The number of bloggers watching the PBS Series The African Americans, Many Rivers to Cross, is expanding and many are using the series as a launch pad to share and tell their own individual family stories. The bloggers are from the genealogy community and have formed a unique circle of of support called, the African American Genealogy Blogging Circle.
And last Thursday a few of the bloggers from the African American Blogging Circle were guests on the Blog Talk Radio Program, Research at the National Archives and Beyond. I had the wonderful opportunity to serve as guest host for that show, and to speak with several of the bloggers about their experience blogging their way through the PBS series. I also allowed them to voice their personal opinions about the program.
Since that time the number of people joining the blogging Facebook group and the circle of bloggers has grown and more are exploring this new venue to tell their own family story, with the PBS series Many Rivers To Cross, as their inspiration, and as the launching pad to propel their writing.
So far, in response to the 4th Episode of the PBS Series, the following posts can be found:
"Going, Leaving" is on the blog: Who is Nicka Smith? by Nicka Sewell Smith
"Gone to Oklahoma" is on the blog Roots Revealed, by Melvin J. Collier
"Making a Way Out of No Way", on the blog, Between the Gate Posts , by Linda Durr Rudd
"Should We Go, or Should We Stay?" on the blog, Mariah's Zepher,by Vicky Daviss Mitchell.
"Surviving Against the Odds" is one the blog My Ancestor's Name by Angela Walton-Raji
"The Great Migration Continued" is on the blog, Finding Eliza by Kristin Cleage
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