I don’t know if you’ve ever tried Ancestry.com. It’s freaky. It’s a genealogy website and in about three seconds you are downloading your high school yearbook photo or your great great grandmother’s marriage records. Seriously. They have procured and scanned just about every piece of paper that ever existed. BURN YOUR OLD PASSPORTS, AMERICA! They’ll end up on-line and searchable by your third cousins!
Seriously, it’s a great site and I was lucky enough to shoot a commercial for (and with) them this week. Great folks, funny spot. Can’t wait to see it. And, if you are into researching your family tree (I’m not getting paid for this) you have to check it out. Seriously. My kids downloaded their great grandfather’s military registration card last night. Unbelievable…
(This photo is a screen capture from a CSI promo I was in. I’m dragging a dead body through the lobby of an office building. The security guard thinks nothing of it.)
I saw this commercial the other day and it just about knocked me off my feet. I don’t know if the ad has been on and I just haven’t noticed you in it before, or if they’re just now showing the version of the ad with you in it, but now I’m seeing the ad all the time. Convincing, Mr. “Darigo”.
Dan!! It’s mystical! Yesterday I printed out one page from, I think, findagrave.com. It was a short piece on William Tilton Clark, a young soldier whose room they took Lincoln to when he was dying. So I print it out and I’m gazing in the lower left hand corner and I spy the ancestry.com ad, and I think to myself — that sure looks like Dan Klass! And it is! How cool! I’ll try to attempt to write to you through another one of your sites. I hope your wife and your kids are great.
Love to All,
Gary Brussell.
Hollywood, CA 90038