General Chat

i think it is a really good programme.

But it isnt on for long enough.

we get weeks and weeks of utter rubbish then good programmes are going in a blink of an eye

Must agree that it was a great programme, but they did not mention his Scottish conections, it was in the Sunday Post that at the very end of filming that they doscovered the link and did not have time to follow through, so Ainsley is doing that himself. wish we could see the out come of that.

Sounds like it was a good one ~sorry i missed it as out.......cann`t wait for next week.

xxx

There was a small article about WDYTYA in a recent family history magazine....

Boris Johnson's episode involved 4 months of preliminary research, consultations with 23 historians and three genealogists, and more than 40 hours of recorded footage.

Easy innit? lol

It is, Bob, wish someone would come along and do that for me LOL.

It's handy to have bookmarks already at the relevant page, isnt it?
Bob

interesting program though.......

Quite the interesting family there Maggie, maybe we should get you on WDYTYA and get them to do the hard stuff for ya? LOL

I wouldn't worry too much about the submitted entry, they already researched and checked it for him before he ever left england, it's only ever for show: them going through the motions, isn't it?!

I have tried the 'getting mum sozzled' bit - but now she's on Warfarin it's 2 glasses a night full stop!!
Mum's in to genealogy, but obviously only from her backwards!
She won't tell me as much as I know she knows about my dad (they were divorced in 1974 and dad has since died), mind you my dad's mum was by all accounts a bit 'flighty' LOL
Two children out of wedlock etc
I've only 'established' who my dad's dad was because someone sent me a photo of a 'family friend' - who is the spitting image of him!! Dad knew him as his 'dad' when he was young - but he was already married to someone other than my gran!

how do you go about that tho maggie
its a bit of a puzzler that,
you couldnt ask your mam such personal question could you

LMAO Maggie, oh dear, that really doesn't bode well does it. I'd get your mum sozzled and do a "between you me and the gate post...is dad really my dad?" LOL. Or, could well be some kind of throw back gene, they do happen... no, really...they do *Grins*

Summer Scribe mentioned the repeat earlier. It is
on BBC 2 at 7pm Thursday 18th September.

Maz, all the ones they looked at and discarded...they were all ag labs PMSL

He didn't have to go to Jamaica to search the IGI as you can find the records here - I was a bit concerned at it being a submitted record though. Good job that he had immediate access to the parish registers!

Fascinating mix of stuff though.

Jill

....even my own children keep pestering me to ask my mum if she had an affair!! LOL

When I was at school, my best friend was English / Chinese Mauritian. We were the last two to leave the classroom, when the teacher suddenly asked if we were sisters!

It came home to me when my daughers and I were at an Ann Frank exhibition and my yongest (6) asked why there was a photo of me on the wall - it was Ann Frank.

Hi Maggie and SS, glad I'm not the only one! I know that the overseas ones are interesting, but I do think that they should do some more that involve basic British research. Maybe they can't find anyone who has interesting enough ancestors!
Maz. XX

Brilliant program - one of the best I have seen so far, of all the series'

I have an ancestor born in Italy but her parents were both English and she wasn't over there for very long. I've not been able to find any record of it, but was able to get the birth cert for her older brother who was born in the UK. In fact, they all seem English so far too. I'd love to find some foreign link, we did get very excited by her being born in Rome, sounded so exotic but, alas it looks like her Dad just travelled a lot for work.

LOL Maggie, you never know do you, we have to take what's on the birth records as correct unless proved otherwise.

No Maz - you're not the only one - so far 100% English - not even a snifter of Irish, Scottish or Welsh!! What is really galling is that I suffered racial abuse as a child - and I'm probably more English than the perpetrators!!
So, just to put the record straight - the 'English' complexion isn't 'peaches & cream', it's a rather swarthy colour - cross between Arab/Jewish look with dark brown eyes and black hair!! I have 'paled up' as I've grown older - I used to be 3 shades darker than my siblings..........
Mind you, my family also came from 'port' towns and Cornwall and I can only go on what was put on record.......

The Barbados connection is to do with my grandad's best mate. He was black, his mother (also black) was born in Southampton - as were her parents, and grandparents, but his father came from Barbados.

I too wonder how child Smith was named so, as neither parents were Smith!!

very interesting and thought provoking, could see how shocked he was at the turn the research took.

I must say though that I am a bit disappointed that this series is focusing so much on celebs with overseas roots. the only all english one so far has been Patsy Kensit. just looked at the bbc website and David Suchet and Jodie Kidd also seem to be overseas stories - at least in part. looks as if only 2 of the series are going to show UK based research, am assuming Lawrence L-B is welsh/english! I can't be the only person with absolutely no overseas connection (not even Ireland) can I?!

Maz. XX