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The Genealogy Detective

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Mary Duffy is the Genealogy Detective, solving your family's mysteries and telling your stories. Each episode we'll investigate a new case: unearthing family secrets, finding long-lost cousins, uncovering origins with research or DNA, and proving whether the legends your grandmother handed down are true.

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en

Release Date:

04/13/2021 12:53:59

Authors:

Mary Duffy

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society

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    Moby and Herman: Part Three - The Chase

    Release Date: 9/12/2023

    Duration: 2494 Mins

    Authors: Mary Duffy

    Description: We bring our investigation to a close, tracing Moby's tree back to Scotland and talk through all of Herman Melville's own family's ancestral hopes.  Gregor Ehrlich Background on Herman Melville’s genealogy and Thomas and Allan Melvill’s attempt to prove their relation to General Robert Melvill comes several sources, including:  “Data on the Melvill Family,” the research put together by Allan Melvill, courtesy of the Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts Herman Melville's Malcom Letter, (Hennig Cohen and Donald Yannella, 1992) “Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Melville,” (ed. Cuyler Reynolds, 1911) Jean F. Melvill, “Melvill Genealogy,” Melville Society Extracts Number 95, December 1993 Merton Sealts Jr., “The Melvill Heritage,” Harvard Library Bulletin XXXIV (4), Fall 1986 Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography (Volume 1), 1996 John Bryant’s biography of Herman Melville is Herman Melville: A Half-Known Life (2021) Melville lineage back to 13th century from Sir Robert Douglas’ The Baronage of Scotland (1798) Letters between Allan and Thomas Melvill about their ancestry and heritage are collected in “Data on the Melvill Family” (Berkshire Athenaeum) Descendants of David Melvill of Boston, Massachusetts and Newport, Rhode Island, Helen S. Ullmann, 2021 David Melville’s (1776-1793) pewter porringer and plate are at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City Wikipedia page for David Melville (1773-1856), inventor of the first gas street lighting. For more information see Daniel W. Mattausch, “David Melville And The First American Gas Light Patents,” Rushlight Journal, December 1998 Herman Melville, Redburn (1849) For more about Herman Melville’s choice of names for his children, and particularly Malcolm, see Herman Melville's Malcolm Letter: Man's Final Love, by Hennig Cohen and Donald Yanella (1993) Moby discussing Moby-Dick from a video made for LA Library Foundation Music by Blue Dot Sessions and Breakmaster Cylinder. Special thanks to John Bryant, Hap Hall, Elizabeth Doss and Gregor Ehrlich. 

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    Moby and Herman: Part Two - Cutting In

    Release Date: 9/11/2023

    Duration: 1810 Mins

    Description: Our research into Moby's ancestry begins in earnest and leads to a Melville ancestor.   Notes: LA Times article about the LA Library Foundation event from September 2013 Moby discussing Moby-Dick from a video made for LA Library Foundation Read Moby-Dick if you dare Moby discussing family from a video made for LA Library Foundation Moby talking about his grandmother from Porcelain (2016) Page from New Jersey marriage Index recording marriage of Alice B. Albridge and John M. Gardner Page from Massachusetts marriage index recording 1935 marriage of Alice Beverly Albridge Marriage record of Alice Beverly Albridge to John William Hall in April 1935  Obituary of John William Hall, San Bernardino County Sun, June 4, 1980 Photos of Melville “Hap” Hall (used with permission) Family tree of John William Hall (1912–1980) Family tree of Herman Melville’s siblings and immediate descendants  Family tree of Clara Ellery Melville (1833-1909)   Music by Blue Dot Sessions, closing theme Breakmaster Cylinder. 

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    Moby and Herman: Part One - Loomings

    Release Date: 9/11/2023

    Duration: 1693 Mins

    Authors: Mary Duffy

    Description: My friend Adam brings a question to me: is Moby (aka Richard Melville Hall) really related to Moby-Dick author Herman Melville. Notes: A screenshot of Moby’s Wikipedia page, taken May 2023 Excerpt from the Afterword of Moby’s 2016 memoir, Porcelain (2016) Tweet from Moby (@thelittleidiot): “On this day in 1851…” Tweet from Moby (@thelittleidiot): “Happy Birthday Uncle Herman…” Background on Moby’s career was compiled from several sources including:  Moby’s memoirs Porcelain (2016) and Then It Fell Apart (2019); Grayson Haver Currin, “All That Moby Needs to Be Good,” NPR, May 22, 2020 Rob Gordon Bralver documentary, Moby Doc (2021)   Clip from “Rave Dancing the Night Away,” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 13, 1992  Clip from “Moby Bright Spot in a Colorless World,” Los Angeles Times, January 18, 1993 Clip from “Moby: Remixed, repulsed, reborn,” Hartford Courant, March 12, 1995 Video of Moby’s segment with Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards Clips of Moby discussing his childhood from Moby Doc (2021) Obituary of James Frederick Hall, Bridgewater Courier News, September 26, 1967 Clip of Moby discussing childhood in San Francisco, taking LSD from Porcelain (2016) Clip of Moby talking about his nickname from an interview with Steve Paikin on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin Melville’s family tree of direct descendents, taken from Hershel Parker’s Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 2 (1851-1891)  “Metaphors? I hate metaphors…” clip from Parks and Recreation episode “Fluoride” (Season 6, Episode 8) “Though I wrote the Gospels in this century…” quote from Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, June [1?], 1851   Music by Blue Dot Sessions, closing theme Breakmaster Cylinder. 

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    Boris and Hannah

    Release Date: 11/15/2020

    Duration: 1420 Mins

    Authors: Mary Duffy

    Description: Hannah's grandfather always said their family was related to Boris Pasternak. The Genealogy Detective digs for proof, and teaches herself the Cyrillic alphabet.  Credits The Genealogy Detective is written, researched, produced, edited, mixed, and hosted by Mary Duffy. Music by Blue Dot Sessions. Special thanks to the Portland Public Library of Portland, Maine. 

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    Mariel and Ilona

    Release Date: 10/30/2020

    Duration: 1889 Mins

    Authors: Mary Duffy

    Description: Mariel never knew her grandmother Ilona, a Holocaust survivor, or about Ilona's parents, siblings, and extended family. But she's in a place in her life where questions about her family and their history have begun to take on new importance. In this episode we find some answers.  Credits The Genealogy Detective is written, researched, produced, edited, mixed, and hosted by Mary Duffy. Music by Blue Dot Sessions. Special thanks to Doree Shafrir, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, JewishGen.org, Ekkies and Squish. Interviews of Rose Ringel (1996) and Albert Rosenthal (2000) are from the archive of the USC Shoah Foundation. For more information visit http://sfi.usc.edu.

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    Introducing The Genealogy Detective

    Release Date: 10/15/2020

    Duration: 63 Mins

    Authors: Mary Duffy

    Description: Most of us live securely in the knowledge of who our parents are, our uncles, aunts, cousins, our grand-parents and great-grandparents. How can we define who we are, unless we know where we came from, and who we came from? Some of us are still searching for those answers. And every family has their own legends, stories, myths, and also, mysteries. Solving family mysteries is what I do. I’m Mary Duffy, and on each episode of The Genealogy Detective we’ll hear a new case and how it got solved. Please join me and subscribe to The Genealogy Detective. And if you have a family mystery you’d like solved, email me, the genealogy detective at detectivegenealogy@gmail.com The first episode drops on Halloween.

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    Explicit: No

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