Six Degrees of Separation

Tomorrow night (Feb. 10) is the premiere of the four-part PBS program Faces of America with Henry Gates, Jr. Studying immigration and genetics, Prof. Gates examines the family histories of 12 Americans. We are huge proponents of this kind of pursuit, and welcome all viewers (and readers) to take the process a step further by becoming familiar with JewishGen and our Keeping History Center.

Some filming for the program took place here last fall, which Betsy managed, and we are eager to see how the Museum looks. We also think it is pretty spiffy that Meryl Streep is one of the 12 Americans featured. She is one of the voices of our English language audio tour, along with Itzhak Perlman, and we are huge fans of hers.

If you can’t catch the series on your local PBS station, you can watch it on the PBS website beginning Feb. 11. If you do get a chance to watch, tell us what you think.