WDYTYA series 4 # 7 Matthew Pinsent

[Polldoll]

Hyacinth Bucket ( sorry Bouquet !) in character would be priceless ...can you imagine her  finding ag labs in her pedigree !!

[Half Pint]

she could have been fantastic on a spoof "this is your life"

[lizdb]

I don't want to find a Gateway Ancestor!! Am I alone in this?

No, Jill you are not alone.

I can never understand folk who, it seems, all they want is to find someone else who is descended from the same ancestors, or someone else who has already researched the tree. I would rather trace the tree myself, so I know who the descendents are first - then if I ever meet any of them that it a bonus.
In my mind there is no fun or sense of achievement in having it all handed to you on a plate. Much better to find out for yourself, step by step.

[Lynn H]

Hi,
       My claim to fame is my 6x cousin Sir Palph Pendlebury, b feb 14 1790. Founder of Sir Ralph Pendlebury's Charity for Orphans. He built Pendlebury Hall. He left all his fortune to the orphanage. Thats my kind of hero.
                              Lynn H.
                               

[anthea36]

This was a fantastic episode for me ... my great uncle was working for Jardine Mathieson in China, 1919 when he died (some say murdered but I'm still trying to verify that). 

I almost jumped out of my chair when they started talking about it and found all the info really useful about what life must have been like for him.

Does anyone know when the repeat is?

Anthea

[Windsor87]

I recently found that I'm a relation of J. B. McLachlan.

He was a socialist/Communist particularly famous in the coal mines of Nova Scotia. He is something like my 1st cousin removed 4 times.

[Welsh Jules]

I was very lucky to find a gateway ancestor after getting in touch with a distant cousin via the internet who helped me get back to the late 1600s and a 10 x G Grandfather who was rector in Calstock in Cornwall and a Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II .

Between us we've done a great deal of further research that led us back to his roots in Jersey and the family of his wife Elizabeth le Hardy. Her grandmother was Elizabeth de Carteret and she's our gateway. From her we've also been able to find an well documented ancestry back to Edward I, via two of his children, Thomas of Brotherton (was he the same one as Matthew Pinset found?) and Joan of Acre. It was amazing to find such famous historical families such as the Pembrokeshire Marshalls, the de Clares and the de Braose in my own direct ancestry.

However, the most exciting thing of all was to see my heroine of 25 years Eleanor of Aquataine is a direct ancestor all be it about 33 generations back!!  All my life I'd read everything I could about her so finding that, I was rather taken aback   

[sarah]

Bloomin' 'eck... Missed it ! The magic box did not work..

Does anyone know if this is repeated anywhere ?

Sarah

[Welsh Jules]

I've just been googling and found this link. Although they aren't giving dates for this week's programme it may be worth keeping an eye out on here.

http://uk-tv-guide.com/programme-details/BBC+1/25+October+2007/23:55/Who+Do+You+Think+You+Are%3F/History+Documentary/