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QUOTE (Ziggy @ Aug 10 2010, 04:46 PM)  And to have family portraits tucked away in the loft............If only !!!!! Funnily enough, I grew up with a portrait of my great-grandfather propped against the wall in my parents bedroom! He's my closest ancestor to share my red hair & having grown up with his portrait I feel as if I knew him even though he died more than 30 years before I was born. He wasn't "famous" but a well known amatuer palaeontologist in his day (details at http://family.setait.co.uk/p23.htm#i20 if you're interested). Sheena |
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Aug 28 2010, 10:33 PM
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I love the programme but always end up moaning away at it!
 They always have interesting relatives and just nip out to India or where-ever to check through records with a local guide... I wish!
-------------------- I'm starting to think the records are right, my maternal Grandmother's side of the family doesn't exist, and I'm a figment of my own imagination!
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Aug 29 2010, 10:23 AM
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John of Gaunt plays his part again.
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Aug 29 2010, 02:09 PM
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QUOTE (Falleniceangel @ Aug 28 2010, 11:33 PM) I love the programme but always end up moaning away at it! They always have interesting relatives and just nip out to India or where-ever to check through records with a local guide... I wish!Ah, but just think of how many celebs have ancestors like most of us, who were ordinary people in ordinary jobs. I have traced my main line back to the mid 1600s and would need to walk no more that half an hour from where I was born, in any direction to reach the homes of any of them. |
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 Aug 29 2010, 07:55 PM
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I stopped watching these programs years ago, same with the Heir Hunters. Searching for our families is a looooooooooooooooong labour intensive task and only the dedicated win in the end.
-------------------- Photographs are memories of a moment in time.
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Sep 1 2010, 11:38 AM
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Am I right in thinking that the subject of each programme is very much more on his/her own in this series? I know they get to meet various specialist people on the way but the rest of the time they are talking to themselves. Perhaps Nick Barrett was always around in earlier series and they haven't really replaced him?
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Sep 1 2010, 11:43 AM
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They have definitely moved away from the 'How to' approach and now making it a 'Personal Family history' documentary.
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Sep 1 2010, 12:31 PM
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QUOTE (Ziggy @ Sep 1 2010, 12:43 PM) They have definitely moved away from the 'How to' approach and now making it a 'Personal Family history' documentary. Although I enjoyed Monday's programme, and think it was the best this year so far, I am beginning to feel that each series is getting less and less interesting and the present format becoming stale. |
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Sep 1 2010, 02:55 PM
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Lets hope they don't change the format to 'The FT Factor' !!!!!!
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Sep 1 2010, 05:17 PM
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QUOTE (Ziggy @ Sep 1 2010, 03:55 PM) Lets hope they don't change the format to 'The FT Factor' !!!!!! So right Ziggy. Nor to 'Genealogy's Got Talent'.
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Sep 2 2010, 01:22 PM
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Who's for a WDYTYA programme on Tony Blair?
 
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Sep 2 2010, 01:29 PM
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Is that Lionel's brother ?
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Sep 2 2010, 06:19 PM
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QUOTE (Ziggy @ Sep 2 2010, 02:29 PM) Is that Lionel's brother ?  It could be. He's well known for being nimble on his feet.
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Sep 2 2010, 11:18 PM
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Ducking and diving, avoiding all the s***
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Sep 3 2010, 06:05 AM
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QUOTE (Michael @ Sep 2 2010, 02:22 PM) Who's for a WDYTYA programme on Tony Blair? They would probably just release it on DVD rather than broadcast it. More spin from a DVD than a broadcast  Graham -------------------- JiGraH Resources http://www.jigrah.co.uk/ - Data CDs, Long Family Trees etc for Family Historians.
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Sep 3 2010, 09:57 AM
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Will make a good coaster
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Sep 3 2010, 10:18 AM
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QUOTE (Ziggy @ Sep 3 2010, 10:57 AM) Will make a good coaster Probably not - it would be too slippery for things to stay on it. In America, just before or just after becoming PM, TB appeared in a TV chat show with Bill Clinton. An American newspaper hack described this as 'The Slick Willie and Phoney Tony Show' |
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