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Your Future, Your PastYour Future, Your PastAncestral History and the digital future. The big picture of ancestral history has much to teach us, and some of this knowledge will enrich the rest of your life.
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Family Forest® Casting Call
2008-05-06 04:22:00 Millisecond Publishing Company, Inc. (MPC) is looking for celebrity spokespersons to internationally introduce the upcoming Family Forest ® Hollywood Edition. The ideal candidates will be those who regularly appear in international print and broadcast media as instantly recognized celebrities, who are welcome guests on Oprah, Larry King Live, The Charlie Rose Show and others, and who are ... More About: Call , Casting , Family Forest
Compression Far Beyond Belief
2008-04-26 02:53:00 Here?s the claim. It sounds too preposterous to be true, even to me, and I know it?s true. MPC?s Family Forest ® Project has now strategically compressed such a large quantity of knowledge and intelligence onto a half-ounce piece of plastic that a standard CD can be data-mined to generate tens of billions of pages of mostly ... More About: Compression , Time Magazine , Sergey Brin
Why such a huge bargain?
2008-04-24 01:03:00 It seems that some people are missing out on plenty of delight and enrichment simply because our offer appears to be too good to be true. A prospective customer (now a customer) emailed us earlier this week to ask us about it. It didn?t make sense. Why is it so cheap? Why is it more ... More About: Hollywood , Movies , Family , Entertainment , Bargain
Why is it such a hugh bargain?
2008-04-24 01:03:00 It seems that some people are missing out on plenty of delight and enrichment simply because our offer appears to be too good to be true. A prospective customer (now a customer) emailed us earlier this week to ask us about it. It didn?t make sense. Why is it so cheap? Why is it more ... More About: Hollywood , Movies , Family , Entertainment , Bargain
John Adams on HBO portrayed by relative
2008-04-17 06:40:00 Kristine and I have been very absorbed in an excellent HBO edutainment mini-series presentation of ?John Adams ? by the very captivating historian, author, and Medal of Freedom recipient, David McCullough. Mr. McCullough clearly employs one of the two concepts behind MPC?s trademark A People-Centered Approach to History®, history as seen through the lives of the ... More About: John Adams
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008-02-28 09:59:00 The Other Boleyn Girl is an ancestral history movie just premiering this weekend. It focuses on Lady Mary Boleyn, the elder sister of Queen Anne Boleyn, and the aunt of Queen Elizabeth I. The trailer looked compelling, and I followed up by checking the Family Forest® to see what we have already on Lady Mary ... More About: Movies , Entertainment , Prince Harry , Prince William
George Washington?s Lower Part and Presidential Trivia
2008-02-18 02:33:00 There is a great wealth of fascinating and enriching tidbits and historical trivia that has been squirreled away in old books over the centuries, and we have been digitally indexing as much of it as possible into the Family Forest®, to make those nuggets easy to discover. We thought it might be fun to point ... More About: Washington , Presidential , Trivia , George , Part
Setting the Record Straight
2008-01-06 21:03:00 Happy New Year! Isn?t the beginning of a new year always a perfect time for a fresh start? I think so, and I?d like to take this opportunity to clear up some misconceptions about the Family Forest® Project. Does the Family Forest® map out more of your own early ancestral history than you can see anywhere else? ... More About: Movies , Travel , Barack Obama , Maps
The Point of No Return
2007-12-16 04:33:00 On this day in history 234 years ago an event occurred which impacted the life of everyone alive today. The Boston Tea Party has been called the ?point of no return? for the birth of democracy. The chain of events which was started by this act of civil disobedience on December 16, 1773 changed the future for the ... More About: Family , American History , Thoughts , Democracy , Return
FamilyForest.com on NPR
2007-12-07 07:14:00 Since I frequently enjoy listening to NPR, I was very surprised to discover today that Alex Cohen had been talking on NPR about the highly praised Family Forest® Project back in October. The story discusses the celebrity family ties of President Bush, and refers to Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, John Kerry, Brooke Shields, Clint Eastwood, ...
Family Forest applauds HouseFront
2007-11-20 22:02:00 As the recent article at Realty Times called Behind the Curtains of Celebrity Homes shows, the fine folks at Housefront.com are also delivering one of the same services that the Family Forest ® Project delivers. HouseFront is connecting particular individuals (in this case celebrities) to a specific place (their homes) in time, now. The Family Forest ® Project is ...
The Best Genealogy Charting Available
2007-11-18 10:57:00 We?re glad that many others will now be discovering what Family Forest ® explorers have known for years. The very talented folks at Progeny Software have created the very best genealogy charting, far better than any others either online or offline. A recent article at Dick Eastman?s Online Genealogy Newsletter talks about their new announcement, and actual ... More About: Family Forest
The War, Veterans Day, and Uncle Donald
2007-11-12 02:39:00 Ken Burns is a master at utilizing A People-Centered Approach to History® to stimulate people to do good, which is the goal we are also striving to attain with the Family Forest® Project. After watching his excellent program on PBS called The War , Kristine was motivated to do further research about her Uncle Donald. ... More About: Movies , World War I , Veterans
Consider the Source
2007-11-06 00:01:00 ABC News recently came out with a story called ?Surprising Family Trees!? The supposedly new findings were no surprise to us, as most of them were known by us years ago and can already be seen in the Family Forest® New World Edition. The surprising part to us was the time lag and process of having ... More About: John Kerry , President Bush , Thoughts , Source
Please Don?t Shoot the Messenger
2007-10-23 01:26:00 By shooting the credibility of the one who is delivering the message, members of the media are doing their readers and the public a disservice by casting aspersions on what close investigations will confirm is very high quality work. The Family Forest® Project connects the dots of recorded history, and we are simply reporting on some ... More About: Science , Thoughts , Messenger , Math
Another Barack Obama Cousins Story
2007-10-19 00:43:00 A news story began circulating Tuesday about Vice President Dick Cheney and presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama being distant cousins. Anyone using the Family Forest® New World Edition from two years ago can instantly pull up a chart that illustrates, through generation-by-generation family ties, this supposedly new story. The story fails to mention some of the other ... More About: Entertainment , Story
Celebrate Family History month at FamilyForest.com
2007-10-05 04:19:00 Discover, explore and find the links that connect you to your past this month by visiting a unique ancestral history and travel resource. See what they have to offer in genealogy, hollywood family ties, entertainment,education and history. Introducing the new Family Forest New World Edition and Your Future, Your Past, the new blog that…. read more | digg story More About: History , Celebrate , Month , Mont
The King Maker
2007-09-15 21:05:00 After a very productive morning of growing the Family Forest®, Kristine and I were aimlessly channel-surfing on our lunch break, until we were captured by a Travel Channel program about some famous castles in England and Scotland. Ever since I discovered that I have ancestors who lived in castles I?ve been captivated by the spellbinding ... More About: Movies , Entertainment , The King
Debunking 3 Big Myths about Your Genealogy
2007-09-06 06:25:00 New and exciting discovery opportunities will open up for most people, probably including you, when these three emotionally-attached strongholds of common knowledge are exposed for the falsehoods they are. Myth #1: Genealogy is all about your last name. In any other field, anything that represents less than 1% of the whole is considered to be next to ... More About: Movies , Family , Entertainment , Myths
Britney Spears? Jamestown Ancestor and Katharine Hepburn
2007-08-16 23:59:00 Following up on Britney Spears ? Jamestown ancestor Richard Pace, I just discovered that we would have been deprived of one of the most loved Hollywood icons if Richard had not done what he did. According to the ancestral history already digitally mapped out in the Family Forest®, Richard Pace is one of the 11th great-grandfathers ... More About: Movies , Entertainment , Travel
Ted Danson in Damages
2007-08-09 22:58:00 Kristine and I watched Damages and I turned to the Family Forest® to see if there were family ties connecting the two stars, Ted Danson and Glenn Close. As often happens when I go exploring in the Family Forest®, I got sidetracked from the original mission. First I visited the Captain?s Log archives and rediscovered ... More About: Movies , Entertainment
Family Ties to the Bourne Ultimatum, Part II
2007-08-03 20:46:00 After exploring the descendants of Bourne Ultimatum star Matt Damon?s Stebbins ancestors, I browsed again through the Family Forest® for some of Matt?s other 1600?s ancestors. This time I explored the descendants of his Leonard ancestors. One noticeable difference to Matt?s Stebbins cousins was obvious. Matt?s only Stebbins cousin in the entertainment business (if we?re not counting politicians) ... More About: Movies , Family Ties , Part , Genealogy
Family Ties to the The Bourne Ultimatum
2007-08-03 01:55:00 How many cousins of The Bourne Ultimatum star Matt Damon will watch him when the movie premiers tomorrow, and have no idea they share ancestors with him? Probably plenty! I browsed through the Family Forest® for cousins who share early 1600?s Stebbins ancestors (only one of a number of his early American immigrant families I could ... More About: Movies , Entertainment , Family Ties , Genealogy
Lillian Gish to Glenn Close
2007-07-27 05:43:00 Inspired by a well-done tribute to early Hollywood legend Lillian Gish on YouTube, I explored a fun web of Kevin Bacon style six-degrees-of-separation connections. A Family Forest® kinship report for Lillian Gish reveals mostly everyday people, including probably many who have been enjoying her movies for years without having any idea that they share ancestors ... More About: Movies , Entertainment , Close
A Legendary Castle
2007-07-22 01:09:00 An opportunity like this may only come along once in a lifetime. A truly legendary castle, Bran Castle , famous in history as Dracula?s Castle, is being offered for sale. The patterns illustrated in world?s largest maps of human migration show that this sale and the future promotion of the castle is a perfect opportunity for ancestral ... More About: Family , Travel , Genealogy , Forest
A Red Letter Day
2007-07-20 06:33:00 Whenever I experience a remarkable day in the Family Forest® similar to the one I just had, I call it a red letter day. A Family Forest® red letter day is defined as a day when changes of extraordinary and enormous impact happen. These are changes that are vast and far reaching, changes that personally relate ... More About: Letter , Genealogy
What is an Ancestral History Cartographer?
2007-07-16 01:10:00 Cartographer: one who produces maps. When ancient mariners returned from their voyages of discovery, they turned their records and logs over to monastic type individuals (map makers, cartographers) who would turn that data into maps which other mariners would use on subsequent journeys to the same regions. When those mariners returned, they turned their new records and ... More About: Science , Family , Travel , History , Thoughts
What is an Ancestral History Tour Guide?
2007-07-15 01:17:00 By dictionary definition, I am a genealogist. In reality, I am not what one usually expects a genealogist to be. By analogy, think of true genealogists as master chefs. Highly trained professional experts who start from scratch and create precision works. Think of an ancestral history tour guide as similar to a person who reviews fine dining ... More About: Family , Travel , Books , History , Tour
So What, Who Cares?
2007-07-03 22:38:00 Everyone would, if they only knew. And we would like to give them this special experience via the Family Forest® Project. A couple of recent comments suggest that the distant past is irrelevant and there is no good reason for knowing who one?s early ancestors were. These opinions can only be held by someone who has not ... More About: Books , Genealogy , Ares
Genealogy?s Big Picture
More articles from this author:2007-06-28 21:36:00 Think about it. For centuries genealogy has been a subject that has been explored, figuratively speaking, through a microscope; small bits or segments of information are viewed in great detail. This is a worthwhile and enriching perspective that will always be beneficial in genealogy, but this perspective is severely hobbled by the limitations of paper-based knowledge, ... More About: Family , Picture , Genealogy , Big Picture 1, 2 |
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