Discover your roots like a celebrity with #TLC, plus have a red carpet experience! Win a trip for two to your family’s homeland and access to a personal genealogical historian provided by Ancestory.com. You’ll also get star treatment at a Hollywood movie premiere. Plus, weekly prizes in the TLC “Who Do You Think You Are?” Sweepstakes.
Sweepstakes Rating: Okay
Eligibility: US, DC, Canada, (excluding Quebec), 21 and older
Entry Dates: March 7, 2015 and ends on April 30, 2015 at at 11:59:59 p.m
Website Entry | Official Rules
Entry Periods:
Start at 3:00:01 p.m. ET and End at 2:59:59 p.m. ET
- March 7 to March 15
- March 15 to March 22
- March 22 to March 29
- March 29 to April 5
- April 5 to April 12
- April 12 to April 19
- April 19 to April 26
- April 26 to April 30 (at 11:59:59 p.m)
Questions and Answers:
- March 7th: Why did Julie Chen’s grandfather build the Anshan Primary School in 1937? To strengthen the village through education
- What did Josh Groban’s eight-times-great-grandfather, Johan Jacob Zimmermann, predict would happen in 1693? The cataclysmic end of the Church
- How many children did Angie Harmon’s five-times great-grandfather have? 7
- What did Sean Hayes’ great grandfather do for a living during the Great Depression?Motorman
- Where did Tony Goldwyn’s three-times-great-grandparents, Nathaniel and Mary Coe, take refuge during the Yakima War of the mid-19th century? Fort Dalles
- Why did America Ferrera’s great-grandfather, General Gregorio Ferrera, return to Honduras in 1929 after living in exile? Facilitate Honduran peace
- What pivotal battle in the Revolutionary War did Bill Paxton’s four-times-great-grandfather, Benjamin Sharp, fight in? Kings Mountain
- In which city did Melissa Etheridge’s five-times-great-grandfather, Nicolas Janis, settle in 1787? Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
You will have the option of answering a multiple-choice trivia question. Those Entrants who correctly answer the questions (each Entrant will receive an unlimited number of attempts to correctly answer each question) will be given the option of entering the Sweepstakes by completing the resulting Sweepstakes registration form.
Entry Limit: one entry per person per day
One (1) Grand Prize: a trip for two people to the Winner’s ancestral homeland (country subject to Sponsor’s approval) as well as a trip for two (2) people to Hollywood, CA to attend a movie premiere. The prize package includes two (roundtrip standard economy airfare tickets from a major commercial airport in the United States, near the Winner’s primary residence and each destination location (roundtrip airfare for 2 people on both trips); accommodations for two (single room, double occupancy; two nights for Hollywood, CA trip; up to five nights for ancestral homeland trip depending on location and costs); $2,000 spending money for the ancestral homeland trip; and up to forty (40) hours of Ancestry.com Pro Genealogist research, depending on the researchers’ discretion. ARV: $17,000
Sixteen (16) First Prizes (two per week): If both are US winners; first selected winner will receive one Ancestory DNA Test (ARV: $99.00) and the second selected winner will receive one six-month Ancestry World Explorer Membership (ARV: $149.00). If both are Canadian winners, first selected winner will receive one Ancestry Canada Deluxe Annual Membership (ARV:$119.88); and the second selected winner will receive one 3-Month Membership Ancestry World Deluxe 3-Month Membership (ARV: $83.97). Should there be one US winner and one Canadian winner, the US winner will receive Ancestory DNA Test (ARV: $99.00) and the Canadian winner will receive one Ancestry Canada Deluxe Annual Membership (ARV:$119.88)
Random Drawing: Grand Prize drawing on or about May 1, 2015. First Prize drawing will be conducted at the end of each Entry Period.
The site stopped letting me enter once per day. For the last 5 days I get an error message that you can only enter once per day. But I only try once per day! Is anyone else having trouble with this?
Oops! I switched from Chrome to Firefox & now it works!
This week’s answer: The cataclysmic end of the Church
Thank you for sharing the answers. Good luck to all!
Thank you so much Sweetie for all of the hard work that you do.