Who do you think you are (5)

[newbie]

Thats exactly what I said too Kerryb!   
It would be almost unheard of I think, even accounting for infant deaths at that time, of course by that census others may be have been out working, or lodging elsewhere. That's why I was surprised they didn't look for others in the earlier census to see if any showed up.
But we now know that they did!  But it would have helped if they had told us!
Newbie

[kerryb]

Perhaps the answer is for them to do a 2 hour programme out of each person, ask a few of us to star on it and show the whole method including waiting 2 weeks for the certs to drop through the door and every time the postman comes, running down stairs, but no certs just another firm advertising sofas!!!!

Do you think anyone would watch, apart from rootschatters I mean!!?

Kerry

[kenjo]

Hey Guys and Gals,
I haven't read page 2 & 3... (short attention span)
BUT,
Think of us in Australia......
I have had to record all the first episodes...for friends...
You are teasing now......
I will have to wait another year for this series..
not fair.....
jo

[linmey]

This episode seems to have attracted the most criticism and you are right Kerry, I felt it needed another hour to tie up all the loose ends. However, I havnt felt that in any way about the other episodes. I felt that it was all neatly pulled together at the end. In this episode there was some guesswork that made us lot feel distinctly uncomfortable I think.

[RJ_Paton]

In this episode there was some guesswork that made us lot feel distinctly uncomfortable I think.

But that is just it ... there wasn't a lot of guess work behind the scenes all of the "proper" research was done ..... the edited version seen on screen was presented completely differently.
Remember as well that this is a program which uses genealogy to produce a show which is for general entertainment it is not an educational "how to" genealogy program.

In this thread there has been a lot of speculation concerning the apparent lack of research based upon what was seen on screen ... read the book .... it puts the show into its proper context and confirms that considerably more research was done.
Personally I believe that the point this show was trying to make was "Ask relatives for information BUT do not believe everything you hear"

[Bill749]

"Ask relatives for information BUT do not believe everything you hear"

Amen to that Falkyrn!! 

[Keith Sherwood]

Yes, I've just got round to reading all these comments - couldn't agree more that it was a programme of missed opportunities and leads not properly followed up.  And, Jakky, the thing about her parents giving up their bedroom to their daughter while she was staying, and sleeping in the bunk-beds room themselves I thought slightly bizarre - though absolutely nothing to do with the genealogy, of course!
Keith

[bwgan ceredig]

Well, I think most of the other posts have said everything really  ...but I just didn't enjoy it as much as the others

Oh well - perhaps it was just that the others were so good! 

[suey]

We all know that the BBC want to make a programme that is both entertaining and informative but we don't all want to 'buy the book' in order to get the full picture.

I enjoyed the history part of the programme, ie the workings of the mills but was disappointed from the genealogy point of view.

There is the old saying 'if a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well'