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Old 25-11-2016, 21:35
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Acting a dick isn't 🙄
Stop doing it then.
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Old 25-11-2016, 21:36
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Stop doing it then.
I was referring to you. Give your rebel without a clue act a rest. It's beyond tiresome now.
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Old 25-11-2016, 21:40
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I was referring to you. Give your rebel without a clue act a rest. It's beyond tiresome now.
Get away!

Last word is for you, I know you can't resist it.
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Old 25-11-2016, 22:24
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My son is a photographer, and worked for the company who did the photos in Danny's book last year. He said Danny was one of the nicest people he had worked with, he was friendly, polite, open to suggestions about posing, and stopped to have a beer afterwards with them. Not a geezer, but a gent. In contrast the made in Chelsea lot are a bunch of entitled idiots, who treat everyone like s**t.
I've just finished watching the episode & can believe your son's take on him. Seems like a really nice guy.

When he pulled up to the Tollmache estate, though, it would have been nice if he'd offered a lift to the "geezer" over the moat from the entrance. The poor man walked.

Couldn't help to think how amusing it would have been if the geezer (Danny's word, not mine) had called out, "Oi! Edna! Look who is here! It's that bloke off Eastenders on me telly."
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Old 25-11-2016, 23:40
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Danny can go over the top when he is in full 'professional cockney' mode but I suppose if it is earning him a decent living then you can't really blame him for milking the geezer angle. Overall I enjoyed the show, usually with these I start to get a bit bored after the first half but this one kept me interested right until the end.
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Old 26-11-2016, 00:00
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Good episode.

'I bet they had some right rave ups in here babes' talking to the posh lady in a very elegant hall at Hampton Court!

Surprised he only managed to swear the once throughout the whole show, unless I missed more!
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Old 26-11-2016, 00:08
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My son is a photographer, and worked for the company who did the photos in Danny's book last year. He said Danny was one of the nicest people he had worked with, he was friendly, polite, open to suggestions about posing, and stopped to have a beer afterwards with them. Not a geezer, but a gent. In contrast the made in Chelsea lot are a bunch of entitled idiots, who treat everyone like s**t.
I did wonder a few times if it was all an act and he talks and acts normally the rest of the time without the fake Cockney hardman performance.
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Old 26-11-2016, 00:21
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Old 26-11-2016, 16:51
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..... and that was what was so good about last night. They did it with Danny Dyer. Why get fussy about statistical probabilities when show was about one man and his story. The fact that this time it was Danny Dyer who could trace his ancestry back to grand beginnings rather than public school boys Matthew Pinsent and Boris Johnson made it all the more unlikely.

I'm no particular fan of Danny Dyer but I thought it was a return to form for the series as it had become very staid. Whole programmes about one relative perhaps only 2 or 3 generations back. Spending more time preaching social history rather than tracing ancestors.

Anyway who wants Royalty in their ancestry when you can have a hangman. LOL.

My sister does genealogy and she's traced our family ancestry back to Henry II, but when you think about it, he is our 28th great grandfather and going back that many generations means we have over 1,000,000 ancestors, so I daresay we are all related one way or the other. So if Danny Dyers ancestor was Edward III then go back a bit further and he would also have Henry II as an ancestor, see what I mean, which means that somewhere along the line we are also related. (do me a favour !!)

I can't say I really like the guy, he's much too over the top 'cockney' for me. Surely some of that has got to be put on.

What made me smile was how he was waxing lyrical about all his forebears, "they're my family" and all that, but he hadn't seen his actual gran or was is great grandmother since he was a child, even though she didn't live that far from him.
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Old 26-11-2016, 16:56
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My sister does genealogy and she's traced our family ancestry back to Henry II, but when you think about it, he is our 28th great grandfather and going back that many generations means we have over 1,000,000 ancestors, so I daresay we are all related one way or the other. So if Danny Dyers ancestor was Edward III then go back a bit further and he would also have Henry II as an ancestor, see what I mean, which means that somewhere along the line we are also related. (do me a favour !!)

I can't say I really like the guy, he's much too over the top 'cockney' for me. Surely some of that has got to be put on.

What made me smile was how he was waxing lyrical about all his forebears, "they're my family" and all that, but he hadn't seen his actual gran or was is great grandmother since he was a child, even though she didn't live that far from him.
Wasn't it his Great-Aunt? The youngest and only surviving daughter of his great-grandparents?
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Old 26-11-2016, 18:34
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Wasn't it his Great-Aunt? The youngest and only surviving daughter of his great-grandparents?
Think it was, just loved the way he told her about the young baby that died and she was convicted of hiding the child after the death. All done with great feeling NOT He was lucky she didn't have a 'vapour' moment and collapse.
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Old 26-11-2016, 18:50
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From Cromwell plus all the way back through Royalty from Edward III to William the Conqueror.
Really enjoyed that.
Just think the hefty %sge of Edward III DNA he has in him: it halves each generation, so over 24 generations it works out to under 0.000006%.

Entertaining maybe, but only briefly interesting.
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Old 27-11-2016, 06:52
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Good episode and like him or loathe him he took a great interest it all and came across as a really nice guy. Was funny seeing him around all the posh estates.

One of the better episodes I've seen and kept my interest up until the end.
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Old 27-11-2016, 15:46
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Yep, agree with the last poster - he lays it on a bit thick and it can get cringeworthy but seems like a good lad with a lively sense of humour.

Really enjoyed this one, which surprised me ..
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Old 27-11-2016, 17:11
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I'm glad they went back to the original format of tracing back the family tree as far as they could, rather than the more recent thing of focussing on a couple of individual ancestors.
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Old 27-11-2016, 17:24
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I'm glad they went back to the original format of tracing back the family tree as far as they could, rather than the more recent thing of focussing on a couple of individual ancestors.
I suspect they did that cos they could trace it back far in this case. I don't anticipate they'd be able to trace back multiple generations for all the "celebrities" so be prepared for some weeks where they do concentrate on one or two ancestors.
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Old 28-11-2016, 08:57
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Watching these programmes, (and I agree with those who like the return to the old format) makes me wonder how much it costs for all these experts to do the research required to go back so far, and could they do it for descendants of (e.g) a village blacksmith? My dad always said he'd pay a fiver to find out his ancestors, but would then have to pay £500 to keep it quiet.
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Old 28-11-2016, 16:49
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Watching these programmes, (and I agree with those who like the return to the old format) makes me wonder how much it costs for all these experts to do the research required to go back so far, and could they do it for descendants of (e.g) a village blacksmith? My dad always said he'd pay a fiver to find out his ancestors, but would then have to pay £500 to keep it quiet.
You can't tell until you start looking. Sometimes you can go back through to the earliest census very quickly but others will just disappear completely. The big problem with church records is that many families use the same first names over and over again. It can be impossible to distinguish between them.
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Old 28-11-2016, 16:57
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You can't tell until you start looking. Sometimes you can go back through to the earliest census very quickly but others will just disappear completely. The big problem with church records is that many families use the same first names over and over again. It can be impossible to distinguish between them.
Same with family names - my grandmother was a Fossett, and there any number of ways to spell it,
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Old 28-11-2016, 18:34
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Just think the hefty %sge of Edward III DNA he has in him: it halves each generation, so over 24 generations it works out to under 0.000006%.

Entertaining maybe, but only briefly interesting.


I think we can safely place you in the glass half empty camp !
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Old 28-11-2016, 18:41
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We can also place him in the doesn't understand DNA camp, as well.
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Old 29-11-2016, 04:29
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I would love to trace my family history like this
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Old 29-11-2016, 09:17
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I would love to trace my family history like this
It is worth trying, plenty of free information online out there as well as Ancestry and FindMyPast but even they have periods when they give free access for a short time. And of course many started on it when there was virtually nothing online.

The important thing is speak to relatives, particularly the elderly ones, and get as much information as you can from them - it might not all be correct but needs recording. I think most tracing their family wished they had asked questions before various relatives dies.

See if there is a Family History Society in your area and go along to one of their meetings.
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Old 29-11-2016, 10:21
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Excellent episode, really interesting and an unexpected reveal.

Does make you wonder why people watch if they so dislike a person. Maybe people should follow their own advice about turning over if you don't like something.
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Old 29-11-2016, 11:47
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Excellent episode, really interesting and an unexpected reveal.

Does make you wonder why people watch if they so dislike a person. Maybe people should follow their own advice about turning over if you don't like something.
There have been episodes of the Who Do You Think You Are where I have disliked the person but the programme has still been interesting. And others where beforehand I had no feelings about the person but came away really fed up with them though the family history can still be interesting, usually happens when the subject thinks he/she knows better than the experts,
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