Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 223

Your friends, your neighbors and even perfect strangers have likely at some point captured you or someone in your family in one of their own old home movies. And the same is true for your ancestors. As long as film has been around, the chances of someone in your family tree appearing in someone else’s videos at some point in time is actually quite high.

And think about it, when film – or moving pictures – came into being right around 1895, it had the capability of capturing someone born as early as even 1800. That’s a lot of potential generations of your family!

David Haas MD knows this better than most folks. he has experienced first-hand that any one of us may find ourselves, quite by surprise, as the keeper or even the Archivist of film footage that connects to potentially hundreds if not thousands of other people and families. And there’s a very good possibility that yours is one of those families.

Your family could very well indeed be one that has been a bit player in somebody else’s film, and you didn’t even know it. But that’s OK, because thanks to technology, it’s never been easier to find the celluloid that once lay sleeping in a stranger’s attic.

Resources:
Collection of articles on the topic of video at the Genealogy Gems website - https://lisalouisecooke.com/category/video/

Browse his phenomenal collection of home movies at David’s website - http://haashomemovies.com/Haas_Home_Movies/Welcome.html

You’ll find inspiration and you might just find an ancestor captured on film. Because we are all bit players in everybody else’s show.

David's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQHwda1J7jYLVmVyi99kS1w

Visit Anna Haas’ website: http://annahaas.com/
Anna’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/annahaasmusic