We are here to help you with your incredible journey to unlock the stories and histories of your ancestors. The show has an emphasis on African American genealogy and history.
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Genealogy Adventures
6 Seasons - 98 Episodes
We are here to help you with your incredible journey to unlock the stories and histories of your ancestors. The show has an emphasis on African American genealogy and history.Join Brian Sheffey & Donya Williams on Genealogy Adventures Live! on e360tv. For over a decade, genealogists and public historians Brian and Donya have helped to reveal the historical American experience that was lived by marginalized people through the lens of genealogy. The show addresses different aspects of practical approaches to genealogy with an emphasis on researching enslaved people, free people of color, and those who left only partial and obscured footprints in the official records. Their work has sparked conversations about U.S. history, race, slavery with a blend of honesty, compassion, deep insights, and humor; taking viewers into a deep dive into the past to reveal lost and erased connections that bind millions of Americans together. As they are fond of saying: genealogy has the power to heal the world.
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Season 2 - Episode
S02 E02 Researching Your Female Ancestors
Season 3 - Episode
S03 E13 Genealogy & Researching Slavery Disrupted Family Trees
Season 3 - Episode
S03 E10 Genealogy & Researching Free People of Color with Andre Kearns
Season 3 - Episode
S03 E01 Native American Genealogy with Chief Lonzado Langley (Euchee)
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E01 How African American History Should Be Taught In Schools
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E05 Louisiana Sugar Plantation Research with Ja’el “YaYa” Gordon
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E12 Bringing Slave Cabins to life with Holographic Technology with Jason Church
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S05 E13 Sold Downriver - Using U.S. Slave Ship Manifests _ Records in Your Research
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S05 E11 Finding Lost Enslaved Family- Freedmen's Newspaper Adverts with Prof. Judith Giesberg
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S05 E09 Society of the First African Families of English America with Ric Murphy Facebook Live
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E10 Book Club_ Reminiscences of my Life in Camp with the 33d USCT by Susie King Taylor
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S05 E08 Digitizing County Archives with the Kentucky Historical Society
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E07 Introducing the Sons & Daughters of the Middle Passage Society with Dr. Evelyn McDowell
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E06 Introducing Borland Genetics _ Virtual Ancestors’ DNA Results with Kevin Borland
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E04 Elizabeth Wiseman- My Four Fathers
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E03 'Brown Babies The Mischlingskinder Story' with Regina Griffin
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S05 E36 The Our Mammy's Educational Organization with Founder, Gaynell Brady
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S05 E35 The Buffalo Soldiers of the Pacific Northwest with Cynthia Wilson
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E02 Lalita Yeldell-Sylvers (author)- 'Circumcision of a Wounded Heart'
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S05 E33 The Importance of African American Newspapers
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E34 The Hidden Black History Behind Ice Cream w_The Food Griot Tanya Hopkins
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S05 E32 An Interview with Kenyatta D Berry
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E16 A History of African American Food w-Tonya Hopkins (the Food Griot) Part 1
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S05 E31 The History & Importance of HBCUs with YaYa Gordon & Kyle Yeldell
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S05 E30 The History of Black Beaches and Resorts with Allen Hoilman (Celebrate Freedom Series)
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S05 E29 The U.S. Congressional Slaveholder Database with Julie Weil
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S05 E28 The Untold Story of Henrietta Lacks with Ron Lacks
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E27 Deborah Sampson American Revolutionary Hero with Forrest Crosley
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S05 E26 Jamaican and British Caribbean Genealogy w-Linford Sweeney
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S05 E25 Slavic Genealogy with Patrick-Joseph Elias
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S05 E24 Ron Levi - A Foundling's Genealogical & Family History Journey
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S05 E23 The Story of USCT Soldier Cathay Williams with NPS Officer Kenya Finley
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S05 E19 The Fugitive Slave Advertisements Database with Dr. Shaun Wallace
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E18 Discussing the Reconstruction Era with Professor William Horne
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E22 Olivia J. Hooker - The Story of the 1st African American Woman in the U.S. Coast Guard
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E21 How to Live Well Past 100__ The Story of Mother Lucille Shazier with Mary L. Beal
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E20 The Story of Anarcha, Lucy, & Betsey- The 3 Enslaved Mothers of Gynecology
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E17 Researching Louisiana Sugar Plantations, Pt. 2 with Ja'el 'YaYa' Gordon
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S05 E14 Researching the Children of Breeders
Season 5 - Episode
S05 E15 Creating the Memorial for the USCT of Natchez, MS w-Deborah Fountain
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E08 Life after Twitter - Preserving Genealogy Social Networks
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E21 Spring Cleaning Family Trees
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E20 - African American Genealogy - Why It Is So Unique
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E19 Introducing Mayor Lisa Gilbert - The First Black and First Female Mayor of Elaine, Arkansas
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E04 Relative Race - Where Are They Now with Raymond Campbell & J D Barnes
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E03 Black Homesteaders of the Midwest with Richard Edwards and Jacob Friefeld
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E07 Black Homesteaders of the South With Bernice Alexander Bennett
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E05 Black Cemeteries - A History Ignored with Antionette Jackson (Black Cemetery Network)
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E06 Researching John Yeldell - Black Voter Suppression & The Man who put SC on Trial in 1889
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E09 Documenting the Extinction of mtDNA & YDNA Lineages and Surnames
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E10 Relative Race - Where are They Now with Anitra Louis
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E16 African Americans in Sports with 2x time World Champion Sprinter Andre Cason
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E17 Breaking Down Barriers - The Growth of African Americans from Slavery to Now
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E18 Coming Up in Women's History Month
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E23 Why It Is important To Attend a Genealogy Conference
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E24 University Slave Descendants Research Projects
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E22 The Slave Dwelling Project with Joseph McGill and Ja'el YaYa Gordon
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E27 The Rollback of Civil Rights in the U_S_
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E25 Joining U.S. Heritage Societies While Black
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E26 The Cost of Paying for Genealogical Help
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E29 Preserving Genealogy & Family History in Jewelry
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E14 African American Entrepreneurs - Introducing Kinkofa
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E15 The 1811 Louisiana Slave Revolt with Ja'el 'YaYa' Gordon and John McCusker
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E13 Why Is Black History So Scary
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E31 Season 6 Wrap-up
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E28 What's New at Family Tree DNA (FTDNA)
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E02 Historians vs Genealogists What is the Difference
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E30 The Genealogy Adventure Research Service - Meet the Team
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E01 Researching an Enslaved Ancestor's Pathway of Enslavement
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E11 Genealogy Adventures Special - Celebrating 10 Seasons of Relative Race
Season 6 - Episode
S06 E12 Enslaved Research - Researching Moses Williams, Sr of North Carolina & South Carolina
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E01 Tell Me Our Story with Bernadette Thompson
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E03 Family History Challenge for the Holidays!
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E02 Woodland Cemetery & The African American Burial Ground Historic Preservation Project
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E18 The Struggle for Equal Justice with Author Myrna E. Heath
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E07 Researching Free People of Color with Dr. Shelley Murphy
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E06 Commercial Genealogy Research Service Client Aftercare with Aubrey Warrick
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E04 Introducing A New African American Genealogy Research Service with Marie Eaton Jones
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E05 Is There Only One Way for African American History Museums to Tell the History of Chattel Slavery
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E03 Family History Challenge for the Holidays!
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E02 Woodland Cemetery & The African American Burial Ground Historic Preservation Project
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E22 Adding the Right Records, To The Right Ancestor
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E01 Tell Me Our Story with Bernadette Thompson
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E21 The Brister English Project with Walter English
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E19 Unknown Women in History with Dr. Shelley Murphy
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E20 Black Civil War Vets of Washington
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E17 Reparations- What is it, Who Should Get it and How
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E16_ ASALH_ The Founders of Black History Month with Dr. Zebulon Miletsky
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E15- William & Mary Bray School Initiative with Elizabeth Drembus
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E13_ Black Loyalist Heritage Center _ Museum (Nova Scotia)
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E14_ Aungelic Nelson For the Culture A Genealogy Handbook for the Cool Kids
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E08 The Call My Name Project with Dr Rhonnda Robinson Thomas
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E12 Ancestry Pro Tools
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E11 At the Feet of the Elders- A Journey into a Lowcountry Family History
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E10 Documenting SC African American Burial Sites w-Grant Mishoe
Season 7 - Episode
S07 E09 Genealogy Research Careers- Reference Librarian with Whitney Day
Season 8 - Episode 1
S08 E10 - Researching U.S. Tri-Racial Ancestry
Season 8 - Episode 2
S08 E11 - A Conversation with Clennon L. King on History, Legacy, and Justice