I watched the show also. I think it will increase peoples' interest in their ancestors and genealogy. During the month of February, PBS broadcasted a Henry Lewis Gates, Jr show called "Faces of America." If you didn't see it, there is a website: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/ where yo can read about the making of the 4 part series and watch the video. Much better show! Of course, it's PBS and commercial free. I suppose NBC did the best they could for a general audience. Once all those folks who've never searched before and want an easy trail run into a roadblock/brick wall..... Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "lfenimore" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 2:58 PM Subject: Re: [WRY] NBC's Who Do You Think You Are... > After the show last night I could not get onto Ancestry in the U.S. nor > the > New England Hist. Genealogical Society website! > > Once you get back into Connecticut and Massachusetts, as the genealogist > at > the NEHGS did for her [off camera], then it is not difficult to go back > into > the 1600s. Plenty of vital records, wills, deeds, etc. The New > Englanders > recorded everything it often seems. The NEHGS has been doing genealogy > since the mid 1800s and does impeccable work. > > But I agree that it would have been nice to know where they found that > contract the 4 men signed before setting off for California and that > ?letter > that one of them wrote about nursing the two dying men. > > It seemed like 15 minutes of genealogy and 45 of commercials and > exclamations. > > Liane > > > > > > > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > 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