. Did you grow up with any stories or was it a bit of a
GPS FOR THE SOUL
#117 Legacy: Linking the Past and the Future Through Story
By Rachael Freed, Contributor
Author; Founder, Life-Legacies
PARENTING
How Digitizing Family Photos Helped Three Generations of Photographers Preserve a Remarkable Legacy
By Jesse Michener, Contributor
Freelance Writer and Photographer from Tacoma, WA
He reaches up and gently pulls a tuft of his hair to show me how easily it falls out. It's grey now, his hair. It wasn't
BLACK VOICES
Letters to the Editor, From the Daughter of a Slave
By TueNight, Contributor
Stories for Grown-Up Women. Every Tuesday night.
Recovery. That's my battle cry. That's my great-grandmother realigned in me, warring against sins -- the untold story, the ancestor lost to time -- that break my heart.
RELIGION
Why Do Mormons Have Churches and Temples?
By Mette Ivie Harrison, Contributor
Mormon in progress
Mormon temples are beautiful architectural additions to any city they are in. When Mormons arrived in Salt Lake City in 1847, the first thing Brigham Young did was to mark out the temple site.
RELIGION
Wrestling With Ourselves
By Daniel Raphael Silverstein, Contributor
Rabbi, educator, meditation teacher and MC/poet
As for spirituality, it is the neglected younger sibling of both the particularist and universalist camps. Our ancestors
RELIGION
Talking to My Ancestors
By Sarah Beck, Contributor
Hospital Chaplain
"The Westernized system places value on money," this revered and soft-spoken man told me one afternoon as we sat inside his
GOOD NEWS
On Thanksgiving, I'm Thankful My Ancestors Left Europe, and That America Took Them In
By Ian Reifowitz, Contributor
Professor of History at SUNY-Empire State College
Thanksgiving -- at least in the form we celebrate it in this country -- is an American invention, and also a holiday about each of our relationships to America.
POLITICS
From a Recipient of Birthright Citizenship: Immigration Made America Great, Because Immigrants Are Us
By Michael Shammas, Contributor
Writer & Lawyer
Whether we are descended from majority who came here willfully and found a better life, or from the many who came here unwillingly and lived lives of destitution and terror, the fact remains: We are all transplants, all the descendants of immigrants who desired to have a flourishing life.
ENTERTAINMENT
Season 3 of 'Finding Your Roots' Green-Lighted for January 2016 Return on PBS
By Megan Smolenyak, Contributor
genealogical adventurer and storyteller
Season 3 of the popular show, hosted and produced by Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was put on hold until certain measures were implemented.
ENTERTAINMENT
Celebrity Genealogy on TV: Who and When?
By Megan Smolenyak, Contributor
genealogical adventurer and storyteller
We can probably expect an interlude between the next seasons of Who Do You Think You Are? and Finding Your Roots, and the duration of that lull will hinge largely on how PBS chooses to balance and accommodate the sometimes competing goals of content accuracy and viewer demand.
GPS FOR THE SOUL
Sense8, Animism, and Modern Clan Awareness
By Kelley Harrell, Contributor
Author and Modern Shaman
SPORTS
LeBron James Is Making His Cleveland Ancestors Proud
By Megan Smolenyak, Contributor
genealogical adventurer and storyteller
Whether LeBron knows it or not, three generations of his family once called Cleveland home. LeBron has classic, Great Migration heritage, and two branches of his family tree made their way from the South to Cleveland.
ENTERTAINMENT
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Angie Harmon Understands the Power of Walking in Your Ancestors Footsteps
By Megan Smolenyak, Contributor
genealogical adventurer and storyteller
This Sunday on Who Do You Think You Are? (March 22, 2015 at 10/9c on TLC), Angie Harmon -- who always thought she was Greek, Irish and Native American -- makes some surprising discoveries about the Harmon branch of her family tree.
NEW YORK
Your Story, Our Stories: A New Program at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum
By Annie Polland, Contributor
Senior Vice President for Programs & Education at the Lower Ea...
"Your Story, Our Stories," a new program at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, invites New York City students and teachers to explore their own family's origins as part of their immigration units.
POLITICS
Photo of Barack Obama's Irish Immigrant 3rd Great-Grandfather, Fulmoth Kearney, Discovered
By Megan Smolenyak, Contributor
genealogical adventurer and storyteller
It was seven years ago when I identified Fulmoth Kearney of Moneygall, Ireland as the most recent immigrant on the maternal side of Barack Obama's family tree. Inheriting land in Ohio from a brother, Fulmoth's father, Joseph, left Ireland for the United States in 1849.
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