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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: nanny jan on Tuesday 23 January 07 17:25 GMT (UK)
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Starts tonight on ITV at 9.00pm.
Nanny Jan
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thanks for the reminder nanny Jan.........I had forgotten about this.............
old rowley
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Did anyone watch this? Quite interesting but can anyone remember who were sponsoring it........I think it got a mention!
Nanny Jan
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I enjoyed it more than WDYTYA and think it will be very interesting to learn more about how many of our ancestors actually lived if the other episodes follow the same vein.
Casalguidi
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I thought it was much LESS good than WDYTYA! Pretty ephemeral and not much research or how to do the research.
However, looking forward to Alan Davies!
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I did not enjoy it as much as WDYTYA either.
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The programme is sponsered by Genes Reunited
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I was really interested in the ploughing bit having a few ancestors who were ploughmen. Not as easy as it looks and very hard work!!!
Not quite sure about this one yet but will certainly watch next weeks to see how it develops.
Linda.
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I thought it was very interesting. Not as in-depth as WDYTYA but good all the same. I thought it was funny when they mentioned the fact that her great grandfather Thomas Kilbride had died ... shock horror... a TRADESMAN... the shame of it.
And if I was Anne (and had her money), I'd be buying great grandfather Nyland's cottage in Ireland.
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I thought the programme was okay, but that's all. It didn't seem to have any real substance, and I was left feeling a bit let down. Think the programme makers are just cashing in on the back of WDYTYA.
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I thought the programme was okay, but that's all. It didn't seem to have any real substance, and I was left feeling a bit let down. Think the programme makers are just cashing in on the back of WDYTYA.
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I might just be being picky - but how come they had a photocopy of pages from the 1911 census !!!
He just scooped it out of a bag like a magician ! ::) ::)
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I'm going off Genes Reunited even more now.
There wasn't much substance to the programme, as interesting as it was. (Why do they always have to cry though!!!)
But did anyone notice the opening credits were similar to WDYTYA as was the music!!! ::) ::)
Kerry
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I agree, Kerry. The opening titles were a bit of a giveaway. And I notice my latest email from GR contains a plug, not just for the programme, but for ITV.com. ITV, of course, own GR and FR these days and they're not going to let us forget it :)
That said, I thought it was interesting if a little lacking in the sort of nuts-and-bolts genealogy that we like (surely there were records available to confirm or deny that Anne's ancestor acquired his land as part of the carve-up after independence?). And I could have done without the DIY photography and agriculture. But as I remember pointing out regarding criticism of WDYTYA, we are a fairly small minority and the programme-makers are aiming at a much wider audience who would probably be bored rigid by constant trips to museums and record offices.
I'll certainly be watching the other two episodes.
Gareth
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glad you picked that up kerry I thought that I was the only one to have noticed, the sky blue back ground, the celeb' in frame whilst stills of labourers/miners etc were brought into and out of the picture and then there was the title music which was very close to the wdytya one.....perhaps it was the same composer.
old rowley
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TV programmes that feature celebrities and genealogy are all going to be similar in style and content. This one was like WDYTYA with adverts. The title infers that we do not know how lucky we are to be alive today compared to our ancestors hard lives. I guess the purpose of the programme was to show how hard their lives really were. For instance, just taking a photograph meant that you risked death from mercury poisoning.
I think this programme does offer insights into how hard life was for our ancestors. We probably assume that it was nice and genteel in a glorious rural setting in the case of Agricultural Labourers - but it was probably the opposite most of the time.
downside
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program was ok.
but my question is also why the 1911 census papers.
and how.
has they already got there released.
personaly i like the irish chap at the end saying
your home now.
nice touch
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1911 census of Ireland is available I believe ;)
Casalguidi
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I have to agree with you downside, it will be interesting to see what other occupations the remaining celebs have. Do we know who they are?
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Do we know who they are?
Ken Stott and Alan Davies.
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After I had been watching for 22 minutes I think I had watched 10 minutes of advertising and seen no form of research at all as everything came by magic out of a satchel. I try to avoid watching commercial TV as the advertising breaks become longer and longer. I will not bother with another but don't be guided by me, everyone to their own taste.... :-\
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My concern was the way she kept flipping the pages of the Atlas with her gt Grandfathers drawings in it, I kept thinking she was going to hold onto a page and the rest of the book was going to land on the ground,
Jakky
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I know Alan Davies from Jonathan Creek, but who is Kent Stott.
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who is Kent Stott
He is a Scottish actor who usually plays edgy detectives.
http://www.kenstott.info/
After I had been watching for 22 minutes I think I had watched 10 minutes of advertising
I think they are regulated to show 12 minutes advertising per hour. Probably sponsership is extra.
downside
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1911 census of Ireland is available I believe ;)
Casalguidi
Yes it is :)
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I thought it was quite good, I don't think it wasn't meant to be a programme teaching people how to conduct research into family history, it was meant to show how our ancestors lived and worked, which it did........ As addicted as I am to FH, I dont think it would have been very interesting just sitting watching them trawl through mountains of paperwork and archives to find documents. The results are what makes it all worthwhile in the end, which is obviously what they show on TV. ( I also recorded it and watched it today so I could skip the annoying adverts!)
I have a lot of "ag labs" and thought it gave a real insight into their lives at that time. Looking forward to next episodes.
Catherine :)
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I don't know how many times I have read and been told that a ploughman would walk 12 miles a day or whatever it was but seeing Anne plough that furrow yesterday brought that fact home to me. YOu really would have had to be fit!
Kerry
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I enjoyed the programme too.
I agree about the opening credits - a bit more originality needed there, I think!
However, the content was really involving. I have lots of ag labs in my tree (don't we all?) and I'm sure I'd be like Ann - knackered after a few metres! Makes you realise just how easy most of us have it these days! (hence the title!!)
I didn't miss the research that we usually get in WDYTYA as I agree with Catherine - it was more of a social history programme.
One thing, though - I DO wish Ann Kirkbride would lay off the ciggies. Her voice is getting more and more gravelly. She'll soon sound like that elderly lady who used to be in Corrie - was her name Phillis? She was in a wheelchair and used to torment Percy Sugden!! (Going back a few years)
I'm really looking forward to the other 2 programmes.
Jill
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But did anyone notice the opening credits were similar to WDYTYA as was the music!!!
Yes, just for a second I thought I'd clicked the video instead of the TV, as I'd been watching a tape I made of one of the WDYTYA programmes.
I'll watch the Alan Davies one (because of Alan Davies, of course !) but don't think its going to be gripping enough to watch any more programmes.
When are the Beeb going to make a programme about RootsChat ? Be good on radio !!
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oohhh Nooooooo I missed it :'( :'(
I have been having a chuckle at tonights "Coronation Street" whose latest storey line involves using a website that conects people to there school friends hmmmm....
Sarah ;)
P.S. On our way to our wedding, we heard the famous "Paul E" on Radio Liverpool ???? he sounded great !!! For the ladies we were all swooning at his gentle tones
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How long will it be before Emmerdale or Corrie has a story about someone joining Genes Reunited to do their family history then??
Kerry ::) ::) ::)
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I'm intrigued by PaulE's voice :D
He nearly phoned me on Monday but then I told him what he needed by PM/e-mail. Now if only I'd known about his voice, I'd have made him phone :D :D
I'd be interested in the Alan Davies one - I think he's wondeful (specially on QI)
Gadget
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Are we missing something here about Paul's voice ?
I don't think he's been on this thread ...
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http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,209520.msg1078802.html#msg1078802
Have to read a bit further back to find the ref. :D
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Ah, right ... the content of the previous page, rather than the names ...
But we still don't know what he sounds like ?
I imagine he's ... no, better not do that again !
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Nice one Kerry. (http://www.websmileys.com/sm/happy/057.gif)
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I think the best FH programme was one done years ago by a TV newsreader called Gordon Honeycombe who was researching his FH and the (I think) 30min programmes took you through the process from modern records back to church records and beyond, wortes and all.
Barry
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Was that the one where his great x2 Grandmother drowned herself because she could get/find a copy of her marriage cert?
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Warts?
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What was the point of the programme? What did we learn? That ploughing was hard and inappropriate for mediocre, overpaid actresses with infeasibly long finger-nails? Why didn't she try spinning, cooking on an open fire or something else suitably feminine? Oh yes, we did learn that she had ancestors. Dumbing-down, or what? Thank God for the OFF button.
Dolly
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It was just a cross between wdytya and that channel four programme where Tony Robinson goes around doing horrible jobs from the past. Except that they're both good.
It is ITV though, so what were we supposed to expect.
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overpaid actresses with infeasibly long finger-nails
I wonder how many blokes noticed that? :)
or something else suitably feminine
Once upon a time women did do hard labour (workwise) like coal-mining and heavy manual labour in general. They still do in many parts of the world.
downside
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Warts?
Well, I never could spell; use MS Word too much.
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Was that the one where his great x2 Grandmother drowned herself because she could get/find a copy of her marriage cert?
Not too sure now of the details; a few babies outside of marriage etc.
I remember Gordon traced his family back to yeomen farmers in Cornwall, I think. But what stands out, compared to the latest BBC/ITV programmes, is that all the steps involved (as well as the deadends) were explained. It was a proper FH programme, not just a "Look at me I'm a celebrity" type of show.