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Old 21-08-2015, 00:11
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She didn't seem interested in her mother's side of the family

Dutch ancestry.may have been interesting too
Perhaps she knew more about her mother but had wanted to know what happened to the Great Aunts. It has been written that they usually do a lot of research and pick out the interesting parts.
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Old 21-08-2015, 00:14
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Only half watching, bit boring tonight, as others have said just about the last wars. I liked the episode's when they back through the generations as far back as they can.
Hopefully some more interesting stories to come!
Why was it boring, I thought it was a fascinating story and one aspect of what happened to Jews in Poland and France that I had not heard much about previously.

Trawling through parish registers and BMD can get quite boring especially as many people's families just consist of many generation of 'Lab' or 'Ag Lab'.
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Old 21-08-2015, 01:18
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Interesting story I thought tonight. It really told how basically the jews became stateless at this time. Interesting particularly the Vichy French operation in southern France. Must admit it wasn't until recently I realised that southern France basically co operated with Germans and ran their regime for them.
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Old 21-08-2015, 04:29
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I quite enjoyed the Paul Hollywood episode. It was nice to see Poolewe. What a beautiful part of the world. The post-runner story was fascinating.

I quite enjoy stories from WW2 as well, so found the whole episode very interesting.
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Old 21-08-2015, 10:35
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Why was it boring, I thought it was a fascinating story and one aspect of what happened to Jews in Poland and France that I had not heard much about previously.

Trawling through parish registers and BMD can get quite boring especially as many people's families just consist of many generation of 'Lab' or 'Ag Lab'.
I have virtually all Ag Lab in mine. It can sometimes reveal a 'story' in itself though. I was going through census records a couple of years ago and found one of my grandfathers' sisters had a servant - only 10 years old! Her husband was only described as an Ag. Lab but presumably was in some kind of better paid position. Anyway on the next census it had all changed. She was not only the head of the house now with no servant but she herself was an Ag Lab as were her two older children of 10 and 11. I have never followed it through but presume her husband had died and her situation changed dramatically. I also think some of the families' Ag. Labouring may well have been carried out in the grounds of the house Downton Abbey is filmed in. It was only a mile or two from where they lived and they had a lot of land in those days.
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Old 21-08-2015, 14:41
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Not certain if she has dual-nationality but she was born in the UK. I can't see why living in the US should bar anyone from appearing in the series.
People in the UK version who have a career in the US - Kim Cattrall and Minnie Driver episodes have been aired in the US series so far.
I assume this episode, will get revoiced by the US narrator, edited to allow for ad breaks and get re-shown Stateside
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Old 21-08-2015, 14:46
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People in the UK version who have a career in the US - Kim Cattrall and Minnie Driver episodes have been aired in the US series so far.
I assume this episode, will get revoiced by the US narrator, edited to allow for ad breaks and get re-shown Stateside
And Gerry Springer. Janes story last night reminded me of his.
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Old 21-08-2015, 16:11
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And Gerry Springer. Janes story last night reminded me of his.
For some reason his story does not appeared to have been aired in the USA, but maybe he doesn't want the US to know he was born in Finchley.

It may also be that it was too personal to want him to have it shown in the US

JK Rowling's UK show is to be shown in the next US season.
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Old 21-08-2015, 16:12
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For some reason his story does not appeared to have been aired in the USA, but maybe he doesn't want the US to know he was born in Finchley.

It may also be that it was too personal to want him to have it shown in the US

JK Rowling's UK show is to be shown in the next US season.
Didn't he claim he was born in an Underground station during the blitz?
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Old 21-08-2015, 16:20
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Only half watching, bit boring tonight, as others have said just about the last wars. I liked the episode's when they back through the generations as far back as they can.
Hopefully some more interesting stories to come!
I found it incredibly moving and parts had me in tears, especially when the photograph of her great aunt's beautiful daughter was shown and Jane was told she'd died in Auschwitz.

Perhaps you need to be thankful that you didn't lead her 'boring' life.
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Old 21-08-2015, 16:26
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People in the UK version who have a career in the US - Kim Cattrall and Minnie Driver episodes have been aired in the US series so far.
I assume this episode, will get revoiced by the US narrator, edited to allow for ad breaks and get re-shown Stateside
I wish they would broadcast more programmes from the foreign versions of Who Do You Think You Are and particularly Coming Home (I don't think it has ever been shown on network). They would probably need some re-editing to meet British standards but there must be plenty of ones that could be shown here.
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Old 21-08-2015, 16:29
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I wish they would broadcast more programmes from the foreign versions of Who Do You Think You Are and particularly Coming Home (I don't think it has ever been shown on network). They would probably need some re-editing to meet British standards but there must be plenty of ones that could be shown here.
The US version of WDYTYA is on Watch. They showed Kelsey Grammar, Cynthia Nixon and Rachel McAdams recently.
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Old 21-08-2015, 18:27
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Didn't he claim he was born in an Underground station during the blitz?
It's true as far as I know. His parents were refugees from the Nazis, and his mum must have gone into labour during an air raid.
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Old 21-08-2015, 18:35
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It's true as far as I know. His parents were refugees from the Nazis, and his mum must have gone into labour during an air raid.
Not sure if I believe that tale to be honest. Sounds like another one of his fables.
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Old 21-08-2015, 19:11
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Not sure if I believe that tale to be honest. Sounds like another one of his fables.
Some websites say he was born at Highgate Station, and others at East Finchley.
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Old 21-08-2015, 19:12
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Some websites say he was born at Highgate Station, and others at East Finchley.
Sounds like a Jackanory tale to me.
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Old 21-08-2015, 22:12
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I was disappointed we didn't find out what happened to the Great Aunt and Uncle and the children that lived on after 1946. The children might still be alive or their children or grandchildren. They just seemed to forget about them.
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Old 22-08-2015, 00:56
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I was disappointed we didn't find out what happened to the Great Aunt and Uncle and the children that lived on after 1946. The children might still be alive or their children or grandchildren. They just seemed to forget about them.
I doubt whether 'they just forgot about them', they do a lot more research than is transmitted. More likely that it did not add anything to the story.
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Old 22-08-2015, 09:19
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I doubt whether 'they just forgot about them', they do a lot more research than is transmitted. More likely that it did not add anything to the story.
Yes I was thinking that but they could of least have said briefly or even put a little note at the end (as on long lost families) to tell us. I was hoping she might meet up with distant cousins. There again perhaps she did and they didn't want it known.
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Old 22-08-2015, 09:26
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Yes I was thinking that but they could of least have said briefly or even put a little note at the end (as on long lost families) to tell us. I was hoping she might meet up with distant cousins. There again perhaps she did and they didn't want it known.
There is often a more detailed analysis of the person's tree on the magazine site or other sites.
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Old 25-08-2015, 10:56
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Many people knew their Grandparents but knew little about what they did, many don't even know much about their parents.
But Hollywood knew his grandfather well and knew he had been I the army. As a genealogist myself , I find the stories from way back far more interesting than looking at a recent relative that the subject knew . It's all personal taste but the title 'who do you think you are ' leads one to believe the subject knows nothing about their heritage and needs to discover it. The U.S. Programmes in general seem to delve much further back and find relatives that the subject has no knowledge of , I personally think that is ,ore relevant to the title of this programme.
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Old 25-08-2015, 11:00
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I have virtually all Ag Lab in mine. It can sometimes reveal a 'story' in itself though. I was going through census records a couple of years ago and found one of my grandfathers' sisters had a servant - only 10 years old! Her husband was only described as an Ag. Lab but presumably was in some kind of better paid position. Anyway on the next census it had all changed. She was not only the head of the house now with no servant but she herself was an Ag Lab as were her two older children of 10 and 11. I have never followed it through but presume her husband had died and her situation changed dramatically. I also think some of the families' Ag. Labouring may well have been carried out in the grounds of the house Downton Abbey is filmed in. It was only a mile or two from where they lived and they had a lot of land in those days.
I found something similar in that my great grandfathers sisters were running their own shop in 1891. By 1911 they were living with their brother and one of them was an Imbecille living at home.
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Old 25-08-2015, 11:47
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But Hollywood knew his grandfather well and knew he had been I the army. As a genealogist myself , I find the stories from way back far more interesting than looking at a recent relative that the subject knew . It's all personal taste but the title 'who do you think you are ' leads one to believe the subject knows nothing about their heritage and needs to discover it. The U.S. Programmes in general seem to delve much further back and find relatives that the subject has no knowledge of , I personally think that is ,ore relevant to the title of this programme.
It depends, I had just as many mysteries in the last two generations as earlier ones - some of which we only discovered in recent years.

There are probably plenty in earlier generations but we never hear of them. A few weeks I found some letters from a family member in some mid 19th Century newspapers and learnt a lot of new things.

The series has developed from the early days when an attempt was made to show people how to research their family in parish records, BMD, censuses etc but it has developed into just telling some interesting stories about famous people's background. The purists might not like that but it can make some fascinating viewing.
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Old 25-08-2015, 12:45
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It depends, I had just as many mysteries in the last two generations as earlier ones - some of which we only discovered in recent years.
Me too. When I first started researching my family tree, the first thing I did was type in my grandmother's name to start there. The census which came up listed three half-siblings of hers who we didn't know existed! She and her sister had never mentioned them to my dad. I discovered later on that the descendant of one of them moved to the Isle of Man in the 1930s and lived not far from where my dad was born!
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Old 25-08-2015, 13:32
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For those who are bored with WWII coming up again and again, apparently Derek Jacobi goes back a few hundred years..
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