Isn't the goal of all TV to discover scintillating facts and "dirt" that increases viewer ship and thus sells advertising? Of course, I could be completely off base. I was just passing on the opinion of a very knowledgeable person. If this was a documentary on PBS or Discovery, then maybe the historical angle would be a good one. I doubt NBC cares. But you could ask Dr. Gates what he thinks. He started all of this to help black people find out what tribes they all came from in Africa. Including Morgan Freeman and Whoopi Goldberg. Now I'm afraid it has become a "witch hunt," so to speak. Sent on the Now Network� from my Sprint® BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "nelhatch" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:46:10 To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [HATCHER] Group think time.......... HATCHER website: http://hatcherfamilyassn.com HALL DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm "One of the tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts" - La Rochefoucauld Julia, Obviously I don't know what Teri knows. I don't know if she even knows about us or her family tree. But from the clip I saw on one of the celebrities, she supposedly descends from a "Salem witch." As I said earlier, ancestry is a partner in this project and is probably doing the "research." If the goal is to find scintillating facts like witches or mass murderers, I don't think our family qualifies. The one unique factor about the Hatchers is William himself - a member of the House of Burgesses AND a participant in Bacon's Rebellion. IF the producers consider this historical fact interesting enough, we might qualify. Otherwise, probably not. I've seen a few other research projects of this sort, particularly one guy who supposedly traces the ancestry of our more well known politicians. I remember seeing his "tree" on John Edwards who allegedly descends from our Wm. This tree was devoid of any supporting data and I remain very skeptical of its veracity. And I'M not claiming Edwards as even a shirt tail relative in our family :-) Knowing the difficulties in researching that far back and making proveable connections does make me wonder how accurate these celebrity trees may really be. So would you want to pass this on to Dr Gates for his opinion? Nel ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message