So You Think You are Royal

[linmey]

Hi robin,

Sat spellbound through the whole programme. Much better than the others I have seen in the series. A thoroughly satisfying outcome!!

Linda.

[Sarndra]

[snip]
I started FH when our elder son emigrated to Canada in 1976 and he phoned asking me to "send me my roots."  Easier said than done.  It is only recently that ,in our 80s, we purchased a computer in order to have groceries brought to the house and I have been amazed at the speed with which one can obtain information but I am not sure one feels quite the same satisfaction as one did a few decades ago.  Is too much expected these days?

I've been doing genealogy for 30 years now and having gone through the process from basic letter contact and traipsing to family history centres, leading up to the computerised world, I can say IMO that the thrills and satisfactions throughout the years are the same, especially when i have live distant relatives the world over contact me through my website which reaches a far larger proportion of the population :-), let alone the instant receiving of photos etc.  Yes 'snail mail' was thrilling, but to be able to access sources online and instantly is truly awesome to!

Sarndra
www.sarndra.com

[Necromancer]

have moved on/up? to a Pan Euro, must be getting old.......
robin
P.S. Thay failed to film the Bonny at all.

Phew, thought you were going to say BMW for a minute there ! 

Shame they missed the Bonnie - Hinckley or Meriden ?

I've got a Triton (6T engine, w/l featherbed), Goldie and a 2003 SpeedTriple - still fairly active ... anyway, musnt hijack this thread.

Really pleased for your family to have had this great opportunity and a great result.

 

[Grothenwell]

Ah missed one and it had to be Robin's and the best so far, by the sound of it!

If you hear it will be repeated please post and let me know, thanks

[jillruss]

Has this programme finished now?

I've lost it again! 

It moved from Sky 1 to Sky 3 - but it's not there any more! Where is it?

Jill

[robinthered]

Hi
For anybody still interested the series is being repeated on Sky 3 at 8.00pm starting tonight Monday 5th Jan 2009. If repeated in the same order I am in the last one in 6 wks time
robin

[XPhile2868]

I've found branches of my family tree which, if they were accurate, would make me a direct descendant of the Kings of France and Scotland, although around 80% of anyone who lived in Europe before 1400 are likely to be everyone's ancestors, it's just a matter of how related you are. I'm also directly descended from a couple of William the Conqueror's children, and members of the current British royal family are distant cousins. Most of these royal conenctions seem to be via the Houghton family, whose descendants and cousins include famous people such as Kiefer Sutherland (21st cousin 2 times removed), Eliza Dushku (30th cousin) and Kurt Cobain (30th cousin 1 time removed) and numerous US Presidents such as Barack Obama (23rd cousin 1 time removed), Abraham Lincoln (17th cousin 6 times removed) and George Washington (24th cousin 6 times removed).


Stephen

[Simon G.]

I caught a repeat of the Queen Mum episode of this last night, and spent the hour shouting at the TV in frustration...I was amazed at the number of lines of enquiry that I, and no doubt every other researcher here, would have followed that were just blind ignored in favour of trying to shoehorn things together.  It was beyond frustrating, and in my opinion this kind of "research" gives people the wrong impression of how to do things...it appeared that they had a theory, and instead of trying to follow an dedicated method of research they just went "oooo, we have a story...lets get this and that and hammer them together to prove a point".

[robinthered]

hi
If anything it may serve to "educate" people in how to do things properly.
The people involved were so convinced that their connection was true, despite all the evidence.
If you accept that the child played with the the young princess it also proves how "Family Stories" can get altered and corrupted when passed down thru generations.