Sallyann Sack and I do a twice monthly TV show entitled "Tracing Your Family Roots". The show is sponsored by JGSGW (Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington).
Our original idea in doing the show was to have tapes available for societies who could not afford to have speakers come to them, and for individuals living to far to attend regular JGS meetings.
The shows are shown on the Fairfax County (Virginia) access cable network. Anyone interested in getting the entire set of shows to use at your cable station should contact your local station to see how this can be arranged.
JGSGW put together the first 6 shows that we did and offered them for sale. These included: 1. Why Jewish Genealogy is different 2. Interviewing - a general overview - with oral historian Ellen Epstein 3. Interviewing - continued with a sample interview of Hans Hirsch by Ellen Epstein 4. Beinners resources - an overview of books, manuals etc. 5. How to save the data you gathered - manual methods 6. How to save your data - a look at various computer programs with Mr. Nixon of Hearthstone Book Store.
The intent was to package them in groups of 6 (about all that fit comfortably on a standard video tape). There did not seem to be a great demand for the tapes and JGSGW did not go ahead and create further packages. Perhaps there was not enough advertising about them or perhaps there is a greater need now.
You can see a short description of all of the over 50 shows that we have done so far at: tracingroots.nova.org The web site has a link to JGSGW and to the web-sites of many of our guests, and you can send us a message through the web pages as well.
