Nel- I just talked with a producer friend, and he suggested contacting Dr. Louis Gates, Ph.D, at Harvard. He is behind the whole concept as it evolved from his lineage work with African/Americans, Russian Americans, etc. My friend says the shows producers are more interested in finding unique unknown facts about famous people, rather than just the lineage of a white European. So, he suggested Gates as the "backdoor" angle. What do you know about Teri's background that noone else, including her, knows? That's what they are interested in. Also, he suggested you try to contact her directly via Twitter, Face book, or My Space. ------Original Message------ From: nelhatch Sender: [email protected] To: [email protected] ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HATCHER] Group think time.......... Sent: Feb 15, 2010 11:35 PM 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 and Beth, Both of you probably have more knowledge of where to start on this than I do - with the show's producer or Teri's agent? I would also need someone capable of writing good business letters. I do know Beth can write but there are other good letter writers in our bunch, too. I see this being successful only if it's a team effort using all our best talents. And if it actually ends up looking positive, I think we would need a lawyer.......but we have one of those, too. I will assume that this is not just a one-time event and that they will be [or already are] working on next year's shows. 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 Sent on the Now Network� from my Sprint® BlackBerry

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