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Here is the link to their blog which highlights new features. Along the right side are links to those other features I find so hard to find - - - - - if these things were easier to find I'm sure they'd have more users - -who knew there was a tv show coming up!
Marked that show on my calendar, and Who Do You Think You Are? is returning, but it will be aired on TLC instead of NBC beginning July 23. Thanks for the info about the Wiki, I'll check it out.
Ironically, I actually thought about contacting another PBS show, the History Detectives, to help me hunt down some documents I would like to see in my family history. This would be perfect!
In another thread, I explained that I am related to the Blairs of Blair House. Specifically, I am related to Francis Preston's Blair's wife, Eliza (GIST) Blair. Back at the time of the Revolution, one of my great-grandmother was Edith (GIST) Price, who was Eliza Blair's aunt.
The Gists were a very socially prominent family from Baltimore, MD, in colonial America. Long story short, they were also very prominent revolutionaries who personally knew George Washington and were in his inner circle of friends and confidentants. (That's how the Blairs ended up living across the street from the White House.) Another member of the family was Brigadier General Mordecai Gist, who was one of the seven American generals at Yorktown who witnessed the British surrender by Lord Cornwallis. He was my great-grandmother's nephew, making him my first cousin, 8 or 9 times removed.
Apparently, up until about 1910 another cousin (who is not really too distant from me) had a collection of about 15 letters written by George Washington to Mordecai Gist. They were family heirlooms and I want to see them. That side of my family carried these letters from Maryland to Ohio and finally to Iowa, where they ended up in the same tiny town where my great-grandfather was born. But the cousin who had these letters ran for the governor of Iowa in 1910 (he lost), and I know that he donated these letters to the Grand Masonic Lodge of Iowa. (The family tree has more freemasons than you can shake a stick at.) I have found a few newspaper articles about the donation of the letters. But after that the trail goes cold. I'd like them to track down these letters and I want to see them.
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