I've watched both episodes, and will continue to watch the rest of the 7-episode series (Lisa Kudrow, one of the exec producers of the show, will be this week's episode), but I have mixed feelings. As an avid genealogist, I think the series is great in that it shows folks how fascinating genealogy can be -- how it can help you to learn more about yourself by learning about those who came before you. On the other hand, I think it does a bit of a disservice by making it appear that it's so easy to find information to go back so many generations. Sarah Jessica Parker and Emmitt Smith both have a lot of money, and can afford to just jump on a plane to head off to a totally different area of our country, not to mention another country altogether; when the vast majority of us simply don't have that option. Another sticking point is that Sarah Jessica Parker and Emmitt Smith (and the other five celebs to follow in the coming weeks) have the benefit of several professional genealogists and archivists searching for information long before they arrive in town. The information is simply handed to them. They aren't spending hours upon hours looking at rolls of microfilmed records, etc. I have a World Deluxe membership to Ancestry.com. I have access to every record they have. Plus, I'm an arbitrator for submissions to Ancestry.com - both from the World Archives Project as well as corrections/suggestions that folks submit regarding records that are already online. Yet I continually hit a total roadblock when it comes to ancestors/family in Pennsylvania, because Pennsylvania has close to nothing available online. I wish it were as easy as the show makes it appear...

Who do You Think You Are is one of my favorite shows! I wish the average Joe would have all that "extra" help if they'd go to all those libraries and county offices, etc. My family is aware that our grandfather was orphaned at age 2 and lived with another family (whose name we have). But when we found the adoption papers a few years ago we saw that they adopted him at age 17 1/2. We wonder why, or for what reason would they wait for until he was almost an adult?

"I saw where Reba said some of what she found out was disturbing, and she had to do some soul searching. What was that about?" I don't recall exactly to what she was referring, although I do remember her making that statement. It might have been the fact that her 4x great-grandfather George Brasfield was a slave trader. Also, Reba wanted to find out which of her ancestors was the first to set foot on American soil. Her research found that her 6x great-grandfather, also named George Brasfield, arrived in the USA at the age of nine, and he was an indentured servant. She found out that he had made the journey without any other family at all. She couldn't imagine why anyone would send their child, alone, on a journey would took several months, to end up in another country. Reba was upset with her ancestors for having sent their child on such a journey alone at that age. She ended up finding out that young George's mother, Abigail, had died, and in those days it was very difficult for a man to raise a child alone. So, George's father, Thomas, sent him to the States. Apparently it was sort of common in situations like this for a parent to send a child to the US, in the hope of the child eventually having a better life than would have it they had stayed back in England. You can still watch complete episodes from this season on nbc.com.

George Lopez the comedian has a talk show. He was slamming Kate and he actually started a website "keepkate dot com" He wants people to vote for her JUST because she is so horrible and to keep humiliating her on tv. She is horrible. Even she has to see how bad she is. I read that everyone gets paid a fixed amount, no matter how long they last on the show, so she shouldn't be getting richer the longer she stays. Neicy is very funny!