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Reba McEntire fans, take note
Published: 2/27/2012 4:51 PM
Last Modified: 2/27/2012 4:51 PM


Oklahoma's Reba McEntire explores her ancestry on "Who Do You Think You Are? on NBC and then sits down with Oprah Winfrey for "Oprah's Master Class." COURTESY OF OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network

Oklahoma's country superstar Reba McEntire is making two appearances on TV this week.

On Friday, she searches for her information about her mother’s family on a new episode of NBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?"

McEntire tries to find out which of her ancestors was the first to come to America, a search that leads her overseas and then to Raleigh, N.C., to information that one was a prominent member in the community. This discovery also leads into one of the darkest periods in American history and information about an ancestor's "heartbreaking journey" to this country. It airs at 7 p.m. on channel 2, cable 9.

On Sunday, the best-selling female country artist and actress spends an hour with Oprah Winfrey on "Oprah's Master Class," airing at 9 p.m. on OWN, cable 106.

As a young girl reared on a ranch in Chockie, Okla., McEntire learned an ethic of work hard and do it right that has served her well in her career. From singing at rodeos to Broadway to the Grammy Stage and beyond, she has become one of the best-selling female country artists of all time. Along the way, she learned to conquer her fears and stand up for herself in the male-dominated music industry.

Following a tragic plane crash that took the lives of eight of her band members, she had said she learned life is short and every day is important. And,she has remembered her father’s words - "It's the getting there" that matters most.

Fans can also see her concert special "All the Women I Am" airing at 9 p.m. March 17 on Great American Country, cable 158, and she's working on a comedy pilot titled "Malibu Country" for ABC.





Reader Comments 1 Total
KinMapper (12 months ago)
This was one more problematic WDYTYA production. Just Google the name that began the show Reba Estelle Brassfield and you get answers and more leads and quickly reach a Brassfield site:

Brasfield~Brassfield Genealogies omitted by paper;s rule Cached - Similar
In fact, the web site now contains nearly 36000 individuals in 12000 families - but still only about 92% of the known Brasfield ~ Brassfield (pre-1950) family.

which includes Reba Estelle Brasfield.

This brasfield family net site can be reached in under an hour and by most anyone conversant with Googling under ten minutes.

Yes Reba McEntire got to see original documents that should be scanned (digital photo does it well) and collected, but the basic story is all at what is found Googling.

Additionally most all of this is at the free site (being shrunk actively by its "savior" ancestry dot com) rootweb by a simple search of Reba Brassfield using Soundex setting.

This failure to do it the easy way and with continual reference to Ancestry dot com is fine so long as a disclaimer is given at the start indicating that the performers on the show have been made into shills for Ancestry dit com and will not be able to suggest using such free services as Google.

Otherwise this is a repugnant series, which has done these fictional, semi-valid, but poor method in totality, genealogies with a shimmery gloss that could use a coat of honest presentation, maybe multiple coats of honesty.

PS I am a Reba fan and hope Reba was like most out there and unfamiliar with Googling for genealogy. I would not believe it, but for the many dozens of folks I run across who can not fathom how to find what is readily reachable by simple Googling.
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Rita Sherrow grew up with TV. Yes, it was the ever-present “sister” from another techno mother. At first look, it was instant "Like." From then on, the TV had to be on in every room while she studied, elementary school through college. An Air Force brat, she attended school in three states (Oklahoma, Montana and Georgia) and two foreign countries (Germany and Bermuda) and graduated from Broken Arrow High School and the University of Tulsa with a degree in journalism/advertising. She first interned in the advertising world but, when a J-School professor (who also covered politics for the Tulsa World) offered her an internship at the newspaper, she took him up on it. The rest is history. She has served as bridal editor, senior features writer for the women’s section, food editor and is television editor of the Tulsa World. In addition to writing about TV shows and interviewing the stars for “Scene” stories, she also writes a TV column for Weekend and produces the Sunday TV World listings magazine.

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