Tonight ....

DB and I are watching episodes of The Generations Project tonight.  

It is like the beloved Who Do You Think You Are ...  only with non-celebrities - ya know, NORMAL people.  Celebrities are not NORMAL.   Well, frankly - neither am I....  so ....   does that make me a celebrity? 

Maybe in my own mind.  

Regardless - the first episode of the .... almost 40 episodes I have on my DVR ....  was that of Xander and Carrie ... (actually pictured above on the The Generations Project graphic.) 

Xander and Carrie are parents of twin boys who were born with a very rare deadly blood disorder called  HLH - hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis ....it is usually fatal unless there is a bone marrow transplant.  Luckily for the boys, they got one, and it was an amazing match.  A 9 out of 10 match, the doctors say that 10 out of 10 is identical twins, so 9 out of 10 has to be something special.  So they were curious about two things.  1: if they were related to the donor, because they figured there had to be some sort of genetic connection there to have such a high score.  2: they were curious if any of their family members had - perhaps - lost children to HLH also.  And they did find a family in their pedigree that they are fairly confident that their three sons may have died from HLH, which wouldn't have been known at the time.  

You can actually watch the episode on the website.  HERE ..... 

It actually hit home super hard for me.  Because I have kids with rare genetic disorders.   One we may or may not have pin pointed.  The other is definitely pin pointed.  

And they live in Seattle!!  I saw them go in here ........ 

Seattle Genealogical Society ....I want to go!!!!!

DB was all shocked "You have almost 40 episodes of this????"  

I explained to him that I don't tend to watch it because it makes me desperately want to start digging in ours again an ..... AND I AM CHOMPING AT THE BIT right now ......  so I didn't really want to get into it.  I don't have an active ancestry account at the moment - so it's hard to when that's the main place that I have our trees.

Stay tuned........  I think I'll have some new entries coming up!

Vikings (the series) on History Channel

The History channel has a series that started this year called VIKINGS ...  finding out more about my Viking heritage, I'm interested.   I managed to get ahold of the first season...    I checked to say if they are replaying any episodes, and I didn't see any.   It has been picked up for a 10 episode Second Season...  The first season had 9 episodes.  

Vikings is a Canadian-Irish historical drama television series, written and created by Michael Hirst for the television channel History.^[1] It premiered on March 3, 2013 in the United States and Canada.

Filmed in Ireland, Vikings is inspired by the tales about the Viking Ragnar Lodbrok, one of the best-known Norse heroes and notorious as the scourge of France and England. It portrays Ragnar as a Viking farmer who pioneers the first daring raids into England with the support of fellow warriors, his brother Rollo, and his wife, the shieldmaiden Lagertha.

On April 5, 2013, History renewed Vikings for a ten-episode second season.^[2]

(wikipedia)

I'm going to watch it and check it out.  When I get the chance....