Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Genealogy & Your Family Tree

Can you use DNA to fill in the blanks of your family tree? It used to be that you had to comb through old records to find out about your past, but now a simple swab can open many doors. . . or can it? Correspondent Lesley Stahl looks at the revolutionary changes sweeping the world of genealogy.

Genealogy & Your Family Tree
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well....caught some of it...except for the COMMERCIALS SCREWING EVERYTHING UP!!!!!! THATS WHATS WRONG WITH YAHELL TODAY! TOO MANY COMMERCIALS AND NOT ENOUGH TRUE INFORMATION! I prolly would have been more impressed and more informed by the segment had I not been advertised to.
Posted by willnseguintx on Wed, Nov 7, 2007 10:54 PM ET
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I clicked on 4 segments and got nothing but advertisments!! Boo.....Not coming back..i'll get the news somewhere else and i'm serious...
Posted by cgirlmedic on Wed, Nov 7, 2007 11:01 PM ET
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Too many commercials. It took forever to watch this segment. Extremely annoying.
Posted by jm85719 on Thu, Nov 8, 2007 12:15 AM ET
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Too many commercials! Extremely annoying when trying to watch any segment.
Posted by jm85719 on Thu, Nov 8, 2007 12:17 AM ET
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Enough with all the #*^&## commercials.
Posted by djetdan on Thu, Nov 8, 2007 12:41 AM ET
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these commercials on this site are ridiculous. How many times do I have to watch a tylenol commercial? I am boycotting tylenol and this site.
Posted by zmagjp on Thu, Nov 8, 2007 12:47 AM ET
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Too many commercials!! I clicked to watch a newsclip not commercials. Shame on u greedy!!
Posted by hammerdown502@sbcglobal.net on Thu, Nov 8, 2007 12:55 AM ET
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With comments like these, I don't think I'll even TRY to watch this!
Posted by dawnmarshl on Thu, Nov 8, 2007 12:57 AM ET
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Ditto!
Posted by mlcb@sbcglobal.net on Thu, Nov 8, 2007 12:59 AM ET
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Ditto #7: these commercials are enough to make me 'change the channel' (just like I mute them when I'm trying to watch TV). They're discusting.
Posted by nugget39@att.net on Thu, Nov 8, 2007 1:07 AM ET

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