Each one of the programmes has only focused on a small proportion of a tree in order to illustrate a type of resource. Sue Johnston wasn't criticised for only focusing on her railway ancestors?
I don't think any of the people focused had done anything on their family trees before being approached by the BBC. Therefore in order to make a television programme you NEED the professional otherwise the programme would take a year to make!
Sorry you are having tough day Pam,
I agree with your point about the professional, I would be surprised if they did not use one. My point is that they have not mentioned that until this week, thus making genealogy appear easier than
we know it to be.
This has been shown, see post about Liverpool Records Office, to lead to lots of enthusiastic new researchers being disappointed by false expectations.
I welcome the BBC making a series like this, and they should use a professional, but they should have made it clear from the start, and not made it look easy. There are no brickwalls that the celebs have been baffled by, unlike us mere mortals.
My worry is only that it leaves a false impression of what family history is really about.
And I like Jeremy anyway,
particularly when he is at his most arrogant.
Kazza.
