Nominations for MASHABLE'S OPEN WEB AWARDS

I just spent the last 2 hours shamelessly promoting my Genealogy Internet Series BY HER ROOTS  by asking all my friends, followers, connections and subscribers to vote for my series in the Best Online Video Web Series in the OPEN WEB AWARDS .....Every Day!  Every time I ask them to do something to assist me with my promotional campaigns I hint at never asking them again...and here I am getting caught up.  But they are my "friends" aren't they?

MASHABLE actually promotes this concept: "We encourage self-promotion and all promotion. After all, this is the social media edition of the Open Web Awards. Below is the tool to preset your link so you can share, tweet, email the link to whomever. We've also created some buttons that you can grab the embed code with your link to post on your site, blog or even a fan page".  


So in edition to promoting my series I am also promoting my broadcaster ROOTSTELEVISION.COM who are achieving phenomenal success thanks to their Production Team and the leadership of MEGAN SMOLENYAK SMOLENYAK,  no that is not a typo...its her name and she is phenomenal.  She is getting a lot of press right now for uncovering Michelle OBama's slave roots back several generations.  Here she is on the Today Show


So I have also nominated them for Best TV Network Online.  I so love the way social media works especially for independent producers and anyone who is inspired to share their creativity and their source of information and inspiration!

I am finishing the last webisode for By Her Roots and will upload shortly in time to submit it to the WEBBYS.  I am not under any illusions that I could win in any contests I enter but I do have to market my work every way I can so I can get the financing to hire a camera operator and an editor for my next two series "By Her Roots - Part Two" in Ireland and "Secrets of the Royal Grandmothers" in France and England so the technical quality will be dramatically improved!

Thanking everyone again for your support!
 

Hayes of Dublin

A couple of years ago, while I was researching my Irish Roots and preparing to go to Halifax Nova Scotia to shoot my internet documentary By Her Roots, I received a death notice for my great grandfather from a family researcher in Dublin, Ireland. Turns out he was buried in the Park Lawn Cemetery in Toronto. Not only had I never heard of this grandfather, neither had my mother. And even more surprising to me was that my family lived and worked all our lives around this cemetery and never knew we had an ancestor there.

He died on same day as my mother's birthday so i took her to the cemetery for her birthday....

Here is the latest short webisode from my series By Her Roots:

By Her Roots on Rootstelevision.com

Here is an excerpt from today's Rootstelevision.Com Blog where my Family History Webisode Series is one of the Videos featured:

Roots Television | Og Blog
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New Genealogy Videos: By Her Roots and Priceless Legacy

This week Og is featuring the seventh By Her Roots episode by Alannah Ryane. In this edition, she visits the Fortress of Louisbourg to investigate the Private Peter Martin record she found there. She also uncovers the movements of the 45th regiment during the years 1744-1760 and the French Indian Wars. Be sure to watch the first six webisodes, too, if you haven't see them already!



Thanks for watching!
Og
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