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!
Showing posts with label rootstelevision. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rootstelevision. Show all posts
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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
Keep up with the latest additions and happenings by following along with Og, our RootsTelevision guide.
« New Genealogy Videos and Unclaimed Persons Turns One! | Main
June 16, 2009
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
RootsTelevision.com
Roots Television | Og Blog
Keep up with the latest additions and happenings by following along with Og, our RootsTelevision guide.
« New Genealogy Videos and Unclaimed Persons Turns One! | Main
June 16, 2009
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
RootsTelevision.com
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Shooting at the Fortress of Louisbourg
The first webisode from my By Her Roots Family History series is up on my YouTube channel but is also now playing on RootsTelevision.com. It is an honor to be included in that community. The producers and creators of this site are among the pioneers in getting genealogy into mainstream public awareness as they were producers of the original Ancestors series for PBS many years ago. So I am very happy to be there.
The shoot at the Fortress of Louisbourg was amazing. I took Janice Fralic-Brown one of my researchers here in Nova Scotia with me as I had found a clue online regarding my search for Peter Martin in their records for 1759/60. Janice doesn't drive so I had to teach her how to use my camera for the beautiful shots along parts of the Cabot Trail. An eagle flew across right above and in front of my car and then disappeared which to me was a great omen for the journey. We didn't get there until 2:30 and they closed at 5:30..My battery was dead and didn't realize I was really going back to 1744 as I was half expecting power outlets somewhere and of course there were none. It was the Festival of St. Louis so when the enemy arrived at the gate we were all interogated Especially as my camera was seen as an unknown weapon. I tried to explain that the King had requested us to travel back from the future to document the event, then I continued to be under suspicion when I didn't know if it was Louis 14th or 15th.
We were hungry and hoping to grab something so I could re-think my strategy and shift my perspective as I had screwed up the shoot because I left my back up camera (with all its batteries) with my son in Toronto. I know from everything I have learned through quantum physics et all that what I think I create and if I didn't change my stressed out perspective that the shoot was doomed fast it would be. So we both re-focused on a positive outcome. Luckily we found ourselves in front of the two dining halls. We chose to eat with the peasants in the soldiers (which was appropriate for our ancestors) dining room and share a small meal which included this amazing soldier's bread..which was perfect and a beer which I really needed. Then started asking how to find Ken Donovan who I was supposed to interview but we had missed his presentations earlier as it had taken us 7 hours to get there. Of course they don't have phones. So we had to depend on the old way of communicating ..tell someone to tell someone etc. We were also told to ask a guide as to where there might be power and eventually we ended up in the very supportive loving and responsible arms of Louise Johnston who took us to an office hidden within the interior of the buildings which was a beautiful location with power to shoot Janice's interview. Louise then got us a replacement for Ken to interview. Lawrence Burman is the Parks Canada Visitor Services Supervisor and , God love him, I asked him to sum up the activities at Louisbourg from 1744-1760 in about 2 minutes..and he did! He also gave us some more clues as to where to look for Peter Martin.
Janice, who is a Family Historian and Editor of the Nova Scotia Genealogist (the Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia's newsletter) became my camera assistant, interviewer and talent so fast she didn't have time to freak out. It turns out Janice had two ancestors at Louisbourg in the 45th regiment the same regiment as the Peter Martin that I found listed there in 59/60. Her ancestors actually stayed in Louisbourg afterwards so she is related to the most prominent names in the area so was able to talk about them in the interviews. Then Lawrence took us to another location which was even more amazing so we could have power and another gentlemen was assigned to assist us (he even gave us cookies and water).
As we were leaving..as slowly as we could walk cause we didn't have time to investigate anything else while we were there, we were walking the empty streets as most everyone was gone. At one point I had a flash that all three ancestors were looking down at us together as they had helped to turn the whole shoot around for us and then I got goosebumps and the hair on my arms stood up and the wind came up right at us and we both felt it was true. So I am now staying with this line of research and hopefully I can find evidence that he is my ancestor and maybe I will find the mysterious Mary a native or Acadian woman who bore my ancestor John but was not recognized anywhere.
We stopped in Sydney at dusk for beer and lobster!
I am including a quote from Janice's email to me last night
reflecting on her journey with a wild woman like me..lol
"Alannah, I can't believe how yesterday fell into place. From the very beginning I was so excited to be on the trip with you, and it was incredible to see how what we first thought were going to be huge obstacles turned out, with some positive action on our part (especially yours!), to lead to such fantastic gifts as the helpful and knowledgeable guides who were so generous with their time and expertise, as well as the great shooting spots they enabled us to use. What a magical day! We came so close to our ancestors, I know we did. I'd do it again, in a second. It really showed me how we can achieve what we need to, by focusing on what is necessary and then going forward with the actions to make it possible. You are such a positive force! Thank you for this amazing opportunity."
Now to take a breath and get on to more mundane stuff.
The shoot at the Fortress of Louisbourg was amazing. I took Janice Fralic-Brown one of my researchers here in Nova Scotia with me as I had found a clue online regarding my search for Peter Martin in their records for 1759/60. Janice doesn't drive so I had to teach her how to use my camera for the beautiful shots along parts of the Cabot Trail. An eagle flew across right above and in front of my car and then disappeared which to me was a great omen for the journey. We didn't get there until 2:30 and they closed at 5:30..My battery was dead and didn't realize I was really going back to 1744 as I was half expecting power outlets somewhere and of course there were none. It was the Festival of St. Louis so when the enemy arrived at the gate we were all interogated Especially as my camera was seen as an unknown weapon. I tried to explain that the King had requested us to travel back from the future to document the event, then I continued to be under suspicion when I didn't know if it was Louis 14th or 15th.
We were hungry and hoping to grab something so I could re-think my strategy and shift my perspective as I had screwed up the shoot because I left my back up camera (with all its batteries) with my son in Toronto. I know from everything I have learned through quantum physics et all that what I think I create and if I didn't change my stressed out perspective that the shoot was doomed fast it would be. So we both re-focused on a positive outcome. Luckily we found ourselves in front of the two dining halls. We chose to eat with the peasants in the soldiers (which was appropriate for our ancestors) dining room and share a small meal which included this amazing soldier's bread..which was perfect and a beer which I really needed. Then started asking how to find Ken Donovan who I was supposed to interview but we had missed his presentations earlier as it had taken us 7 hours to get there. Of course they don't have phones. So we had to depend on the old way of communicating ..tell someone to tell someone etc. We were also told to ask a guide as to where there might be power and eventually we ended up in the very supportive loving and responsible arms of Louise Johnston who took us to an office hidden within the interior of the buildings which was a beautiful location with power to shoot Janice's interview. Louise then got us a replacement for Ken to interview. Lawrence Burman is the Parks Canada Visitor Services Supervisor and , God love him, I asked him to sum up the activities at Louisbourg from 1744-1760 in about 2 minutes..and he did! He also gave us some more clues as to where to look for Peter Martin.
Janice, who is a Family Historian and Editor of the Nova Scotia Genealogist (the Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia's newsletter) became my camera assistant, interviewer and talent so fast she didn't have time to freak out. It turns out Janice had two ancestors at Louisbourg in the 45th regiment the same regiment as the Peter Martin that I found listed there in 59/60. Her ancestors actually stayed in Louisbourg afterwards so she is related to the most prominent names in the area so was able to talk about them in the interviews. Then Lawrence took us to another location which was even more amazing so we could have power and another gentlemen was assigned to assist us (he even gave us cookies and water).
As we were leaving..as slowly as we could walk cause we didn't have time to investigate anything else while we were there, we were walking the empty streets as most everyone was gone. At one point I had a flash that all three ancestors were looking down at us together as they had helped to turn the whole shoot around for us and then I got goosebumps and the hair on my arms stood up and the wind came up right at us and we both felt it was true. So I am now staying with this line of research and hopefully I can find evidence that he is my ancestor and maybe I will find the mysterious Mary a native or Acadian woman who bore my ancestor John but was not recognized anywhere.
We stopped in Sydney at dusk for beer and lobster!
I am including a quote from Janice's email to me last night
reflecting on her journey with a wild woman like me..lol"Alannah, I can't believe how yesterday fell into place. From the very beginning I was so excited to be on the trip with you, and it was incredible to see how what we first thought were going to be huge obstacles turned out, with some positive action on our part (especially yours!), to lead to such fantastic gifts as the helpful and knowledgeable guides who were so generous with their time and expertise, as well as the great shooting spots they enabled us to use. What a magical day! We came so close to our ancestors, I know we did. I'd do it again, in a second. It really showed me how we can achieve what we need to, by focusing on what is necessary and then going forward with the actions to make it possible. You are such a positive force! Thank you for this amazing opportunity."
Now to take a breath and get on to more mundane stuff.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Today Show Discovering Their Roots
Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak from Rootstelevision.com posted this message on her Facebook Page:
"Way back in the Dark Ages when I first became a professional genealogist, one of the first things I had the opportunity to do was research the roots of one of the anchors of the Today Show. Well, they've decided that it's time again, and from the looks of this preview video, it should be well worth watching."
Starting Monday the Today show anchors are looking into their Family Trees and they have the same kind of opening I did on mine..which is very encouraging for me and my series By Her Roots. The main thing is that they are making even more people aware of how important and revealing it can be to travel back in time through your own DNA. To discover some of the elements that make up who you are and how you came to be shows us how very special each and every one of us are while also showing our interconnectedness.
"Way back in the Dark Ages when I first became a professional genealogist, one of the first things I had the opportunity to do was research the roots of one of the anchors of the Today Show. Well, they've decided that it's time again, and from the looks of this preview video, it should be well worth watching."
Starting Monday the Today show anchors are looking into their Family Trees and they have the same kind of opening I did on mine..which is very encouraging for me and my series By Her Roots. The main thing is that they are making even more people aware of how important and revealing it can be to travel back in time through your own DNA. To discover some of the elements that make up who you are and how you came to be shows us how very special each and every one of us are while also showing our interconnectedness.
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