John Searcy stood wide-eyed in front of a TV camera on Thursday at the Manatee County (Florida) Agricultural Museum, learning about his family’s past and his heritage.
The Indiana resident traveled through Palmetto with a TV crew at his side as he learned about his great-grandfather — his namesake — and the mysteries behind a man he grew up knowing very little about. His experience was being filmed for a new cable TV series called “The Generations Project.”
The series — developed by BYU Broadcasting based at Brigham Young University in Utah — will debut in October.
You can read more in the Bradenton Herald at http://www.bradenton.com/news/local/story/1565580.html.
I am very interested in the development of this type of program. I hope it will be available to satellite customers. And I hope it will be aired in the evening so us working people can view the program
Posted by: Linda Hansel | July 12, 2009 at 09:37 AM
The web link to the Generations Project that is listed with the article in the Brandenton Herald is dead, though you can still find the cached copy of it at Google. I did a little digging and BYU has a YouTube video introduction that is still available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJhyDHFv9FA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2F74%2E125%2E155%2E132%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3Ab0e7%2D%5FDODzQJ%3Awww%2Ebyub%2Eorg%2Fthegenerationsproject%2F%2Bthe%2Bgenerations%2Bproject%2Bsite%3Awww%2Ebyub%2Eorg%2B&feature=player_embedded
It is very interesting and I am sure the reason that the invite has been withdrawn from the BYU site is that they were inundated with people wanted to have their family researched. I know I would love to myself!
Posted by: Bob McD. | July 12, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Here's the current link for The Generations Project. Apparently they're still soliciting participants.
http://www.byub.org/thegenerationsproject
Posted by: Suzia | July 12, 2009 at 12:54 PM
The BYU cable channel is available on the Dish Network, at least here in No.CA. I watch several of their programs.
Ellen
Posted by: Ellen Reesh | July 12, 2009 at 03:17 PM
I would be interested in watching the program, but I do not have cable or any other paid service. I could watch on PBS or one of this group of public channels.
Posted by: Susan McAloon | July 12, 2009 at 11:06 PM
BYU's cable channel is streamed live at http://www.byu.tv/ for those who don't have Dish Network, DirectTV, or a cable system that carries it.
Information about the family history and genealogy programming that this channel broadcasts can be found at: http://www.byub.org/new/genealogy/
Posted by: Zadruga Guy | July 13, 2009 at 09:53 AM
I found today another one good website for watching online television:
http://www.channels-tv.com/
Posted by: Tadas | July 16, 2009 at 05:25 AM
I'm not so sure it is going to be on BYU this month (October).
There doesn't seem to be anything on BYU's website about it.
Posted by: Gayle Swayne | October 11, 2009 at 11:19 AM