Data Mining the Deceased: Ancestry and the Business of Family
Julia Creet Director, Producer (2017, 56 mins. HD)
Genealogy is the largest historical enterprise in the world and one of the largest data mining operations, driven by the Mormons, Ancestry.com and genetic genealogy testing companies....
Ancêtres Inc. Affaires de famille - Affaires d’argent. Un essai-documentaire sur les enjeux individuels et industriels de la généalogie.
Part literary detective story and part personal journey, MUM is a documentary drawn from Magda Creet’s memoirs, letters and poems, an archive of a holocaust survivor who left a paper trail to her hidden past. The trail leads to Hungary, where local memory reveals the story she tried to forget.
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This is Part 8 of an 8 Part workshop entitled 'Genetics and Genealogy Workshop hosted by Julia Creet, Archives of Ontario - Sept 21, 2018. Part 4 was followed by a break and then a screening of the documentary film ‘Data Mining the Deceased - Ancestry and the Business of Family”. To watch the doc...