My pedigree (TV show)

The television program acquaints viewers with the history and fate of representatives of surnames intertwined in the genealogical trees of the heroes of the issues - the most famous domestic contemporaries . Program participants are directly involved in genealogical searches , which happens behind the scenes, reading the author’s text, commented on the presenter Yana Churikova ^[2] . During the program, specialists in the field of genealogy share practical tips on how to deal with complex situations.

The TV program is part of the more general multimedia project of Channel One - “My Family Tree” , which was supposed to be a portal replenished by the users themselves ^[3] , similar to the search project of Channel One “ Wait for me ”.

The program was filmed in Rostov-on-Don ^[4] , Kazan ^[5] , Astrakhan ^[6] , Odessa, Ryazan ^[7] , Smolensk ^[8] , Atkarsk ^[9] and other cities.

• Literaturnaya Gazeta : “The very idea of ​​the television program evokes sympathy: in a country where in less than a hundred years they twice destroyed everything“ to the ground “, giving rise to countless Ivanovs who do not remember kinship, such a transmission is a balm for wounds. The example of Dmitry Kharatyan (the hero of the latest issue) shows how the history of Russia is closely intertwined with the branches of the family tree of each of us. (...) And everything would be wonderful, but the “hasty” simplicity of some episodes, the obvious element of the “PR” of the telecast heroes and the desire of the latter to make “candy” from their family tree a little hindered. By the way, compilers of various pedigrees of letters have been exploiting this human weakness for several years ” ^[10] .
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta : “Another well-known writer, Daria Dontsova, while talking about her“ Bloodline ”on Channel One, found that her dad was a great literary official Arkady Vasilyev, who had become famous not only for his books, but for his role in the process against Sinyavsky and Daniel - he was a public prosecutor - turned out to be an employee of the KGB. But, frankly, as far as I remember, back then, in the 60s and 70s, it was an open secret. Everyone guessed why Soviet literature needed such a writer as Arkady Vasiliev. Guess - guessed, but did not know the whole truth. The daughter reached the third bottom of her father’s biography: he was a scout ” ^[11] .
  • The WG also noted the imitation of this project, which was later released by the program of the Second Channel “ Big Family ”, hosted by Dmitry Kharatyan ^[12] .
• Equipnet: “Recently, Channel One showed a series of programs My Pedigree. Millions of viewers watched with interest the process of searching for the ancestors of famous people in Russia. After which many for the first time asked difficult questions: “What do we know about our ancestors?” Are their names and deeds, and therefore the life they have lived, forever pass away? Will our descendants really forget us living now? ”” ^[13] .

• The program “My pedigree. Evgenia Simonova and Yuri Vyazemsky ”(nomination“ History Program ”) was nominated at TEFI- 2010 ^[14] .

• Family Tree (Who Do You Think You Are?)

• Section of the TV program “My Family Tree” on the official website of Channel One.
• Section of the TV program “My Genealogy” on the website of “PAN-ARS Cinema”