WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ

[deeiluka]

Kathy Freeman will be interesting methinks, I beleive she has a fair bit of Irish and some Chinese in her make up and just a wee bit of Aboriginal.

You can add Syrian and English. 

......dee

[JAP]

...  We are in fact a republic, albeit a Royal republic  ... 

My post was a response to a serious question (genealogically relevant in my view) posed by downside.  I attempted to provide information and to adduce some facts.
Admittedly my own personal views were not hidden in passing  - but it truly was an attempt at a factual answer.

Boggabarrett (I take it from your profile that you are Australian?), it would be entirely inappropriate and arid to turn this WDYTYA thread into a debate re the desirability (inevitability  ) of  an Australian republic.  So I won't respond to your personal views here (but do feel free to post your views as a new thread on the ToT board and I'm sure you will get lots of responses!).

However, in the interests of accuracy, it really must be pointed out that your statement quoted above is wrong.

Australia is not (yet!) "in fact a republic".

Australia most certainly is not "a Royal republic" (something which I regard as an oxymoron) .

Australia is a constitutional monarchy.

Very best regards,

JAP

[trish251]

I have to point out that not only is The Queen, Queen of Britain and Northern Island but also the Queen of Australia, New Zealand and about a dozen other countries.

You forget, she is also the Queen of Queensland. In the 1970s Joe got a little paranoid that the Labour Govt would remove her as the Queen of Australia, so he daubed her the Queen of Queensland. Not sure if that carries on to later monarchs.

Thus said, I thought we were a Commonwealth of States, not a republic - but I see from JAP we are a constitutional monarchy - best I go back to school, cause when I was there we studied British and European history but not very much Australian History     

Trish

[downside]

Apparently there is an ethnic group called English Australians which is defined as, 'English-Australians includes Australian people of English birth or ancestry.'
:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English_Australians

Jack Thompson seems to be included on the list.

Geoffrey Robertson has dual nationality, but he is probably classified as an Australian-English.

[MarieC]

I've just watched the Nigella repeat on English tv  (boxing day morning) hadn't seen that one.   I wonder if we'll get to see the Australian series.  I would love to see it.   
Who is producing the series, perhaps I could drop them and email.

Silvery,

I think that Ancestry has a major hand in it.  Perhaps you could contact ancestry.co.uk and whichever network screened WDYTYA and ask your question.  I think the Australian episodes should be quite interesting!

JAP, your response is scholarly and informative! 

Trish, the interstate tribalism in Australia does not just go one way, you know!  When I lived and worked in Canberra I really copped it in the neck, and there's still plenty of chucking off at Queenslanders for silly reasons!  We all just have to ignore it and get on with things! 

Downside, I really doubt that category you mentioned, whatever Wikipedia might say!  Most of us Australians of British origins are not just English, but a mixture.  Me, I'm English, Scottish and Irish in pretty equal proportions, with a dash of Welsh thrown in!  I suspect there are very few Aussies of "pure English extraction", whatever that might be, since even the English are a mixed lot!! 

[jc26red]

I second that MarieC, very few English are "just" English. We (uk) had a very light-hearted program on a short while ago where they tested DNA of people who believed they were true English - quite funny results and what a mix.

I would love to see the Aussie WDYTYA, I have quite a few off-shoots that went downunder.  A couple of convicts who were brothers of my direct line  and a distant one of my OH (not convict) which has been well researched (from the Aussie end) and the photos I have seen appear to show some Aboriginal mix in there somewhere along the line.  More recently discovered a second cousin of my father that went back in the 70's and I discovered they lived less than a mile away from us and I didn't even know them... we are having a great time rediscovering relatives together.

Jenny

[deeiluka]

I suspect the Aussie WDYTYA series will come out on DVD ........things like that often do.

A friend has just told me that Series 1 & 2 of the UK WDYTYA can be ordered for 40 UK pounds plus 14 pounds postage to Oz. I have some Christmas money.......so I am thinking about it. Wonder what I will decide.......   

My paternal ancestry is all English.......but I am a fifth generation Aussie on my maternal side.....and have German, English, French, Danish, and possibly Polish ancestry.

.......dee

[Martin Briscoe]

I've just watched the Nigella repeat on English tv  (boxing day morning) hadn't seen that one.   I wonder if we'll get to see the Australian series.  I would love to see it.   
Who is producing the series, perhaps I could drop them and email.

Silvery,

I think that Ancestry has a major hand in it.  Perhaps you could contact ancestry.co.uk and whichever network screened WDYTYA and ask your question.  I think the Australian episodes should be quite interesting!

I don't think that Ancestry had any part in the making of Who Do You Think You Are, apart from obviously being one source of information.

It was commissioned by the BBC who obviously do not have any form of sponsorship of programmes.  The series was made by Wall to Wall.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/get_started/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Do_You_Think_You_Are%3F

http://www.bbcwhodoyouthinkyouare.co.uk/

Martin Briscoe

[Martin Briscoe]

I've just watched the Nigella repeat on English tv  (boxing day morning) hadn't seen that one.   I wonder if we'll get to see the Australian series.  I would love to see it.   
Who is producing the series, perhaps I could drop them and email.

Silvery,

I think that Ancestry has a major hand in it.  Perhaps you could contact ancestry.co.uk and whichever network screened WDYTYA and ask your question.  I think the Australian episodes should be quite interesting!

I don't think that Ancestry had any part in the making of Who Do You Think You Are, apart from obviously being one source of information.

It was commissioned by the BBC who do not have any form of sponsorship of programmes.  The series was made by Wall to Wall.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/get_started/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Do_You_Think_You_Are%3F

http://www.bbcwhodoyouthinkyouare.co.uk/

Martin Briscoe