The Human Family Tree – National Geographic Channel – Tues. Sept 1

I’ve got my DVR cued for tomorrow night’s airing of The National Geographic Channel’s ground-breaking show “The Human F... I missed the original showing on Friday and am thrilled it will be repeated on Tuesday night. The episode takes a neighborhood in Queens, N.Y. and through DNA sampling of a couple hundred of the residents of this neighborhood, traces everyone’s origin back to the birth of humanity in East Africa.

National Geographic has provided some great materials to support the show and their “Genographic Project” – a groundbreaking effort to chart the migratory history of the human species. You can join the project and submit a cheek swab for analysis and inclusion into the project. While your swab is being analyzed, you can check online to wait for the results. Once you get your results, you can share your Migration Story on the project’s website. There is also a terrific interactive map that shows the migration pattern of civilization. If you know a bit about where your family started, you can get an idea of when civilization migrated to that part of the world.

Read the entire Legacy Multimedia blog entry here with all the story links