Kristen Green: How Ancestry.com has failed African American customers

When Ancestry.com unveiled an advertisement last month that seemed to romanticize slavery, the multibillion dollar genealogy company was roundly criticized.The video, which was posted to YouTube and aired on television in Utah, where Ancestry.com is based, featured a young white man in 19th-century clothing holding out a ring to a black woman. "Abigail, we can escape to the North," he tells her, interrupting as she attempts to respond. "There is a place we can be together across the border."The