We don’t know how the first season of Genealogy Roadshow (GR) was put together. If you watched the inaugural season on your local PBS station, you know that four cities were featured–Nashville, Detroit, San Francisco, and Austin, TX–and subjects came to a historic landmark building in each city to be presented with genealogical research results by GR experts Josh Taylor or Kenyatta D. Berry. The format was intended to resemble the format used by Antiques Roadshow, which has been running on PBS for years.
This year, the approach may be different. GR has made available an application form for candidates to fill out and submit. To see an application, go here: http://www.grcasting.com/.
Based on the details requested by the application, the production company obviously will make selections on the candidate’s “story” and even telegenic qualities. To me, that would seem to rule out aggregating the featured subjects in one city at a time. On the other hand, this same process may have been followed for the inaugural season. We don’t know the home cities of the subjects that were presented.
If you want to see the four episodes in the inaugural season of GR, go here: http://video.pbs.org/program/genealogy-roadshow/
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