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Her reactions were somewhat strange especially at the start when she couldn't seem to stop laughing. The poor genealogist woman looked very disconcerted.
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I didn't get to see this one but everyone's posts have made me want to watch it so I'll go and have a look.
As far as the poster who said that he/she doesn't understand how people become involved with their ancestors, I would say that once you start uncovering events and stories, it's quite impossible not to. I've done a fair bit of genealogy with other people and I've never met anyone who remained indifferent to their ancestors. |
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I got very emotional when I found my gt grannie after 2 years of looking. It involved 2 fake names and putting together lots of coincidences to find who she really was. Now I can finally start tracing that branch of the family tree.
The name changing drives me crazy - my relatives kept changing their names because they were actors. The best one (a cousin) kept mixing his middle and last names in different combinations then everyone thought he had been killed in the first war. But no, he turned up twenty odd years later working with Old Mother Riley and Kitty McShane. Whoever said you couldn't make it up was spot on! maybe Anne Reid's odd reaction was due to emotion - you know how some people laugh when they should cry? |
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Not on in Scotland tonight because New Tricks was moved to tonight - there were some overpaid louts kicking a ball around on Tuesday. Who Do You Think You Are is late on Monday night.
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Tonight's one was very good. I thought that Frank Garnder came over as very engaging and intelligent in the questions he asked. Bit of a weird thing to see him on straight away after, on the news, mind.
Imagine finding out that your great grandfather was a pal of Charles Darwin and had a statue in the museum and you are direct descendent of William the Conquerer. Cor! |
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Tonight's one was very good. I thought that Frank Garnder came over as very engaging and intelligent in the questions he asked. Bit of a weird thing to see him on straight away after, on the news, mind.
Imagine finding out that your great grandfather was a pal of Charles Darwin and had a statue in the museum and you are direct descendent of William the Conquerer. Cor! I wasn't sure who he was before today but heard him on R5 news at tea time and definitely recognised his voice. As you say, it's a real coincidence that he has been such a big part of the news on the day his episode aired. |
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Unfortunately I missed Jerry Hall & Gareth Malone (on holiday) but tonight's was for me the most interesting & "wow" of the series so far.
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Most interesting episode in this present series
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Imagine discovering that you're a direct descendant of William the Conqueror! Beats Alexander Armstrong into a cocked hat.
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Imagine discovering that you're a direct descendant of William the Conqueror! Beats Alexander Armstrong into a cocked hat.
As did Matthew Pinsent. I wonder if they'll have a meet-up? |
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I'm sure I read somewhere that about 75% of the UK population is decended from William The Conqueror
![]() The dificulty is proving it
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Not on in Scotland tonight because New Tricks was moved to tonight - there were some overpaid louts kicking a ball around on Tuesday. Who Do You Think You Are is late on Monday night.
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I wasn't sure who he was before today but heard him on R5 news at tea time and definitely recognised his voice. As you say, it's a real coincidence that he has been such a big part of the news on the day his episode aired.
He is a very interesting, a very down to earth man. Can I recommend his autobiography - it a brilliant read and a real insight into what someone can achieve in the face of adversity, given determination, and the support of family, friends and employer.
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Who was it that found out they were related to god? That was a cracking one!!!
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Who was it that found out they were related to god? That was a cracking one!!!
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Could have followed him another 6 greats if they had wanted to 911 and Rollo of Normandy who leader of a band of Vikings who settled there and given Normandy by the French King.
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Fantastic programme, though I had to suspend my disbelief that Frank, a self-confessed "hard-nosed journalist", had no knowledge whatsoever that his mother's family included the Burdetts and the Stanhopes, in the thick of the political life of the country over several centuries!
Still some way to go to top Nigella Lawson's amazement that her mother's family (and the source of the family's considerable wealth) owned the Lyons Corner House chain of restaurants, but hey a fascinating story anyway. |
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He seemed such a very nice man. Very polite and pleased to meet everyone. A nice follow on to last week and the awful episode that appeared.
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I liked that episode; I really enjoy it when the subject of the programme can be linked into an ancient pedigree - Alexander Armstrong, Boris Johnson and so on.
Did anyone else notice, on one of the documents shown early in the programm, that his great grandmother Grace Rolleston (born Davy) was the niece of Sir Humphrey Davy? I was surprised when it wasn't mentioned, being another important Victorian connection. I don't think the historian at the Tower stressed enough how much mercy was shown to Stanhope by changing the sentence to beheading. The document recorded the original sentence as "hanging, etcetera", which in the case of treason convictions would surely have meant hanging, drawing and quartering. |
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I liked that episode; I really enjoy it when the subject of the programme can be linked into an ancient pedigree - Alexander Armstrong, Boris Johnson and so on.
Did anyone else notice, on one of the documents shown early in the programm, that his great grandmother Grace Rolleston (born Davy) was the niece of Sir Humphrey Davy? I was surprised when it wasn't mentioned, being another important Victorian connection. I don't think the historian at the Tower stressed enough how much mercy was shown to Stanhope by changing the sentence to beheading. The document recorded the original sentence as "hanging, etcetera", which in the case of treason convictions would surely have meant hanging, drawing and quartering. I saw Sir Humphrey Davy's name as well and wondered why it was not mentioned. But they probably did explore that line before they realised how many other threads there were and had to make a choice on what to include. This was one episode that could have been made into 2 hours I suspect. Not often that will be true but it was here. Possibly the best two episodes this year have been the two celebrities that casual viewers might not have bothered with because of the subject - thus missing the real point of the series. |
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It was a terrific episode last night and those who did not tune in (4.1 million a bit down from the norm) because it was not a big name paid the price that you can do in this series. It is not about the biggest names but about their stories. But you can only promote the celebrity not their story as that spoilers the show.
Paul Hollywood's programme rated 4.13m in the overnights and he's one of the star of the current biggest show on television |
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It was a terrific episode last night and those who did not tune in (4.1 million a bit down from the norm) because it was not a big name paid the price that you can do in this series. It is not about the biggest names but about their stories. But you can only promote the celebrity not their story as that spoilers the show.
I saw Sir Humphrey Davy's name as well and wondered why it was not mentioned. But they probably did explore that line before they realised how many other threads there were and had to make a choice on what to include. This was one episode that could have been made into 2 hours I suspect. Not often that will be true but it was here. Possibly the best two episodes this year have been the two celebrities that casual viewers might not have bothered with because of the subject - thus missing the real point of the series. |
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Pretty dull affair.
The pixelation fairy was sprinkling her dust liberally, is there really any need to hide the manufacturer's logo from the bloody steering wheel of his car ? |
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What a fantastic episode. Frank Garnder was engaging from the get go. What a sorrow though, that his mother was not able to share the joy in finding out their story. Also a great suprise to see my sons old Headmaster at Foremark. He was at a different school when he was my sons Headmaster. Richard Merriman is a lovely, genteel man, and I can well imagine he relished helping to uncover Franks ancestral journey.
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I'm sure I read somewhere that about 75% of the UK population is decended from William The Conqueror
![]() The dificulty is proving it ![]() My sister who does genealogy in a big way discovered that we are also descended frrom William the Conquerer. Henry II is our 28th great grandfather. What helped her a lot was having 14 generations going back to the 1400's all with the same surname. Then when you get back to someone with a 'name' like in our case Ralph Neville, Earl Westmorland the rest is a matter of historical fact. |
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