chuljin
Lead Service Attendant
Interested in both trains and genealogy, I found very interesting a commercial for Ancestry.com I saw the other night on CNN.
They showed a picture of an unfamiliar (to me) person, with an unfamiliar name, then an older picture of an unfamiliar woman with an unfamiliar name, then a picture of a more familiar man with a very familiar name: 'A. Philip Randolph', then (IIRC) the first man sitting at a computer, then a family tree showing the woman as the first man's mother, and A. Philip Randolph as the first man's paternal grandfather.
I thought it was rather cool that they chose that particular famous ancestor to 'discover'; I'm not sure if the first man pictured was actually APR's grandson, but that would have made it yet more cool.
They showed a picture of an unfamiliar (to me) person, with an unfamiliar name, then an older picture of an unfamiliar woman with an unfamiliar name, then a picture of a more familiar man with a very familiar name: 'A. Philip Randolph', then (IIRC) the first man sitting at a computer, then a family tree showing the woman as the first man's mother, and A. Philip Randolph as the first man's paternal grandfather.
I thought it was rather cool that they chose that particular famous ancestor to 'discover'; I'm not sure if the first man pictured was actually APR's grandson, but that would have made it yet more cool.
