Bless You and Your Embarrassing Kinfolk, Ricky Gervais

A while back, I wrote a piece in Smithsonian Magazine under the title "Genealogy is Bunk."  Ricky Gervais seems to think so, too, and it makes a writer named Megan Smolenyak at Huff Po just so furious.  Take it, Megan:

It's hard to get genealogists riled up, but Ricky Gervais has succeeded. Not that he intended to. Asked in a recent interview whether he would ever appear on the celebrity-roots series Who Do You Think You Are?, he replied in standard Gervais fashion, "No. Who cares who...